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Lonchidion selachos ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)67744https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67744
Rankspecies (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Hybodontiformes : Lonchidiidae : Lonchidion : Lonchidion selachos
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
familyLonchidiidaeHerman 1977
genusLonchidionEstes 1964
speciesLonchidion selachosEstes 1964
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Lonchidion selachosspeciesbelongs to Lonchidionstated with evidenceEstes, 1964
Lonchidion selachosspeciesbelongs to Lonchidionstated without evidenceThurmond, 1971
Lonchidion selachosspeciesbelongs to Lonchidionstated with evidenceHerman, 1975
Lonchidion selachosspeciesbelongs to LissodusimpliedDuffin, 1985
Lonchidion selachosspeciesbelongs to Lonchidionstated with evidenceRees and Underwood, 2002
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Chondrichthyes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Chondrichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. Estes. 1964. Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49:1-187

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1964Lonchidion selachos Estes pp. 7-12 figs. 1-4
1971Lonchidion selachos Thurmond p. 217
1975Lonchidion selachos Herman p. 41
1985Lissodus selachos Duffin
1989Lissodus selachos Bryant p. 10
2002Lonchidion selachos Rees and Underwood

References

Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187
Thurmond J. T. (1971) Cartilaginous fishes of the Trinity Group and related rocks (Lower Cretaceous) of north central Texas, Southeastern Geology 13, 207-227
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
Bryant L. J. (1989) Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 134, 1-107
Rees J., Underwood C. (2002) The status of the shark genus Lissodus Brough, 1935, and the position of nominal Lissodus species within the Hybodontoidea (Selachii), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 3, 471-479
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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