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Body-size trends of the extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: a deep-time perspective on marine apex predators
The extinct shark Carcharocles megalodon is one of the largest marine apex predators ever to exist. Nonetheless, little is known about its body-size variations through time and space. Here, we studied the body-size trends of C. megalodon through its temporal and geographic range to better understand...
Autores principales: | Pimiento, Catalina, Balk, Meghan A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4541548/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26321775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2015.16 |
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