Echinochimaera

Echinochimaera; Temporal range: Upper Mississippian,
	Specimen of Echinochimaera meltoni
	A diorama of Echinochimaera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Holocephali
Order:	Chimaeriformes
Suborder:	Echinochimaeroidei
Family:	Echinochimaeridae
Genus:	Echinochimaera; Lund, 1977
Species
	†Echinochimaera meltoni; †Echinochimaera snyderi;

Echinochimaera ("prickly chimera") is an extinct genus of chimaeriform fish, known from the Lower Carboniferous Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana, United States. It is one of the earliest Chimaeriformes known.

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