Toxoprion Temporal range: Carboniferous to Late Permian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Holocephali |
Order: | †Eugeneodontida |
Family: | †Helicoprionidae |
Genus: | †Toxoprion Hay, 1909 |
Type species | |
Toxoprion lecontei Hay, 1909
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Toxoprion (Ancient Greek for "bow saw") is an extinct genus of eugeneodont holocephalans whose fossils are found in marine strata from the Early Carboniferous until the Late Permian near Eureka, Nevada.[1]