List of works - Kenshu Shimada

100-million-year dynasty of giant planktivorous bony fishes in the Mesozoic seas

scientific article

Evolutionary pathways toward gigantism in sharks and rays

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Shark-Bitten Protostegid Turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk, Alabama

scientific article (publication date: 2004)

Anatomy and evolution of heterocercal tail in lamniform sharks

scientific article published on 4 February 2013

A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States

scholarly article by Kenshu Shimada et al published 28 August 2015 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

A new species of Bananogmius (Teleostei: Tselfatiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale of western Kansas

scientific article published in May 1999

Paleobiology of the Late Cretaceous sclerorhynchid sawfish, Ischyrhiza mira (Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes), from North America based on new anatomical data

article published in 2018

Highly specialized suspension-feeding bony fish Rhinconichthys (Actinopterygii: Pachycormiformes) from the mid-Cretaceous of the United States, England, and Japan

article

A new species ofApateodus(Teleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of Western Kansas, U.S.A.

scientific article published on 12 September 2009

Caudal fin skeleton of the Late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli, from the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas

2006 scholarly article in "Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior Pages" (the 35th Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History), on pages 185-192

Labial cartilages in the smalltooth sandtiger shark, Odontaspis ferox (lamniformes: odontaspididae) and their significance to the phylogeny of lamniform sharks

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Revisiting body size trends and nursery areas of the Neogene megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), reveals Bergmann’s rule possibly enhanced its gigantism in cooler waters

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae)

journal article from 'Palaeontologia Electronica' published in 2024

Body, jaw, and dentition lengths of macrophagous lamniform sharks, and body size evolution in Lamniformes with special reference to ‘off-the-scale’ gigantism of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon

scientific article published on 04 October 2020

Cenozoic megatooth sharks occupied extremely high trophic positions

scientific article published on 24 June 2022

Ontogenetic growth pattern of the extinct megatooth shark <i>Otodus megalodon</i>—implications for its reproductive biology, development, and life expectancy

scientific article published on 13 January 2021

Body forms of extant lamniform sharks (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes), and comments on the morphology of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, and the evolution of lamniform thermophysiology

scientific article published on 07 February 2022

The fossil record of extant elasmobranchs

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

First evidence of a palaeo-nursery area of the great white shark

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Late Cretaceous Marine Vertebrate Fauna from the Fairport Chalk Member of the Carlile Shale in Southern Ellis County, Kansas, U.S.A

Trophic position of Otodus megalodon and great white sharks through time revealed by zinc isotopes

Endothermic physiology of extinct megatooth sharks

scientific article published on 26 June 2023

List of works by Kenshu Shimada