# Tezakia

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Extinct genus of tezakid

Tezakia Temporal range: Sandbian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Order: †Altholepidiformes Family: †Tezakidae Genus: †Tezakia Species: †T. hardingensis Binomial name †Tezakia hardingensis Andreev et. al., 2015

***Tezakia*** is an [extinct](/source/Extinction) [genus](/source/Genus) of tezakid that lived during the [Sandbian](/source/Sandbian) [stage](/source/Stage_(stratigraphy)) of the [Late Ordovician](/source/Late_Ordovician) [epoch](/source/Epoch_(geology)).

## Distribution

*Tezakia hardingensis* is known from the [Harding Sandstone](/source/Harding_Sandstone) of [Colorado](/source/Colorado).[1]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Andreev, Plamen S.; Coates, Michael I.; Shelton, Richard M.; Cooper, Paul R.; Smith, M. Paul; Sansom, Ivan J. (24 April 2015). Johanson, Zerina (ed.). ["Upper Ordovician chondrichthyan‐like scales from North America"](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12167). *[Palaeontology](/source/Palaeontology_(journal))*. **58** (4): 691–704. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1111/pala.12167](https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fpala.12167). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0031-0239](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0031-0239). Retrieved 25 June 2025 – via Wiley Online Library.

Taxon identifiers Tezakia Wikidata: Q21347931 Wikispecies: Tezakia GBIF: 9035400 IRMNG: 11913146

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