Named By: | Jan Rees in 2010 |
Time Period: | Middle-Late Jurassic, Callovian-Oxfordian |
Location: | Poland |
Size: | Unknown |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Teeth |
Classification: | | Chordata | Chondrichthyes | Elasmobranchii | Orectolobiformes | |
Akaimia is an extinct genus of carpet sharks which existed in Ogrodzieniec near Zawiercie, southern Poland, during the middle or late Jurassic (Callovian or Oxfordian age). It was first named by Jan Rees in 2010 and the type species is Akaimia altucuspis.