Figure 1.
Summary figure showing lower jaws of six chondrichthyans, and major structures discussed in the text. (a) The extant elasmobranch Isurus in medial view and with tooth series in lateral view, drawn from three-dimensional data [31]; (b) the stem-chondrichthyan Ptomacanthus in medial view reconstructed from [32] and with tooth whorl from [21]; (c) the ischnacanthid stem-chondrichthyan Erymnacanthus in medial view redrawn from [25]; (d) the acanthodid stem-chondrichthyan Acanthodes in lateral view redrawn from [33]; (e) the acanthodid stem-chondrichthyan Acanthodopsis in lateral view redrawn from [23]; (f) the diplacanthid stem-chondrichthyan Diplacanthus in medial view reconstructed from [61] and [28]. Not to scale.