Gansuselache
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Hybodontiformes |
| Family: | †Lonchidiidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Gansuselache Wang, Zhang, Zhu, and Zhao, 2009 |
| Species: | †G. tungshengi
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| †Gansuselache tungshengi Wang, Zhang, Zhu, and Zhao, 2009
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Gansuselache is a genus of extinct elasmobranch in the order Hybodontiformes, comprising one species, Gansuselache tungshengi (monotypy) from Gansu Province (Beishan Hills), China.[1] It is known from Fangshankou Formation, which previously interpreted as Permian in age, but reinterpreted as the Early Triassic in later study.[2] A tooth remain tentatively assigned to this genus is also known from Late Permian strata of Poland.[3]
Description[edit]
G. tungshengi is known from single specimen which is nearly complete and has traces of soft tissue preserved. With a total length reaching 49 centimetres (19 in), it had large spines on two dorsal fins- a feature seen in other hybodontiform sharks. Although its classification is still uncertain, it is tentatively placed in the family Lonchidiidae on the basis of tooth its morphology.[1]
Paleoecology[edit]
Gansuselache is known from Fangshankou Formation, which was originally considered as Permian. However, study in 2020 reinterpreted the geologic formation as Early Triassic in age. The Hongyanjing Formation sits at the same stratigraphic horizon, and it is even possible that fossils from both formations were recovered from the locality which produced Gansuselache.[2] Both formations represent lacustrine environment,[4] Although Fangshankou Formation has so far produced only one other fish taxon (A sturgeon genus, Eochondrosteus), the Hongyanjing Formation produced multiple taxa such as several thousand specimens of actinopterygians (including Beishanichthys, Plesiofuro, Boreosomus), other hybodontiform sharks which are evidenced by preserved narial and oral barbels, a cynodont (Beishanodon), lizard-like diapsids, temnospondyls and possible late-surviving lepospondyl.[2][5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Wang, N.‐Z.; Zhang, X.; Zhu, M.; Zhao, W.‐J. (2009). "A new articulated hybodontoid from Late Permian of northwestern China". Acta Zoologica. 90 (s1): 159–170. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00382.x. ISSN 0001-7272.
- ^ a b c Lu, Liwu; Tan, Kai; Wang, Xi (2020). "Redescription of Eochondrosteus sinensis (Acipenseriformes, Actinopterygii) and its geological age". Earth Science Frontiers. 27 (6): 371–381.
- ^ Dankina, Darja; Spiridonov, Andrej; Raczyński, Paweł; Radzevičius, Sigitas (2021). "Late Permian ichthyofauna from the North-Sudetic Basin, SW Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66. doi:10.4202/app.00839.2020. ISSN 0567-7920.
- ^ XU, GUANG-HUI; GAO, KE-QIN (2011-02-24). "A new scanilepiform from the Lower Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of non-teleostean Actinopterygii". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (3): 595–612. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00645.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
- ^ Gao, Ke-Qin; Fox, Richard C.; Zhou, Chang-Fu; Li, Da-Qing (2010-06-25). "A New Nonmammalian Eucynodont (Synapsida: Therapsida) from the Triassic of Northern Gansu Province, China, and its Biostratigraphic and Biogeographic Implications". American Museum Novitates. 3685: 1–28. doi:10.1206/649.1.
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