A new Meckel’s cartilage from the Devonian Hangenberg black shale in Morocco and its position in chondrichthyan jaw morphospace

Fossil chondrichthyan remains are mostly known from their teeth, scales or fin spines only, whereas their cartilaginous endoskeletons require exceptional preservational conditions to become fossilized. While most cartilaginous remains of Famennian (Late Devonian) chondrichthyans were found in older...

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Main Authors: Merle Greif, Humberto G. Ferrón, Christian Klug
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2022-12-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/14418.pdf