Biology:Platylithophycus
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Short description: Extinct genus of elasmobranchs
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Genus: | †Platylithophycus Johnson & Howell, 1948[1] |
| Species: | †P. cretaceus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Platylithophycus cretaceus Johnson & Howell, 1948
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Platylithophycus is an extinct genus of elasmobranchs that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a single specimen from the Niobrara Formation of Kansas , United States. It was originally identified as the fronds of a codiacean alga, then later as the cuttlebone of a cuttlefish.[1][2] It was most recently reidentified as the gill arches and rakers of an elasmobranch of uncertain affinities.[3] It might have been a filter feeding mackerel shark related to Aquilolamna.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Johnson, J.H.; Howell, B.F. (1948). "A new Cretaceous calcareous alga from Kansas". Journal of Paleontology 22 (5): 632–633. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1299601.
- ↑ Miller, H.W.; Walker, M.V. (1968). "Enchoteuthis melanae and Kansasteuthis lindneri, new genera and species of teuthids, and a sepiid from the Niobrara Formation of Kansas". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 71 (2): 176–183. doi:10.2307/3627369. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3627369.
- ↑ Bronson, A.W.; Maisey, J.G. (2018). "Resolving the identity of Platylithophycus, an enigmatic fossil from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian–Campanian)". Journal of Paleontology 92 (4): 743–750. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.14.
- ↑ Vullo, R.; Frey, E.; Ifrim, C.; González González, M.A.; Stinnesbeck, E.S.; Stinnesbeck, W. (2021). "Manta-like planktivorous sharks in Late Cretaceous oceans". Science 371 (6535): 1253–1256. doi:10.1126/science.abc1490. PMID 33737486. Bibcode: 2021Sci...371.1253V. https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03174427/file/Vullo-etal-2021-HAL.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q114152611 entry
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