Fayolia

Fayolia is a prehistoric shark egg capsule morphotype of the family Xenacanthidae.[1][2] It is predominantly known from freshwater deposits with a stratigraphic range from the Late Devonian to the Triassic. A new species, Fayolia sharovi, was described in 2011 from lacustrine deposits of the Middle Triassic Madygen Formation in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia.[3]

Fayolia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Subclass:
Elasmobranchii
Order:
†Xenacanthida
Family:
†Xenacanthidae
Genus:
†Fayolia

Renault & Zeiller, 1884
Binomial name
†Fayolia dentata
Renault & Zeiller, 1884
Other species
  • †F. sterzeliana Weiss, 1887
  • †F. sharovi Fischer et al., 2011
Synonyms
  • Fayolia sterzeli

References
  1. H. N. Andrews. 1970. Index of Generic Names of Fossil Plants, 1820-1965. Geological Survey Bulletin 1-354
  2. Jörg W. Schneider; Wolfgang Reichel (1989). "Chondrichthyer-Eikapseln aus dem Rotliegenden (Unterperm) Mitteleuropas — Schlußfolgerungen zur Paläobiologie paläozoischer Süsswasserhaie". Freiberger Forschungshefte. C 436: 58–69.
  3. Jan Fischer; Sebastian Voigt; Jörg W. Schneider; Michael Buchwitz; Silke Voigt (2011). "A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implication for Mesozoic shark nurseries". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 937–953. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.601729. S2CID 85753690.


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