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Antarctilamna

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Antarctilamna
Temporal range: Devonian
~416–360 Ma
Restorations of A.prisca from Middle Devonian of Antarctica and A. ultima from Late Devonian of South Africa
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Antarctilamna

Young, 1982
Species
  • A. prisca
  • A. ultima

Antarctilamna is an extinct genus of shark, that lived during the Devonian period.[1]

Distribution

Fossils of Antarctilamna have been found in Antarctica,[citation needed] Australia,[citation needed] Bolivia (Catavi Formation), Colombia (Cuche Formation, Boyacá),[2] South Africa (Witpoort Formation),[3] and Pont de Suert, Spain.[4]

References

  1. ^ Murray, A.M. (June 2000). "The Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic fishes of Africa". Fish and Fisheries. 1 (2): 111–145. doi:10.1046/j.1467-2979.2000.00015.x.
  2. ^ Janvier & Villarroel, 1998
  3. ^ Gess, 2011, p.69
  4. ^ Antarctilamna at Fossilworks.org

Bibliography

Further reading

  • P. Y. Gagnier, S. Turner, L. Friman, M. Suarez-Riglos, and P. Janvier. 1988. The Devonian vertebrate and mollusc fauna from Seripona (Dept. of Chiquisaca, Bolivia). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 176(2):269-297
  • M. Ginter, J.-C. Liao, and J. I. Valenzuela-Rios. 2008. New data on chondrichthyan microremains from the Givetian of the Renanue section in the Aragonian Pyrenees (Spain). Acta Geologica Polonica 58(2):165-172