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Dicentrodus (Chondrichthyes: Xenacanthida) from the Early Carboniferous (Visean: upper St Louis Formation) of Iowa, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2006

OLIVER HAMPE ,
GARY D. JOHNSON  and
SUSAN TURNER
OLIVER HAMPE
Affiliation:
Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
GARY D. JOHNSON
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, The University of South Dakota, 414 East Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
SUSAN TURNER
Affiliation:
Queensland Museum, Geology/Palaeontology, 122 Gerler Road, Hendra, Queensland 4101, Australia
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Abstract

Dicentrodus possessed bicuspid teeth with a flat base and nonserrated or finely serrated, labio-lingually compressed, highly unequal cusps. Originally known from the late Visean–early Serpukhovian of Scotland (D. bicuspidatus), it is now known also to occur in the middle Visean of North America. This is the earliest occurrence of a xenacanthid yet reported from North America; its presence is based on incomplete teeth, which are easily distinguished from other xenacanthid genera. The cross-continental distribution of Dicentrodus, like that of other xenacanthid genera, can be explained by an increasing body of data that intimate that xenacanthids were euryhaline sharks and not restricted to a freshwater habitat.

Keywords

XenacanthidaCarboniferouspalaeogeographyIowaScotland
Type
Rapid Communication
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 143 , Issue 4 , July 2006 , pp. 545 - 549
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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