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Tezakia

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Tezakia
Temporal range: Sandbian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Altholepidiformes
Family: Tezakidae
Genus: Tezakia
Species:
T. hardingensis
Binomial name
Tezakia hardingensis
Andreev et. al., 2015

Tezakia is an extinct genus of tezakid that lived during the Sandbian stage of the Late Ordovician epoch.

Distribution

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Tezakia hardingensis is known from the Harding Sandstone of Colorado.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Andreev, Plamen S.; Coates, Michael I.; Shelton, Richard M.; Cooper, Paul R.; Smith, M. Paul; Sansom, Ivan J. (24 April 2015). Johanson, Zerina (ed.). "Upper Ordovician chondrichthyan‐like scales from North America". Palaeontology. 58 (4): 691–704. doi:10.1111/pala.12167. ISSN 0031-0239. Retrieved 25 June 2025 – via Wiley Online Library.