Scyllium tumidens

Woodward, 1889


Classification: Elasmobranchii Carcharhiniformes Scyliorhinidae

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.

Types
Scyllium tumidens



Description:


Citation: Scyllium tumidens Woodward, 1889: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 11/2024

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Scyllium (?) tumidens sp. nov.; tooth, outer aspect, six times nat. size, [ P. 4777.]

Description
Type epecimen, displaying the head from the inferior aspect, tracee of about thirty anterior vertebrae, the pectoral arch, and the right pectoral fin. The snout is very obtuse, and the head measures 0-047 in length. The teeth are numerous and relatively small, displaying the characters already noted in the specif-ic diagnosis, and one is shown, of six times the natural size, in Pl. XVI. fig. 6. The pectoral fin is acutely triangular, with a short base of insertion, and slender basal cartilaginous rays. Pur-chased, 1884.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=6374;
valid after Woodward (1889) p. 342 [2593];

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