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
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Pinheirodontidae
indet.
(
Fig. 33
A-H, M-P)
DESCRIPTION
Most of the multituberculate teeth discovered in Angeac-Charente can be referred to the family
Pinheirodontidae
, but it has not been possible to refer them to any existing genera. The material figured here includes a left p4 (ANG M-72), a left P1 (ANG M-03), a right P2 (ANG M-06), a left P3 (ANG M-22), a left?m2 (ANG M-105) and a left M2 (ANG M-32) (
Fig. 33
A-H, M-P).
The most mesial part of the blade-like p4 (ANG M-72) is missing (
Fig. 33A
). It possesses at least six serrations, and no basal labial cusp, a diagnostic feature of
Pinheirodon
(
Hahn & Hahn 1999
; Kielan-Jaworowska
et al.
2004). Nevertheless, the Angeac-Charente specimen has a straight, vertical, distal margin (
Fig. 33B
), while the latter is strongly convex just above the root in
Pinheirodon
.
FIG. 33. — Multituberculate mammal teeth from Angeac-Charente:
A
,
B
, left p4 of
Pinheirodontidae
indet. (ANG M-72) in lingual (
A
) and labial (
B
) views;
C
,
D
, left P1 of
Pinheirodontidae
indet. (ANG M-03) in occlusal (
C
) and distolingual (
D
) views;
E
,
F
, right P2 of
Pinheirodontidae
indet. (ANG M-06) in occlusal (
E
) and lingual (
F
) views;
G
,
H
, left P3 of
Pinheirodontidae
indet. (ANG M-22) in occlusal (
G
) and lingual (
H
) views;
I
,
J
, left?P4 of
Sunnyodon
sp.
(ANG M-04) in occlusal (
I
) and labial (
J
) views;
K
,
L
, left?P5 of Multituberculata indet. (ANG M-106) in mesio-occlusal (
K
) and occluso-labial (
L
) views;
M
,
N
, left?m2 of
Pinheirodontidae
indet. (ANG M- 105) in occlusal (
M
) and labial (
N
) views;
O
,
P
, right M2 of
Pinheirodontidae
indet. (ANG M-32) in occlusal (
O
) and lingual (
P
) views. Scale bar: A, B, 1 mm; C, D, 750 µm; E-P, 500 µm.
The?m2 (ANG M-105) has a well-developed central basin. Labial cusps are missing and there are only two lingual cusps as in
Bernardodon
(
Fig. 33N
), whereas there are three in
Pinheirodon
(
Hahn & Hahn 1999
)
. Nevertheless, the tooth shape is considerably longer than wide, and precludes assigning it to
Bernardodon
(
Fig. 33M
).
The M2 (ANG M-32) shows a prominent anterolingual shelf (
Fig. 33O
), like that observed in the molars of
Bernarodon
and
Pinheirodon
(Kielan-Jaworowska
et al.
2004)
. As in the latter two genera there are three lingual cusps, but ANG M-32 differs from other pinheirodontids in lacking the labial cusps (
Fig. 33P
;
Hahn & Hahn 1999
).
The anterior upper premolars P1 (ANG M-03), P2 (ANG M-06) and P3 (ANG M-22) have 3-4 ribbed cusps arranged in two rows like in other “plagiaulacidans” (
Fig. 33
C-H; Kielan-Jaworowska
et al.
2004). They are not very diagnostic and only tentatively assigned here to
Pinheirodontidae
, based on their similarities with the pinheirodontid teeth described by
Hahn & Hahn (1999
: fig. 58).