Rolfodon goliath
Rolfodon goliath is an extinct species of large frilled shark that lived during the Late Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in Angola's southern Benguela Basin.[1] It was described by Miguel Telles Antunes and Henri Cappetta in 2002 during the beginning stages of the PaleoAngola project. Originally it was described as a species belonging to the genus Chlamydoselachus; Cappetta, Morrison & Adnet (2019) transferred it to the chlamydoselachid genus Rolfodon.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Hexanchiformes |
| Family: | Chlamydoselachidae |
| Genus: | †Rolfodon |
| Species: | †R. goliath |
| Binomial name | |
| †Rolfodon goliath (Antunes & Cappetta, 2002) | |
The holotype, MUS ANG 23, is rather large. This tooth is about 20mm high,[3] and is characterised by straightened, upright cusps with smooth enameloid which lack ornamentation. [4]
References
- "Rolfodon goliath (Antunes & Cappetta, 2002)". Shark references.
- Henri Cappetta; Kurt Morrison; Sylvain Adnet (2019). "A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 33 (8): 1121–1182. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1681421.
- Cappetta et al. (2016) "New selachian assemblages from the Oligocene of Moravia (Czech Republic)", Researchgate
- Carlsen, A.W. & Cuny, G. 2014. A study of the sharks and rays from the Lillebælt Clay (Early–Middle Eocene) of Denmark, and their palaeoecology. © 2014 by Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, Vol. 62, pp. 39–88. ISSN 2245-7070.
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