Rolfodon goliath

Rolfodon goliath; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Superorder:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Hexanchiformes
Family:	Chlamydoselachidae
Genus:	†
Species:	†R. goliath
Binomial name
	†Rolfodon goliath; (Antunes & Cappetta, 2002)

Rolfodon goliath is a species of large frilled shark that lived during the Late Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in Angola's southern Benguela Basin.^[1] It was described by Miguel Telles Antunes and Henri Cappetta in 2002 during the beginning stages of the PaleoAngola project. Originally it was described as a species belonging to the genus Chlamydoselachus; Cappetta, Morrison & Adnet (2019) transferred it to the chlamydoselachid genus Rolfodon.^[2]

The holotype, MUS ANG 23, is rather large. This tooth is about 20mm high,^[3] and is characterised by straightened, upright cusps with smooth enameloid which lack ornamentation. ^[4]

References[]

^ "Rolfodon goliath (Antunes & Cappetta, 2002)". Shark references.
^ Henri Cappetta; Kurt Morrison; Sylvain Adnet (2019). "A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 33 (8): 1121–1182. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1681421.
^ Cappetta et al. (2016) "New selachian assemblages from the Oligocene of Moravia (Czech Republic)", Researchgate
^ Carlsen, A.W. & Cuny, G. 2014. A study of the sharks and rays from the Lillebælt Clay (Early–Middle Eocene) of Denmark, and their palaeoecology. © 2014 by Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, Vol. 62, pp. 39–88. ISSN 2245-7070.

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[1] "Rolfodon goliath (Antunes & Cappetta, 2002)". Shark references.

[2] Henri Cappetta; Kurt Morrison; Sylvain Adnet (2019). "A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 33 (8): 1121–1182. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1681421.

[3] Cappetta et al. (2016) "New selachian assemblages from the Oligocene of Moravia (Czech Republic)", Researchgate

[4] Carlsen, A.W. & Cuny, G. 2014. A study of the sharks and rays from the Lillebælt Clay (Early–Middle Eocene) of Denmark, and their palaeoecology. © 2014 by Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, Vol. 62, pp. 39–88. ISSN 2245-7070.

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