Meristodonoides

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Meristodonoides
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Superorder: Selachimorpha
Order: †Hybodontiformes
Family: †Hybodontidae
Genus: †Meristodonoides
Underwood & Cumbaa, 2010

Meristodonoides is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish. The type species is M. rajkovichi, which was originally a species in the genus Hybodus. The species, along with other Hybodus species such as H. butleri and H. montanensis, was reassigned to Meristodonoides by Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa in 2010.[1][2]

Species[]

  • M. butleri
  • M. montanensis
  • M. novojerseyensis[3][4]
  • M. rajkovichi

References[]

  1. ^ Underwood, Charlie J.; Cumbaa, Stephen L. (2010). "Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 903–944. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00969.x.
  2. ^ Occurrence of the Hybodont Shark Genus Meristodonoides (Chondrichthyes; Hybodontiformes) in the Cretaceous of Kansas, Michael J. Everhart
  3. ^ "Selachians from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Hosta Tongue of the Point Lookout Sandstone, central New Mexico". New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. 2011.
  4. ^ Fossil Fish - Volume III of IV. North Carolina Fossil Club. 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
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