Lonchidion
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Lonchidion Temporal range: Triassic |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | †Hybodontiformes |
| Superfamily: | Hybodontoidea |
| Family: | Hybodontidae |
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Lonchidion Estes, 1964 |
Lonchidion is a genus of prehistoric sharks in the family Hybodontidae. It was described by R. Estes in 1964, and the type species is L. selachas. A new species, L. ferganensis, was described by Jan Fischer, Sebastian Voigt, Jörg W. Schneider, Michael Buchwitz and Silke Voigt in 2011, from fossilized teeth and egg capsules.
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