Special Thanks
When I began my exploration of fossil sharks, I knew next-to-nothing about them. To my delight, I have found that professional shark paleontologists and amateur fossil shark tooth collectors have been uniformly kind and generous in sharing their hard-earned expertise with me. While I assume full responsibility for any errors of fact or interpretation that have survived these experts' attempts at expunging them from my work, I would like to put on record my grateful thanks to the following individuals who were extremely helpful in assembling Explorations in Shark Evolution.
- Per Erik Ahlberg, British Museum of Natural History
- Shelton P. Applegate, Instituto de Geologia, Mexico
- Jim Bourdon, fossil collector and amateur paleontologist
- Henri Cappetta, Laboratoire de Plaeontologie, France
- Franco Cigala-Fulgosi, Instituto di Geologia, Italy
- Giles Cuny, University of Bristol
- Bill Heim, fossil collector and amateur paleontologist
- Gordon Hubbell, Jaws International
- Bretton Kent, University of Maryland
- John Long, Western Australian Museum
- Richard Lund, Adelphi University
- John G. Maisey, America Museum of Natural History
- Robert Nicholls, Paleocreations
- Robert W. Purdy, Smithsonian Institution
- Christopher David Reyes, Odontotyrannus@AOL.com
- Mikael Siverson, Lund University, Sweden
- J.D. Stewart, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
- David Ward, University of Kent
I should also acknowledge the wonderful paleo-recreations by artist Ray Troll, whose inspired graphic eye and marvelous sense of humor continue to be downright inspirational
Super-special thanks to my wife, Anne, who — with patience and good humor — took all my raw text and pictures and converted it into a smoothly functioning website.
To all of you, I express my admiration, appreciation and sincere thanks.
