Lonchidion

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Lonchidion
Temporal range: Triassic to Cretaceous
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Superorder: Selachimorpha
Order: †Hybodontiformes
Family: †
Genus: †Lonchidion
Estes, 1964

Lonchidion is a genus of prehistoric sharks in the family . It was described by R. Estes in 1964, and the type species is L. selachas. A new species, L. ferganensis, was described by Jan Fischer, Sebastian Voigt, Jörg W. Schneider, Michael Buchwitz and Silke Voigt in 2011, from fossilized teeth and egg capsules.[1]

Species[]

  • Lonchidion anitae Thurmond, 1971
  • Lonchidion breve Patterson, 1966
  • Lonchidion crenulatum Patterson, 1966
  • Lonchidion humblei Murry, 1981[2]
  • Lonchidion indicus Yadagiri, 1986
  • Lonchidion inflexum Underwood & Rees, 2002
  • Lonchidion microselachos Estes & Sanchíz, 1982
  • Lonchidion selachas Estes, 1964
  • Lonchidion selachos Estes, 1964
  • Lonchidion striatum Patterson, 1966
  • Lonchidion ferganensis Fischer et al., 2011

References[]

  1. ^ Jan Fischer, Sebastian Voigt, Jörg W. Schneider, Michael Buchwitz and Silke Voigt (2011). "A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implication for Mesozoic shark nurseries". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (5): 937–953. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.601729.
  2. ^ A New Species of Freshwater Hybodont from the Dockum Group (Triassic) of Texas Phillip A. Murry. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 55, No. 3 (May, 1981), pp. 603-607

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