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Echinorhinus
| Echinorhinus Temporal range: Campanian to present
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| Bramble shark, Echinorhinus brucus | |
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| Echinorhinus brucus, mounted specimen, on display at the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Superorder: | Squalomorphi |
| Order: | Echinorhiniformes de Buen, 1926 |
| Family: | Echinorhinidae T. N. Gill, 1862 |
| Genus: | Echinorhinus Blainville, 1816 |
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| The distribution of the two Echinorhinus species | |
Echinorhinus is the only extant genus in the family Echinorhinidae.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
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