Caught in the act: Trophic interactions between a 4-million-year-old white shark (Carcharodon) and mysticete whale from Peru

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 329-333

  Ehret, Dana J ^a   MacFadden, Bruce J ^a   Salas Gismondi, Rodolfo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOBIOLOGY; PLIOCENE; PRESERVATION; SHARK; TOOTH; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TYPE SECTION; TYPE SPECIMEN; WHALE;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

CARCHARODON; CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS; CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 67650703824     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-077r     Document Type: Article

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