Gyracanthides

Gyracanthides
Temporal range: DevonianCarboniferous (PragianVisean)
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Acanthodii
Order: Climatiiformes (?)
Family: Gyracanthidae
Genus: Gyracanthides
Woodward, 1906
Type species
Gyracanthides murrayi
Woodward, 1906
Other species
  • G. warreni White, 1968
  • G. hawkinsi Turner et al., 2005
  • G. riniensis Gess & Burrow, 2024[1]

Gyracanthides is an extinct genus of acanthodian gnathostome, known from Devonian to Early Carboniferous.[2][3]

  1. ^ Gess, Robert W.; Burrow, Carole J. (2024-02-06). "A new gyracanthid (stem Chondrichthyes) from the Late Devonian (Famennian) of the Eastern Cape, South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (In press). e2305888. doi:10.1080/02724634.2024.2305888.
  2. ^ Warren, Anne; Currie, Bryan P.; Burrow, Carole; Turner, Susan (2000). "A redescription and reinterpretation of Gyracanthides murrayi Woodward 1906 (Acanthodii, Gyracanthidae) from the Lower Carboniferous of the Mansfield Basin, Victoria, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (2): 225–242. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0225:ARAROG]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 130940413.
  3. ^ TURNER, SUSAN; BURROW, CAROLE J.; WARREN, ANNE (2005). "Gyracanthides hawkinsi sp. nov. (Acanthodii, Gyracanthidae) from the Lower Carboniferous of Queensland, Australia, with a Review of Gyracanthid Taxa". Palaeontology. 48 (5): 963–1006. Bibcode:2005Palgy..48..963T. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00479.x. S2CID 84735724.