Orthacanthus Agassiz, 1843

Beck, Kimberly G., Soler-Gijón, Rodrigo, Carlucci, Jesse R. & Willis, Ray E., 2016, Morphology and histology of dorsal spines of the xenacanthid shark Orthacanthus platypternus from the Lower Permian of Texas, USA: Palaeobiological and palaeoenvironmental implications, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (1), pp. 97-117 : 102

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00126.2014
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11061182
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scientific name	Orthacanthus Agassiz, 1843
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Genus Orthacanthus Agassiz, 1843 View in CoL

Type species: Orthacanthus cylindricus ( Agassiz, 1843) , Late Carboniferous, Coal Measures, Manchester, England. See Hampe (2003) for additional information about this species and the Carboniferous biostratigraphy of the British localities.