Glencartius
| Glencartius Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Ctenacanthiformes |
| Genus: | †Glencartius Ginter and Skompski, [2019] |
| Species: | †G. costellatus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Glencartius costellatus (Traquair, 1884)
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Glencartius is an extinct monotypic genus of ctenacanthiform chondrichthyan that lived during the Visean stage of the Carboniferous period.
Taxonomy
Glencartius costellatus, the type and only species, was originally described in 1884 as part of the genus Ctenacanthus. Its exact phylogenetic placement is unresolved.[1]
References
- ^ Ginter, Michał; Skompski, Stanisław (7 December 2019). "The squamation of "Ctenacanthus" costellatus (Chondrichthyes: Ctenacanthiformes) from the Carboniferous of Lublin area, south-eastern Poland". Acta Geologica Polonica (in Polish): 571–582. doi:10.24425/agp.2019.126440. ISSN 0001-5709. Retrieved 29 January 2026.