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The First Find of the Dental Plate of the Genus Myliobatis Cuvier (Elasmobranchii: Batomorphii) in the Upper Paleocene of the Crimea

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For the first time, the almost complete upper dental plate of Myliobatis dixoni from the Thanetian (Upper Paleocene) of Crimea is described.

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  1. At present, this specimen is stored in the Chernyshev Central Scientific Geological Museum (TsNIGR), St. Petersburg (spec. TsNIGR, no. 2472).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to O.A. Lebedev and A.F. Bannikov (PIN RAS) and to A.O. Averianov (ZIN RAS) for numerous pieces of advice and remarks during preparation of this manuscript.

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Trikolidi, F.A., Novikov, I.V. The First Find of the Dental Plate of the Genus Myliobatis Cuvier (Elasmobranchii: Batomorphii) in the Upper Paleocene of the Crimea. Paleontol. J. 54, 166–170 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030120020148

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