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Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi

Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes

Taxonomy
Hypolophus mcnultyi was named by Thurmond (1971). Its type specimen is SMU 62208, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Glass Local Fauna, which is in an Albian marine horizon in the Paluxy Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi by Cappetta and Case (1975), Cappetta (1987), Kriwet (1999), Cappetta and Case (1999), Cook et al. (2008), Hoganson et al. (2019) and Maisch et al. (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Hypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond pp. 220-222 fig. 12
1975Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Cappetta and Case p. 306
1987Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Cappetta p. 142
1999Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Cappetta and Case p. 42 figs. Pl 28, figs 1-9; pl 29, figs 1-4
1999Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Kriwet p. 126 figs. Pl 3, fig 6; pl 4, fig 7
2008Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Cook et al. p. 1193 fig. 5E
2019Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Hoganson et al. p. 35 figs. 9.3-9.8
2021Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Maisch et al. pp. 17, 20 figs. 9U-H

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
infraclassEuselachii()
NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
superorderBatomorphii
orderRajiformesBerg 1940
suborderRhinobatoideiFowler 1941
genusPseudohypolophus
speciesmcnultyi()

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.

Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektobenthico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-21 07:15:23
Modified: 2009-07-21 09:15:23
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Barremian to the top of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 130.00000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (61 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Spain (Teruel) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (91420)
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Spain (Aragón) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (28196)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0USA (Texas) Hypolophus mcnultyi (99154)
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0USA (Texas) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (14408)
Albian113.0 - 100.5USA (Texas) Hypolophus mcnultyi (14390 type locality: 99142 99143 99144 99145 99147 99148 99149 99150 99151 99152 99153 99155 99158) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (27604 27606 27613)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0USA (Texas) Hypolophus mcnultyi (99146 99156) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (27603 27774)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France (Poitou-Charentes) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (73862 73863 77229 77230 77232 77233)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Spain (Asturias) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (98396)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (Texas) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (213298)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France (Poitou-Charentes) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (110466)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Canada (Alberta) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (213311 213312 213313 213314 213315 213317 213318)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (Nebraska) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (213308)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (South Dakota) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (181902)
Turonian - Coniacian93.9 - 86.3USA (New Mexico) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (221290)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (Nebraska) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (213389)
Late/Upper Coniacian - Early/Lower Campanian89.3 - 70.6USA (Mississippi) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (164393)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (South Carolina) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (79363)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0USA (South Dakota) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (90926)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (North Dakota) Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (179290 179291 213580 213582 213583 213584 213585 213586 213587 213589 213590 213591 213620)