Carcharias sp. 2

Szabó, Márton & Kocsis, László, 2016, A preliminary report on the Early Oligocene (Rupelian, Kiscellian) selachians from the Kiscell Formation (Buda Mts, Hungary), with the re-discovery of Wilhelm Weiler’s shark teeth, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33, pp. 31-64 : 44

Carcharias sp. 2

(Figs 31–33)

Referred material: 8 teeth (V.61.866., VER 2016.3424., VER 2016.3439.).

Remarks: Most teeth of this morphogroup are very poorly preserved. The most completely preserved tooth (V.61.866.) is similar to the first morphogroup in size, but in contrast to the teeth of Carcharias sp. 1 , the main crown is more robust, labiolingually wider at the base, and both faces are more convex to the tip. One cusplet is preserved which is similar to those of Carcharias sp. 1 in being pointed and having flattened edges, but while the cusplets are simply bent both mesiodistally and labiolingually on Carcharias sp. 1 , the only preserved cusplet of Carcharias sp. 2 is weakly sigmoid.

The lingual face of the main crown is smooth all along, no striation is present. According to HOVESTADT & HOVESTADT-EULER (2010), this feature assigns this tooth with uncertain affinities to the species Carcharias gustrowensis (Winkler, 1875) . This species was widely distributed in the North Sea Basin during the Late Oligocene and the Early to Middle Miocene ( REINECKE et al. 2014).