Lamna serra

Woodward, 1889


Classification: Elasmobranchii Lamniformes Lamnidae

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
Lamna serra



Description:


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Description
Original description of Woodward, 1889 p. 400-401 [2593]:
Type. Detached teeth; British Museum. Teeth of moderate size, the largest attaining a total height of about 0‘018; crown elevated, smooth, and much compressed, with a single pair of broad acuminate lateral denti-cles, and one or two smaller outer pairs; root short, the branches diverging at a very wide angle, and the nutritive foramen situated in a groove. The teeth named Galeocerdo tremauxi, Sauvage (=Lamna, p. 409), seem to approach this species most closely, but are distinguished by the relatively deeper root and the larger size of the lateral denticles. The so-called Otodus serratus, Agassiz (Poiss. Foss. vol. iii. 1843, p. 272, pi. xxxii. figs. 27, 28), is founded upon teeth also very similar, hut differing in the irregularity of the lateral denticles ; these teeth probably pertaining to Odontaspis hronni.
Form. & Loc- Banian: Mont Aimd, Marne, France.
P. 5761. Two type specimens.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=8447;
valid after Woodward (1889) p. 400 [2593];

References
Priem, M.F. (1914)
Sur les Vertébrés du Crétacé et de l'Eocène d'Egypte. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, (Serie 4), 14, 366–382
Priem, M.F. (1908)
Etude des poissons fossiles du Bassin Parisien. Annales de Paléontologie, 1–144
Woodward, A.S. (1907)
Notes on some Upper Cretaceous fish-remains from the Provinces of Sergipe and Pernambuco, Brazil. Geological Magazine, decade 5, 4, 193–197
Ameghino, F. (1906)
Les formations sédimentaires du Crétacé supérieur et du Tertiaire de Patagonie avec un parallèle entre leurs faunes mammalogiques et celles de l'ancien continent. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 3(8), 1–568
Woodward, A.S. (1894)
Notes on the sharks' teeth from British Cretaceous formations. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 13(6), 190–200, pl. 5–6.
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(94)80009-4
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.