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| Copodontidae Temporal range: | |
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| Tooth plate of Copodus vanhorni from the St. Louis Limestone | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | †Copodontiformes Obruchev. 1953 |
| Family: | †Copodontidae Davis, 1883 |
| Type genus | |
| Copodus Morris and Roberts, 1862 | |
| Type species | |
| Psammodus cornatus Davis, 1843 | |
| Genera | |
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Copodontidae is an extinct family of cartilaginous fish known from the Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods. It is the only family of the order Copodontiformes. The order and family are named for the type genus, Copodus.
Research history and classification
[edit]The family Copodontidae was named by James William Davis in 1882 and included the genera Copodus and Dimyleus, with Copodus as the type genus.[1][2] These genera had been known previously, but were considered members of the family Psammodontidae before being split into their own family by Davis.[2][3] In a 1953 paper, Dmitry Obruchev created the monotypic order Copodontiformes to include Copodontidae.[4]
In a 1999 review, researcher Barbara Stahl classified Acmoniodus along with Copodus as members of the family. She considered Dimyleus, Mazodus, and Synthetodus to be members of Copodontiformes, but of uncertain relationships.[3] In 2008 a new genus from the Middle Devonian, named Melanodus, was assigned to Copodontidae due to its apparent similarities with Synthetodus.[5]
Copodonts are cartilaginous fish belonging to the subclass Holocephali, which also includes the living chimaeras.[6]
Description
[edit]Copodonts are known exclusively from tooth plates.[3][7] These tooth plates are broad and rectangular, with flattened edges. Singular upper and lower plates are sometimes found associated, and it is thought that copodonts had a single upper and lower tooth plate in each jaw. These plates were covered by a layer of enameloid which was worn off over the course of the animal's life.[3]
Paleobiology
[edit]In life, the copodonts were predators with a durophagous diet, and likely fed on shelled prey such as mollusks. The group's evolution during the Devonian and Carboniferous coincided with a diversification of hard-shelled marine invertebrates, likely driven by a predator-prey arms race.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ Van der Laan, Richard (2018-10-11). "Family-group names of fossil fishes". European Journal of Taxonomy (466): 38. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.466. ISSN 2118-9773.
- 1 2 Davis, J W. (1882). "Notes on the Occurrence of Fossil Fish Remains in the Carboniferous Limestone Series of Yorkshire" (PDF). Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 8 (1): 39–63. Bibcode:1882PYGS....8...39D. doi:10.1144/pygs.8.1.39. ISSN 0044-0604.
- 1 2 3 4 Stahl, Barbara J. (1999). Handbook of Paleoichthyology: Chondrichthyes III, Holocephali. Vol. 4. München: Pfeil. pp. 90–95. ISBN 978-3-931516-63-5.
- ↑ Obruchev, Dmitry (1967). Fundamentals of paleontology. A manual for paleontologists and geologists of the USSR. Vol. 11. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations. pp. 353–419.
- ↑ Darras, Laurent; Derycke, Claire; Blieck, Alain; Vachard, Daniel (2008). "The oldest holocephalan (Chondrichthyes) from the Middle Devonian of the Boulonnais (Pas-de-Calais, France)". Comptes Rendus Palevol (in French). 7 (5): 297–304. Bibcode:2008CRPal...7..297D. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2008.04.002.
- ↑ Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the world (5th ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 48–51. ISBN 978-1-119-22081-7.
- ↑ Patterson, Colin (1965-06-10). "The phylogeny of the chimaeroids". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 249 (757): 101–219. Bibcode:1965RSPTB.249..101P. doi:10.1098/rstb.1965.0010. ISSN 2054-0280.
- ↑ Iii, Philip W. Signor; Brett, Carlton E. (1984). "The mid-Paleozoic precursor to the Mesozoic marine revolution". Paleobiology. 10 (2): 229–245. Bibcode:1984Pbio...10..229S. doi:10.1017/S0094837300008174. ISSN 0094-8373.
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