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Extinct genus of sharks

Paracestracion
Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous,
182.7–132.9 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Holotype specimen of Paracestracion danieli
Paracestracion falcifer fossil from Solnhofen, Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Heterodontiformes
Family: †Paracestracionidae
Genus: †Paracestracion
Koken in Zittel, 1911
Type species
†Paracestracion falcifer
Koken, 1911 vide Wagner, 1858
Other species
  • †P. bellis Underwood & Ward, 2004
  • †P. danieli Slater, 2016
  • †P. pectinatus Guinot et al., 2014
  • †P. sarstedtensis Thies, 1983
  • †P. viohli Kriwet, 2008
Synonyms
  • Cestracion falcifer Wagner, 1857
  • Heterodontus sarstedtensis (Thies, 1983)

Paracestracion is an extinct genus of heterodontiform sharks from Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous-aged rocks of England, France, Germany and Luxembourg. The genus was first described in 1911 by Ernst Hermann Friedrich von Koken in Karl Alfred von Zittel.

The genus contains several Late Jurassic species known from well preserved full body remains, which show that it differs from the living bullhead sharks in the placement of the pelvic girdle and fins, as well as by having a shorter skull.

Taxonomy

Recent studies have classified it into its own family, Paracestracionidae.

At maximum, the genus contains five species: P. bellis from the Bathonian of England, the type species P. falcifer from the Tithonian and Kimmeridgian of Weymouth, England and Solnhofen, Germany, which was originally named as a species of Cestracion (now seen as a synonym of Heterodontus) in 1857 by Johann Andreas Wagner, P. sarstedtensis, originally classified as a species of Heterodontus, from the Toarcian and Aalenian of Germany, and P. viohli from the Tithonian-aged Painten Formation of Germany, with a sixth indeterminate species known from the Toarcian-aged Variabilis layer of the La Couche à Crassum (part of the larger Posidonia Shale) of Luxembourg. P. pectinatus from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of France has been described on the basis of isolated teeth.

References

  1. ^ Zittel, K. A., (1911): Grundzüge der Paläontologie (Paläozoologie). Neubearbeitet von F. Broili, E. Koken, M. Schlosser. II. Abteilung. Vertebrata. Oldenbourg 1911. Zweite vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Gr.8°. VII, 598 S.
  2. ^ C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. (2004). Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3):447-501
  3. ^ Guinot, G.; Cappetta, H.; Adnet, S. (2014): A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France. Cretaceous research 48: 54–84. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.014
  4. ^ D. Thies. (1983). (Jurassic neoselachians from Germany and S-England). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 58:1-116
  5. ^ J. Kriwet. (2008). A new species of extinct bullhead sharks, Paracestracion viohli sp. nov. (Neoselachii, Heterodontiformes), from the Upper Jurassic of South Germany. Acta Geologica Polonica 58(2):235-241
  6. ^ Wagner, J. A. (1857) Characteristics of new species of cartilage fish from the lithographic slates of the Solnhofen area. Gelehrte Anzeigen der königlich bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 44 (35,36): 288–293
  7. ^ Slater, Tiffany S.; Ashbrook, Kate; Kriwet, Jürgen (August 2020). Cavin, Lionel (ed.). "Evolutionary relationships among bullhead sharks (Chondrichthyes, Heterodontiformes)". Papers in Palaeontology. 6 (3): 425–437. Bibcode:2020PPal....6..425S. doi:10.1002/spp2.1299. hdl:10468/10339. ISSN 2056-2799. S2CID 214133104.
  8. Villalobos-Segura, Eduardo; Stumpf, Sebastian; Türtscher, Julia; Jambura, Patrick; Begat, Arnaud; López-Romero, Faviel; Fischer, Jan; Kriwet, Jürgen (2023-03-08). "A Synoptic Review of the Cartilaginous Fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of Southern Germany: Taxonomy, Diversity, and Faunal Relationships". Diversity. 15 (3): 386. doi:10.3390/d15030386. ISSN 1424-2818. PMC 7614348. PMID 36950327.
  9. Arrati, G (2000), "Remarkable teleostean fishes from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany and their phylogenetic relationships", Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe, 3 (1): 137–179, Bibcode:2000FossR...3..137A, doi:10.5194/fr-3-137-2000
  10. D. Delsate and R. Weis. (2010). La Couche à Crassum (Toarcien moyen) au Luxembourg: stratigraphie et faunes de la coupe de Dudelange-Zoufftgen. Ferrantia 62:35-62
Taxon identifiers
Paracestracion


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