Welcommia
| Welcommia Temporal range: Jurassic
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Order: | Hexanchiformes |
| Family: | †Pseudonotidanidae |
| Genus: | † Klug & Kriwet, 2010 |
Welcommia is an extinct genus of shark. It contains only three species :-
- †Welcommia bodeuri H. Cappetta, 1990 (Late Jurassic of France)[2]
- †Welcommia cappettai Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet, 2010 (middle Oxfordian of Germany)[3]
- †Welcommia terencei D. Delsate and P. Godefroit, 1995 (Jurassic of Belgium)[1]
References
- ^ a b "†Welcommia terencei Delsate and Godefroit 1995 (shark)". Fossilworks.
- ^ "Welcommia bodeuri Cappetta, 1990". Shark References (in French).
- ^ Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet (2010). "A new Late Jurassic species of the rare synechodontiform shark, Welcommia (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 (3): 413–419. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0058-9.