Thomas Güthner's scientific contributions

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The newly collected shark and ray tooth fossils from the marine sediments of the Upper Marine Molasse close to Allerding (4.8 km SE of Schärding, Austria) allow for a review of the hitherto known diversity comprising a taxonomic update and the documentation of additional taxa. Besides ten taxa already known from the area, the following taxa were co...
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In the fossil record, sawsharks (family Pristiophoridae BLEEKER, 1859) include the genera Pristiophorus MÜLLER & HENLE, 1837, Pliotrema REGAN, 1906 and Ikamauius KEYES, 1979, which are mainly or exclusively represented by isolated lateral denticles of their saw-like rostra or less commonly (Pristiophorus) also by tiny oral teeth. We studied a large...

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... The Neogene record of the genus Mitsukurina includes two species, M. owstoni, which currently lives in the modern Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans (Compagno et al. 2005), and M. lineata (Probst 1879), known from the Miocene deposits of Europe (Leriche 1927;Cappetta 1975;Kocsis 2007;Pollerspöck et al. 2021), Ecuador (Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2020), Japan (Takakuwa 2006). The dental morphology of the two species is very similar, best distinguished by the presence (M. ...