Chimaeropsis
| Chimaeropsis Temporal range: | |
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| Life restoration of Chimaeropsis paradoxa | |
| Illustration of a well-preserved specimen destroyed during World War II, from Reis (1895) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | Chimaeriformes |
| Family: | †Chimaeropsidae Patterson, 1965 |
| Genus: | †Chimaeropsis Zittel, 1887 |
| Type species | |
| Chimaeropsis paradoxa Zittel, 1887 | |
| Other species | |
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Chimaeropsis is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish related to modern chimaeras, known from the Jurassic of Europe.