Wodnika
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| Wodnika Temporal range: | |
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| Wodnika striatula | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Ctenacanthiformes |
| Superfamily: | †Ctenacanthoidea |
| Family: | †incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Wodnika Münster 1843[1] |
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Wodnika is an extinct genus of ctenacanth which lived in the Late Permian period in the present area of Germany and Russia. It measured about 1 m (3.2 ft) in length and its tail shape indicates it was probably a good swimmer. Internally, the cartilage skeleton is preserved on the fossil, which is fairly rare for fossilized shark-like chondrichthyans.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ G. Münster. 1843. Nachtrag zu der Beschreibung einiger merkwürdigen Fische aus den Kupferschiefern. Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde 6:47-52
- ^ a b "†Wodnika Münster 1843 (elasmobranch)". FossilWorks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Rare British shark fossil joins collection | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2010-06-02.
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