Acronemus

Short description: Enigmatic extinct genus of cartilaginous fish

Acronemus

Temporal range: Anisian

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A cast of a well-preserved fossil of Acronemus tuberculatus from Monte San Giorgio
Scientific classification
Missing taxonomy template (fix):  | Incertae sedis/Euselachii
Genus:  | †Acronemus
Rieppel, 1982

Acronemus is an extinct genus of euselachian from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland .[1][2] It is an enigmatic genus with uncertain relations to other groups. Though originally placed within Ctenacanthiformes, it is now considered Euselachii incertae sedis, due to its mixture of features similar to hybodontiforms and neoselachians. Originally, teeth from this genus were attributed to "Acrodus bicarinatus" while fin spines were named "Nemacanthus tuberculatus". Associated material showed they were the same animal, with the older specific epithet (tuberculatus) taking precedence. The euselachian was given the new genus Acrocnemus, containing a single species (A. tuberculatus). Acronemus is found in the Anisian-age Grenzbitumenzone (also known as the Besano Formation) of Monte San Giorgio.[3] It was a small animal measuring 30–35 cm (0.98–1.15 ft) long.[4] A 2018 study considered it to be closely related to the early Carboniferous genus Tristychius as part of the family Tristychiidae as a basal euselachian, with hybodonts more more closely related to neoselachians than to Tristychiidae.[5]

## References

1. ↑ Rieppel, O. (1982). A new genus of shark from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland.
2. ↑ "Fossilworks: Acronemus". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=34479.
3. ↑ Maisey, John G. (2011). "The braincase of the Middle Triassic shark Acronemus tuberculatus (Bassani, 1886)" (in en). Palaeontology 54 (2): 417–428. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01035.x. ISSN 1475-4983. Bibcode: 2011Palgy..54..417M.
4. ↑ Rieppel, O. (2019). Mesozoic Sea Dragons: Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio. Indiana University Press. pp. 50. doi:10.2307/j.ctvd58t86. ISBN 978-0253040114.
5. ↑ Coates, Michael I.; Tietjen, Kristen (March 2017). "The neurocranium of the Lower Carboniferous shark Tristychius arcuatus (Agassiz, )" (in en). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 108 (1): 19–35. doi:10.1017/S1755691018000130. ISSN 1755-6910. Bibcode: 2017EESTR.108...19C. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1755691018000130/type/journal_article.

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