Re: paleonet student's request

["Nikolaus Malchus" <n.malchus@xxxxxxx>]

As a non-specialist,

H. Capetta comes to mind; mainly fossil taxonomy based on teeth (what else?)

Until 1996 (incl.)
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/sharkbooks.html

gives a number of references, some with short annotations, which might be
useful.

Cheers,

Niko


> Dear all,
> 
> A student of mine will undertake a work to complete a BSc thesis
> provisionally titled: "The phylogeny of sharks, based on morphological
> data from Recent and fossil forms and on molecular data". Could anyone on
> the list suggest what good starting points are for a student to search
> literature on such a topic. The student is a biologist specialising in
> vertebrate zoology. His knowledge on geology is probably limited, but not
> much will be needed for this project. The thesis work will be mainly
> literature-based, the student (most probably) won't include new specimens
> or analysis in his thesis. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Ken.
> 
> Dr. Kenneth A. Monsch
> Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology
> University of Wroclaw
> Poland
> 

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