What is an 'elasmobranch'? The impact of palaeontology in understanding elasmobranch phylogeny and evolution

JG Maisey - Journal of Fish Biology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Subclass Elasmobranchii is widely considered nowadays to be the sister group of the
Subclass Holocephali, although chimaeroid fishes were originally classified as …

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 …

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 …

Monophyly, phylogeny and systematic position of the† Synechodontiformes (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)

S Klug - Zoologica scripta, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Klug, S.(2009). Monophyly, phylogeny and systematic position of the† Synechodontiformes
(Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii).—Zoologica Scripta, 39, 37–49. Identifying the monophyly …

A synoptic review of the cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of southern Germany …

E Villalobos-Segura, S Stumpf, J Türtscher… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

Tough to digest: first record of Teleosauroidea (Thalattosuchia) in a regurgitalite from the Upper Jurassic of north‐eastern Italy

G Serafini, CM Gordon, D Foffa… - Papers in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Postcranial remains of a small teleosauroid from the Upper Jurassic of north‐eastern Italy
are described in detail. The specimen, discovered in 1980 on a slab of Rosso Ammonitico …

[PDF][PDF] Late Jurassic selachians (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from southern Germany: re-evaluation on taxonomy and diversity

J Kriwet, S Klein - Zitteliana, 2004 - epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de
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 …

Neoselachians from the Danian (early Paleocene) of Denmark

JS Adolfssen, DJ Ward - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2013 - BioOne
A diverse elasmobranch fauna was collected from the early Danian Rødvig Formation and
the early to middle Danian Stevns Klint Formation at Stevns Klint and from the middle …

A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France

G Guinot, H Cappetta, S Adnet - Cretaceous Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Bulk sampling of a Valanginian indurate limestone horizon from southern France yielded a
very high-diversity shark and ray assemblage. Thirteen new species and eight new genera …

A new Pliensbachian elasmobranch (Vertebrata, Chondrichthyes) assemblage from Europe, and its contribution to the understanding of late Early Jurassic …

S Stumpf, J Kriwet - PalZ, 2019 - Springer
Here we describe a new, previously unrecognized elasmobranch microfossil assemblage
consisting of isolated dental material from late Pliensbachian marginal marine, near-shore …