An Early Triassic hybodont shark from Northern Madagascar

Authors

Keith Stewart Thomson, Department of Biology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 170 Whitney Avenue, PO Box 6666, New Haven, CT 06511

Publication Date

2-15-1982

Series Number

186

Abstract

Material of the upper and lower jaws, together with teeth and other remains, of a Triassic hybodont shark from Madagascar is tentatively referred to the genus Acrodus. The material offers new evidence concerning the jaw suspension in hybodont sharks and its significance in the evolution of Elasmobranchii.