Synechodus levis

(Woodward, 1889)


Classification: Elasmobranchii Synechodontiformes Palaeospinacidae

Reference of the original description
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.

Synonyms / new combinations and misspellings
Hybodus cf. levis, Hybodus levis, Synechodus cf. levis

Types
Synechodus levis

Hybodus levis
Holotype: NHMUK: PV OR 33474; Paratype: NHMUK: PV P 2845 d; NHMUK: PV OR 39203 a;

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Hybodus levis sp. nov.; tooth, outer aspect, twice nat. size [33474]; 6. Ditto ; tooth, inner aspect, twice nat. size, |P. 2182d.]; 7. Ditto ; tooth, outer aspect, twice nat. size, [P. 2845 c.]

Description
Original description of Woodward, 1889 [2593]
Type. Detached tooth (PI. XI. fig. 5); British Museum. The provisional name of H. levis may bo given to the teeth from Stones field mentioned below. In size, they arc as small as the teeth of H. polyprion, but seem to be spe-cifically distinguished by the following characters: Crown of principal teeth high, compressed, with a largo erect median cone and two or three lateral cones, narrow and acutely pointed; coronal surface of all the teeth smooth, except (juite at the base, where vertically wrinkled. Hoot depressed, flattened, expanded posteriorly.
Form. & Loc. Hathonian (Stoncsfield Slate): Oxfordshire.
33474. Type specimen, shown, of twice the natural size, in Pl. XI. fig. 5

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=7070;

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Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.