Synechodontiformes

Synechodontiformes is an extinct order of prehistoric sharks, known from the Permian to the Paleogene. They are a stem-group of Neoselachii, the group that contains modern sharks and rays. They were previously considered a paraphyletic grouping, but recent studies have recovered the group as monophyletic. Members of the clade are united by two synapomorphies, "pseudopolyaulacorhize tooth root pattern present; labial root depression in basal view present".[2] The oldest possible member of the clade are teeth from the early Permian (Cisuralian) of the Ural Mountains.[3]

Synechodontiformes
Temporal range:
Fossil of Sphenodus nitidus
Paraorthacodus jurensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Superorder: Squalomorphii
Order: Synechodontiformes
Duffin & Ward, 1993[1]
Families

See text

Taxonomy

Primarily after Klug (2010)[2]

  • Orthacodontidae de Beaumont, 1960
    • Sphenodus Agassiz, 1843 Early Jurassic - Paleocene[4]
    • Occitanodus Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet, 2014, France, Early Cretaceous (Valanginian)[5]
  • Pseudonotidanidae Underwood & Ward, 2004a
    • Welcommia Cappetta, 1990
    • Pseudonotidanus Underwood & Ward, 2004a
  • Palaeospinacidae Regan, 1906
  • †Paraorthacodontidae Klug, 2010
  • Incertae sedis
    • Rhomphaiodon Duffin, 1993a
    • Mucrovenator Cuny et al., 2001
    • Safrodus Koot & Cuny, 2014[7] Early Triassic, Oman
    • Polyfaciodus Koot & Cuny, 2014 Early Triassic, Oman

References

  1. C. J. Duffin and D. J. Ward. 1993. The Early Jurassic Palaeospinacid sharks of Lyme Regis, southern England. Belgian Geological Survey, Professional Papers, Elasmobranches et Stratigraphie 264:53-102
  2. Klug, Stefanie (2010). "Monophyly, phylogeny and systematic position of the †Synechodontiformes (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)". Zoologica Scripta. 39 (1): 37–49. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00399.x. ISSN 1463-6409.
  3. Ivanov, Alexander (2005-08-30). "Early Permian chondrichthyans of the Middle and South Urals" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia. 8 (2): 127–138. doi:10.4072/rbp.2005.2.05.
  4. Kanno, Shiori; Nakajima, Yasuhisa; Hikida, Yoshinori; Sato, Tamaki (2017-04-01). "Sphenodus (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from the Upper Cretaceous in Nakagawa Town, Hokkaido, Japan". Paleontological Research. 21 (2): 122. doi:10.2517/2016PR009. ISSN 1342-8144.
  5. Guinot, Guillaume; Cappetta, Henri; Adnet, Sylvain (March 2014). "A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France". Cretaceous Research. 48: 54–84. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.014.
  6. Batchelor, Trevor J.; Duffin, Christopher J. (August 2020). "First description of sharks' teeth from the Ferruginous Sands Formation (Aptian, Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 131 (3–4): 353–359. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.06.004.
  7. Koot, Martha B.; Cuny, Gilles; Orchard, Michael J.; Richoz, Sylvain; Hart, Malcolm B.; Twitchett, Richard J. (2015-10-03). "New hybodontiform and neoselachian sharks from the Lower Triassic of Oman". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (10): 891–917. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.963179. ISSN 1477-2019.


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