Understanding the long-term effects of ongoing global environmental change on marine
ecosystems requires a cross-disciplinary approach. Deep-time and recent fossil records can …

The abundance of fossil sharks and other cartilaginous fishes in northern Chile is widely
known. Fossil sites such as the Bahia Inglesa Formation were affected by intense …

Aim The criteria used to define the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Red List categories are essentially based on demographic parameters at the species level …

The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (164–100 Ma) represents one of the main transitional
periods in life history. Recent studies unveiled a complex scenario in which abiotic and …

Chondrichthyans have a long evolutionary history, reaching back over 450 million years.
Despite the longevity of the chondrichthyan fossil record, it is remarkably incomplete. This …

Abstract The Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson, 1836), is
the most common small coastal requiem shark in the north-central Gulf of Mexico, USA …

Modern sharks have an evolutionary history of at least 250 million years and are known to
play key roles in marine systems, from controlling prey populations to connecting habitats …

Despite the rich fossil record of Neogene chondrichthyans (chimaeras, sharks, rays, and
skates) from Europe, little is known about the macroevolutionary processes that generated …

Aim Modern sharks are a diverse and highly threatened group playing important roles in
ecosystems. They have an abundant fossil record spanning at least 250 million years (Myr) …

Shark dermal scale (denticle) accumulation in the fossil record can provide information
about the abundance and composition of past shark communities. Denticles are shed …