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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Paleontological Journal</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Paleontological Journal</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Палеонтологический журнал</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0031-031X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-5871</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">681238</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/S0031031X24040066</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">SDZDZT</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">An Exceptionally Large Lower Jaw of Lytoceratoidea from the Upper Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of Northern Caucasus</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Необычайно крупная верхняя челюсть Lytoceratoidea из верхнего байоса (средняя юра) Северного Кавказа</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Mitta</surname><given-names>V. V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Митта</surname><given-names>В. В.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>mitta@paleo.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Mironenko</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мироненко</surname><given-names>А. А.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>paleometro@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Палеонтологический институт им. А.А. Борисяка РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Cherepovets State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Череповецкий государственный университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff3"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Геологический институт РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-12-12" publication-format="electronic"><day>12</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><fpage>65</fpage><lpage>73</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-05-29"><day>29</day><month>05</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0031-031X/article/view/681238">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0031-031X/article/view/681238</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>A large-sized upper jaw of an ammonite from the<italic> Niortense </italic>Zone of the Upper Bajocian of the Kuban basin (Karachay-Cherkessia) is described. In its anterior part it has a pointed calcified structure (rhyncholite). Judging by its shape and size, the upper jaw belonged to a species of the genus <italic>Lytoceras</italic> (family Lytoceratidae), the lower jaw of which was already described from the same area immediately below in the section. The presence of a rhyncholite allows us to attribute the new finding to the rhynchaptychus type of ammonoid jaw apparatus. This is the earliest known complete jaw of this type and, to date, the only known upper jaw of Lytoceratina. Probably, calcification of the anterior part of the jaw apparatus of ammonoids of the suborders Lytoceratina and Phylloceratina was a normal process occurring as the mollusk matured.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Описывается крупноразмерная верхняя челюсть аммонита из зоны Niortense верхнего байоса бассейна Кубани (Карачаево-Черкесия). В ее передней части располагается заостренная обызвествленная структура (ринхолит). Судя по форме и размерам, челюсть принадлежала виду рода Lytoceras (сем. Lytoceratidae), чья нижняя челюсть была уже описана из этой местности непосредственно ниже по разрезу. Наличие ринхолита позволяет отнести новую находку к ринхаптиховому типу челюстного аппарата аммоноидей. Это самая древняя находка целой челюсти такого типа и к настоящему времени единственная известная верхняя челюсть, вполне определенно принадлежавшая представителю литоцератин. Вероятно, обызвествление передней части челюстного аппарата аммоноидей подотрядов Lytoceratina и Phylloceratina являлось нормальным процессом, происходившим по мере взросления моллюска.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Ammonoidea</kwd><kwd>Lytoceras</kwd><kwd>jaws</kwd><kwd>anaptychi</kwd><kwd>rhynchaptychi</kwd><kwd>Middle Jurassic</kwd><kwd>Upper Bajocian</kwd><kwd>Kuban River</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>аммониты</kwd><kwd>Lytoceras</kwd><kwd>челюсти</kwd><kwd>анаптихи</kwd><kwd>ринхаптихи</kwd><kwd>средняя юра</kwd><kwd>верхний байос</kwd><kwd>бассейн Кубани</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Безносов Н.В. Юрские аммониты Северного Кавказа и Крыма. Phylloceratina и Lytoceratina. Л.: Гостоптехиздат, 1958. 118 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Комаров В.Н. Ринхолиты Горного Крыма. 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