hexanchid
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of translingual Hexanchidae
Noun
[edit]hexanchid (plural hexanchids)
- (zoology) Any member of the family Hexanchidae, of cow sharks.
- 1995, P.J.Smart, Hexanchid shark teeth (Chondrichthyes, Vertebrata) from the Lower Cretaceous Albian sediments of Leighton Buzzard, South-central England[1]:
- Hexanchid sharks (Family Hexanchidae) are extremely rare in Lower Cretaceous deposits and are known only from isolated teeth.