Late Eocene (Priabonian) elasmobranchs from the Dry Branch Formation (Barnwell Group) of Aiken County, South Carolina, USA
Author
Cicimurri, David J.
Author
Knight, James L.
text
PaleoBios
2022
36
1
31
journal article
10.5070/P9361043964
0031-0298
13750243
3F95876E-933FF-48AF-9CF0-A840A333220B
GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE GEN. ET SP. INDET.
(
FIG. 2H
)
Referred specimen
—SC2013.38.7, incomplete anterior tooth.
Remarks
—This specimen differs from
Nebrius
sp.
cf.
Neb. thielensi
(see above) in having only a single pair of large lateral cusplets, and the labial crown foot is distinctively bifid but not drawn out into an elongate basal protuberance. SC2013.38.7 is similar to the anterior teeth of Cretaceous
Plicatoscyllium
Case and Cappetta, 1997
, but there is no indication of labial crown ornamentation. The single pair of lateral cusplets also distinguishes SC2013.38.7 from the various early Paleogene species of
Ginglymostoma
(Noubhani and Cappetta 1997)
. In terms of gross morphology, SC2013.38.7 is similar to
Protoginglymostoma ypresiensis
(
Casier, 1946
)
from the early to middle Eocene of
Belgium
and
Morocco
(
Casier 1946
,
Herman 1977
, Tabuce et al. 2005), but the poor condition of the only available tooth makes a more precise identification difficult.