A new insight into pycnodontiform fishes
Author
Poyato-Ariza F. J.
Author
Wenz S.
text
Geodiversitas
2002
24
1
139
248
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5371649
1638-9395
5371649
Genus
Mesturus
Wagner, 1862
TYPE SPECIES. — By monotypy:
Mesturus verrucosus
Wagner, 1862
. Lower Tithonian from the “Solnhofener Plattenkalke” of
Bavaria
,
Germany
.
Holotype
of
Mesturus verrucosus
: specimen figured by
Wagner (1862
: pl. 3, fig. 1; caudal region only). Currently housed at the Bayerischen Staatssamlung für Paleontologie und Historische Geologie, München,
Germany
, specimen
AS
V 508.
OTHER SPECIES. —
M. leedsi
, Woodward 1895
, Oxfordian from the
Peterborough
Member of the Oxford Clay Formation,
Peterborough
,
Cambridgeshire
,
United Kingdom
; “
Mesturus cordillera
”, see under
Gyrodus
sp.
;
Mesturus
sp.
, Tithonian from Canjuers, Var,
France
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
Mesturus verrucosus
: JM SOS 2366
;
NHML 49147
(cast of
holotype
), P. 37023a-b, 8656
;
M. leedsi
:
holotype
,
NHML 6834
(isolated bones from a single skull). Other specimens:
NHML 8382
,
8383
(remains of skull), 8384 (head with dentition plus some scales), 8385 (skull with dentition)
;
Mesturus
sp.
,
MNHN
CNJ 130
a-b (nearly complete, partially disarticulated specimen)
.