Solinalepis levis

Andreev, Coates, Karatajūtė-Talimaa, Shelton, Cooper, Wang & Sansom, 2016


Classification: Mongolepidida incert. fam.

Reference of the original description
Andreev, P.S. & Coates, M.I. & Karatajūtė-Talimaa, V.N. & Shelton, R.M. & Cooper, P.R. & Wang, N.-Z. & Sansom, I.J. (2016)
The systematics of the Mongolepidida (Chondrichthyes) and the Ordovician origins of the clade. PeerJ, 4, Article e1850

Types
Solinalepis levis
Holotype: LMoG: BU5310;


Description:


Citation: Solinalepis levis Andreev, Coates, Karatajūtė-Talimaa, Shelton, Cooper, Wang & Sansom, 2016: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 08/2026

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Description
Original diagnosis after Andreev, Coates, Karatajūtė-Talimaa, Shelton, Cooper, Wang & Sansom, 2016 [24247]: The following paratype teeth were collected from the type locality, Mongolepid species with trunk scales crowns composed of tubular odontodes organized in sutured longitudinal odontocomplex rows. Acellular basal bone housing an elaborate canal system that opens via foramina on the basal surface. Radially arranged tuberculate to conical head-scale odontodes.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=14598;
type species of Solinalepis Andreev, Coates, Karatajūtė-Talimaa, Shelton, Cooper, Wang & Sansom, 2016 [24247] by original designation (Art. 68.2 ICZN);

References
Schnetz, L. & Dunne, E.M. & Feichtinger, I. & Butler, R.J. & Coates, M.I. & Sansom, I.J. (2024)
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic. Paleobiology, 50(2), 271–284
DOI: 10.1017/pab.2024.1
Andreev, P.S. & Coates, M.I. & Karatajūtė-Talimaa, V.N. & Shelton, R.M. & Cooper, P.R. & Wang, N.-Z. & Sansom, I.J. (2016)
The systematics of the Mongolepidida (Chondrichthyes) and the Ordovician origins of the clade. PeerJ, 4, Article e1850
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1850
Andreev, P.S. (2014)
The early evolutionary history of sharks and shark-like fishes Thesis, University of Birmingham