by Don R. Chesnut
(chesnut<at>uky.edu)
©DRC 2014
The following fossils
were collected from the Slade Formation and Sloans Valley Member
collectively.
Phylum Chordata
Haeckel, 1874
Subphylum
Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812
microicthyoliths from Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes
Class
Chondrichthyes Huxley, 1880
[most of the following are form genera and species.]
Subclass Elasmobranchii
Bonaparte, 1838
Infraclass
Cladoselachimorpha author?, date?
Order Cladoselachiformes
author?, date?
Cladodus
form-genus form-ssp.
Infraclass
Euselachii (Hay, 1902)
Order Ctenacanthiformes
author?, date?
Ctenacanthus
form-genus form-sp.
Acondylacanthus
form-genus sp.
incertae sedis
Lophodus/Agassizodus
form genus
Orodus/Hybodus
form genus
Subclass
Holocephali (Bonaparte, 1832-41)
calcified cartilage from cranium or mandible
Order Petalodontiformes
Zangerl, 1981
Family Petalodontida
(Zangerl, 1981)
Chomatodus chesterensis
St. John andWorthen, 1875
Chomatodus
sp.
Petalodus acuminatus
(Agassiz, 1838)
Polyrhizodus
sp.
Order
Bradyodonta (Woodward, 1821)
[These are largely form genera and species.]
Copodus pusillus
St. John and Worthen, 1883
Psammodus
form-genus sp.
Deltodus/Psephodus/Sandalodus
form genera
incertae sedis
Petrodus
sp. (skin denticle probably found on many genera in several classes)