Akmonistion

Taxobox
name = "Akmonistion"


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fossil_range = Early Carboniferous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Symmoriida
familia = Stethacanthidae
genus = "Akmonistion"
genus_authority=Coates and Sequeira, 2001
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"A. zangerli" Coates and Sequeira, 2001 (type)

"Akmonistion" is an extinct genus of shark that lived in the Early Carboniferous. Its remains have been found in Scotland.

Sources

* "Vertebrate Palaeontology", by Michael J. Benton
* [http://www.vertpaleo.org/publications/jvp/21-438-459.cfm Coates, M.I., and Sequeira, S.E.K. 2001. A new stethacanthid chondrichthyan from the lower Carboniferous of Bearsdon, Scotland. "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" 21(3):438–459.] (abstract at link)