The Santa Elena province in Ecuador has outstanding geological potential in petroleum,
mining and geosite resources. All the wealth of palaeontological samples and their inherent …

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 …

Records of aquatic mammal fossils (eg cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, mustelids, and
desmostylians) from Latin America (Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, including Antartica) span …

The extinct “false mako” shark, Parotodus benedenii (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), is
essentially known from large, robust teeth that are widespread but overall rare in Oligocene …

The present contribution aims is to analyze the fossil record of the genus Echinorhinus in
South America, and particularly Argentina. We made a first-hand examination of the species …

For the first time, a comprehensive study of the fauna of fossil elasmobranchs from the
Miocene Duho Formation of the Pohang Basin (South Korea) is provided. A new species of …

Sharks are cartilaginous fish that appeared 245 million years ago and became a highly
diversified group, occupying several niches successfully. On the coast of Rio Grande do Sul …

Despite being one of the richest Neogene deposits of marine fossil vertebrates along the
Pacific coast of South America, no detailed study of bony fishes from the Bahía Inglesa …

Anthropogenic actions have affected marine species for a long time, through
overexploitation of natural stocks and habitat degradation, influencing the life strategies of …

Following an estimated decline of more than 50% across their global distribution, whale
sharks were downgraded to globally Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened …