The biology of extinct and extant sawfish (Batoidea: Sclerorhynchidae and Pristidae)

BE Wueringer, L Squire, SP Collin - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Sclerorhynchids (extinct sawfishes, Batoidea), pristids (extant sawfish, Batoidea)
and pristiophorids (sawsharks, Squalomorphi) are the three elasmobranch families that …

Diversification of the Neoselachii (Chondrichthyes) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous

CJ Underwood - Paleobiology, 2006 - cambridge.org
The Neoselachii are a monophyletic group including all of the extant sharks and rays. They
underwent rapid diversification throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous, going from low …

Freshwater stingrays of the Green River Formation of Wyoming (Early Eocene), with the description of a new genus and species and an analysis of its phylogenetic …

MR De Carvalho, JG Maisey, L Grande - Bulletin of the American Museum …, 2004 - BioOne
Freshwater stingrays from the Fossil Butte Member of the late early Eocene Green River
Formation of Wyoming are reviewed, and a new genus and species of fossil stingray is …

Pterosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Morocco

P Wellnhofer, E Buffetaut - Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 1999 - Springer
New pterosaur remains consisting of jaw fragments of toothless taxa and isolated teeth are
described from the red beds of the Kern Kern region of southern Morocco. The stratigraphic …

Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada

CJ Underwood, SL Cumbaa - Palaeontology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Fossil marine vertebrates from the lowermost Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous: middle Cenomanian) in southeastern Colorado

K Shimada, BA Schumacher, JA Parkin… - Journal of …, 2006 - BioOne
Fossiliferous deposits of the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous) are found on the
Comanche National Grassland in southeastern Colorado. The lowest portion of the …

The status of the shark genus Lissodus Brough, 1935, and the position of nominal Lissodus species within the Hybodontoidea (Selachii)

J Rees, CJ Underwood - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The hybodont form genus Lissodus is taken under revision and found to comprise a number
of lineages. Twelve species, stratigraphically extended from the Scythian, Lower Triassic to …

Mid-Cenomanian vertebrate faunas of the Western Interior Seaway of North America and their evolutionary, paleobiogeographical, and paleoecological implications

SL Cumbaa, K Shimada, TD Cook - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Western Interior Seaway (WIS) was an epicontinental sea that extended north–south
through the middle of North America during the last half of the Cretaceous, linking the Tethys …

Evolutionary history of the devilrays (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) from fossil and morphological inference

S Adnet, H Cappetta, G Guinot… - Zoological Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The exact affinities of the fossil teeth attributed to the devilrays (mobulids) are critical for
resolving the debated origin of these giant pelagic rays amongst Myliobatiformes and the …

Crossing the boundary: an elasmobranch fauna from S tevns K lint, D enmark

JS Adolfssen, DJ Ward - Palaeontology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The chondrichthyan faunas from the D anish M aastrichtian chalk and the K/T boundary clay,
the F iskeler, are described for the first time. The rich and diverse fauna discovered in the …