Platylithophycus
| Platylithophycus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Genus: | †Platylithophycus Johnson & Howell, 1948[1] |
| Species: | †P. cretaceus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Platylithophycus cretaceus Johnson & Howell, 1948
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Platylithophycus is an extinct
gill arches and rakers of an elasmobranch of uncertain affinities.[3] It might have been a filter feeding mackerel shark related to Aquilolamna.[4]
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