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24 June 2014 Late Viséan Pelagic Chondrichthyans from Northern Europe
Michał Ginter, Christopher J. Duffin, Mark T. Dean, Dieter Korn
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Abstract

The relatively rich assemblages of shark teeth from pelagic limestone (Mississippian, late Viséan, late Asbian—middle Brigantian) of three northern European regions: the Rhenish Mountains (Westenfeld Quarry, Germany), the Holy Cross Mountains (Todowa Grząba at the edge of Ostrówka Quarry, Poland), and Derbyshire (Cawdor Quarry, Matlock, England, UK) display certain similarities, with the absolute predominance of the teeth of Falcatidae (small Symmoriiformes) and the constant presence of Thrinacodus spp. The largest and most diverse assemblage from Todowa Grząba contains at least three species of a falcatid Denaea, a xenacanthimorph Bransonella nebraskensis, a newly described phoebodontid Thrinacodus dziki sp. nov., a few ctenacanthiform and euselachian teeth, and two abraded euchondrocephalan dental elements. Anachronistidae, common in the most of late Viséan pelagic faunas, are absent from Todowa Grząba and Westenfeld. The material under study differs from the shallow-water chondrichthyan fauna, hitherto described from the Mississippian carbonate platform facies, by its taxonomic content (particularly almost total absence of Euchondrocephali), generally lower diversity, and higher frequency of small teeth.

Copyright © 2015 M. Ginter et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (for details please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Michał Ginter, Christopher J. Duffin, Mark T. Dean, and Dieter Korn "Late Viséan Pelagic Chondrichthyans from Northern Europe," Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(4), 899-922, (24 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00084.2014
Received: 8 April 2014; Accepted: 1 June 2014; Published: 24 June 2014
KEYWORDS
Carboniferous
Chondrichthyes
England
Germany
Mississippian
Poland
teeth
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