Antarctilamna

Antarctilamna
Temporal range: Devonian
Restorations of A. prisca from Middle Devonian of Antarctica and A. ultima from Late Devonian of South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: †Antarctilamniformes
Family: †Antarctilamnidae
Genus: †Antarctilamna
Young, 1982
Species[2]
  • †Antarctilamna prisca Young 1982
  • †Antarctilamna ultima Gess and Coates 2015[1]

Antarctilamna is an extinct genus of Devonian cartilaginous fish originally exemplified by Antarctilamna prisca[3] from South Eastern Australia and Antarctica. The latest occurring described species is Antarctilamna ultima[1] from the Waterloo Farm lagerstätte in South Africa. Antarctilamna has robust ctenacanthid-like spines which lack a deep insertion area, and are borne in front of the first dorsal fin; in addition to distinctive diplodont teeth with small intermediate cusps. Antarctilamna-like spines, known from the Bunga Beds locality in Australia have been ascribed to A. prisca.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b Gess, R. W. & Coates, M. I. (2015b). High latitude Chondrichthyans from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Witpoort formation of South Africa. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89, 147–169.
  2. ^ "PBDB Taxon".
  3. ^ Young,G.C., 1982.Devonian sharks from South-Eastern Australia and Antarctica. Palaeontology, 25 (4): 817–843)
  4. ^ Young, G. C., 1982. Devonian sharks from South-Eastern Australia and Antarctica. Palaeontology, 25 (4): 817–843)
  5. ^ Murray, A.M. (June 2000). "The Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic fishes of Africa". Fish and Fisheries. 1 (2): 111–145. Bibcode:2000AqFF....1..111M. doi:10.1046/j.1467-2979.2000.00015.x.