Feeding convergence among ray-finned fishes: Teeth of the herbivorous actinopterygians from the latest Permian of East European Platform, Russia
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Pindakiewicz, Maciej
Author
Tałanda, Mateusz
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Sulej, Tomasz
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Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz
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Sennikov, Andrey G.
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Bakaev, Alexandr S.
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Bulanov, Valeriy V.
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Golubev, Valeriy K.
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Minikh, Alla V.
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
2020
2020-01-27
65
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00620.2019
journal article
10.4202/app.00620.2019
1732-2421
10980956
Isadia suchonensis
Minikh, 1986
Fig. 2K–M
.
Material
.—Isolated teeth (
ZPAL
V
.51/11–13) and 25 unnumbered teeth: 14 maxillary and 11 mandibular from Sokovka outcrop, Vyazniki in
Vladimir Region
,
Russia
, late Permian (Upper Vyatkian).
Description
.—The teeth are curved in anterior view, with tips directed slightly lingually. A shallow row in the middle of the crown is visible on the labial side in some specimens. It is oriented parallel to the tooth axis. Teeth are small and have interior passage larger than
Isadia aristoviensis
and it ends close to the tips of the crown. The crown of the collected teeth has 4–7 cusps (in some specimens of this species collected from other outcrops show 3–9 cusps on the crown). The tips of the cusps are not covered by acrodine (in our investigations, the acrodine tips in discussed species are developed and clearly distinct from tooth bases in absence of tubercle microstructure of the external surface). The length of the teeth is 1.16–1.47 mm. Two morphotypes of these teeth were found. One with 4–5 cusps, and second with 6–7 smaller cusps. The mandibular teeth have straight base of the crown with less cusplets than crowns of the maxillary teeth (
Minikh et al. 2015
).
Remarks
.—
Isadia suchonensis
Minikh, 1986
(
holotype
SGU 104 Б/P-2, Mutovino locality) is the type species of this genus. It is distinguished by elongated and narrow teeth on a short maxilla (Minikh and Minikh 1986). All maxillary teeth are morphologically similar to each other. The mandibular teeth differ by width of cusplets. All have wide crown with many small cusps. The teeth from Sokovka outcrop are not as large as in previously known specimens of
I. suchonensis
. In the
holotype
of
I. suchonensis
acrodine is very small but still noticeable. The small size of specimens from Sokovka suggests that it might be a subspecies of
I. suchonensis
that developed lack of acrodine or this is an effect of ontogeny. Likewise, this could be a preservational artifact. This requires further research.
Stratigraphic and geographic range
.—Permian, East European Platform.