Are shark teeth proxies for functional traits? A framework to infer ecology from the fossil record

JA Cooper, JN Griffin, R Kindlimann… - Journal of Fish …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modern sharks have an evolutionary history of at least 250 million years and are known to
play key roles in marine systems, from controlling prey populations to connecting habitats …

[HTML][HTML] Fossil marine vertebrates (Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Akkermanovka (Orenburg Oblast, Southern Urals, Russia)

PL Jambura, SV Solonin, SLA Cooper, EV Mychko… - Cretaceous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Upper Cretaceous coastal marine deposits are widespread in the Southern Urals with a
number of marine vertebrates previously reported from this region. However, previous …

Rostral and body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe

J Türtscher, PL Jambura… - Papers in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The fossil record of chondrichthyans (chimaeras, sharks, rays and skates) consists largely of
isolated teeth, with holomorphic specimens being extraordinary exceptions. However …

Reconstruction of feeding behaviour and diet in Devonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans using dental microwear texture and finite element analyses

M Greif, I Calandra… - Royal Society …, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Devonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans reached body sizes similar to modern great white
sharks and therefore might have been apex predators of the Devonian seas. However, very …

[HTML][HTML] Observations on heterodonty within the dentition of the Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson, 1836), from the north-central Gulf …

JA Ebersole, AT Kelosky, BL Huerta-Beltrán… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Abstract The Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson, 1836), is
the most common small coastal requiem shark in the north-central Gulf of Mexico, USA …

Reply to Soldo, A.; Lipej, L. Comment on “Balàka et al. Updated Checklist of Chondrichthyan Species in Croatia (Central Mediterranean Sea). Biology 2023, 12, 952”

PF Balàka, P Ugarković, J Türtscher, J Kriwet… - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Biology | Free Full-Text | Reply to Soldo, A.; Lipej, L. Comment on “Balàka et al.
Updated Checklist of Chondrichthyan Species in Croatia (Central Mediterranean Sea). Biology …

A new assemblage of Lower Triassic neoselachians (Chondrichthyes) from the Grippia Bonebed of Spitsbergen, Norway

SM Saugen, AJ Roberts, VS Engelschiøn… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study reports the rich occurrence of a varied chondrichthyan assemblage from the
Lower Triassic of Spitsbergen based on multiple well-preserved isolated teeth. Based on …

パレオパラドキシア瑞浪釜戸標本と共産した板鰓類化石

髙桒祐司 - 瑞浪市化石博物館研究報告, 2024 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 Total 124 elasmobranch teeth were co-occurred with “Paleoparadoxiid Mizunami-
Kamado specimen”. Ninety-seven specimens were identified with Galeocerdo aduncus, and …

The Priabonian fish from Leghia (Transylvanian Basin, Romania)

N Trif, VA Codrea, G Pleș, M Bordeianu - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A fish fauna originating from a limestone level of the Palaeogene sedimentary
succession exposed on the northwestern side of the Transylvanian Basin (Gilău …

Integration of multi-level dental diversity links macro-evolutionary patterns to ecological strategies across sharks.

R Zimm, V Tobias-Santos, N Goudemand - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Sharks are notorious for their exceptional dental diversity, which is frequently used as a
proxy for ecological function. However, functional inferences from morphology need to …