Welcommia

<i>Welcommia</i>

Welcommia

Extinct genus of sharks

Welcommia is an extinct genus of shark. It contains only three species :-

  • †Welcommia bodeuri H. Cappetta, 1990 (Late Jurassic of France)[2]
  • †Welcommia cappettai Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet, 2010 (middle Oxfordian of Germany)[3]
  • †Welcommia terencei D. Delsate and P. Godefroit, 1995 (Jurassic of Belgium)[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    "†Welcommia terencei Delsate and Godefroit 1995 (shark)". Fossilworks.
  2. [2]
    "Welcommia bodeuri Cappetta, 1990". Shark References (in French).
  3. [3]
    Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet (2010). "A new Late Jurassic species of the rare synechodontiform shark, Welcommia (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 (3): 413–419. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0058-9.


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