†Cladoselachiformes

After Carroll, 1988, Williams, G.S., 1999-2000, and Williams, M.E., 1998

<==o †Cladoselachiformes Dean, 1909c
   `--o †Cladoselachidae Dean, 1894
      |?- †Cladolepis gunnelli Wells, 1944
      |?- †Deirolepis carinatus (Wells, 1944)
      |?- †Ohiolepis newberryi (Wells, 1944)
      |?- †Pristicladodus dentatus M'Coy, 1855
      |?-o †Cladodus Agassiz [jr. synon of Cladoselache? (Williams, 1999-2000)] [often treated as a wastebasket taxon]
      |  |-- †C. bassiacus (Gross, 1937)
      |  |-- †C. bellifer (St. John & Worthen, 1875)
      |  |?- †C. hassiacus
      |  `-- †C. wildungensis (Jaekel, 1921) [Cladoselache wildungensis Jaekel, 1921]
      `--o †Cladoselache Dean, 1894 [Cladodus, Monocladodus] U. Dev. NA.
         |-- †C. clarkii [Monocladodus] (Claypole, 1893b)
         |-- †C. elegans
         |-- †C. fyleri Newberry, 1889a
         |-- †C. kepleri Dean, 1909c
         |-- †C. magnificus (Toumey, 1858)- Up.Dev.: ?AL
         |-- †C. mirabilis (Agassiz, 1843)- Low.Carb.: Armagh, Ireland; ?Scotland
         |-- †C. newmani (Toumey, 1851)- Mississippian: AL
         |-- †C. pattersoni (Newberry, 1889)- Up.Dev.: Cleveland, OH
         `-- †C. sp.

Reference(s):

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698
Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698
Frickhinger, K. A., 1995: Fossil Atlas – Fishes.
–Mergus – Publishers for Natural History and Pet Books, Hans A. Baensch, Malle, Germany, 1-1088
Long, J. A., 1995: The Rise of Fishes: 500 million years of evolution.
–Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London, pp. 1-223
Nelson, J. S., 1994: Fishes of the world.
–John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1994, xx-600
Williams, G. S., 1999-2000: A Listing of Fossil Sharks and Rays of the World.
–iNet: Gainesville's Creek Fossils: Euselachii: http://www.afn.org/~afn02877/eusel.html
Williams, M. E., 1998: A new specimen of Tamiobatus vestustus (Chondrichthyes, Ctenacanthoidea) from the Late Devonian Cleveland Shale of Ohio.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 18, #2, pp. 251-260

Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

†Cladoselachiformes

After Carroll, 1988, Williams, G.S., 1999-2000, and Williams, M.E., 1998

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