[Papers in Palaeontology, 2017, pp. 1–41] A NEW CHONDRICHTHYAN FAUNA FROM THE LATE JURASSIC OF THE SWISS JURA (KIMMERIDGIAN) DOMINATED BY HYBODONTS, CHIMAEROIDS AND GUITARFISHES by LEA LEUZINGER1,5 ,GILLESCUNY2, EVGENY POPOV3,4 and JEAN-PAUL BILLON-BRUYAT1 1Section d’archeologie et paleontologie, Office de la culture, Republique et Canton du Jura, Hotel^ des Halles, 2900, Porrentruy, Switzerland 2LGLTPE, UMR CNRS ENS 5276, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 2 rue Rapha€el Dubois, F-69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France 3Department of Historical Geology & Paleontology, Saratov State University, 83 Astrakhanskaya Str., 410012, Saratov, Russia 4Institute of Geology & Petroleum Technology, Kazan Federal University, Kremlevskaya Str. 4/5, 420008, Kazan, Russia 5Current address: Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientıficas y Transferencia Tecnologica de La Rioja (CRILAR), Provincia de La Rioja, UNLAR, SEGEMAR, UNCa, CONICET, Entre Rıos y Mendoza s/n, (5301) Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina;
[email protected] Typescript received 27 November 2016; accepted in revised form 4 June 2017 Abstract: The fossil record of chondrichthyans (sharks, Jurassic, modern neoselachian sharks had overtaken hybo- rays and chimaeroids) principally consists of isolated teeth, donts in European marine realms, the latter being gradually spines and dermal denticles, their cartilaginous skeleton confined to brackish or freshwater environments. However, being rarely preserved. Several Late Jurassic chondrichthyan while the associated fauna of the Porrentruy platform indi- assemblages have been studied in Europe based on large bulk cates marine conditions, neoselachian sharks are surprisingly samples, mainly in England, France, Germany and Spain. rare. The chondrichthyan assemblage is largely dominated by The first study of this kind in Switzerland is based on con- hybodonts, guitarfishes (rays) and chimaeroids that are all trolled excavations in Kimmeridgian deposits related to the known to be euryhaline.