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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...

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Autores principales: Frederickson, Joseph A., Schaefer, Scott N., Doucette-Frederickson, Janessa A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4454486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26039066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127162