Fadenia
| Fadenia | |
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| Fadenia crenulata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | †Eugeneodontida |
| Family: | †Caseodontidae |
| Genus: | †Fadenia Nielsen, 1932 |
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| †Fadenia crenulata Nielsen, 1932
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Fadenia is an
Discovery and naming
The first fossils of Fadenia were discovered and described in the periodical
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland led by Danish geologist and explorer Lauge Koch. The manager of the expedition was the botanist Gunnar Seidenfaden, after whose surname the genus was named.[4][5]
Classification
Fadenia belongs to
end-Permian mass extinction event. It is one of the last surviving genera of this clade. It could reach about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length.[2][1]
References
- ^ PMC 3960099.
- ^ doi:10.1144/sp295.3.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Fadenia".
- ^ Nielsen, Eigil (1932). "Permo-Carboniferous fishes from east Greenland". Meddelelser om Grønland. 86 (3): 1–63..
- ^ Nielsen, Eigil (1952). "On new or little known Edestidae from the Permian and Triassic of East Greenland". Meddelelser om Grønland. 144: 1–55..
Further reading
- Bendix-Almgreen, S. E. (1975). "Fossil fishes from the marine Late Palaeozoic of Holm Land – Amdrup Land, north-east Greenland". In: Meddelelser om Grønland. 195: 3–38.
- Ginter, M.; Hampe, O. & Duffin, C. J. (2010). "Chondrichthyes. Paleozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth". Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Volume 3D: 1–168.
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