- Siksika ottae
Taxobox
name="Siksika ottae"
fossil_range=Carboniferous (Upper Mississippian)
regnum=Animal ia
phylum=Chordata
class=Chondrichthyes
Subclass=Euchondrocephali
ordo=Petalodontiformes
familia=?
genus="Siksika "
species="S. ottae"
binomial="Siksika ottae"
binomial_authority=Lund ,1989 "Siksika ottae" is an
extinct prehistoric cartilaginous fish , lived around 420 million years ago, during Upper Mississippian. It has been discovered at the well known "Bear Gulch Formation" (Montana ,USA ), dated atCarboniferous period .It is known mostly on the base of fossil teeth, but also partially neurocranium and mandibles which hint a close relationship to coeval petalodontiform sharksJanasssa andNetsepoye. . Dentition is generally heterodont."Siksika" means literally
Blackfoot , being named after that Native American People tribe.References
* [http://www.sju.edu/research/bear_gulch/pages_fish_species/Siksika_ottae.php "Siksika ottae"]
*"Siksika nation"
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000801 "Blackfoot (Siksika)"]
*Lund, R. 1989. "New petalodonts (Chondrichthyes) from the Upper Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone (Namurian E2b) of Montana." J. Vert. Paleo. 9:350-368.
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