Ptychotrygon
Appearance
| Ptychotrygon Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Ptychotrygon sp. oral teeth from the Cretaceous of Texas, USA | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Suborder: | â Sclerorhynchoidei |
| Family: | â Ptychotrygonidae |
| Genus: | â Ptychotrygon Jaekel, 1894 |
| Species | |
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Ptychotrygon is a genus of sawfish-like ray whose fossils have been found worldwide from the Cretaceous period (Albian-Maastrichtian).[1] Along with Ptychotrygonoides, Texatrygon, and Asflapristis, it is the member of the family Ptychotrygonidae within the suborder Sclerorhynchoidei.[2][3]
Species
[edit]The following species are considered valid:[4][2]
- â Ptychotrygon ameghinorum
- â Ptychotrygon blainensis
- â Ptychotrygon eutawensis
- â Ptychotrygon geyeri
- â Ptychotrygon mcnultyi
- â Ptychotrygon nazeensis
- â Ptychotrygon pustulata
- â Ptychotrygon rostrispatula
- â Ptychotrygon striata
- â Ptychotrygon triangularis
- â Ptychotrygon vermiculata
References
[edit]- â Begat, A.; Kriwet, J.; Gelfo, J.N.; Cavalli, S.G.; Schultz, J.A.; Martin, T. (2023). "The first southern hemisphere occurrence of the extinct Cretaceous sclerorhynchoid sawfish Ptychotrygon (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea), with a review of Ptychotrygon taxonomy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2162411. doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2162411. PMCÂ 7614936.
- 1 2 VillalobosâSegura, Eduardo; Underwood, Charlie J.; Ward, David J. (2021). "The first skeletal record of the enigmatic Cretaceous sawfish genus Ptychotrygon (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea) from the Turonian of Morocco". Papers in Palaeontology. 7: 353â376. doi:10.1002/spp2.1287. ISSNÂ 2056-2802. S2CIDÂ 210302939.
- â Villalobos-Segura, Eduardo; Underwood, Charlie J.; Ward, David J.; Claeson, Kerin M. (2019-11-02). "The first three-dimensional fossils of Cretaceous sclerorhynchid sawfish: Asflapristis cristadentis gen. et sp. nov., and implications for the phylogenetic relations of the Sclerorhynchoidei (Chondrichthyes)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (21): 1847â1870. doi:10.1080/14772019.2019.1578832. ISSNÂ 1477-2019. S2CIDÂ 145940997.
- â "Fossilworks: Ptychotrygon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.