Archaeolamna
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| Family: | †Archaeolamnidae Underwood & Cumbaa, 2010[1]
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| Genus: | †Archaeolamna Siverson, 1992[2]
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Archaeolamna is an extinct genus of mackerel sharks that lived during the Cretaceous. It contains two valid species, A. kopingensis (which has two subspecies) and A. haigi, which have been found in Europe, North America, and Australia.[6] While it is mostly known from isolated teeth, an associated set of teeth, jaws, cranial fragments, and vertebrae of A. kopingensis is known from the Pierre Shale of Kansas.[6] Teeth of A. k. judithensis were found with a plesiosaur skeleton with bite marks from the Judith River Formation of Montana.[2]
Archaeolamnidae
When the family Archaeolamnidae was first named, it contained Archaeolamna, Cretodus, Dallasiella, and Telodontaspis.[1] However, Cretodus was reassigned to Pseudoscapanorhynchidae,[7] Dallasiella was reassigned to Lamniformes incertae sedis,[8] and Telodontaspis was synonymized with Cretoxyrhina.[9] This leaves Archaeolamna as the sole member of the family.
References
- ^ a b Underwood, C.J.; Cumbaa, S.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.
- ^ a b Siverson, M. (1992). "Biology, dental morphology and taxonomy of lamniform sharks from the Campanian of the Kristianstad Basin, Sweden". Palaeontology. 35 (3): 519–554.
- ^ Davis, J.W. (1890). "On the fossil fish of the Cretaceous formations of Scandinavia". Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society. 2. 4 (6): 363–434.
- ^ Siverson, M. (1996). "Lamniform sharks of the mid Cretaceous Alinga Formation and Beedagong Claystone, Western Australia". Palaeontology. 39 (4): 813–849.
- ^ Woodward, A.S. (1894). "Notes on the sharks' teeth from British Cretaceous formations". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 13 (6): 190–200. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(94)80009-4.
- ^ a b Cook, T.D.; Newbrey, M.G.; Murray, A.M.; Wilson, M.V.H.; Shimada, K.; Takeuchi, G.T.; Stewart, J.D. (2011). "A partial skeleton of the Late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Archaeolamna kopingensis, from the Pierre Shale of western Kansas, U.S.A.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (1): 8–21. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.539968.
- ^ Shimada, K.; Everhart, M.J. (2019). "A new large Late Cretaceous lamniform shark from North America, with comments on the taxonomy, paleoecology, and evolution of the genus Cretodus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (4): e1673399. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1673399.
- ^ Siversson, M.; Cederström, P.; Ryan, H.E. (2022). "A new dallasiellid shark from the lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Sweden". GFF. 144 (2): 118–125. doi:10.1080/11035897.2022.2097737.
- ^ Newbrey, M.G.; Siversson, M.; Cook, T.D.; Fotheringham, A.M.; Sanchez, R.L. (2015). "Vertebral morphology, dentition, age, growth, and ecology of the large lamniform shark Cardabiodon ricki". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60 (4): 877–897. doi:10.4202/app.2012.0047.