An explainable Convolutional Neural Network approach to fossil shark tooth identification. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 63, in press
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Quaternary records of Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in Tuscany (central Italy): implications for the palaeobiology of Mediterranean white sharks. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 309(1), 65–76
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The Palaeobiology of the False Mako Shark, Parotodus benedenii (Le Hon, 1871): A View from the Pliocene Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11(10), Article 1990
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The Deep Past of the White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in the Mediterranean Sea: A Synthesis of Its Palaeobiology and Palaeoecology. Life, 13, Article 2085
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Re-discovery of bramble shark dermal denticles in the marine Pliocene of Italy. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 310(1), 25–32
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Erratum: Merella, M., Collareta, A., Casati, S., Di Cencio, A. & Bianucci, G. (2021): An unexpected deadly meeting: deep- water (hexanchid) shark bite marks on a sirenian skeleton from Pliocene shoreface deposits of Tuscany (Italy). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 301 (3): 295–305. doi: 10.1127/njgpa/2021/1012 Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 303(2), 239–241
Smoking guns for cold cases: the find of a Carcharhinus tooth piercing a fossil cetacean rib, with notes on the feeding ecology of some Mediterranean Pliocene requiem sharks. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 305(2), 145–152
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Remarkable multicuspid teeth in a new elusive skate (Chondrichthyes, Rajiformes) from the Mediterranean Pliocene. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 95, 117–128
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First fossils of the extant blacktip shark Carcharhinus limbatus from Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 301(1), 109–118
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A cetotheriid whale from the upper Miocene of the Mediterranean. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 301(1), 9–16
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Another thermophilic "Miocene survivor" from the Italian Pliocene: A geologically young occurrence of the pelagic eagle ray Aetobatus in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Carnets de Géologie, 21(10), 203–214
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An unexpected deadly meeting: deep-water (hexanchid) shark bite marks on a sirenian skeleton from Pliocene shoreface deposits of Tuscany (Italy). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 301(3), 295–305
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The extinct catshark Pachyscyllium distans (Probst, 1879) (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes) in the Pliocene of the Mediterranean Sea. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 295(2), 129–139
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Did titanic stingrays wander the Pliocene Mediterranean Sea? Some notes on a giant-sized myliobatoid stinger from the Piacenzian of Italy. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 298(2), 155–164
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Ginglymostomatid-like multicuspid teeth in an elusive rajid skate from the Tuscan Pliocene [Abstract]. In 64th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, 16–18 December 2020, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Programme and Abstracts: 63
The porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes), from the late Pliocene of the central Mediterranean Basin. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 287(3), 307–316
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The Pliocene elasmobranch collection at the Palaeontological Exhibition of G.A.M.P.S. (Badia a Settimo, Tuscany, Italy). Poster Abstract 1st Virtual Congress of Palaeontology "A new way to make Science", 01-15 December 2018, Web.
First record of the knifetooth sawfish Anoxypristis (Elasmobranchii: Rhinopristiformes) from the Pliocene of Tuscany (central Italy). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 284(3), 289–297
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