Systematic fish fossil studies are scarce in the tropical West Pacific, which hinders our
understanding of historical processes that resulted in the modern fish fauna in the region. To …

The Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA) today exhibits the highest marine biodiversity, which
has been evolving since the early Miocene. The existence of this high palaeobiodiversity is …

Elasmobranchii are relatively well-studied. However, numerous phylogenetic uncertainties
about their relationships remain. Here, we revisit the phylogenetic evidence based on a …

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

Here we describe a new bony fish assemblage collected from a fossiliferous outcrop located
in Perarolo, Berici Hills, Venetian southern Alps. The fossiliferous deposits pertain to the …

Bulk sampling of an indurated glauconic sandstone horizon from Djebel el Kébar, Central
Tunisia, yielded a moderately diversified assemblage of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) …

In the last few years, the detailed revision of the Eocene cartilaginous fishes
(Chondrichthyes) from the Bolca Lagerstätte (Italy) has provided new insights into the fish …

The Eocene whiptail stingrays of the family Dasyatidae from the Bolca Lagerstätte, NE Italy,
are revised herein in detail. The analysis of the anatomical and morphometric features …

A new fossil skate, Ostarriraja parva gen. et sp. nov., represented by a single partial
articulated skeleton collected from the early Miocene fish-bearing strata of Upper Austria, is …

Here, a fossil egg case that contains a well-preserved embryo is described. The embryo is
characterised by (i) a rostral cartilage,(ii) some ribs,(iii) and a well-developed stinger;(iv) …