Ptychotrygon

Ptychotrygon
Temporal range: Albian–Maastrichtian
Ptychotrygon sp. oral teeth from the Cretaceous of Texas, USA
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Suborder: †Sclerorhynchoidei
Family: †Ptychotrygonidae
Genus: †Ptychotrygon
Jaekel, 1894
Species

See text.

Ptychotrygon is a genus of sawfish-like ray whose fossils have been found worldwide from the Cretaceous period (Albian-Maastrichtian). Along with Ptychotrygonoides, Texatrygon, and Asflapristis, it is the member of the family Ptychotrygonidae within the suborder Sclerorhynchoidei.

Species

The following species are considered valid:

References

  1. ↑ Begat, A.; Kriwet, J.; Gelfo, J.N.; Cavalli, S.G.; Schultz, J.A.; Martin, T. (2023). "The first southern hemisphere occurrence of the extinct Cretaceous sclerorhynchoid sawfish Ptychotrygon (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea), with a review of Ptychotrygon taxonomy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2162411. doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2162411. PMC 7614936.
  2. 1 2 Villalobos‐Segura, Eduardo; Underwood, Charlie J.; Ward, David J. (2021). "The first skeletal record of the enigmatic Cretaceous sawfish genus Ptychotrygon (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea) from the Turonian of Morocco". Papers in Palaeontology. 7: 353–376. doi:10.1002/spp2.1287. ISSN 2056-2802. S2CID 210302939.
  3. ↑ Villalobos-Segura, Eduardo; Underwood, Charlie J.; Ward, David J.; Claeson, Kerin M. (2019-11-02). "The first three-dimensional fossils of Cretaceous sclerorhynchid sawfish: Asflapristis cristadentis gen. et sp. nov., and implications for the phylogenetic relations of the Sclerorhynchoidei (Chondrichthyes)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (21): 1847–1870. doi:10.1080/14772019.2019.1578832. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 145940997.
  4. ↑ "Fossilworks: Ptychotrygon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.