Anotodus
| Anotodus Temporal range:
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| Tooth of Anotodus retroflexus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Family: | Alopiidae |
| Genus: | †Anotodus Le Hon, 1871[2] |
| Species: | †A. retroflexus
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| †Anotodus retroflexus | |
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Anotodus is an extinct genus of thresher sharks that lived during the Neogene. It contains one valid species, Anotodus retroflexus, which has been found in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.[3][4]
Taxonomy
[edit]Oxyrhina retroflexa was named by Louis Agassiz in an 1838 illustration,[1] which was followed by his text description in 1843.[5][a] Its holotype is a tooth of unknown provenance housed in the State Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe.[1][5] In 1871, Henri Le Hon named Anotodus agassizii for teeth from the Pliocene of Belgium, while acknowledging that it could be the same as O. retroflexa.[2] The former species is now regarded as a junior synonym of the latter; while some authors consider it to belong to Isurus,[7] it is more widely accepted as a distinct genus of alopiid.[3][4][8]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Agassiz, J.L.R. (1835–1843). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. Atlas, Tome III. Neuchâtel, CH: H. Nicolet. p. tab. 33, fig. 10. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.4275.
- ^ a b Le Hon, H. (1871). Préliminaires d'un mémoire sur les poissons tertiaires de Belgique. Brussels, BE: C. Muquardt. pp. 8–9.
- ^ a b Cappetta, H. (2012). Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Volume 3E. Chondrichthyes. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth. Munich, DE: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. pp. 242–243. ISBN 978-3-89937-148-2.
- ^ a b Carrillo-Briceño, J.D.; Luz, Z.; Hendy, A.; Kocsis, L.; Aguilera, O.; Vennemann, T. (2019). "Neogene Caribbean elasmobranchs: diversity, paleoecology and paleoenvironmental significance of the Cocinetas Basin assemblage (Guajira Peninsula, Colombia)". Biogeosciences. 16 (1): 33–56. Bibcode:2019BGeo...16...33D. doi:10.5194/bg-16-33-2019.
- ^ a b Agassiz, J.L.R. (1837–1843). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. Tome III. Neuchâtel, CH & Soleure, CH: Petitpierre & Jent et Gassmann. p. 281. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.4275.
- ^ Brignon, A. (2014). "The paleoichthyological and geological researches on the Permian deposits of Muse near Autun (Saône-et-Loire, France) at the beginning of the XIXth century". Bulletin de la Société géologique de France. 185 (4): 233–252. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.185.4.233.
- ^ Kent, B.W. (2018). "The cartilaginous fishes (chimaeras, sharks, and rays) of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland". In Godfrey, S.J. (ed.). The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. Number 100. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. pp. 45–157. doi:10.5479/SI.1943-6688.100.
- ^ Szabó, M.; Kocsis, L.; Bosnakoff, M.; Sebe, K. (2021). "A diverse Miocene fish assemblage (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit (Mecsek Mts, Hungary)". Földtani Közlöny. 151 (4): 363–410. doi:10.23928/foldt.kozl.2021.151.4.363.
Further reading
[edit]- J. Herman. 1977. Les sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés and paléocènes de Belgique and des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale. Mémoires pour Servir a l'Explication des Cartes Géologiques et Minières de la Belgique 15:1-450