A partial rostrum of the porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Miocene of the North Sea Basin and the taxonomic importance of rostral morphology in extinct sharks

Geologica Belgica

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 61-76

  Mollen, Frederik H ^a  

^a Elasmobranch Research   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CT scans; Lamna; Lamnidae; Lamniformes; Rostral cartilages; Rostral node; Rostrum; Shark

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249086708     PISSN: 13748505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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