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Hybodontiformes

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	56963	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=56963

Rank

order (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Hybodontiformes

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
class	Chondrichthyes	Huxley 1880
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii
-	Hybodontida
-	Hybodontiformes

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Hybodontiformes	unranked clade	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Herman, 1975
Hybodontiformes	unranked clade	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated with evidence	Maisey, 1987
Hybodontiformes	unranked clade	belongs to Euselachii	stated without evidence	Everhart, 2004
Hybodontiformes	unranked clade	belongs to Cladodontomorphi	stated with evidence	Ginter et al., 2010
Hybodontiformes	order	belongs to Hybodontida	stated with evidence	Long, 2011
Hybodontiformes	order	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Soto et al., 2012
Hybodontiformes	unranked clade	belongs to Euselachii	stated without evidence	Pinheiro et al., 2013

Taxon Size (PBDB)

306

First Recorded Appearance

383 - 372 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Chondrichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Chondrichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. J. Everhart. 2004. First record of the hybodont shark genus, "Polyacrodus" sp., (Chondrichthyes; Polyacrodontidae) from the Kiowa Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of McPherson County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 107(1/2):83-87

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hybodontoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)		1,313	383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	7.25 Ma Miocene
Cassisodus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Doratodus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	222 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	222 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Hamiltonichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Hubeiodus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	Hubei Tooth	2	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Mesodmodus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Omanoselache ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		79	269 Ma Permian	232 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Onychoselache ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	345 Ma Carboniferous	345 Ma Carboniferous
Reesodus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		7	339 Ma Carboniferous	269 Ma Permian
Teresodus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		12	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1966	Hybodontiformes Patterson
1975	Hybodontiformes Herman p. 17
1978	Hybodontiformes Case p. 180
1979	Hybodontiformes Case p. 79
1987	Hybodontiformes Maisey p. 4
2004	Hybodontiformes Everhart

Year	Name and Author
2010	Hybodontiformes Ginter et al. p. 89
2011	Hybodontiformes Long p. 242
2012	Hybodontiformes Soto et al.
2013	Hybodontiformes Pinheiro et al.
2013	Hybodontiformes Pla et al. p. 771

References

Everhart M. J. (2004) First record of the hybodont shark genus, "Polyacrodus" sp., (Chondrichthyes; Polyacrodontidae) from the Kiowa Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of McPherson County, Kansas, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 107 1/2, 83-87

Herman J. (1975) Les Selaciens de sterrains neocretaces and paleocenes de Belgique and des contrees limitrophes Elements d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale, Memoires pour servier a l'explications des Cartes geologiques et minieres de la Belgique 15, 1-401

Case G. R. (1978) A new selachian fauna from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Montana, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 160 Lfg. 1-6, 176-205

Case G. R. (1979) Cretaceous selachians from the Peedee Formation (Late Maestrichtian) of Duplin County, North Carolina, Brimleyana 2, 77-89

Maisey J. G. (1987) Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic shark Hybodus reticulatus (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), with comments on hybodontid systematics, American Museum Novitates 2878, 1-19

Ginter M., Hampe O., et al (2010) Chondrichthyes, Paleozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth, Handbook of Paleoichthyology 3D, 1-168

Long J. A. (2011) , The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution (Second Edition), 1-287

Soto M., Perea D., et al (2012) New remains of Priohybodus aramourgi (Hybodontiformes: Hybodontidae) from Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous deposits in Uruguay, Cretaceous Research 35, 118-123

Pinheiro F., de Figueiredo A. E. Q., et al (2013) Planohybodus marki sp. nov., a new fresh-water hybodontid shark from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil, Cretaceous Research 41, 210-216 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.12.005

Pla C., Márquez-Aliaga A., et al (2013) The Chondrichthyan Fauna from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian)of the Iberian Range (Spain), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33, 770-785

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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