Skull and brain anatomy of late Carboniferous Sibyrhynchidae (Chondrichthyes, Iniopterygia) from Kansas and Oklahoma (USA)
Geodiversitas, ISSN: 1280-9659, Vol: 32, Issue: 4, Page: 595-661
2010
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Recent gnathostomes are composed of two major clades, the chondrichthyans, or cartilaginous fishes, and the osteichthyans, or bony fishes and tetrapods. Recent chondrichthyans include about 1200 elasmobranch (sharks and rays) species, but only about 40 holocephalan (ratfish) species. Nevertheless, an important radiation of chondrichthyans took place in the Carboniferous (360-300 Myr), and gave rise to an important diversity of odd and poorly understood taxa, such as the iniopterygians, that are considered as related to extant holocephalans. However, the relationships between these taxa and the two extant chondrichthyan clades remain controversial. Th e material studied here by means of computed microtomography scanning using synchrotron radiation X-ray, consists of neurocrania from the Upper Carboniferous of Kansas and Oklahoma (USA), which are remarkably well preserved in three dimensions, and which belong to one of the two families of iniopterygians, the Sibyrhynchidae Zangerl & Case, 1973. A detailed description of these specimens provides more information about the cranial and brain anatomy of this taxon. No three-dimensionally preserved skull of any stem-holocephalan was known in detail to date, contrary to fossil elasmobranchs. Th e data presented here show the three-dimensionally preserved braincase of a possible stem-holocephalan as these new specimens share with extant chimaeroids some key neurocranial characters. Th is may provide means for a comparative study of skull anatomy in Paleozoic representatives of the main two chondrichthyan clades. © Publications Scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.
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