Archaeogaleus lengadocensis

Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet, 2014


Classification: Elasmobranchii Carcharhiniformes Carcharhinidae

Reference of the original description
Guinot, G. & Cappetta, H. & Adnet, S. (2014)
A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France. Cretaceous Research, 48, 54–84

Types
Archaeogaleus lengadocensis
Holotype: USTL: VAL-191;


Description:


Citation: Archaeogaleus lengadocensis Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet, 2014: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 03/2024

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Description
Original diagnose after Guinot et al. (2014) p. 75 [20107]: Carcharhinid teeth showing gradient monognathic heterodonty and possibly sexual heterodonty. Teeth as high as wide to wider than high not exceeding 2.5 mm. Erect main cusp lingually and distally inclined with convex lingual face. Lateral heels high and horizontal with flat labial face and oblique margins. Anaulacorhize root with flat basal face and short and abrupt labial face. Presence of numerous labial foramina. Lingual root face with wide and acute lingual protuberance pierced by foramina. Depressed margino-lingual root faces with small foramen openings. Heterodonty represented by low and labio-lingually compressed lateral teeth with distally inclined main cusp. Mesial heel undifferentiated from main cusp and reduced distal heel. Occasional presence of slight short vertical folds on lingual crown neck and rare marginolabial folds. Main cusp with erect apex in some supposed lower lateral teeth of males. Presence of supposed parasymphyseal teeth with symmetrical erect main cusp and mesio-distally compressed root.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=13850;
type species of Archaeogaleus Guinot et al. (2014) p. 75 [20107] by original designation (Art. 68.2 ICZN);

valid after Guinot et al. (2014) p. 75 [20107];

References
Brée, B. & Condamine, F.L. & Guinot, G. (2022)
Combining palaeontological and neontological data shows a delayed diversification burst of carcharhiniform sharks likely mediated by environmental change. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 21906
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26010-7
Guinot, G. & Cappetta, H. & Adnet, S. (2014)
A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France. Cretaceous Research, 48, 54–84
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.014