Tezakia

Tezakia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Altholepidiformes
Family: Tezakidae
Genus:
Species:
T. hardingensis
Binomial name
Tezakia hardingensis
Andreev et. al., 2015

Tezakia is an extinct genus of tezakid that lived during the Sandbian stage of the Late Ordovician epoch.

Distribution

Tezakia hardingensis is known from the Harding Sandstone of Colorado.[1]

References

  1. ^ Andreev, Plamen S.; Coates, Michael I.; Shelton, Richard M.; Cooper, Paul R.; Smith, M. Paul; Sansom, Ivan J. (24 April 2015). Johanson, Zerina (ed.). "Upper Ordovician chondrichthyan‐like scales from North America". Palaeontology. 58 (4): 691–704. doi:10.1111/pala.12167. ISSN 0031-0239. Retrieved 25 June 2025 – via Wiley Online Library.