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Shenacanthus
| Shenacanthus Temporal range:
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| Reconstruction of Shenacanthus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Genus: | †Shenacanthus Zhu et al, 2022 |
| Species: | †S. vermiformis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Shenacanthus vermiformis Zhu et al, 2022
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Shenacanthus is a genus of chondrichthyan from the Huixingshao Formation of China. It contains one species, Shenacanthus vermiformis. It is one of the earliest known jawed vertebrates, at roughly 435 million years old.[1] The genus is only known from one fossil of a near-complete fish.
- ^ Zhu, You-an; Li, Qiang; Lu, Jing; Chen, Yang; Wang, Jianhua; Gai, Zhikun; Zhao, Wenjin; Wei, Guangbiao; Yu, Yilun; Ahlberg, Per E.; Zhu, Min (29 September 2022). "The oldest complete jawed vertebrates from the early Silurian of China". Nature. 609 (7929): 954–958. Bibcode:2022Natur.609..954Z. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05136-8. PMID 36171378.
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