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Helicoprion
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Helicoprion

Helicoprion davisii

Era: PermianDiet: CarnivorousPeriod: Early PermianSize: 11.9mWeight: 450kg

Helicoprion is an extinct genus of large shark-like cartilaginous fish that lived from the Early to the Middle Permian, about 290-270 million years ago. Helicoprion is a member of the Eugeneodontiformes, an extinct order of cartilaginous fish within the clade Holocephali, a group today represented only by chimaeras