Shark tooth marks on Miocene balaenopterid cetacean bones from Argentina

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-192

  Noriega, Jorge Ignacio ^a,b   Cione, Alberto Luis ^a,c   Aceñolaza, Florencio Gilberto ^a,d  

^a CICYTTP CONICET ^*

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c Division Zoologia Vertebrados   (Argentina)

^d Biologia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Cetacea; Elasmobranchii; Miocene; Praedicnia; Predation; Scavenging

Indexed keywords

BONE; CETACEAN; MIOCENE; PREDATION; SHARK; TOOTH;

ARGENTINA;

BALAENOPTERIDAE; CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CUBITUS; ELASMOBRANCHII; ISURUS; LAMNIDAE;

EID: 35148829049     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0245-0185     Document Type: Article

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