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Toxoprion

Toxoprion
Temporal range: Early Carboniferous to Late Permian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Eugeneodontida
Family: Helicoprionidae
Genus: Toxoprion
Hay, 1909
Type species
Toxoprion lecontei
Hay, 1909

Toxoprion (Ancient Greek for "bow saw") is an extinct genus of eugeneodont holocephalans whose fossils are found in marine strata from the Early Carboniferous until the Late Permian near Eureka, Nevada.[1]

  1. ^ Hay, O.P. "†Toxoprion Hay 1909 (chimaera)". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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