Plicatodus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Xenacanthida |
| Family: | †Xenacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Plicatodus Hampe, 1995 |
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Orthacanthus plicatus (Fritsch, 1879) | |
Plicatodus is a prehistoric
type locality for this genus is the Saar-Nahe basin.[2]
Description
Plicatodus fossils generally only consist of scattered, isolated teeth, with one exception: a partial skeleton that includes the head, dorsal spine, and
pectoral girdle
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Species
The type species for this genus, P. jordani was described in 1995 from Permian-aged material (the
Periods
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P. plicatus was originally described as a member of the genus Orthacanthus by Karl von Fritsch in 1879. It came from the Kasimovian (Carboniferous) aged Slany Formation in the Rakovnik Basin of Bohemia.[1]
P. sp., found in the Gzhelian (Carboniferous) of Lower Austria is undetermined.[1] While it may represent an undescribed third species, it may just as well come from P. jordani or P. plicatus.
References
- ^ a b c Ginter, M., Hampe, O., Duffin, C., 2010.Handbook of Paleoichthyology Volume 3D: Chondrichthyes: Paleozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth. in Schultze, H. (ed.) Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Verlag Dr. Fredich Pfeil- Munchen
- ^ Plicatodus jordani n. g., n. sp., a new xenacanthid shark from the Lower Permian of Europe (Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany) by Oliver Hampe, 1995.
External links
- Plicatodus at the Paleobiology Database
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