Dalatias Temporal range: [1]
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Dalatias licha | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Dalatiidae |
Genus: | Dalatias Rafinesque, 1810 |
Type species | |
Dalatias licha Bonnaterre, 1788
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Dalatias is a genus of kitefin sharks that have lived since the Middle Eocene. It was thought to be a monotypic taxon with the type species, D. licha, considered as the only species until 2022, when Malyshkina and her colleagues described a new Middle Miocene species, D. orientalis. D. orientalis is from the Middle Miocene aged Duho Formation in Pohang, South Korea.[2][3]