Tezakia
Appearance
Tezakia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | †Altholepidiformes |
Family: | †Tezakidae |
Genus: | †Tezakia |
Species: | †T. hardingensis
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Binomial name | |
†Tezakia hardingensis Andreev et. al., 2015
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Tezakia is an extinct genus of tezakid that lived during the Sandbian stage of the Late Ordovician epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Tezakia hardingensis is known from the Harding Sandstone of Colorado.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.