Whitropus longicalcus
Richards, Sherwin, Smithson, Bennion, Davies, Marshall & Clack, 2018
Classification: Holocephali Cochliodontiformes incert. fam.
Reference of the original description
Diverse and durophagous: Early Carboniferous chondrichthyans from the Scottish Borders. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108(1), 67–87
Diverse and durophagous: Early Carboniferous chondrichthyans from the Scottish Borders. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108(1), 67–87
Description:
Citation: Whitropus longicalcus Richards, Sherwin, Smithson, Bennion, Davies, Marshall & Clack, 2018: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 08/2026
Description
Original diagnosis after Richards, Sherwin, Smithson, Bennion, Davies, Marshall & Clack, 2018 [27073]: Cochliodont-like toothplate, slightly enrolled to flat. Symmetrically triangular to asymmetrically polygonal. Ridges on the occlusal surface of the tooth form predictable patterns depending on tooth type, but all consist of a main occlusal ridge, offset from the middle of the long axis, extending the length of the tooth, with anastomosing ridges pointing towards the narrowest end of the tooth, and up to three smaller occlusal ridges extending the length of the tooth on the opposite side of the long axis.
Original diagnosis after Richards, Sherwin, Smithson, Bennion, Davies, Marshall & Clack, 2018 [27073]: Cochliodont-like toothplate, slightly enrolled to flat. Symmetrically triangular to asymmetrically polygonal. Ridges on the occlusal surface of the tooth form predictable patterns depending on tooth type, but all consist of a main occlusal ridge, offset from the middle of the long axis, extending the length of the tooth, with anastomosing ridges pointing towards the narrowest end of the tooth, and up to three smaller occlusal ridges extending the length of the tooth on the opposite side of the long axis.
Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=15416;
type species of Whitropus Richards, Sherwin, Smithson, Bennion, Davies, Marshall & Clack, 2018 [27073] by monotypy (Art. 68.3 ICZN);
shark-references Species-ID=15416;
type species of Whitropus Richards, Sherwin, Smithson, Bennion, Davies, Marshall & Clack, 2018 [27073] by monotypy (Art. 68.3 ICZN);
References
Diverse and durophagous: Early Carboniferous chondrichthyans from the Scottish Borders. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108(1), 67–87
DOI: 10.1017/s1755691018000166
Diverse and durophagous: Early Carboniferous chondrichthyans from the Scottish Borders. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108(1), 67–87
DOI: 10.1017/s1755691018000166
