Fadenia

Fadenia
Temporal range: CarboniferousEarly Triassic, 320–247.2 Ma
Fadenia crenulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Eugeneodontida
Family: Caseodontidae
Genus: Fadenia
Nielsen, 1932
Type species
Fadenia crenulata
Nielsen, 1932
Species
  • F. gigas Eaton, 1962
  • F. uroclasmato Mutter & Neuman, 2008
Early Triassic and Middle Triassic marine predators: 2. Fadenia[1]

Fadenia is an extinct genus of eugeneodontid holocephalian chondrichthyan from the Carboniferous Period of Missouri (United States), the Permian period of Greenland, and the Early Triassic epoch of British Columbia, Canada (Sulphur Mountain Formation).[2][3]

  1. ^ Scheyer, Torsten M.; Romano, Carlo; Jenks, Jim; Bucher, Hugo (2014). "Early Triassic Marine Biotic Recovery: The Predators' Perspective"". PLOS ONE. 9 (3): e88987. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...988987S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088987. PMC 3960099. PMID 24647136.
  2. ^ Mutter, Raoul J.; Neuman, Andrew G. (2008). "New eugeneodontid sharks from the Lower Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation of Western Canada". In Cavin, L.; Longbottom, A.; Richter, M. (eds.). Fishes and the Break-up of Pangaea. Geological Society of London, Special Publications. Vol. 295. London: Geological Society of London. pp. 9–41. doi:10.1144/sp295.3.
  3. ^ "Fossilworks: Fadenia".