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Description of the lower jaws of Baculites from the Upper Cretaceous U.S. Western Interior

Larson N. L., Landman N. H.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2017

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Vol. 67, no. 1

109--120

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We report the discovery of lower jaws of Baculites (Ammonoidea) from the Upper Cretaceous U.S. Western Interior. In the lower Campanian Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas, most of the jaws occur as isolated elements. Based on their age, they probably belong to Baculites sp. (smooth). They conform to the description of rugaptychus, and are ornamented with coarse rugae on their ventral side. One specimen is preserved inside a small fecal pellet that was probably produced by a fish. Another specimen occurs inside in a crushed body chamber near the aperture and is probably in situ. Three small structures are present immediately behind the jaw and may represent the remains of the gills. In the lower Maastrichtian Pierre Shale of Wyoming, two specimens of Baculites grandis contain lower jaws inside their body chambers, and are probably in situ. In both specimens, the jaws are oriented at an acute angle to the long axis of the shell, with their anterior ends pointing toward the dorsum. One of the jaws is folded into a U-shape, which probably approximates the shape of the jaw during life. Based on the measurements of the jaws and the shape of the shell, the jaws could not have touched the sides of the shell even if they were splayed out, implying that they could not have effectively served as opercula. Instead, in combination with the upper jaws and radula, they constituted the buccal apparatus that collected and conveyed food to the esophagus.

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Late Cretaceous nautilid beaks from near-shore/shallow water deposits of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic)

Kostak M., Vodrazka R., Frank J., Mazuch M., Marek J.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2010

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Vol. 60, no. 3

417-428

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More than 30 isolated nautilid jaws have been discovered in washed samples of late Cretaceous (turonian) nearshore/shallow water deposits located in the southern part of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (BCB). upper and lower jaws discovered in genetically-similar early turonian deposits are described in detail herein. the nautilid jaw apparatuses comprise rhyncholites (upper jaws) assigned to Nautilorhynchus simplex (Fritsch), and conchorhynchs (lower jaws) assigned to Conchorhynchus cretaceus Fritsch. some rhyncholites show signs of abrasion and corrosion, and may also form a substrate for sessile organisms. in one specimen, signs of acid digestion in the stomach of a predator were recognized. N. simplex is synonymized with "Rhyncholithus" bohemicus (till), "R". curvatus. (till), "R" rectus (till) and "R". curtus (till). the significant morphological variability observed in N. simplex is supported by biometric data. although the jaws were not found associated with body chambers, it is inferred from the extremely low nautilid biodiversity across the Cenomanian/turonian boundary interval in the BCB, and from the range and relative abundance of the only early turonian nautilid taxon present, that the jaws are probably referable to the genus Eutrephoceras hyatt and specifically to the common and long-ranging species E. sublaevigatum (d'Orbigny).

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Jaws and dentition in an Early Triassic, 3-dimensionally preserved eugeneodontid skull (Chondrichthyes)

Mutter R., Neuman A.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2008

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Vol. 58, no. 2

223-227

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Neutron scans of a concretion with a 3-dimensionally preserved partial skull from the Lower Triassic Vega Phroso Siltstone Member of the Sulphur Mountain Formation (western Canada), previously assigned to Caseodus, reveal that upper jaws were absent in this eugeneodontid. Large, anteriorly deep lower jaws housed relatively few and large tooth files and enclosed a narrow anterior mouth cavity together with the symphysial tooth whorl, which is situated on the mandibular rostrum. The symphysial teeth are slender-conical in antero-occlusal view and do not appear to possess a transversal crest. The taxonomic significance of tooth morphology and absence of upper jaws is discussed. This eugeneodontid yields evidence of another group of rather primitive fishes surviving the end-Permian extinction event. The architecture of oral cavity and dentition suggests these chondrichthyans were specialized on preying on disc-shaped or flat, presumably shelled organisms.