The first reliable record of selachians from the Neogene deposits of Sakhalin Island

M.V. Nazarkin & T.P. Malyshkina

Abstract. An isolated upper anterior shark tooth from the Early Miocene Holmsk Formation, Sakhalin Island, Russia, is identified as an Alopias close to extant Alopias superciliosus Lowe, 1841. This is the first reliable record of a fossil shark from the Sakhalin Neogene, and the most northern finding of a fossil thresher shark in Eastern Asia.
Key words: fossil sharks, Miocene, Sakhalin, Alopias

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2012, 21(1): 180-184  ▪  Published in print 25 July 2012


https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2012.21.1.180  ▪  Open full article  

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