Neoselachian remains (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Middle Jurassic of SW Germany and NW Poland
Author
Kriwet, Jürgen
text
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
2003
2003-11-30
48
4
583
594
journal article
1732-2421
A40C8EB5-8246-4B2D-9050-267525441F87
Superorder, order, family, genus and species indet.
Fig. 3M, N
.
Material
.—Numerous isolated and fragmentary tooth crowns,
BGRX
12510–12512, Kłęby 1/37.
Remarks
.—Isolated tooth crowns or tooth fragments are rather abundant in several layers of the drill core (
Table 1
). Isolated tooth crowns occur in every vertebrate−bearing sample sometimes in rather high numbers (
Fig. 3L–N
). This mostly taxonomically unidentifiable material is more numerous than the identifiable specimens indicating that the preservation of selachian material in the drill core is on the whole rather poor. Some of these tooth crowns resemble teeth of
Parasymbolus
and might indicate the presence of scyliorhinids (
Fig. 3M
). A few other neoselachian tooth
types
also occur (
Fig. 3N
). The presence of the relatively high number of isolated tooth crowns might be related to fungal borings since
Mycelites
attacks predominantly the roots resulting in their complete destruction. However,
Martill (1989)
also described selachian teeth from the Callovian of
England
with borings in the enameloid of the tooth crowns caused by
Mycelites
−like organisms
.