Fossil sharks and rays from the Cretaceous of The Netherlands

september 28th 2007: added new links

Cretaceous / Cretaceous Sharks and Rays - Europe

9 jan 2004 Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht
Museum of Natural History of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Contains an English version

9 jan 2004 Jean Pierre Biddle's MESOZOIC ACTIVITY
Many shark- and rayteeth from the Cretaceous of France (and the adjoining area's). Very good photographs ! English text.

9 jan 2004 Candoni's Selachians
Mesozoic and Tertiairy sharks and rays from several localities in France (in French)

9 jan 2004 Ammonite.ws
Fossils of the Gault clay and Folkestone beds of Kent, UK. Some pages about sharkteeth from the lower Cretaceous of the UK .

2 jan 2005 Geologie en Mijnbouw (1983) A NEW SPECIES OF RHINOBATOS (ELASMOBRANCHII, BATOMORPHII) FROM THE UPPER MAASTRICHTIAN OF THE NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM [PDF]

2 jan 2005 UPPER CRETACEOUS SHARKS AND RAYS FROM THE PROKOP OPENCAST MINE AT BŘEZINA NEAR MORAVSKÁ TŘEBOVÁ [PDF]
Upper cretaceous sharks and rays from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic).

29 april 2005 FOSSILIEN AUS DER OBERKREIDE (KREIDE) SACHSENS (DRESDEN)
About the Saxon cretaceous bassin - NE Germany (German text).
Offers some useful documents in their download and literature sections, e.g. Wanderer, K. Die wichtigsten Tierversteinerungen aus der Kreide Sachsens. 1909. [PDF] (the last plate -12- shows cretaceous sharkteeth of Saxony) and Literaturverzeichnis aus Wanderer, K. Tierversteinerungen Sachsens. 1909. [PDF]

9 may 2005 Birkbeck ePrints (published research of Birkbeck College, University of London) provides some good papers about Cretaceous shark- and ray-fauna's of the U.K., e.g.

26 sept 2005 Johan Janssen's Johan Sharktooth
A great identification guide for (European) sharktooth-collectors - covers collecting-localities in The Netherlands and Belgium.
The South Limburg - section is about cretaceous sharkteeth from the Maastricht-area (the Netherlands). Good photographs - English text.

26 sept 2005 Pieter De Schutter's About Fossil Sharks & Rays in NW Europe
Photographs of fossil sharkteeth from different localities in NW-Europe. Albian to Maastrichtian sharkteeth in the Cretaceous - section. English text.

28 sept 2007 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica : Vol. 52 (2007) No. 1 with
New sharks and rays from the Cenomanian and Turonian of Charentes, France [PDF]

Cretaceous / Cretaceous Sharks and Rays - America

9 jan 2004 elasmo.com
big american site about fossil sharkteeth

9 jan 2004 Cretaceous Fossils: Home Page
Dedicated to Cretaceous Fossils from the U.S. and around the World,
with Cretaceous Fossils: Sharks and Rays Index

9 jan 2004 The Paleontological Society
Extensive site about all kind of fossils. Contains a section about Cretaceous sharks of Alberta/Canada (shark) and Cretaceous microsite vertebrate fossils (vs)

9 jan 2004 Oceans of Kansas Paleontology
big site about the Cretaceous of Kansas - mainly about mosasaurs and other marine reptiles, also some pages about cretaceous sharks, e.g. Sharks of Kansas, Large Sharks in the Western Interior Sea, Giant Ginsu, Ptychodus mortoni and The Ptychodontid Sharks

2 jan 2005 New Jersey Fossil Web Site
with the Big Brook web site about the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey, including a Big Brook Shark, Ray, & Skate Page .

2 jan 2005 CRETACEOUS ELASMOBRANCHS OF THE GREENHORN FORMATION (MIDDLE CENOMANIAN-MIDDLE TURONIAN), WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA

2 jan 2005 Cretaceous Fossils of Delaware
from the Delaware Geological Survey, with some pages about fossil sharks found at the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal area, e.g. Cretaceous Chondrichthyes Fossils from the C&D Canal - 1 and Cretaceous Chondrichthyes Fossils from the C&D Canal - 2

2 jan 2005 a webversion of Kansas Geological Survey, Volume V1, Cretaceous Fishes
(originally published in 1900 by the University Geological Survey of Kansas)
In additon to the web version, a facsimile version scanned into Acobat PDF is also online : text and plates

2 jan 2005 Geodiversitas 24 (4) : 785-790 Ptychodontid from Cretaceous of South America (abstract)
the full paper : A ptychodontid (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Cretaceous of South America [PDF]

2 jan 2005 Mexican magazine of Geologic Sciences : RMCG Vol. 19 No. 1 with
Schizorhiza: a unique sawfish paradigm from the Difunta Group, Coahuila, Mexico [PDF]
about a rostrum of the sclerorhynchid sawfish Schizorhiza found in the Campanian of Mexico

26 sept 2005 Revista Geológica de Chile : Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 89-103 with
Sclerorhynchid teeth (Neoselachii, Sclerorhynchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the Quiriquina Formation, central Chile

26 sept 2005 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica : Vol. 50 (2005) No. 2 with
Late Cretaceous sharks Cretoxyrhina and Cardabiodon from Montana, USA [PDF]

26 sept 2005 Birkbeck ePrints (published research of Birkbeck College, University of London) :

Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz) (Pisces, Neoselachii) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Jamaica. [PDF]

28 sep 2007 Fossils of NJ, shark teeth, Cretaceous
Dedicated to collecting and identification of the Cretaceous and Tertiairy shark teeth of Monmouth County (New Jersey).

Cretaceous Sharks and Rays - Asia

9 jan 2004 http://homepage2.nifty.com/megalodon/ / "Tooth fossil mansion of shark"
Extensive site about fossil shark- and rayteeth from locations all over the world, from Paleozoic to Pleistocene. Very good pictures, but unfortunately with Japanese text, use Babelfish for reading !
Some pages about Cretaceous sharkteeth of Kazakhstan and Japan .

9 jan 2004 The Japanese Club for Fossil Shark Tooth Research
Another Japanese site about fossil sharkteeth - text partially in Japanese ! Some pages about Cretaceous sharkteeth of Japan .

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