Révision des Rhombodontidae (Neoselachii Batomorphii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc

Abdelmajid Noubhani and Henri Cappetta

Cite this article: Noubhani A., Cappetta H., 1994. Révision des Rhombodontidae (Neoselachii Batomorphii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc. Palaeovertebrata 23 (1-4): 1-49.

Abstract

The revision of the Rhombodontidae from the Maastrichtian of Morocco led us to the description of a new species: Rhombodus andriesi.

The biometrical study of populations of R. binkhorsti and R. microdon, species sometimes considered as synonymous, supports the conclusion that they represent two distinct species and not young and adult specimens of a single species. The stratigraphical range of these two species confirms this
result.

The reexarnination of type-series studied by C. Ararnbourg led us to revise the generic status of Rhombodus bondoni which is now ranged, because his dental features, in the new genus Dasyrhombodus showing a less derived dentition than Rhombodus. The stratigraphical range of each species is clarified within the phosphatic series.