Heptranchias
| Heptranchias Temporal range: Cretaceous – Recent |
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| Heptranchias perlo | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Hexanchiformes |
| Family: | Hexanchidae |
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Heptranchias Rafinesque, 1810 |
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Heptranchias is a genus of sharks in the family Hexanchidae.
Fossils of Heptranchias are found in marine strata from the Cretaceous until the Quaternary (age range: from 66.043 to 0.781 million years ago.). Fossils are known from various localities in Europe, North America, South America, New Zealand and Japan.
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