Reassessment of a large lamniform shark from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) of Italy

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Larocca Conte, Gabriele, Fanti, Federico, Trevisani, Enrico, Guaschi, Paolo, Barbieri, Roberto, Bazzi, Mohamad
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Santonian Lamniformes Vertebral centra Italy Scaglia Rossa Formation Upper Cretaceous Body size estimation; Rossa; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11585/683267; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.02.011

To date, only a few partially articulated chondrichthyan specimens are known from the Upper Cretaceous marine fossil record of northern Italy. Here, we re-evaluate the taxonomic status and geological age of selachian remains originally discovered during the 19th century from the Castellavazzo locali...