Scapanorhynchus gigas
Woodward, 1889
Classification: Elasmobranchii Lamniformes Mitsukurinidae
Reference of the original description
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.
Types
Scapanorhynchus gigas
Scapanorhynchus gigas
Description:
Citation: Scapanorhynchus gigas Woodward, 1889: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 12/2024
Description
Original description of Woodward, 1889 [2593]:
Type. Imperfect teeth; British Museum. Teeth very slender, often sigmoidally curved, subulate, but with sharp edges; external coro-nal face flat, except in the most anterior teeth; internal face smooth. Crown attaining a maxi-mum height of about 0'03, expanded laterally at the base, the sharp edges extending to its inferior limit; lateral denticles absent, or mere asperities in the anterior teeth, very minute in the others.
Form. & Loc. Cenomanian (Cambridge Greensand): Cambridge-shire.
46362. Five teeth, with imperfect roots, forming the type specimens. The crown of one anterior tooth measures 0'03 in height, and the outer face is slightly convex.
28109. Three small examples, one showing a slight longitudinal median elevation of the outer coronal face.
41915. Four dental crowns.
35130. Eight specimens.
Original description of Woodward, 1889 [2593]:
Type. Imperfect teeth; British Museum. Teeth very slender, often sigmoidally curved, subulate, but with sharp edges; external coro-nal face flat, except in the most anterior teeth; internal face smooth. Crown attaining a maxi-mum height of about 0'03, expanded laterally at the base, the sharp edges extending to its inferior limit; lateral denticles absent, or mere asperities in the anterior teeth, very minute in the others.
Form. & Loc. Cenomanian (Cambridge Greensand): Cambridge-shire.
46362. Five teeth, with imperfect roots, forming the type specimens. The crown of one anterior tooth measures 0'03 in height, and the outer face is slightly convex.
28109. Three small examples, one showing a slight longitudinal median elevation of the outer coronal face.
41915. Four dental crowns.
35130. Eight specimens.
Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=6218;
shark-references Species-ID=6218;
References
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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
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
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.
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
5. On vertebrate remains in Senonian Phosphate beds in Transjordan. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 42(2), 486–490
Descripción de nuevas especies de Selacios Terciario-cretaceos de Patagonia. Obras Completas y Correspondencia Cientifica de Florentino Ameghino, 19, 619–648
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
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
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.
