Mikael Siversson

Mikael Siversson , also spelled Mikael Siverson (spelling was changed by the author from 2015 onwards), Swedish-born paleontologist working in Australia.

• Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, WA 6106, Australia.
• E-mail: mikael.siversson@museum.wa.gov.au

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 22 taxon names authored by Mikael Siversson

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1995

• Siverson, M. 1995. Revision of Cretorectolobus (Neoselachii) and description of Cederstroemia n. gen., a Cretaceous carpet shark (Orectolobiformes) with a cutting dentition. Journal of Paleontology 69(5): 974–979, 3 fig. Reference page. 

1996

• Siverson, M. 1996. Lamniform sharks of the mid-Cretaceous Alinga Formation and Beedagong Claystone, Western Australia. Palaeontology 39: 813–849. Reference page. 

1999

• Siverson, M. 1999. A new large lamniform shark from the uppermost Gearle Siltstone (Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous) of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 90: 49–66, 11 fig., 1 tabl. DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300002509 Reference page. 

2015

• Siversson, M., Lindgren, J., Newbrey, M.G., Cederström, P. & Cook, T.D. 2015. Cenomanian-Campanian (Late Cretaceous) mid-palaeolatitude sharks of Cretalamna appendiculata type. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(2): 339–384. DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0137 [Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Shimada, K., Popov, E.V., Siversson, M., Welton, B.J. & Long, D.J. 2015. A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5): e981335. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.981335 Reference page. 
• Newbrey, M.G., Siverson, M., Cook, T.D., Fotheringham, A.M. & Sanchez, R.L. 2015. Vertebral morphology, dentition, age, growth, and ecology of the large lamniform shark Cardabiodon ricki. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(4): 877–897. DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0047 Reference page. 

2016

• Siversson, M., Cook, T.D., Cederström, P. & Ryan, H.E. 2016. Early Campanian (Late Cretaceous) squatiniform and synechodontiform selachians from the Åsen locality, Kristianstad Basin, Sweden. In Kear, B.P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J.H., Milàn, J. & Vajda, V. (eds). Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. The Geological Society of London. DOI: 10.1144/SP434.9Reference page. 

2024

• Sternes, P.C., Jambura, P.L., Türtscher, J., Kriwet, J., Siversson, M., Feichtinger, I., Naylor G.J.P., Summers, A.P., Maisey, J.G., Tomita, T., moyer, J.K., higham, T.E., João Paulo Capretz Batista da Silva, Bornatowski, H., Long, D.L., Perez, V.J., Collareta, A., Underwood, C., Ward, D.J., Vullo, R., González-Barba, G., Maisch, H.M., Griffiths, M.L., Becker, M.A., Wood, J.J. & Shimada, K. 2024. White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) Palaeontologia Electronica 27(1): 27.1.a7. DOI: 10.26879/1345 . Reference page. 

2025

• Shimada, K., Motani, R., Wood, J.J., Sternes, P.C., Tomita, T., Bazzi, M., Collareta, A., Gayford, J.H., Türtscher, J., Jambura, P.L., Kriwet, J., Vullo, R., Long, D.J., Summers, A.P., Maisey, J.G., Underwood, C.J., Ward D.J., Maisch, H.M., Perez, V.J., Feichtinger, I., Naylor, G.J.P., Moyer, J.K., Higham, T.E., Silva, J.P.C.B. Da, Bornatowski, H., González-Barba, G., Griffiths, M.L., Becker, M.A. & Siversson, M. 2025. Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), and new evolutionary insights into its gigantism, life history strategies, ecology, and extinction. Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): 28.1.a12. DOI: 10.26879/1502 . Reference page.