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Chondrichthyans from the Spanish Triassic (westernmost Tethys) with remarks on the evolution of enameloid

2020

The Triassic sediments of the Iberian Peninsula has been the focus of Geological and Paleontological studies for more than a century and the stratigraphic sequence and the invertebrate assemblages are well established for a number of different basin. However, works focused on chondrichthyans faunas were nonexistent until recently. As a consequence, it has been long time assumed that chondrichthyans were very scarce (or inexistent) in the coastal environments of the current Iberian Peninsula during Triassic times. This view changed at the beginning of the last decade, with the studies of paleontologist from the department of Geology of the University of Valencia (Dra. Márquez-Aliaga, Dr. Héc…