A gigantic shark from the lower cretaceous duck creek formation of Texas.
Three large lamniform shark vertebrae are described from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas. We interpret these fossils as belonging to a single individual with a calculated total body length of 6.3 m. This large individual compares favorably to another shark specimen from the roughly contemporaneous Kio...
Main Authors: | Joseph A Frederickson, Scott N Schaefer, Janessa A Doucette-Frederickson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4454486?pdf=render |
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