Scyllium dubium

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 dubium
Holotype: NHMUK: PV 47288;


Description:


Citation: Scyllium dubium Woodward, 1889: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 12/2024

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Scyllium dubiumsp. nov.; two associated teeth, inner and outer aspects, eight times nat. size, L. Chalk, Dover. [47288.]

Description
Original description of Woodward, 1889 [2593]:
Type. Group of teeth; British Museum (PI. XVI. figs. 7, 8). Teeth with an extremely slender coronal eminence, having two pairs of lateral denticles, the inner very long, slender, and curved, the outer smaller and at a lower level.
Form. & Loc. Turonian: Kent. •
47288. The type specimen, being a group of teeth associated with remains of cartilage and a. vertebral centrum; Lower Chalk, Dover. Two of the teeth are shown, enlarged eight times, in PI. XVI. figs. 7, 8.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=10124;
valid after Woodward (1889) p. 341 [2593]; Woodward (1911) p. 195 [2604];

synonym of Scyliorhinus dubius after Guinot et al. (2013) p. 653 [24889];

References
Dassarma, D.C. & Sinha, N.K. (1975)
Marine Cretaceous formations of Narmada Valley (Bagh beds), Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India Palaeontologia Indica, new ser., 42, 1–106
Woodward, A.S. (1911)
The Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk. Part VI. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society London, 64, 185–224
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.