Siksika ottae

Siksika ottae
Temporal range: Namurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Petalodontiformes
Family: Petalodontidae
Genus: Siksika
Lund, 1989
Species:
S. ottae
Binomial name
Siksika ottae
Lund, 1989

Siksika ottae is an extinct prehistoric cartilaginous fish, lived during the Upper Mississippian. It has been discovered at the well known, Carboniferous-aged Bear Gulch Formation (Montana, United States). It is known primarily from fossil teeth, but also from partial neurocranium and mandibles which hint a close relationship to coeval petalodontiform sharks Janassa and Netsepoye. Dentition is generally heterodont.

Siksika means literally Blackfoot, being named after the Siksika Nation.

References

  • Siksika ottae
  • Blackfoot (Siksika) The Canadian Encyclopedia
  • Richard Lund (1989). "New petalodonts (Chondrichthyes) from the Upper Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone (Namurian E2b) of Montana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 9 (3): 350–368. doi:10.1080/02724634.1989.10011767. JSTOR 4523270.



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