Priohybodus

Priohybodus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
Teeth of Priohybodus arambourgi from the Aliança Formation of Brazil (Upper Jurassic)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Hybodontiformes
Family: Hybodontidae
Genus: Priohybodus
Erasmo, 1960
Type species
Planohybodus arambourgi
Erasmo, 1960

Priohybodus is an extinct genus of hybodont from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods. Previously known from deposits of Saharan Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Ethiopia, and Tunisia),[1] it was also registered in the Tacuarembó Formation of Uruguay, with 22 isolated teeth and a dorsal fin spine.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Duffin, Christopher (1 January 2001). "The hybodont shark Priohybodus d'Erasmo, 1960 (Early Cretaceous, northern Africa)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133 (3): 303–308. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023.
  2. ^ Soto, M.; Perea, D.; Torino, P. (2012). "New remains of Priohybodus arambourgi (Hybodontiformes: Hybodontidae) from Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous deposits in Uruguay". Cretaceous Research. 35: 118–123. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.12.001.
  3. ^ Perea, Daniel; Ubilla, Martín; Rojas, Alejandra; Goso, Cesar A. (November 2003). "The West Gondwanan Occurrence Of The Hybodontid Shark Priohybodus, And The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Age Of The Tacuarembo Formation, Uruguay". Palaeontology. 44 (6): 1227–1235. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00222. ISSN 0031-0239.