The misidentified “Cretalamna” on Wikimedia Commons

The reconstruction of Serratolamna by Dmitry Bogdanov from Ceballos-Izquierdo et al. (2021) and the "Cretalamna" fossil it was based on from Wikimedia Commons (Citron/CC BY-SA 3.0). Ceballos-Izquierdo et al. (2021) described a tooth of the otodontid shark Serratolamna serrata from the Maastrichtian Cantabria Formation of Cuba. In the graphical abstract for the paper, they used a life reconstruction of …

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