Echinochimaera Temporal range: Upper Mississippian,
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Specimen of Echinochimaera meltoni | |
A diorama of Echinochimaera | |
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Suborder: | Echinochimaeroidei
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Family: | Echinochimaeridae
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Genus: | Echinochimaera Lund, 1977[1]
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Echinochimaera ("prickly chimera") is an extinct genus of chimaeriform fish, known from the Lower Carboniferous Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana, United States. It is one of the earliest Chimaeriformes known.