''Glikmanius'' is an extinct
genus of
cladodont shark which lived in the
Carboniferous
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of
North America
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and
Russia. The genus is based on a whole specimen from
Nebraska,
USA
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. ''Glikmanius'' is named in honour of the
Russian palaeontologist, Dr. Leonid Glikman, who studied the genus and was "the first to propose its
ctenacanthiform affinity".
Species
*''Glikmanius culmenis''
Koot, Cuny, Tintori & Twitchett, 2013
*''Glikmanius occidentalis''
Leidy, 1859
*''Glikmanius myachkovensis''
Lebedev, 2001
References
"Ctenacanthiform Cladodont Teeth from the Lower Permian Wichita Group, Texas, U.S.A." ''Acta Geologica Polonica'', Vol. 58 (2008), No. 2, pp. 205–209
Carboniferous sharks
Carboniferous fish of Europe
Carboniferous fish of North America
Prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera
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