Kenolamna gunsoni

Taxonavigation: Lamniformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Selachimorpha Superordo: Galeomorphii Ordo: Lamniformes

Familia: †Otodontidae
Genus: †Kenolamna

Name

†Kenolamna gunsoni Siversson, 1996

• Holotype: WAM 95.7.49; an A1 (originally described as an A2), illustrated by Siverson (1996): text-fig. 3, pl. 3: 9–11).

Type locality: Thirindine Point East, Pillawarra Plateau, Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia.

Type horizon: “Upper Gearle Siltstone” (previously referred to as the uppermost Alinga Formation at Thirindine Point), 0.5 m below the base of the Haycock Marl (= Beedagong Claystone of Siverson 1996). The precise age of the type stratum is yet to be determined but is likely Cenomanian. The overlying basal part of the Haycock Marl yields Cretoxyrhina teeth comparable in morphology to those from the Greenhorn Limestone in the Western Interior Seaway of North America.

Etymology: .

Synonyms

• Cretolamna gunsoni Siverson, 1996
  • Cretalamna gunsoni Siverson, 1996 -- Siverson, 1999

References

• Siverson, M. 1996. Lamniform sharks of the mid-Cretaceous Alinga Formation and Beedagong Claystone, Western Australia. Palaeontology 39: 813–849. Reference page. 
• Siversson, M., Lindgren, J., Newbrey, M.G., Cederström, P. & Cook, T.D. 2015. Cenomanian-Campanian (Late Cretaceous) mid-palaeolatitude sharks of Cretalamna appendiculata type. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(2): 339–384. DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0137 [Full article (PDF). Reference page.