A Palaeozoic shark with osteichthyan-like branchial arches

Alan Pradel (), John G. Maisey (), Paul Tafforeau, Royal H. Mapes and Jon Mallatt
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Alan Pradel: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA
John G. Maisey: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA
Paul Tafforeau: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, BP 220, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
Royal H. Mapes: Ohio University
Jon Mallatt: School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University

Nature, 2014, vol. 509, issue 7502, 608-611

Abstract: A description of the gill skeleton of a very early fossil shark-like fish shows that it bears more resemblance to gill skeletons from bony fishes rather than to those from modern cartilaginous fishes, suggesting that modern sharks are not anatomically primitive, as previously thought.

Date: 2014
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