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 | New chimaeriform taxa from the Albian-Cenomanian of Russia (in the vicinity of the town of Gubkin) and the Oligocene of Kazakhstan are described below. |
| Tooth plates of chimaeriforms Callorhynchidae (1-4) and Rhinochimaeridae (5-7) from the Upper Albian-Cenomanian of the Belgorod Region, Russia. |
| Chimaeriform tooth plates of the families Rhinochimaeridae (1, 2), Edaphodontidae (3) and Chimaeridae (4, 5) from the Upper Albian-Cenomanian of the Belgorod Region, Russia (1, 2, 4, 5) and the Oligocene of the Aktyubinsk Region, Kazakhstan (3). |
| Palaeos Vertebrates 70.500 Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes (600 words) |
| Chimaeriformes (Chordata, Chondrichthyes); Chimaeriformes; temp; COURTENAY MUSEUM:Animal Classification; The American Elasmobranch Society Hompage; CHIMAERA Bibliography (surprisingly useless); The American Elasmobranch Society Hompage; Dulvey, N. |
| In any case, yet a third school asserts that the pharyngohyal has been misidentified and that the chimaeroid first branchial arch is fully equivalent to the hyoid of sharks [C88]. |
| In this regard, we may note that -- whatever chimaeroids may be -- all chimaeriforms show a remarkable amount of novelty and creativity in the development of labial or "premandibular" cartilages. |
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