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14-07-2012, 21:47   #1
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Smallest shark in the fossil record found in Spain

Again, in Las Hoyas! It is only 4.5 cms long, was a juvenile but not a baby, and lived in fresh water!
It has been nicknamed "Pablito" and is half the size of a newly born Etmopterus, the smallest modern day shark. The fossil is also extraordinary because it's complete- shark fossils usually consist on teeth, perhaps vertebrae only, but this one was fossilized whole, with muscle and even skin preserved.
It has been identified as a Lonchidion, a kind of hybdodontid that was common during the Cretaceous.

http://www.abc.es/20120714/ciencia/a...207141232.html

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17-07-2012, 14:30   #2
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That's amazing. Is there any way of telling if it is fully grown?
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That's amazing. Is there any way of telling if it is fully grown?
I guess there is, because they say it was a juvenile (but not a baby), but they don´t specify how exactly they know.
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