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[Haizahnjager]

Hey Guys,

I am currently earning my Master's degree in Environmental Studies and for my project I am developing a fossil education program for South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources. I was wondering if anyone had a .pdf copy of some of the older shark tooth papers that showed the holotype fossils (if they are actually depicted in the paper) of some of the more common Oligocene-Pleistocene sharks (or land mammals)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I understand most of these papers will be written in a foreign language, but as long as I have the scientific name and a picture of the tooth, it will serve the purpose well enough.

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,

-HZJ

[Wakaritai]

Well, I don't have them, but I might be able to help. Do you know the name(s) of the journal(s) in question? If you do, and your university doesn't have them, that's not usually a problem. It is easy (though a bit time-consuming) to request an inter-library loan of the materials you need. Just call up the libraries of some universities that have had a strong program in a related area (either throughout that period, or during the period in which these journals were in print). That should at least narrow it down some. But you shouldn't have to search long. There is a strong likelihood that it will be in microfiche format, but most universities have the means to transfer these images into digital (or paper) formats of one sort or another. So, find a copy, work with your library to set up an inter-library loan, then wait. Due to the foreign language you might have to contact foreign universities, but that isn't usually a problem either. Just shoot them an email in english, and you'll be fine, then go from there. Good luck

[Coco]

I have a lot of PDF files about selachians. If you give me a list with :

- author,
- year of publication,
- title,

I can certainly find some of them for you.

Coco

[Nandomas]

The really first scientific study on shark teeth was "De glossopetris dissertatio" by my fellow citizen the Neapolitan Fabio Colonna
(1567-1640). I am trying to have a copy of the study to see if there is any drawn of shark teeth.

I am sure they are because at that time most of the studies were not written papers but drawings

regards

Nando

Edited by Nandomas, 03 September 2010 - 10:16 AM.

[siteseer]

Coco,

Do you have Leriche, 1942?:

Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la Plaine Cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis.

Actually, I need only pages 73-77. I've been working on a translation of it off-and-on for a couple of years but misplaced those pages from a copy sent to me by a friend.

If you can send me those pages as a PDF or as separate PDF's, I would appreciate it. If there are any articles you are looking for, I would glad to send you copies as well.

Thanks,

Jess

Coco, on 31 August 2010 - 06:18 AM, said:

I have a lot of PDF files about selachians. If you give me a list with :

- author,
- year of publication,
- title,

I can certainly find some of them for you.

Coco

[Coco]

Hi,

I have other Leriche publications, but not this one.

I will ask to my friends if they have it and I let you know.

Best regards

Coco

[Haizahnjager]

Thanks for the offer Coco! Any of the following would be a great help:

Hemipristis serra Agassiz, 1843, Poiss. Foss., vol. iii, p. 237, pl. xxvii, figs. 18-30.
Hemipristis serra Gibbes, 1849, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2nd ser., vol. i, p. 193,
pl. xxv, figs. 75-85.

Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz, 1843, Poiss. Foss. vol.iii, p. 231, pl. xxvi, flgs. 24-28.
Galeocerdo aduncus Gibbes, 1849, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2nd ser., vol. i, p. 191,
pl. xxv, flgs. 54-58.

Galeocerdo contortus Gibbes, 1849, Jour. Acad. Nat Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., vol. i, p.
193, pl. xxv, figs. 71-74.

Oxyrhina desorii Agassiz, 1843, Poiss. Foss., vol. iii., p. 282, pl. xxxvii, figs. 8-13.
Oxyrhina desorii Gibbes, 1847, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. iii, p. 267.
Oxyrhina desorii Gibbes, 1849, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2nd ser., vol. i, p. 203,
pl. xxvii, figs. 169-171.
Isurus desorii Hay, 1902, Bull. 179, U.S. Geol. Survey, p. 305.

Oxyrhina hastalis Agassiz, 1843, Poiss. Foss., vol. iii, p. 277, pl. xxxiv, (excl. figs.
1, 2, ? 14).
Oxyrhina hastalis Eastman, 1895, Palaeontogr., vol. xli, p. 178 (complete literature
references and syonymy).

Carcharias megalodon Charlesworth, 1837 (ex Agassiz MS.), Mag. Nat. Hist. n. s.,
vol. i, p. 225, woodc. fig. 24.
Carcharodon megalodon Agassiz, 1843, Poiss. Foss., vol. iii, p. 247, pl. xxix.
Carcharodon megalodon Gibbes, 1849, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2nd ser., vol. i,
p. 143, pl. xviii, pl. xix, figs. 8, 9.

Agassiz, L. J. R. 1833-1844.. Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. Text (5 vols; I., xlix+188 pp., II xii+310+366 pp., III viii+390 pp., IV xvi+296 pp., V xii+122+160 pp.) and Atlas (5 vols; I 10 pl., II., 149 pl., III 83 pl., IV, 61 pl., V, 91 pl.). Neuchâtel

Blainville, H.M.D., 1818. Poissons fossiles. Nouveau Dictionnaire 27. Paris.

[Hieronymus]

Coco, on 07 September 2010 - 05:52 AM, said:

Hi,

I have other Leriche publications, but not this one.

I will ask to my friends if they have it and I let you know.

Best regards

Coco

Which ones do you have? Is it possible to make scans/copies from the entire document?

[Nandomas]

Hieronymus, on 07 September 2010 - 12:47 PM, said:

Which ones do you have? Is it possible to make scans/copies from the entire document?

Hieronynus, I have some Leriche publications for you. If you like, please send me your email address

[Hieronymus]

Nandomas, on 07 September 2010 - 04:42 PM, said:

Hieronynus, I have some Leriche publications for you. If you like, please send me your email address

Pm sent;-)

[siteseer]

Coco,

Thanks for checking.

Jess

Coco, on 07 September 2010 - 05:52 AM, said:

Hi,

I have other Leriche publications, but not this one.

I will ask to my friends if they have it and I let you know.

Best regards

Coco

[Nandomas]

LERICHE M. 1902 - Les poissons paléocènes de la Belgique.pdf

LERICHE M. 1906 - Note sur le genre Vasseuria Munier-Chalmas.pdf

LERICHE M. 1908 - Observations on the Neogene sharks of California..pdf

LERICHE M. 1910 - Le Lophiodon du Bois-Gouët près Saffre (Loire-Inférieure).pdf

LERICHE M. 1912 - Les Campaniles du tuffeau de Ciply et du calcaire de Cuesmes.pdf

LERICHE M. 1936 – Uppon the importance of the fossil sharks in the establishment.pdf

Leriche Maurice 1904 - Les Cottus fossiles du Rupélien belge.pdf

Leriche Maurice 1905 - Relations bassins Parisien et belges au Lutétien.pdf

Leriche Maurice 1906 - Faune ichthyologique de l'Aquitanien de Montpellier.pdf

Leriche Maurice 1906 - Révision de la faune ichthyologique du Néogène du Bassin du Rhône.pdf

Leriche Maurice 1907 - Etude de la faune de la craie d'Epernay.pdf

Leriche Maurice 1908 - Fossiles de la craie phosphatée de la Picardie.pdf

Leriche Maurice 1909 - Relations entre les bassins belges et parisiens.pdf

Leriche C. 1957 - Poissons néogènes Bretagne Anjou Touraine

LERICHE M. 1905 - Les poissons éocènes de la Belgique

LERICHE M. 1951 - Les poissons tertiaires de la Belgique (supplément)



Those are all Leriche pdf I have. Haizahnjager & siteseer, if interested, please email me your address. thanks

Edited by Nandomas, 08 September 2010 - 11:12 AM.

[siteseer]

Nando,

Thanks for the offer. I will check to see what I am missing.

That Leriche publication you list in English was originally written in French. I'd have to look for it but I believe I have it as a PDF. Is your translation the same as the one on the Polyglot Paleontologist website?

Jess

Nandomas, on 08 September 2010 - 11:10 AM, said:

LERICHE M. 1908 - Observations on the Neogene sharks of California..pdf

Those are all Leriche pdf I have. Haizahnjager & siteseer, if interested, please email me your address. thanks

[Nandomas]

siteseer, on 09 September 2010 - 12:42 AM, said:

Nando,

Thanks for the offer. I will check to see what I am missing.

That Leriche publication you list in English was originally written in French. I'd have to look for it but I believe I have it as a PDF. Is your translation the same as the one on the Polyglot Paleontologist website?

Jess

What I have is the following short chapter, where Leriche fixed Agassiz and Jordan's previous works:



Observations on the Neogene Sharks of California.*
by Maurice Leriche
In California the Neogene marine formations occupy a more or less wide strip of the Pacific coast.

These formations have yielded numerous shark teeth which were studied in 1856 by Louis Agassiz and, quite recently, by Mr. David Starr Jordan , President of “Leland Stanford Junior University” in Berkeley (California).

Most of these teeth were considered by L. Agassiz and Mr. D. S. Jordan as belonging to different species than those encountered in Neogene formations in Europe. According to Mr. D. S. Jordan’s figures of the teeth, most of them do not seem to distinguish themselves specifically from the teeth of the Neogene of Europe. In these figures I have recognized the following European species:

L. Agassiz. “Notice of the Fossil Fishes found in California” by W.P. Blake. American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series. Vol. XXI. p. 272-275. This note by Agassiz was reproduced with minor modifications and an added plate in R. S. Williamson, Report on Explorations in California. U.S. Pacific Railroad Survey. 1853 Report, p. 313-316, pl.

D. S. Jordan. “The Fossil Fishes of California with supplementary notes on other Species of extinct Fishes.” University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Vol. V, p. 101-120; 1907.

I place into synonymy the names, which were erected by L. Agassiz and Mr. D. S. Jordan.

Notidanus primigenius L. Agassiz

1907. Heptranchias andersoni D. S. Jordan 1907. D. S. Jordan. The Fossil Fishes of California with supplementary notes on other Species of extinct Fishes. University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Vol. V. p. 101, fig. 3 in the text.

Deposit and localities : Miocene: Barker Ranch (Kern County).

* Original citation: Leriche, M. 1908. Observations sur les Squales neogènes de la Californie. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 37:302-306. Translated by Jess Duran, 2005, with special thanks to Jean Pierre Biddle for his comments.

Odontaspis cuspidatus L. Agassiz.

1856. Lamna clavata L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz. “Notice of the Fossil Fishes found in California” by W.P. Blake. American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series. Vol. XXI, p. 275.

1907. Lamna clavata D. S. Jordan. Loc. cit., p.106, fig. 8 in the text.

Agassiz has already noted the affinities presented by the teeth under the name of Lamna clavata to those of “Lamna” cuspidata of the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe.

As I will show in a future memoir , this species bore symphyseal teeth and consequently must be assigned to the genus Odontaspis.
Deposit and localities: Miocene: Kern County, Ocoya Creek.

Oxyrhina hastalis L. Agassiz.

1856. Oxyrhina plana L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 274.
1856. Oxyrhina tumula L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 275.
1907. Isurus planus D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 107, fig. 9 in the text.
1907. Isurus tumulus D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 109, fig. 10, 11 in the text.
1907. Isurus smithii D. S. Jordan, D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 111, fig. 12 in the text.
In California.

The Oligocene Fishes of Belgium (Memoires du Musée royal d’Histoire naturelle de Belgique. 5).

The teeth to which Agassiz has given the names Oxyrhina plana and O. tumula are referable respectively to the teeth of the upper and lower jaw of O. hastalis. The teeth of the lower jaw of O. hastalis, in particular the anterior teeth, have a thicker root than in the upper jaw. It is with this character that L. Agassiz distinguished O. tumula from O. plana.

As for the teeth that Mr. D. S. Jordan proposed the name, Isurus smithii, they must be considered as lower anterior teeth of subadult individuals of O. hastalis.

Deposit and localities: 1. Miocene: Barker Ranch (Kern County), Carrizo Creek (San Diego County), Ocoya Creek, Oil City, Santa Ana; 2. Pliocene: around Coalinga (Fresno County).

Carcharodon megalodon L. Agassiz

1856. Carcharodon rectus L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 274

1907. Carcharodon riversi D. S. Jordan. (pars). D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 115, fig. 14b (not fig. 14a)

1907. Carcharodon branneri D. S. Jordan. D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 116, fig. 15.

The teeth that Mr. D. S. Jordan described under the name Carcharodon branneri are teeth typical of C. megalodon. Those of the Miocene, which the same author called C. branneri, are the teeth of young individuals of the same species.

Deposit and localities: Miocene: Barker Ranch (Kern County), Bolinas Bay, Oil City, Santa Ana.

Carcharodon rondeleti Muller and Henle

1907. Carcharodon arnoldi D. S. Jordan. D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 113, fig. 13 (the two figures to the left).

1907. Carcharodon riversi D. S. Jordan (pars). D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 115, fig. 14a (not fig. 14b).

Deposit and localities: 1. Pliocene: Pescadero (San Mateo County), Port Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Zapata Chino Creek (Fresno County); 2. Pleistocene: Rustic Canon (Santa Monica Range).

Hemipristis serra L. Agassiz.

1856 Hemipristis heteropleurus L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 274.
1907. Hemipristis heteropleurus D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 104, fig. 6 in the text.

Mr. D. S. Jordan, himself, observes that “there is no obvious reason for regarding the California species as different from Hemipristis serra.”

Deposit and localities: Miocene: Barker Ranch (Kern County), Ocoya Creek, Oil City.

Galeocerdo aduncus L. Agassiz

1856. Galeocerdo productus L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 273.
1907. Galeocerdo productus D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 101, fig. 13 (the four figures to the right) (not fig. 4b, 4c, 4e).

Deposit and localities: Miocene: Barker Ranch and Oil City (Kern County).

Under the name Galeocerdo productus Mr. D. S. Jordan (Loc. cit., 4b, 4c, 4e) figures three small teeth from the Miocene of Kern County. As much as can be ascertained from the unclear figures provided, the teeth corresponding to figures 4b and 4c – teeth that Mr. D. S. Jordan, himself, reports only doubtfully as Galeocerdo productus – appear instead to belong to Aprionodon. The tooth identified as No. 4e does not distinguish itself generically from the teeth of Galeus.

Finally, Mr. D. S. Jordan (Loc. cit., p. 119, fig. 4d) doubtfully attributes teeth from the Miocene of Barker Ranch to the genus Chiloscyllium. They appear to be the teeth of Squatina.

The preceding observations show once again the great geographic extent of some shark species, and consequently, the importance that the examples above have in the establishment of particular species living synchronously over great distances.

Edited by Nandomas, 09 September 2010 - 06:38 AM.

[Coco]

Hello,

I see Nandomas was faster than me

Here is my Leriche PDF list :

LERICHE M. - 1904 : Note sur les Cottus fossiles, et en particulier sur Cottus cervicornis Storms du Rupélien de la Belgique (5 pages)

LERICHE M. - 1906 : Note préliminaire sur les poissons des faluns néogènes de la Bretagne, de l’Anjou et de la Touraine (34 pages - 1,36 Mo)

LERICHE M. - 1906 : Sur la faune ichthyologique de l’Aquitanien marin des environs de Montpellier (7 pages - 249 Ko)

LERICHE M. - 1906 : Note sur le genre Vasseuria Munier-Chalmas

LERICHE M. - 1906 : Note sur les vertébrés éocènes de la Loire-Inférieure

LERICHE M. - 1907 : Révision de la faune ichthyologique des terrains néogènes du bassin du Rhône (19 pages - 921 Ko)

LERICHE M. - 1908 : Contribution à l’étude de la faune de la craie d’Epernay, à Magas pumilus (8 pages - 257 Ko)

LERICHE M. - 1909 : Sur les fossiles de la craie phosphatée de la Picardie, à Actinocamax quadratus (11 pages - 475 Ko)

LERICHE M. - 1910 : Sur les relations entre les bassins belge et parisien pendant l’époque tertiaire (4 pages - 190 Ko)

LERICHE M. - 1936 : Upon the importance of the fossil sharks in the establishment of the isochronisms of formations at great distances and upon the stratigraphic and geographic distribution of some Tertiary species (7 pages - 224 Ko)

LERICHE M. - 1951 : Les poissons tertiaires de la Belgique (supplément) (96 pages - 21,7 Mo)

LERICHE M. - 1951 : Les poissons tertiaires de la Belgique (supplément) (40 pages - 10,4 Mo)

LERICHE M. - 1951 : Les poissons tertiaires de la Belgique (supplément) (14 pages - 2,6 Mo)

LERICHE M. - 1951 : Les poissons tertiaires de la Belgique (supplément) (20 pages - 3,93 Mo)

LERICHE M. - 1957 : Les poissons néogènes de la Bretagne, de l’Anjou et de la Touraine (74 pages - 6,48 Mo)

LERICHE M. - 1958 : Les poissons des faluns néogènes de l’Ouest de laFrance (Bretagne et Cotentin, Anjou, Touraine).




Here is the list of publications I have on paper :


LERICHE M. - 1900 : Faune ichthiologique des sables à Unios et Térédinesdes environs d’Epernay (Marne) (p.173-196)

LERICHE M. - 1901 : Le Lutétien supérieur aux environs de Pargnan (p. 193-196)

LERICHE M. - 1901 : Sur quelques éléments nouveaux pour la faune ichthio-logique du Montien inférieur du bassin de Paris (p. 153-174)

LERICHE M. - 1902 : Révision de la faune ichthiologique des terrains crétacés du nord de la France (p. 88-156)

LERICHE M. - 1902 : Les poissons paléocènes de Belgique (p.1-48)

LERICHE M. - 1904 : Sur l’âge des sables à Unios et Térédines des environs d’Epernay et sur la signification du terme … (p.815-817)

LERICHE M. - 1905 : Les poissons Eocènes de la Belgique (p. 1-230)

LERICHE M. - 1906 : Note préliminaire sur les poissons des faluns néogènes de la Bretagne, de l’Anjou et de la Touraine. 290-321

LERICHE M. - 1907 : Sur l’attribution de Lacerta ? Eocena Owen de l’Eocène de Suffolk, à un poisson du genre Amia (p. 167-169)

LERICHE M. - 1907 : Observation sur les terrains tertiaires des environs de Reims et d’Epernay (p. 367-390)

LERICHE M. - 1907 : Observation sur les poissons du Patagonien récemment signalé par M. Fi. Ameghino (p. 129-137)

LERICHE M. - 1908 : Note sur les poissons paléocènes et éocènes des en-virons de Reims (Marne) (p. 229-265)

LERICHE M. - 1908 : Observations sur les squales néogènes de la Californie

LERICHE M. - 1909 : Observation sur les poissons du Tertiaire supérieurde Madagascar (p.1-59)

LERICHE M. - 1910 : Sur quelques poissons du Crétacé du bassin de Paris

LERICHE M. - 1910 : Note sur les poissons stampiens du bassin de Paris (p. 324-326)

LERICHE M. - 1910 : Sur les poissons néogènes de la Catalogne (p. 455-477)

LERICHE M. - 1910 : Les poissons oligocènes de la Belgique (p. 1-263)

LERICHE M. - 1919 : programme explicatif des excursion en Lorraine, en Champagne et sur la ... (extrait de bull. de la SGF) (p. 137-148)

LERICHE M. - 1921 : L’âge du gravier fossilifère d’Elsloo (Limbourg hollandais), d’après sa faune ichthyologique. La …(p. 101-115)

LERICHE M. - 1926 : Les poissons néogènes de la Belgique (p. 360-472)

LERICHE M. - 1926 : Les vertébrés des argiles d’Yprès (Yprésien) et sur les Palaeophis de l’éocène de la Belgique (p. 13-24)

LERICHE M. - 1926 : Sur la présence du genre «Ptychodus» dans le Frasnien des environs de Namur (p. 86-88)

LERICHE M. - 1927 : Les poissons de la mollase Suisse (1er fascicule) (p.1-25)

LERICHE M. - 1927 : Les poissons de la mollase Suisse (2e fascicule) (p. 26-119)

LERICHE M. - 1927 : Note préliminaire sur deux scylliidés nouveaux du pa-léocène de Landana (enclave portugaise de… (p. 398-402)

LERICHE M. - 1929 : Sur une forme nouvelle du genre Chlamydoselachus (C. Tobleri) rejetée par le volcan de boue de …(p. 55-58)

LERICHE M. - 1930 : Rectification de nomenclature au sujet du grand Cérithe du tuffeau de Ciply et le Hybodus de la …(p. 102-104)

LERICHE M. - 1932 : Sur les vestiges d’une formation estuarienne d’âge yprésien, remaniés à la base du Lutétien de la …(p.1-3)

LERICHE M. - 1933 : Sur le Crétacé supérieur du Hainault et du Brabant (1. La craie de St-Vaast. 2- La craie de Trivières. 3- Le …

LERICHE M. - 1935 : Le Crétacé de la Thudinie (entre Sambre et Meuse) (p. 44-5)

LERICHE M. - 1936 : Le Turonien à Vaucelles (Vallée de l’Escaut) et les brè-ches de Vaucelles (p. 136-14)

LERICHE M. - 1936 : Les poissons crétacés et du Nummulitiques de l’Aube

LERICHE M. - 1936 : Sur l’importance des squales fossiles dans l’établisse-ment des synchronismes de formations à grandes…(p. 739-772)

LERICHE M. - 1940 : Les terrains tertiaires des massifs de Varengeville et de Sotteville-sur-Mer (p. 150-182)

LERICHE M. - 1948 : Quelques observations nouvelles sur le Crétacé de la thudinie (Entre Sambre et Meuse) (p. 240-247)

LERICHE M. - 1951 : Les poissons tertiaires de la Belgique (Supplément) (p. 475-600)

LERICHE M. - 1957 : Les poissons néogènes de la Bretagne, de l’Anjou et de la Touraine (p.1-64)



About LERICHE M. - 1951 : Les poissons tertiaires de la Belgique (supplément) PDF, I have several files withe different number of pages. I think some of them are partial document.

I think I can attach here the smaller PDF files if you are interested in. About the bigger ones, it would be better to send them with a CD.


My PDF files are on another PC, it is the reason why I need some little time to answer on this kind of answer.

Coco

[siteseer]

Nando,

Actually, that is the whole article. It's a somewhat altered version of the original translation (footnote numbers missing) but that could've been an oversight of the translator who apparently lacked a command of special characters in Word at the time (yeah, that's me). I might have a cleaner version or will have to make one.

Nandomas, on 09 September 2010 - 06:29 AM, said:

What I have is the following short chapter, where Leriche fixed Agassiz and Jordan's previous works:



Observations on the Neogene Sharks of California.*
by Maurice Leriche
In California the Neogene marine formations occupy a more or less wide strip of the Pacific coast.

These formations have yielded numerous shark teeth which were studied in 1856 by Louis Agassiz and, quite recently, by Mr. David Starr Jordan , President of “Leland Stanford Junior University” in Berkeley (California).

Most of these teeth were considered by L. Agassiz and Mr. D. S. Jordan as belonging to different species than those encountered in Neogene formations in Europe. According to Mr. D. S. Jordan’s figures of the teeth, most of them do not seem to distinguish themselves specifically from the teeth of the Neogene of Europe. In these figures I have recognized the following European species:

L. Agassiz. “Notice of the Fossil Fishes found in California” by W.P. Blake. American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series. Vol. XXI. p. 272-275. This note by Agassiz was reproduced with minor modifications and an added plate in R. S. Williamson, Report on Explorations in California. U.S. Pacific Railroad Survey. 1853 Report, p. 313-316, pl.

D. S. Jordan. “The Fossil Fishes of California with supplementary notes on other Species of extinct Fishes.” University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Vol. V, p. 101-120; 1907.

I place into synonymy the names, which were erected by L. Agassiz and Mr. D. S. Jordan.

Notidanus primigenius L. Agassiz

1907. Heptranchias andersoni D. S. Jordan 1907. D. S. Jordan. The Fossil Fishes of California with supplementary notes on other Species of extinct Fishes. University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Vol. V. p. 101, fig. 3 in the text.

Deposit and localities : Miocene: Barker Ranch (Kern County).

* Original citation: Leriche, M. 1908. Observations sur les Squales neogènes de la Californie. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 37:302-306. Translated by Jess Duran, 2005, with special thanks to Jean Pierre Biddle for his comments.

Odontaspis cuspidatus L. Agassiz.

1856. Lamna clavata L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz. “Notice of the Fossil Fishes found in California” by W.P. Blake. American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series. Vol. XXI, p. 275.

1907. Lamna clavata D. S. Jordan. Loc. cit., p.106, fig. 8 in the text.

Agassiz has already noted the affinities presented by the teeth under the name of Lamna clavata to those of “Lamna” cuspidata of the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe.

As I will show in a future memoir , this species bore symphyseal teeth and consequently must be assigned to the genus Odontaspis.
Deposit and localities: Miocene: Kern County, Ocoya Creek.

Oxyrhina hastalis L. Agassiz.

1856. Oxyrhina plana L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 274.
1856. Oxyrhina tumula L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 275.
1907. Isurus planus D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 107, fig. 9 in the text.
1907. Isurus tumulus D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 109, fig. 10, 11 in the text.
1907. Isurus smithii D. S. Jordan, D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 111, fig. 12 in the text.
In California.

The Oligocene Fishes of Belgium (Memoires du Musée royal d’Histoire naturelle de Belgique. 5).

The teeth to which Agassiz has given the names Oxyrhina plana and O. tumula are referable respectively to the teeth of the upper and lower jaw of O. hastalis. The teeth of the lower jaw of O. hastalis, in particular the anterior teeth, have a thicker root than in the upper jaw. It is with this character that L. Agassiz distinguished O. tumula from O. plana.

As for the teeth that Mr. D. S. Jordan proposed the name, Isurus smithii, they must be considered as lower anterior teeth of subadult individuals of O. hastalis.

Deposit and localities: 1. Miocene: Barker Ranch (Kern County), Carrizo Creek (San Diego County), Ocoya Creek, Oil City, Santa Ana; 2. Pliocene: around Coalinga (Fresno County).

Carcharodon megalodon L. Agassiz

1856. Carcharodon rectus L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 274

1907. Carcharodon riversi D. S. Jordan. (pars). D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 115, fig. 14b (not fig. 14a)

1907. Carcharodon branneri D. S. Jordan. D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 116, fig. 15.

The teeth that Mr. D. S. Jordan described under the name Carcharodon branneri are teeth typical of C. megalodon. Those of the Miocene, which the same author called C. branneri, are the teeth of young individuals of the same species.

Deposit and localities: Miocene: Barker Ranch (Kern County), Bolinas Bay, Oil City, Santa Ana.

Carcharodon rondeleti Muller and Henle

1907. Carcharodon arnoldi D. S. Jordan. D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 113, fig. 13 (the two figures to the left).

1907. Carcharodon riversi D. S. Jordan (pars). D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 115, fig. 14a (not fig. 14b).

Deposit and localities: 1. Pliocene: Pescadero (San Mateo County), Port Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Zapata Chino Creek (Fresno County); 2. Pleistocene: Rustic Canon (Santa Monica Range).

Hemipristis serra L. Agassiz.

1856 Hemipristis heteropleurus L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 274.
1907. Hemipristis heteropleurus D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 104, fig. 6 in the text.

Mr. D. S. Jordan, himself, observes that “there is no obvious reason for regarding the California species as different from Hemipristis serra.”

Deposit and localities: Miocene: Barker Ranch (Kern County), Ocoya Creek, Oil City.

Galeocerdo aduncus L. Agassiz

1856. Galeocerdo productus L. Agassiz. L. Agassiz, Loc. cit., p. 273.
1907. Galeocerdo productus D. S. Jordan, Loc. cit., p. 101, fig. 13 (the four figures to the right) (not fig. 4b, 4c, 4e).

Deposit and localities: Miocene: Barker Ranch and Oil City (Kern County).

Under the name Galeocerdo productus Mr. D. S. Jordan (Loc. cit., 4b, 4c, 4e) figures three small teeth from the Miocene of Kern County. As much as can be ascertained from the unclear figures provided, the teeth corresponding to figures 4b and 4c – teeth that Mr. D. S. Jordan, himself, reports only doubtfully as Galeocerdo productus – appear instead to belong to Aprionodon. The tooth identified as No. 4e does not distinguish itself generically from the teeth of Galeus.

Finally, Mr. D. S. Jordan (Loc. cit., p. 119, fig. 4d) doubtfully attributes teeth from the Miocene of Barker Ranch to the genus Chiloscyllium. They appear to be the teeth of Squatina.

The preceding observations show once again the great geographic extent of some shark species, and consequently, the importance that the examples above have in the establishment of particular species living synchronously over great distances.

[Nandomas]

Coco, on 09 September 2010 - 06:35 AM, said:

Hello,

I see Nandomas was faster than me

In a few days I will leave home for our fossil vacation (I worked the whole summer, I deserve some rest!), so I am doing all my duties well in advance

[Haizahnjager]

Were you able to find any of those articles Coco?

-HZJ

[Coco]

Hi,

Haizahnjager, I have all of the title of the list I gave in this post on my hard disk computer. If you are interested in one or several of them, just let me know the author name, the year of publication and the titl.

I think I won't be on FF tomorrow, just la little time on friday morning, and I will come back on next monday, for one week. So, it would take a little time to put these articles here (and they are in another PC...).

Coco

[Coco]

I have forgotten : I have the second part of the titles only in paper. It could be difficult or long to scan all of them and I have not a lot of time on september.

Coco