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Gnathorhizids are found in North America, Eastern Europe, Australia, and Africa. Gnathorhizids from North America range from the [[Gzhelian]] through the [[Roadian]]. In Africa, gnathorhizids are found in [[Olenekian]] of Madagascar and possibly South Africa. Lungfish [[teeth]] attributed to gnathorhizids have been reported from the [[Lopingian]] to the Olenekian in Poland and Western Russia. It is likely, then, that gnathorhizids had a [[Pangea]]n distribution throughout the late [[Paleozoic]] and early [[Mesozoic]]. |
Gnathorhizids are found in North America, Eastern Europe, Australia, and Africa. Gnathorhizids from North America range from the [[Gzhelian]] through the [[Roadian]]. In Africa, gnathorhizids are found in [[Olenekian]] of Madagascar and possibly South Africa. Lungfish [[teeth]] attributed to gnathorhizids have been reported from the [[Lopingian]] to the Olenekian in Poland and Western Russia. It is likely, then, that gnathorhizids had a [[Pangea]]n distribution throughout the late [[Paleozoic]] and early [[Mesozoic]]. |
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== Paleoecology and behavior == |
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Gnathorhizids are found primarily in [[paleosol]]s representing [[ephemeral]] [[wetlands]]. Additionally, gnathorhizids, unlike most groups of fossil lungfish, are often found in association with regular [[burrow]] structures, suggesting that this group of lungfish may have [[estivation|estivated]] during the dry season, much like modern [[protopteridae|African]] and [[lepidosirenidae|South American]] lungfish. |
Gnathorhizids are found primarily in [[paleosol]]s representing [[ephemeral]] [[wetlands]]. Additionally, gnathorhizids, unlike most groups of fossil lungfish, are often found in association with regular [[burrow]] structures, suggesting that this group of lungfish may have [[estivation|estivated]] during the dry season, much like modern [[protopteridae|African]] and [[lepidosirenidae|South American]] lungfish. |
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== References == |
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Berman, D. S., 1976, Cranial morphology of the Lower Permian lungfish Gnathorhiza (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi): Journal of Paleontology, v. 50(6), p.1020-1033. |
* Berman, D. S., 1976, ''Cranial morphology of the Lower Permian lungfish Gnathorhiza (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi): Journal of Paleontology'', v. 50(6), p.1020-1033. |
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* Lucas, S.G. and Zeigler, K.E., eds., 2005, ''The Nonmarine Permian, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 30''., pp.133-143. |
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The Gnanthorhizidae are an extinct family of lungfish that lived from the late Carboniferous until the middle Triassic. Gnathorhizid fossils have been found in North America, Madagascar, Australia, and possibly Eastern Europe and South Africa. They are characterized by high-ridges toothplates that form cutting blades and a reduction in cranial bones.
Distribution
Gnathorhizids are found in North America, Eastern Europe, Australia, and Africa. Gnathorhizids from North America range from the Gzhelian through the Roadian. In Africa, gnathorhizids are found in Olenekian of Madagascar and possibly South Africa. Lungfish teeth attributed to gnathorhizids have been reported from the Lopingian to the Olenekian in Poland and Western Russia. It is likely, then, that gnathorhizids had a Pangean distribution throughout the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic.
Paleoecology and behavior
Gnathorhizids are found primarily in paleosols representing ephemeral wetlands. Additionally, gnathorhizids, unlike most groups of fossil lungfish, are often found in association with regular burrow structures, suggesting that this group of lungfish may have estivated during the dry season, much like modern African and South American lungfish.
Unlike most fossil lungfish, but again, like modern South American and African lungfish, gnathorhizids have bladelike toothplates. This suggests that gnathorhizids were active predators unlike most lungfish, which feed primarily on benthic invertebrates.
References
- Berman, D. S., 1976, Cranial morphology of the Lower Permian lungfish Gnathorhiza (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi): Journal of Paleontology, v. 50(6), p.1020-1033.
- Cunningham, C. R. and Dickson, E. D III, 1996, Distributions of Kansas Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate assemblages as a function of wet and dry seasons: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, v. 99(1-2), p. 16-28.
- Huttenlocker, A.K. et al., 2005, An earliest Permian nonmarine vertebrate assemblage from the Eskridge ormation, Nebraska:
- Lucas, S.G. and Zeigler, K.E., eds., 2005, The Nonmarine Permian, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 30., pp.133-143.