Rhincodontidae
| Rhincodontidae Temporal range: Paleocene-Recent, | |
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| Family: | Rhincodontidae |
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| Rhincodon typus Smith, 1829 | |
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Rhincodontidae is a family of sharks that inclued one living species: Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus).[1] It lived in Paleocene to Recent, inclued one fossil genus: Palaeorhincodon.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ McClain, Craig R.; Balk, Meghan A.; Benfield, Mark C.; Branch, Trevor A.; Chen, Catherine; Cosgrove, James; Dove, Alistair D. M.; Gaskins, Leo; Helm, Rebecca R.; Hochberg, Frederick G.; Lee, Frank B. (2015). "Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna". PeerJ. 3 e715. doi:10.7717/peerj.715. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 4304853. PMID 25649000.
- ↑ "Extinct - valid species | Species | Shark-References". shark-references.com. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
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