Take your knowledge of fishes to the next level Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is the only
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Abstract Sclerorhynchids (extinct sawfishes, Batoidea), pristids (extant sawfish, Batoidea)
and pristiophorids (sawsharks, Squalomorphi) are the three elasmobranch families that …

Skates, rays and allies (Batoidea) comprise more than half of the species diversity and much
of the morphological disparity among chondrichthyan fishes, the sister group to all other …

The Subclass Elasmobranchii is widely considered nowadays to be the sister group of the
Subclass Holocephali, although chimaeroid fishes were originally classified as …

Sawfishes are among the most endangered of all elasmobranch species, a factor fostering
considerable worldwide interest in the conservation of these animals. However …

Chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays, and ratfishes) comprise one of only two surviving
lineages of jawed vertebrates, or gnathostomes (Carroll, 1988). Their sister group …

Fossiliferous deposits of the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous) are found on the
Comanche National Grassland in southeastern Colorado. The lowest portion of the …

The record and taxonomy of Late Jurassic selachians from southern Germany is reviewed
and discussed. The conservation lagerstätten of Nusplingen and the Solnhofen area are …

The Late Jurassic elasmobranch Protospinax annectans is often regarded as a key species
to our understanding of crown group elasmobranch interrelationships and the evolutionary …

An epicontinental sea bisected West Africa periodically from the Late Cretaceous to the early
Eocene, in dramatic contrast to the current Sahara Desert that dominates the same region …