Hybodus levis
Woodward, 1889
Classification: Elasmobranchii Hybodontiformes Hybodontidae
Reference of the original description
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.
Types
Hybodus levis
Holotype: NHMUK: PV OR 33474; Paratype: NHMUK: PV P 2845 d; NHMUK: PV OR 39203 a;
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.]
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
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
References
Chapter 12 – British Jurassic fossil fishes sites. In Dineley, D. & Metcalf, S. 1999. Fossil Fishes of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series No. 16. JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 1 86107 470 0 (pp. 355–415).
A Synopsis of the Fossil fishes of the English lower Oolites. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 11(6), 285–306
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(90)80030-4
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.
Chapter 12 – British Jurassic fossil fishes sites. In Dineley, D. & Metcalf, S. 1999. Fossil Fishes of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series No. 16. JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 1 86107 470 0 (pp. 355–415).
A Synopsis of the Fossil fishes of the English lower Oolites. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 11(6), 285–306
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(90)80030-4
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.
