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Aquilolamna, the Glossary

Aquilolamna is an extinct genus of shark-like elasmobranch from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian)-aged Agua Nueva Formation of Mexico.^[1]

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Late Cretaceous fish of North America
Prehistoric Lamniformes

Affinity (taxonomy)

Affinity (taxonomy) – mainly in life sciences or natural history – refers to resemblance suggesting a common descent, phylogenetic relationship, or type.

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Agua Nueva Formation

The Agua Nueva Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico. Aquilolamna and Agua Nueva Formation are Cretaceous Mexico.

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Ammonoidea

Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.

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Araripichthys is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived from the Aptian to Coniacian stages of the Cretaceous period. Aquilolamna and Araripichthys are Cretaceous Mexico and Fossils of Mexico.

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Batoidea

Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays.

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Biofilm

A biofilm is a syntrophic community of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Continental shelf

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.

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Cretoxyrhina

Cretoxyrhina (meaning 'Cretaceous sharp-nose') is an extinct genus of large mackerel shark that lived about 107 to 73 million years ago during the late Albian to late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous. Aquilolamna and Cretoxyrhina are Cretaceous sharks and late Cretaceous fish of North America.

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Crossognathiformes

Crossognathiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Eocene.

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Eagle ray

The eagle rays are a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.

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Ecological niche

In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.

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Elasmobranchii

Elasmobranchii is a subclass of Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fish, including modern sharks (superorder Selachii), rays, skates, and sawfish (superorder Batoidea).

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Filter feeder

Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.

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Fish fin

Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.

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Fish measurement

Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Goulmimichthys

Goulmimichthys is an extinct genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Pachyrhizodontidae. Aquilolamna and Goulmimichthys are Cretaceous Mexico, Fossils of Mexico and late Cretaceous fish of North America.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Ichthyodectiformes

Ichthyodectiformes is an extinct order of marine stem-teleost ray-finned fish.

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Incertae sedis

of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, National Institute of Anthropology and History) is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico.

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Lamniformes

The Lamniformes (from Greek lamna "fish of prey") are an order of sharks commonly known as mackerel sharks (which may also refer specifically to the family Lamnidae).

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Manta ray

Manta rays are large rays belonging to the genus Mobula (formerly its own genus Manta).

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Marine reptile

Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment.

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Mauricio Fernández Garza

Mauricio Fernández Garza (born April 2, 1950 in Monterrey) is a Mexican politician, businessman and collector directly related to the Fernández Ruiloba wealthy and prominent family; owners of PYOSA (Pigmentos Y Oxidos SA).

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Mauriciosaurus

Mauriciosaurus (meaning "Mauricio reptile") is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. Aquilolamna and Mauriciosaurus are Cretaceous Mexico and Fossils of Mexico.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Million years ago

Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.

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Nuevo León

Nuevo León (English: New León), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León) is a state in northeastern Mexico.

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Ocean acidification

Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's ocean.

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Osteichthyes

Osteichthyes, also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.

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Pelagic zone

The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.

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Planktivore

A planktivore is an aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food, including zooplankton and phytoplankton.

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Plankton

Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in water (or air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against currents (or wind).

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Polycotylidae

Polycotylidae is a family of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous, a sister group to Leptocleididae.

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Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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