“Excellent... Those who are interested in vertebrate paleontology or in the scientific history of
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Abstract The Australian Mesozoic fish fauna is considered to be depauperate in comparison
with fish faunas in the Northern Hemisphere. However, due to its geographical location as a …

Acid preparation of samples of a bonebed from the Cenomanian of central Canada yielded
several thousand well‐preserved chondrichthyan teeth, in addition to numerous other …

Sharks are iconic predators in today's oceans, yet their modern diversity has ancient origins.
In particular, present hypotheses suggest that a combination of mass extinction, global …

Otodontids include some of the largest macropredatory sharks that ever lived, the most
extreme case being Otodus (Megaselachus) megalodon. The reasons underlying their …

The type species of the extinct lamniform genus Cretalamna, C. appendiculata, has been
assigned a 50 Ma range (Albian—Ypresian) by a majority of previous authors. Analysis of a …

Vertebrate fossils have been known from South India's Cauvery Basin since the 1840s, but
records of marine vertebrates from the late Albian to Turonian Karai Formation have been …

Cretalamna (= Cretolamna) appendiculata is an extinct lamniform shark primarily known by
isolated teeth and traditionally classified into Cretoxyrhinidae. Here, a partial skeleton of C …

Abstract During the Cenomanian–Turonian transition (∼ 94 Ma), what is today Central
Russia formed part of the northern epicontinental margin of the Tethys Ocean. Diverse …

Reported here is the first collective description of a marine vertebrate assemblage from the
Codell Sandstone Member (middle Turonian) of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in …