Dalatias
| Dalatias Temporal range: [1]
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| Dalatias licha | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Dalatiidae |
| Genus: | Dalatias Rafinesque, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Dalatias licha Bonnaterre, 1788
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Dalatias is a genus of kitefin sharks that have lived since the Middle Eocene. It was thought to be a monotypic taxon with the type species, D. licha, considered as the only species until 2022, when Malyshkina and her colleagues described a new Middle Miocene species, D. orientalis. D. orientalis is from the Middle Miocene aged Duho Formation in Pohang, South Korea.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Keyes, I.W. (1984). "New records of fossil elasmobranch genera Megascyliorhinus, Centrophorus, and Dalatias (Order Selachii) in New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 27 (2): 203–216. doi:10.1080/00288306.1984.10422527.
- ^ a b Malyshkina, Tatiana P.; Ward, David J.; Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Nam, Gi-Soo; Kwon, Seung-Hyuk; Lee, Jeong-Hyun; Kim, Tae-Wan; Kim, Do-Kwon; Baek, Doo-Sung (2022). "Miocene Elasmobranchii from the Duho Formation, South Korea". Historical Biology. 35 (9): 1726–1741. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2110870.
- ^ Yun, Chan-gyu (2021). "First Deep-Sea Shark Fossil Teeth from the Miocene of South Korea". Zoodiversity. 55 (3): 225–232. doi:10.15407/zoo2021.03.225.