Published July 6, 2023 | Version v1
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Strigilodus Hodnett & Toomey & Olson & Tweet & Santucci 2023, gen. nov.

Description

Genus Strigilodus gen. nov.

Type and only species: Strigilisodus tollesonae sp. nov

Age and location

Middle Mississippian, Viséan (upper Meramecian/lower Chesterian); Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.

Etymology

Latin strigil, ‘scraper’ and Greek, odous, ‘tooth’, for the dentition’s superficial appearance to a Roman strigil, a scrapping tool used in body cleaning.

Diagnosis

As for the type and only known species.

Notes

Published as part of Hodnett, John-Paul M., Toomey, Rickard, Olson, Rickard, Tweet, Justin S. & Santucci, Vincent L., 2023, Janassid petalodonts (Chondrichthyes, Petalodontiformes, Janassidae) from the middle Mississippian (Viséan) Ste. Genevieve Formation, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, USA, pp. 1-10 in Historical Biology CLXVI (CLXVI) on page 4, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2231955, http://zenodo.org/record/10014242

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