Palaeobates
Appearance
Palaeobates Temporal range:
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Early Triassic Palaeobates polaris from Svalbard - picture taken at Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zurich | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | †Hybodontiformes |
Family: | †Acrodontidae |
Genus: | †Palaeobates Meyer, 1849 |
Type species | |
†Psammodus angustissimus Agassiz in Alberti, 1834
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Other species | |
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Palaeobates is an extinct genus of prehistoric elasmobranchs in the order Hybodontiformes. It lived during the Triassic period.[1] It was a small shark about 1 m (3.3 ft) long.[2] Palaeobates had a grinding-type dentition, which it used to crush hard-shelled prey. The teeth exhibit an orthodont histology.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Romano, Carlo; Brinkmann, Winand (December 2010). "A new specimen of the hybodont shark Palaeobates polaris with threedimensionally preserved Meckel's cartilage from the Smithian (Early Triassic) of Spitsbergen". Journal of Paleontology. 30 (6): 1673–1683. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521962. S2CID 86411191.
- ^ Scheyer, Torsten M.; Romano, Carlo; Jenks, Jim; Bucher, Hugo (19 March 2014). "Early Triassic Marine Biotic Recovery: The Predators' Perspective". PLOS ONE. 9 (3): e88987. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...988987S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088987. PMC 3960099. PMID 24647136.