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
Pycnodontidae
indet. (
Fig. 6
D-F)
DESCRIPTION
A second pycnodontiform taxon is represented by beanshaped to suboval teeth with a transverse groove or depression and one or two lateral tubercles (
Fig. 6
D-F). This taxon is also present in the Purbeckian facies of Cherves-de-Cognac, and has been described as “tooth morphotype 7” by
Pouech
et al.
(2015
: fig. 8b). A very similar and likely congeneric form has also been described from the Wealden facies of southern
England
as
Coelodus
sp.
(
Sweetman
et al.
2014
) then assigned to
Ocloedus
sp. (
Sweetman 2016
)
. However, the English material includes nearly complete vomerine dentitions with three tooth rows (
Sweetman
et al.
2014
: fig. 10e), indicating that this unnamed species does not belong to either
Coelodus
or
Ocloedus
, which both have five vomerine tooth rows (Poyato-Ariza & Wenz 2002). Numerous ventral keel scales showing contacting spines of anteroposteriorly increasing size, can be assigned to
Pycnodontidae
(see Poyato-Ariza & Wenz 2002;
Sweetman
et al.
2014
).