Rhombodus

Rhombodus
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Paleocene [1]
Fossil tail spines of Rhombodus meridionalis from Khouribga (Morocco.)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Order:
Myliobatiformes[2]
Family:
Rhombodontidae
Genus:
Rhombodus

Dames 1881[1]

Rhombodus is a prehistoric genus of ray belonging to the family Rhombodontidae.

Species within this genus lived from the Cretaceous period, Maastrichtian age to the Paleocene epoch, from 70.6 to 55.8 million years ago.[1]

Life reconstruction of Rhombodus binkhorsti
  1. ^ a b c Fossilworks
  2. ^ Cuny, Gilles; Martin, Jeremy E.; Sarr, Raphaël (2012-04-01). "A neoselachian shark fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Senegal". Cretaceous Research. 34: 107–115. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.10.008. ISSN 0195-6671.