First shark from the late Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia sheds new light on the development of tessellated calcified cartilage
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2015-05-28Author
Burrow, Carole J
Ginter, Michal
Maisey, John G
Trinajstic, Kate
Coates, Michael I
Young, Gavin C
Senden, Tim J
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Here we present new data from the first well-preserved chondrichthyan fossil from the early Late Devonian (ca. 380–384 Mya) Gogo Formation Lägerstatte of Western Australia. The specimen is the first Devonian shark body fossil to be acid-prepared, revealing the endoskeletal elements as three-dimensional undistorted units: Meckel’s cartilages, nasal, ceratohyal, basibranchial and possible epibranchial cartilages, plus left and right scapulocoracoids, as well as teeth and scales. This unique specimen is assigned to Gogoselachus lynnbeazleyae n. gen. n. sp.
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This work is a contribution to IGCP 596.
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http://hdl.handle.net/2328/35424http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0126066