A NEOSELACHIAN SHARK FROM THE NON-MARINE WESSEX FORMATION (WEALDEN GROUP: EARLY CRETACEOUS, BARREMIAN) OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT, SOUTHERN ENGLAND |
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| Authors: | STEVEN C. SWEETMAN, CHARLIE J. UNDERWOOD&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK;e-mail:; School of Earth Sciences, Birbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK;e-mail: |
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| Abstract: | Abstract: Bulk screening of Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation strata exposed on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, southern England, has resulted in the recovery of neoselachian shark teeth referred to the scyliorhinid Palaeoscyllium . These are the first neoselachian remains from the British Wealden Group and represent the geologically oldest neoselachian yet recovered from a freshwater deposit. This is also the only known example of a non-marine occurrence of a member of the Scyliorhinidae. |
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| Keywords: | Britain Cretaceous Neoselachii Palaeoscyllium shark Wealden |
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