An extinct family of shark-like fish that lived during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.
From cestracion + the family suffix -idae, following Linnaean biological classification for grouping related species.
Cestraciontidae persisted for over 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs ruled Earth—yet no human has ever seen one alive because they went extinct 66 million years ago!
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