Hypolophus sylvestris

White, 1931


Classification: Elasmobranchii Myliobatiformes Dasyatidae

Reference of the original description
White, E.I. (1931)
The vertebrate faunas of the English Eocene. I. From the Thanet Sands to the Basement Bed of the London Clay. British Museum (Natural History): 121 p., 162 fig.

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<i>Hypolophus sylvestris</i> White, 1931 Fig. 94-108 in White, 1931

Types
Hypolophus sylvestris
Holotype: NHMUK: P.14616a;

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Description
Original diagnose after White (1931) p. 70 [2532]: A species of Hypolophus known only by isolated teeth (and dermal tubercles). Teeth similar in form, arrangement and size to those of the living H. sephen (Forskal), but sides of crown always sloping inwards and overhanging the root, and median lateral teeth of upper jaw relatively wider. (Dermal tubercles variable in size and shape; larger forms longer than wide, with upper surface ornamented with numerous grooves radiating from a small, much elevated central spine sloping backwards, and large root convex and smooth; smaller tubercles similar but rounded, with vertical median spine.)

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=3121;
type species of Hypolophodon Cappetta, 1980 p. 39 [328] by original designation (Art. 68.2 ICZN);

valid after White (1931) p. 70 [2532];

synonym of Hypolophodon sylvestris after Cvancara & Hoganson (1993) p. 11 [596]; Case (1996) p. 10 [397]; Cappetta (1980) p. 39 [328]; Ebersole et al. (2019) p. 118 [27789];

References
von der Hocht, F. (1979)
Eine Lagerstätte kreidezeitlicher und paläogener Chondrichthyes-Reste bei Fürstenau (Niedersachsen). Osnabrücker Naturwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 6, 35–44
Herman, J. (1977)
Les Sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés et paléocènes de Belgique et des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale. Mémoires pour servir à l'explication des Cartes géologiques et minières de la Belgique, 15, 1–401
Casier, E. (1967)
Le Landénien de Dormaal (Brabant) et sa faune ichthyologique. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 156, 1–66
McNulty, C.L. (1964)
Hypolophid teeth from the Woodbine Formation, Tarrant County, Texas. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 57(2), 538–539
Casier, E. (1947)
Constitution et évolution de la racine dentaire des Euselachii. II. Étude comparative des types. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 23(14), 1–32
White, E.I. (1931)
The vertebrate faunas of the English Eocene. I. From the Thanet Sands to the Basement Bed of the London Clay. British Museum (Natural History): 121 p., 162 fig.