Amelacanthus plicatus
(Agassiz, 1837)
Classification: Elasmobranchii Ctenacanthiformes
Reference of the original description
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 15th and 16th livraisons (March 1843). Jent and Gassmann, Soleure (text) and H. Nicolet, Neuchâtel (planches). – vol. 3: [i]-[iv], 157-390, 382*-382**, 1–32, [33]-[34], pl. 1, 18, 22, 22a, 22b, 26a, 38, 40b, 40c, 40d, 45, 47
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 15th and 16th livraisons (March 1843). Jent and Gassmann, Soleure (text) and H. Nicolet, Neuchâtel (planches). – vol. 3: [i]-[iv], 157-390, 382*-382**, 1–32, [33]-[34], pl. 1, 18, 22, 22a, 22b, 26a, 38, 40b, 40c, 40d, 45, 47
Synonyms / new combinations and misspellings
Onchus plicatus
Onchus plicatus
Types
Amelacanthus plicatus
Amelacanthus plicatus
Description:
Citation: Amelacanthus plicatus (Agassiz, 1837): In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 02/2026
Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=214;
shark-references Species-ID=214;
References
Studies on the Paleozoic selachian genus Ctenacanthus Agassiz. No. 2, Bythiacanthus St. John and Worthen, Amelacanthus, new genus, Eunemacanthus St. John and Worthen, Sphenacanthus Agassiz, and Wodnika Münster. American Museum Novitates, 2722, 1–24
Die Fische der Vorwelt, mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Fische. Erster Band: Wirbelthiere. Dritte Abtheilung: Fische: i–xii, 1–467. Leipzig (Brockhaus).
A stratigraphical list of British fossils; arranged under the principal division of the British strata, with a few elementary remarks on their character and localities. London, Reeve Brothers, Strand, 132pp
Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, district mem. Geol. Surv. Ireland, Dublin, xxxi + 784 pp., A. Milliken, 1843, 784pp
Synoptical Table of British Fossil Fishes, Arranged in the Order of the Geological Formations. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 13th Meeting (1843), 194–207
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 15th and 16th livraisons (March 1843). Jent and Gassmann, Soleure (text) and H. Nicolet, Neuchâtel (planches). – vol. 3: [i]-[iv], 157-390, 382*-382**, 1–32, [33]-[34], pl. 1, 18, 22, 22a, 22b, 26a, 38, 40b, 40c, 40d, 45, 47
Catalogue of Fossil Fish in the Collections of the Earl of Enniskillen, F.G.S. and Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart., F.R.S. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7(46), 487–498
Studies on the Paleozoic selachian genus Ctenacanthus Agassiz. No. 2, Bythiacanthus St. John and Worthen, Amelacanthus, new genus, Eunemacanthus St. John and Worthen, Sphenacanthus Agassiz, and Wodnika Münster. American Museum Novitates, 2722, 1–24
Die Fische der Vorwelt, mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Fische. Erster Band: Wirbelthiere. Dritte Abtheilung: Fische: i–xii, 1–467. Leipzig (Brockhaus).
A stratigraphical list of British fossils; arranged under the principal division of the British strata, with a few elementary remarks on their character and localities. London, Reeve Brothers, Strand, 132pp

Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, district mem. Geol. Surv. Ireland, Dublin, xxxi + 784 pp., A. Milliken, 1843, 784pp
Synoptical Table of British Fossil Fishes, Arranged in the Order of the Geological Formations. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 13th Meeting (1843), 194–207
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 15th and 16th livraisons (March 1843). Jent and Gassmann, Soleure (text) and H. Nicolet, Neuchâtel (planches). – vol. 3: [i]-[iv], 157-390, 382*-382**, 1–32, [33]-[34], pl. 1, 18, 22, 22a, 22b, 26a, 38, 40b, 40c, 40d, 45, 47

Catalogue of Fossil Fish in the Collections of the Earl of Enniskillen, F.G.S. and Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart., F.R.S. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7(46), 487–498








