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Heterodontus canaliculatus

Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae

Taxonomy
Cestracion canaliculatus was named by Egerton and Woodward (1889).

It was recombined as Heterodontus canaliculatus by Cappetta (1975), Herman (1977), Müller and Diedrich (1991), Biddle (1993), Underwood and Mitchell (1999), Guinot et al. (2013) and Sokolskyi and Guinot (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. francisi, H. granti, H. janefirdae, H. pinetti, H. wardenensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Cestracion canaliculatus Egerton and Woodward
1889Cestracion canaliculatus Woodward p. 334
1935Cestracion canaliculatus Dalinkevičius p. 254 figs. Pl 1, figs 25-28
1975Heterodontus canaliculatus Cappetta p. 118 figs. Pl 1, figs 21-23; text-fig 5
1977Heterodontus canaliculatus Herman p. 84
1991Heterodontus canaliculatus Müller and Diedrich p. 22
1993Heterodontus canaliculatus Biddle p. 201
1999Heterodontus canaliculatus Underwood and Mitchell figs. Pl 4, figs 5-8
2013Heterodontus canaliculatus Guinot et al. p. 601 fig. 6A,B
2021Heterodontus canaliculatus Sokolskyi and Guinot p. 9 figs. 3F-N

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
RankNameAuthor
infraclassEuselachii()
—NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
—Selachii
superorderGaleomorphi
orderHeterodontiformesBerg 1940
familyHeterodontidaeGray 1851
genusHeterodontusde Blainville 1816
speciescanaliculatus(Egerton and Woodward 1889)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Heterodontus canaliculatus Egerton and Woodward 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-21 07:18:00
Modified: 2009-07-21 09:18:00
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Cenomanian or 122.46000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (17 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0France Heterodontus canaliculatus (214869)
Middle Albian109.0 - 105.3United Kingdom (England) Heterodontus canaliculatus (213367)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Ukraine Heterodontus canaliculatus (214236 214238 214239 214242)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Lithuania Cestracion canaliculatus (213709 213710)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6United Kingdom (England) Heterodontus canaliculatus (213351 213370 213371)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Lithuania Cestracion canaliculatus (213716)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Germany (Westphalia) Heterodontus canaliculatus (210063)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom (England) Heterodontus canaliculatus (213567)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Lithuania Cestracion canaliculatus (213720)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom (England) Heterodontus canaliculatus (213365 213569)