Sphaerodontes
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| Genus: | †Sphaerodontes Torre and Cuervo, 1939
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| †Sphaerodontes caroli Iturralde-Vinent & Norell, 1996
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Sphaerodontes[1] is a dubious genus of extinct ichthyosaurs[2] from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)-aged Jagua Formation of Cuba. The genus was named by Torre and Cuervo (1939),[2] while the species epithet was added by Iturralde-Vinent & Norell (1996);[3] the type species is S. caroli. Nowadays, Sphaerodontes is considered a nomen dubium and the remains may have instead belonged to a ganoid fish similar to Eugnathides.[3]
The holotype consists of a set of now lost tooth moulds that was found in the Jagua Vieja Member[4] of the Jagua Formation by Carlos de la Torre before 1939.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Sphaerodontes at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 De la Torre, R., and A. A. Cuervo. (1939). Dos nuevas especies de ichthyosaurios del Jurisico de Vinales. Universidad de La Habana, Depto. Geol. y Paleont. pp. 1-9.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Iturralde-Vinent, M.; Norell, M.A. (1996). "Synopsis of Late Jurassic Marine Reptiles from Cuba" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3164: 1–17. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Laguna de Piedra Archived 2023-01-13 at the Wayback Machine at Fossilworks.org
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