Kenshu Shimada, Martin A. Becker, Michael L. Griffiths,
Extinct lamniform sharks (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes) are well represented in the late Mesozoic‒Cenozoic fossil record, yet their biology is poorly understood because they are mostly ... reveals that small body size is plesiomorphic for Lamniformes. There are four genera that included at least ... to be the evolutionary driver for gigantism in Lamniformes. However, we contend that ovoviviparous reproduction involving intrauterine cannibalism, a possible synapomorphy of Lamniformes, to be another plausible driver for the evolution ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Historical Biology
Nicholas R. Stone, Kenshu Shimada,
Lamniformes (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) is a group of sharks that consists of 15 extant species with a wide ... to conduct a new phylogenetic analysis of the Lamniformes. Our phylogenetic study strongly suggests non-monophyly of ... evolution, at least in certain species within the Lamniformes, along with likely manifestation of mosaic evolution. The ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2019 - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | Copeia
Lisa Schnetz, Cathrin Pfaff, Jürgen Kriwet,
ABSTRACT The dentition of lamniforme sharks exhibits several characters that have been used extensively to resolve the phylogenetic relationships of extant taxa, yet some uncertainties ... importance of two dental characters within the order Lamniformes, which were considered not to be phylogenetically informative, ... lamniform relationships. The dental characters suggest that (1) Lamniformes are the only modern‐level sharks exhibiting the ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2016 - Wiley | Journal of Morphology
Joseph A. Frumkin, Kenshu Shimada,
... swimming is a plesiomorphic condition in the order Lamniformes. Our work represents the most extensive comparative study ... structures, especially placoid scales, conducted so far for Lamniformes.
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2020 - Springer Science+Business Media | Zoomorphology
Romain Vullo, Guillaume Guinot, Gérard Barbe,
... headed shark is confirmed as a member of Lamniformes but is clearly not assignable to any of ... amonensis reveals a novel ecomorphological specialization within the Lamniformes, adding to the high disparity observed within this ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
William E. Bemis, Joshua K. Moyer, Mark L. Riccio,
... so-called lateral cusplets of the teeth in Lamniformes. We studied the five living species of Lamnidae ( ... as a character in previous phylogenetic analyses of Lamniformes. According to our new interpretation, among the species ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2015 - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | Copeia
Sun H. Kim, Kenshu Shimada, Cynthia K. Rigsby,
Lamniformes is a small shark group consisting of 15 extant species with remarkably diverse lifestyles and a ... through phylogenetic mapping. This study suggests that, within Lamniformes, caudal fins with a more horizontally directed curvature ... with ventrally directed hypochordal rays are apomorphic within Lamniformes. Four basic caudal fin types are recognized in ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2013 - Wiley | The Anatomical Record

Mateus Costa Soares, Marcelo R. de Carvalho,
... The superorder Galeomorph comprises the orders Heterodontiformes, Orectolobiformes, Lamniformes, and Carcharhiniformes. Recent morphological and molecular support that ... presence of a well‐defined m. levator hyomandibulae. Lamniformes and Carcharhiniformes show similar patterns in the position ... found to support the clade composed of Orectolobiformes, Lamniformes, and Carcharhiniformes, as advocated by recent phylogenetic analyses. ...
Tópico(s): Marine animal studies overview
2013 - Wiley | Journal of Morphology
... and feeding in the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) Ryan M. Kempster*, Shaun P. Collin The ... and feeding in the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae). Aquat Biol 12:33-36. https://doi. ...
Tópico(s): Marine animal studies overview
2011 - Inter-Research | Aquatic Biology
... and feeding in the megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae) Ryan M. Kempster*, Shaun P. Collin The ... and feeding in the megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae). Aquat Biol 11:225-228. https://doi. ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2010 - Inter-Research | Aquatic Biology
Alec B. M. Moore, Leonard J. V. Compagno, Ian K. Fergusson,
... of the great white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus) (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) in the Persian/Arabian Gulf (hereafter referred ...
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
2007 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Michael D. Gottfried, Joseph A. Rabarison,
... Rhinobatidae); cf. Brachyrhizodus sp. (Rajiformes, Myliobatoidea);Carcharias sp. (Lamniformes, Odontaspididae);Squalicorax kaupi and S. pristodontus (Lamniformes, Anacoracidae); and Serratolamna serrata, Cretolamna appendiculata, and C. maroccana (Lamniformes, Cretoxyrhinidae). These taxa have relatively cosmopolitan distributions at ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2001 - Elsevier BV | Cretaceous Research
Kenshu Shimada, Bruce J. Welton, Douglas J. Long,
ABSTRACT The extant megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae), is a large filter-feeding fish. We here describe a new species of Megachasma, M. applegatei, sp. nov., a putative sister species ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Kenshu Shimada, Yuta Yamaoka, Yukito Kurihara, Yuji Takakuwa, Harry M. Maisch, Martin A. Becker, Robert A. Eagle, Michael L. Griffiths,
The late Neogene megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), is mostly known for its gigantic teeth and vertebrae. Re-examination of the rock matrix surrounding a previously described associated tooth set ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Historical Biology
Phillip C. Sternes, Jake J. Wood, Kenshu Shimada,
... without fins) among the 15 extant species of Lamniformes were conducted using principal component analyses and simple ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2022 - Taylor & Francis | Historical Biology
Patrick L. Jambura, René Kindlimann, Faviel A. López‐Romero, Giuseppe Marramà, Cathrin Pfaff, Sebastian Stumpf, Julia Türtscher, Charlie J. Underwood, David J. Ward, Jürgen Kriwet,
... that † Palaeocarcharias stromeri is member of the order Lamniformes, contradicting recent interpretations and thus, dating the origin ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2019 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) is a gigantic late Neogene shark that lived nearly worldwide in tropical-temperate regions. Its gigantic teeth ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Historical Biology
Kenshu Shimada, Evgeny V. Popov, Mikael Siversson, Bruce J. Welton, Douglas J. Long,
... taphonomically abraded teeth of an odontaspidid, Johnlongia Siverson (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae). Here, we redescribe the type materials of ' ... independently at least three times in the order Lamniformes (i.e., Megachasmidae, Cetorhinidae, and Odontaspididae), and more ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Claudio Barría, Marta Coll, Joan Navarro,
... of 22 elasmobranchs (2 Carcharhiniformes, 1 Hexanchiformes, 1 Lamniformes, 3 Myliobatiformes, 6 Rajiformes, 6 Squaliformes and 3 ... mainly consume crustaceans; sharks (Carcharhiniformes, Hexanchiformes, Squaliformes and Lamniformes) prefer mixed diets composed of cephalopods, crustaceans and ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2015 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
Md Tauqeer Alam, Robert A. Petit, Timothy D. Read, Alistair D. M. Dove,
... species, four from the order Orectolobiformes, five from Lamniformes and eight from Carcharhiniformes. The nucleotide composition, number ... of the order Orectolobiformes and its closest orders Lamniformes and Carcharhiniformes, although the whale shark mitogenome had ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2014 - Elsevier BV | Gene
Roberto Carlucci, Daniela Battista, Francesca Capezzuto, Fabrizio Serena, Letizia Sión,
The presence of the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) in the central-eastern Mediterranean Sea has ...
Tópico(s): Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Italian Journal of Zoology
Ashley A. Dickerson, Kenshu Shimada, Brian K. Reilly, Cynthia K. Rigsby,
... specimen of an Upper Cretaceous shark, Cardabiodon sp. (Lamniformes: Cardabiodontidae), from Kansas. This specimen, that consists of ... which their presence is characteristic of the order Lamniformes. This shark individual is estimated to have measured ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2013 - Kansas Academy of Science | Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
E. W. Misty Paig‐Tran, Thomas Kleinteich, Adam P. Summers,
... of cartilaginous fishes have independently evolved filter feeding (Lamniformes: Megachasma and Cetorhinus, Orectolobiformes: Rhincodon, and Mobulidae: Manta ... Rhincodon typus has been described; species within the Lamniformes have simple filamentous filters, but the anatomy and ...
Tópico(s): Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
2013 - Wiley | Journal of Morphology
Frederik H. Mollen, Sabine P. Wintner, Samuel P. Iglésias, Sean R. Van Sommeran, John W.M. Jagt,
... study of rostral morphology of extant mackerel sharks (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) is presented. Based oncomputed tomography (CT) scans ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2012 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Lisa B. Whitenack, Michael D. Gottfried,
... the designation of fossil species assigned to Isurus (Lamniformes), where the status of the putative Neogene fossil ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Sylvain Adnet, Ramin Hosseinzadeh, Miguel Telles Antunes, Ausenda Cáceres Balbino, V.A. Kozlov, Henri Cappetta,
... junior synonyms. Dental morphology perfectly conforms with a Lamniforme but does not prove the current attribution to ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2009 - Elsevier BV | Journal of African Earth Sciences
Kenshu Shimada, Cynthia K. Rigsby, Sun H. Kim,
... the presence of labial cartilages is plesiomorphic in Lamniformes, affirming that their “reduction” cannot be used as ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2009 - Wiley | The Anatomical Record
Jürgen Kriwet, Stefanie Klug, José Ignacio Canudo, Gloria Cuenca‐Bescós,
Eoptolamna eccentrolopha gen. et sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from the near coastal upper Barremian Artoles Formation (Early Cretaceous) of Castellote (northwestern Spain) is described on the basis of about 50 isolated ... Leptostyrax. The Eoptolamnidae represent an ancient family within Lamniformes. The origin of lamniform sharks remains, however, ambiguous ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2008 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
... 2006, recorded seven species of lamnoid sharks (order Lamniformes) belonging to four families. Of these, Alopiidae were ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2007 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
(2007). Mesozoic origin for megamouth shark (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 512-516.
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology