Ancient nursery area for the extinct giant shark megalodon from the Miocene of Panama

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Pimiento, Catalina ^a,b,c   Ehret, Dana J ^a,b   MacFadden, Bruce J ^b,d   Hubbell, Gordon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e Jaws International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BREEDING; CARCHAROCLES MEGALODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTITION; EXTINCT SPECIES; FOSSIL ANIMAL; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MARINE MAMMAL; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PANAMA; SHARK; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOOTH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

CHONDRICHTHYES; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; SHARKS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956283293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010552     Document Type: Article

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