Gigantic lamnoid shark vertebra from the lower cretaceous Kiowa shale of Kansas

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 522-524

  Shimada, Kenshu ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 0030832299     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022336000039536     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. APPLEGATE, S. P. 1967. A survey of shark hard parts, p. 37-67, In P. W. Gilbert, R. F. Mathewson, and D. P. Rall (eds.), Sharks, Skates, and Rays, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
2. CAPPETTA, H. 1987. Chondrichthyes II. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii, H.-P. Schultze (ed.), Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 3B. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 193 p.
3. COMPAGNO, L. J. V. 1977. Phyletic relationships of living sharks and rays. American Zoologist, 17:303-322.
4. _. 1984. FAO species catalogue. Volume 4, Sharks of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis 125, 4:1-655.
5. _. 1990. Relationships of the megamouth shark, Megachasma pe- lagios (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae), with comments on its feeding habits, p. 357-379. In H. L. Pratt, Jr., S. H. Gruber, and T. Taniuchi (eds.), Elasmobranchs as Living Resources: Advances in the Biology, Ecology, Systematics, and the Status of the Fisheries. NOAA Technical Report, 90.
6. GLUCKMAN, L. S. 1958. O tempakh evolucii lamnoidnykh akul. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 123:568-571.
7. GOTTFRIED, M. D. 1995. Miocene basking sharks (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the Chesapeake Group of Maryland and Virginia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15:443-447.
8. _, L. J. V. COMPAGNO, AND S. C. BOWMAN. 1996. Size and skeletal anatomy of the giant "megatooth" shark Carcharodon megalodon, p. 55-66. In A. P. Klimley and D. G. Ainley (eds.), Great White Sharks: The biology of Carcharodon carcharias. Academic Press, San Diego, California.
9. KOZUCH, L., AND C. FITZGERALD. 1989. A guide to identifying shark centra from southeastern archaeological sites. Southeastern Archae- ology, 8:146-157.
10. LUCAS, S. G., P. K. RESER, AND D. L. WOLBERG. 1985. Shark vertebrae from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale, northeastern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Circular, 195:21-23.
11. RIDEWOOD, W. G. 1921. On the calcification of the vertebral centra in sharks and rays. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society of London, 210:311-407.
12. RUSSELL, D. A. 1988. A check list of North American marine Cretaceous vertebrates including fresh water fishes. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Canada. Occasional Paper 4, 58p.
13. _. 1993. Vertebrates in the Cretaceous Western Interior Sea. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper, 39:665-680.
14. SCHÄFER, W. 1972. Ecology and Paleoecologly of Marine Environments. (English translation) Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 568 p.
15. SCOTT, R. W. 1970. Paleoecology and Paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous Kiowa Formation, Kansas. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, 52:1-94.
16. SHIMADA, K. 1993. Preliminary report on the Upper Cretaceous shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli, from western Kansas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 13(Supplement to Number 3):57A.
17. _. 1994. Paleobiology of the Late Cretaceous shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli (Lamniformes: Cretoxyrhinidae), from Kansas. Unpublished M.S. thesis, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, 169 p.
18. _. 1996. Ichthyosaur (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) vertebra from the Kiowa Shale (Lower Cretaceous: Upper Albian), Clark County, Kansas. Transactions of Kansas Academy of Science, 99:39-44.
19. SPRINGER, V. G., AND J. A. F. GARRICK. 1964. A survey of vertebral numbers in sharks. United States National Museum Proceedings, 116:73-96.
20. THOMSON, K. S., AND D. E. SIMANEK. 1977. Body form and locomotion in sharks. American Zoologist, 17:343-354.
21. WELTON, B. J., AND R. F. FARISH. 1993. The Collector's Guide to Fossil Sharks and Rays from the Cretaceous of Texas. Before Time, Lewisville, Texas, 204 p.