Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (southwestern France): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J / K boundary
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Allain, Ronan
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Vullo, Romain
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Rozada, Lee
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Anquetin, Jérémy
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Bourgeais, Renaud
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Goedert, Jean
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Lasseron, Maxime
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Martin, Jeremy E.
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Pérez-García, Adán
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Fabrègues, Claire Peyre De
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Royo-Torres, Rafael
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Augier, Dominique
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Bailly, Gilles
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Geodiversitas
2022
2022-07-21
44
25
683
752
journal article
107849
10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a25
d0184974-bea3-4f97-a2f8-98887ec4f87e
1638-9395
6902033
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EA12DCB7-A5BE-4763-B805-25087EBD726D
Triconodon
? sp.
(
Fig. 32E, F
)
DESCRIPTION
The specimen ANG M-02 (
Fig. 32E, F
) consists of an almost complete tooth, only lacking the mesial root.
The crown is labiolingually compressed and bears three mesiodistally aligned cusps. A main central cusp a is largely dominant. It is triangular in lateral profile and surrounded by two smaller accessory cusps: cusp c (distal) reaches half of the height of cusp a, and cusp b (mesial) is about three times smaller than cusp c. Cusp a is slightly flexed lingually. Cusps a and c bear distolingually oriented wear facets. Both labial and lingual cingulid are present. Thus, considering these characters, ANG M-02 can be identified as an eutriconodontan left lower premolariform. It is somewhat similar to the p3 of
Triconodon
from the Berriasian of Britain (
Jäger
et al.
2021
), so the specimen is tentatively referred to this genus.