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Protospinacidae ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)131677https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=131677
Rankfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Protospinacidae
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
classChondrichthyesHuxley 1880
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
infraclassEuselachii
-NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
superorderSqualeaShirai 1996
superorderHypnosqualeaCarvalho and Maisey 1996
familyProtospinacidaeWoodward 1919
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Protospinacidaefamilybelongs to Squaliformesstated with evidenceThies, 1983
Protospinacidaefamilybelongs to Hypnosqualeastated with evidenceUnderwood, 2002
Protospinacidaefamilybelongs to Protospinaciformesstated without evidenceUnderwood, 2006
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)11
First Recorded Appearance183 - 176 Ma
Early Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance151 - 145 Ma
Late Jurassic
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Chondrichthyes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Chondrichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)A. S. Woodward. 1919. On two new elasmobranch fishes (Crossorhinus jurassicus, sp. nov. and Protospinax annectans, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic stone of Bavaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13:231-235

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Breviacanthus
genus
listed (PBDB)2168 Ma
Middle Jurassic
168 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Protospinax
genus
listed (PBDB)27183 Ma
Early Jurassic
151 Ma
Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1919Protospinacidae Woodward p. 232
1983Protospinacidae Thies p. 20
2002Protospinacidae Underwood
2003Protospinacidae Delsate p. 9
2004Protospinacidae Underwood and Ward p. 483
2006Protospinacidae Underwood p. 234

References

Woodward A. S. (1919) On two new elasmobranch fishes (Crossorhinus jurassicus, sp. nov. and Protospinax annectans, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic stone of Bavaria, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13, 231-235
Thies D. (1983) Jurazeitliche Neoselachier aus Deutschland und S-England (Jurassic neoselachians from German and S-England), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 58, 1-116
Underwood C. J. (2002) Sharks, rays and a chimaeroid from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Ringstead, Southern England, Palaeontology 45 2, 297-325
Delsate D. (2003) Une nouvelle faune des poissons et requins Toarciens du sud du Luxembourg (Dudelange) et de L'Allemange (Schömberg), Bulletin de l'Académie Lorrain des Sciences 42, 13-49
Underwood C. J., Ward D. J. (2004) Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic), Palaeontology 47 3, 447-501
Underwood C. J. (2006) Diversification of the Neoselachii (Chondrichthyes) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, Paleobiology 32 2, 215-235
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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