Category:Cretaceous sharks - Wikipedia
WEBPages in category "Cretaceous sharks". The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Cretoxyrhina - Wikipedia
WEBCretoxyrhina (/ krɪˌtɒksiˈrhaɪnə /; meaning 'Cretaceous sharp-nose') is an extinct genus of large mackerel shark that lived about 107 to 73 million years ago during the late Albian to late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous.
Exquisite fossils of Cretaceous shark solve mystery of how it hunted
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Exquisitely preserved fossils of a shark that thrived during the Cretaceous period appear to solve a long-standing mystery around how it hunted and where it fits into the shark evolutionary...
Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline - Natural History …
WEBShrinking sharks. At the beginning Cretaceous of Period (145 million to 66 million years ago) sharks were once again widely common and varied in the ancient seas, before experiencing their fifth mass extinction event.
Squalicorax - Wikipedia
WEBSqualicorax, commonly known as the crow shark, is a genus of extinct lamniform shark known to have lived during the Cretaceous period. The genus had a global distribution in the Late Cretaceous epoch.
When the ocean got hot, the sharks bulked up - Popular Science
WEBJul 8, 2024 · Some sharks got faster and bigger after lava-induced global warming in the Cretaceous. A giant spike in ocean temperatures about 93 million years ago may have helped sharks grow from stubby...
Fossil of an ancient shark that swam in the age of dinosaurs solves ...
WEBJul 15, 2024 · An almost complete skeleton of a Cretaceous shark has been uncovered in Mexico. The find sheds light on what the prehistoric relative of the great white looked like.
Marine predators from the Cretaceous - Western Australian …
WEBlamniform sharks were the main predators in most shallow marine environments during the Cretaceous. As sharks have a cartilaginous skeleton that does not fossilise as well as bone, palaeontologists study these extinct creatures primarily by …
Cretoxyrhina Mantelli - National Geographic
WEBCretoxyrhina was one of the largest sharks and a formidable predator in the Late Cretaceous seas. Nicknamed the Ginsu shark after the kitchen knife that slices and dices, Cretoxyrhina ripped...
Planktivorous sharks - cretaceous convergence with modern …
WEBMar 19, 2021 · Modern sharks occupy marine ecosystems across the world but display little morphological diversity, being mostly streamlined predators. Vullo et al. describe a new species of shark from the late Cretaceous that shows that the lack of current variation is not due to limited morphological “exploration” in the past.
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