Ptychodus multistriatus

Woodward, 1889


Classification: Elasmobranchii incert. sedis Ptychodontidae

Reference of the original description
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.

Synonyms / new combinations and misspellings
Ptychodus decurrens multistriatus


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Ptychodus multistriatus sp. nov.; lower median and two lateral teeth, coronal aspect, the anterior margin in figs. 4 and 6 inadvertently directed upwards; Chalk; Kent. [P. 2681]

Description
Original description of Woodward, 1889 [2593]:

Type. Teeth shown in PI. V. figs. 4-6. Teeth very similar to those of P. polygyrus, but having the transverse ridges upon the crown relatively much more delicate and numerous.
Form. & Loc. Turonian and Senonian: S.E. England.
P. 8881. Group of ten naturally associated teeth of the lower jaw, forming the type-specimen. PI. V. fig. 4 represent a median tooth inadvertently placed with the anterior border upwards; fig. 5 a first lateral; and fig. 6 an outer series; Kent.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=5380;
valid after Woodward (1889) p. 146 [2593];


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