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Stethacanthulus meccaensis ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)291595https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=291595
Rankspecies (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Symmoriiformes : Symmoriidae : Stethacanthulus : Stethacanthulus meccaensis
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
superorderCladodontomorphiGinter et al. 2010
orderSymmoriiformes
familySymmoriidaeDean 1909
genusStethacanthulusZangerl 1990
speciesStethacanthulus meccaensisWilliams 1985
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Stethacanthulus meccaensisspeciesbelongs to Denaeastated without evidenceZangerl, 1995
Stethacanthulus meccaensisspeciesbelongs to Stethacanthulusstated with evidenceIvanov et al., 2013
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance315 - 307 Ma
Carboniferous
Last Recorded Appearance265 - 260 Ma
Permian
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Symmoriiformes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Symmoriiformes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)M. E. Williams. 1985. The "Cladodont level" sharks of the Pennsylvanian black shales of central North America. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 190:83-158

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1985Danaea meccaensis Williams p. 88
1985Denaea meccaensis Williams p. 88
1995Denaea meccaensis Zangerl p. 556
2013Stethacanthulus meccaensis Ivanov et al. p. 154 fig. 4A,B
2015Stethacanthulus meccaensis Ivanov p. 302 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-9
2020Stethacanthulus meccaensis Ivanov et al.

References

Williams M. E. (1985) The "Cladodont level" sharks of the Pennsylvanian black shales of central North America, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 190, 83-158
Zangerl R. (1995) The problem of vast numbers of cladodont shark denticles in the Pennsylvanian Excello Shale of Pike County, Indiana, Journal of Paleontology 69 3, 556-563
Ivanov A. O., Nestell G. P., et al (2013) Fish assemblage from the Capitanian (Middle Permian) of the Apache Mountains, west Texas, USA, The Carboniferous-Permian Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 60, 152-160
Ivanov A. O. (2015) Systematic paleontology, in Middle Permian fish microremains from the Early Capitanian of the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas, USA, Micropaleontology 61, 301-312
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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