Tribodus
| Tribodus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Hybodontiformes |
| Genus: | †Tribodus Brito & Ferreira, 1989 |
| Type species | |
| †Tribodus limae Brito & Ferreira, 1989
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Tribodus is an extinct genus of hybodont shark from the Romualdo Formation of northeastern Brazil. It lived during the Early Cretaceous period (Aptian to Albian stages). This genus is known from articulated and somewhat complete specimens, from a locality known for the extraordinary preservation of the fossil remains found. Tribodus specimens have been preserved three-dimensionally, and acid-preparation methods have revealed much of the anatomy of this shark.[1][2]Tribodus is found to have dorsal fin-spines and head spines, though only in males.[2]
References
- ^ Maisey, J.G.; Denton, J.S.S. (2016). "Dermal denticle patterning in the Cretaceous hybodont shark Tribodus limae (Euselachii, Hybodontiformes), and its implications for the evolution of patterning in the chondrichthyan dermal skeleton". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (5): e1179200-2. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1179200.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b Lane, Jennifer A.; Maisey, John G. (2012). "The Visceral Skeleton and Jaw Suspension In the Durophagous Hybodontid Shark Tribodus limae from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (5): 886–905. doi:10.1666/11-139.1. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 86285896.