Maghriboselache is an extinct genus of cladoselachid symmoriiform fish that lived 369 million years ago during the Late Devonian of Morocco. The genus contains a single species, M. mohmezanei. Maghrib
Holocephali is a subclass of cartilaginous fish. The only living holocephalans are the three families of chimaeras, but the group also includes many extinct members and was more diverse during the Pal
British paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward, who allied plate-like Paleozoic fish teeth with chimaeras and who erected the order Bradyodonti
A generalized male Chimaera (fig. 1), displaying the dorsal fin spine (fig. 2-5), the cephalic clasper (fig. 6-7), pelvic claspers (fig. 9), prepelvic tenacula (fig. 10) and tooth plates (fig. 11-12)
The cartilaginous skeleton of a female Chimaera, with key anatomical details labeled