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Ptychodus polygyrus ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)124931https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=124931
Rankspecies (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Hybodontiformes : Ptychodontidae : Ptychodus : Ptychodus polygyrus
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
-Hybodontida
orderHybodontiformes
superfamilyHybodontoideaZangerl 1981
familyPtychodontidae
genusPtychodusAgassiz 1837
speciesPtychodus polygyrusAgassiz 1839
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Ptychodus polygyrusspeciesbelongs to Ptychodusstated with evidenceAgassiz, 1839
Ptychodus polygyrusspeciesbelongs to Ptychodusstated without evidenceHay, 1902
Ptychodus polygyrusspeciesbelongs to Ptychodusstated with evidenceHerman, 1975
Ptychodus polygyrusspeciesbelongs to Ptychodusstated without evidenceThurmond and Jones, 1981
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance93.9 - 89.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance85.8 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Chondrichthyes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Chondrichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)L. Agassiz. 1839. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 10, 12). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1839Ptychodus polygyrus Agassiz p. 156
1889Ptychodus polygyrus Woodward p. 143
1902Ptychodus polygyrus Hay p. 318
1970Ptychodus polygyrus Applegate p. 393
1975Ptychodus polygyrus Herman p. 74
1981Ptychodus polygyrus Thurmond and Jones p. 42

References

Agassiz L. , Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 10, 12). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, 141-156
Woodward A. S. , Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1, 1-613
Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868
Applegate S. P. (1970) The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3 8, 385-433
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
Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244
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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