Fine Art

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Classis: Chondrichthyes
Subclassis: Elasmobranchii
Infraclassis: Euselachii
Division/Cohort: Neoselachii
Subdivision/Subcohort: Selachimorpha
Superordo: Squalomorphii
Ordo: Pristiophoriformes

Familia: Pristiophoridae
Genus: †Ikamauius
Species (1): I. ensifer
Name

Ikamauius Keyes, 1979

References
Primary references

Keyes, I.W. 1979: Ikamauius, a new genus of fossil sawshark (order Selachii: family Pristiophoridae) from the Caenozoic of New Zealand. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics, 22(1): 125–129. Google books

Links

ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Paleobiology database [as Ikamuius [sic!]]

Ikamauius is an extinct genus of sawshark from the Cenozoic of New Zealand. It contains a single species, I. ensifer. It is most closely related to the extant Pliotrema, but is distinguished by the presence of barbs on both sides of its rostral denticles.[2]
References

Davis, J.W. (1888). "On fossil-fish remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary formations of New Zealand". Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society. Series 2. 4 (1): 1–48.
Keyes, I.W. (1979). "Ikamauius, a new genus of fossil sawshark (Order Selachii: Family Pristiophoridae) from the Cenozoic of New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 22 (1): 125–129. Bibcode:1979NZJGG..22..125K. doi:10.1080/00288306.1979.10422558.
Chapman, F. (1918). "Descriptions and revisions of the Cretaceous and Tertiary fish-remains of New Zealand". Palaeontological Bulletin, New Zealand Geological Survey. 7: 1–45.

Fish Images

Biology Encyclopedia

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Home - Hellenica World