Echinorhinus vielhus

Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet, 2014


Classification: Elasmobranchii Echinorhiniformes Echinorhinidae

Reference of the original description
Guinot, G. & Cappetta, H. & Adnet, S. (2014)
A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France. Cretaceous Research, 48, 54–84

Types
Echinorhinus vielhus
Holotype: VAL: 128;


Description:


Citation: Echinorhinus vielhus Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet, 2014: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 03/2024

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Echinorhinus vielhus Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet, 2014, p. 64: scale bars ¼ 1 mm. B' , lateral tooth in lingual view (VAL 124). C' , lateral tooth in lingual view (VAL 125). D' , antero-lateral tooth in lingual view (VAL 126). E'eG' , symphyseal tooth in E' , labial, F', lingual and G' , profile views (VAL 127). H'eI' , lateral tooth in H' , lingual and I' , labial views (VAL 128), holotype. J' , lateral tooth in J' , lingual and K' , labial views (VAL 129).

Distribution Geographic
7 km east to the town of Ganges (North of Montpellier) close to a farm named “Mas d’Antrigoule” (town of La Cadière-et-Cambo, County of Gard), France;
other localities:


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Distribution Strategraphy
Valanginian indurate limestone, Early Cretaceous (Unterkreide)

Material
20 teeth (including specimens VAL 124-129).

Description
Original diagnose after GUINOT, CAPPETTA & ADNET, 2014 [20107]: Echinorhinid teeth with weak degree of gradient monognathic heterodonty. Teeth labio-lingually compressed and wider (up to 1.8 mm) than high, except in symphyseal teeth. Main cusp of sigmoid profile, distally inclined, not extending beyond the distal root edge in lingual view. Mesial heel oblique and slightly convex with concave contact with main cusp. Distal heel subhorizontal and straight to convex. High anaulacorhize root with flat basal face. Basal face sub-rectangular in basal or lingual views with slightly concave margino-lingual edges and V-shaped mediolabial edge. Lingual root face reduced with slight margino-lingual depressions. Labial root face flat to slightly convex. Numerous lingual and labial nutritive foramina. Presence of erect mesiodistally compressed symphyseal teeth.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=13843;
valid after Guinot et al. (2014) p. 65 [20107];

References
Flammensbeck, C.K. & Pollerspöck, J. & Schedel, F.D.B. & Matzke, N.J. & Straube, N. (2018)
Of teeth and trees: A fossil tip-dating approach to infer divergence times of extinct and extant squaliform sharks. Zoologica Scripta, 47(5), 539–557
DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12299
Guinot, G. & Cappetta, H. & Adnet, S. (2014)
A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France. Cretaceous Research, 48, 54–84
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.014