Acanthorhina

Acanthorhina
Temporal range:
Fossil and skeletal reconstruction of A. jaekeli
Life restoration of A. jaekeli, with the body reconstructed after Chimaeropsis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Chimaeriformes
Family: Myriacanthidae
Genus: Acanthorhina
Species:
A. jaekeli
Binomial name
Acanthorhina jaekeli
Fraas, 1910

Acanthorhina is an extinct genus of chimaera from the Toarcian age of the Jurassic period. It currently contains a single species, A. jaekeli known from the Posidonia shale of Holzmaden, Germany.