Tag Archive for 'Symmoriiforme'

An artist’s reconstruction of Cosmoselachus mehlingi. Image credit: American Museum of Natural History.

Devonian Shark Fossil Found in Arkansas

Mar 26, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists from California State Polytechnic University and elsewhere has described a new genus and species of shark-like fish from the...

Ferromirum oukherbouchi reconstructed in association with invertebrates (orthocerid cephalopods and thylacocephalans) from the Devonian of Maider region, Morocco. Image credit: Frey et al., doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01394-2.

Devonian-Period Shark Had Large Eyes and Unique Jaws

Nov 20, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Morocco have found fossil fragments from a previously undescribed genus and species of symmoriiform shark that lived during the Late...