Duffinselache

Duffinselache (Duffin's shark) is an extinct genus of basal shark elasmobranchii cartilaginous fish, known from a single species, Duffinselache holwellensis, collected from the Late Triassic (Rhaetian stage) of England.^[1] It was first named by Duffin in 1998 as a species of Polyacrodus. Plamen S. Andreev and Gilles Cuny in 2012 reassigned it to a new genus as its type species, Polyacrodus holwellensis.^[2]

Duffinselache Temporal range: Late Triassic, Rhaetian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Division:	Selachii
Genus:	†Duffinselache Andreev & Cuny, 2012
Species:	†D. holwellensis
Binomial name
†Duffinselache holwellensis (Duffin, 1998)
Synonyms
†Polyacrodus holwellensi Duffin, 1998