Edestidae
| Edestidae Temporal range: Early Carboniferous to Early Jurassic
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| Family: | †Edestidae Jaekel, 1899
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Edestidae is a poorly known, extinct family of shark-like eugeneodontid holocephalid cartilaginous fish. Similar to the related family of Helicoprionidae, members of this family possessed a unique "tooth-whorl" on the symphysis of the lower jaw as well as pectoral fins supported by long radials. In addition to having a tooth-whorl on the lower jaw, at least species of the genus Edestus had a second tooth-whorl in the upper jaw. The palatoquadrate was either fused to the skull or reduced. Edestids, along with the rest of Eugeneodontida, are placed within Holocephali.[1]
External links
- Palaeos Vertebrates 70.100 Chondrichthyes: Eugnathostomata Paleos.com at paleos.com
- JSTOR: Journal of PaleontologyVol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 162-165
- Mikkk's phylogeny Archive
References
- ^ Tapanila, L., Pruitt, J., Pradel, A., Wilga, C., Ramsay, J., Schlader, R., Didier, D. 2013. Jaws for a spiral-tooth whorl: CT images reveal novel adaptation and phylogeny in fossil Helicoprion. Biology Letters. 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0057
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