Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct Giant Shark Megalodon from the Miocene of Panama

Catalina Pimiento; Dana J. Ehret; Bruce J. MacFadden; Gordon Hubbell

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010552

Loading metrics

Open Access

Peer-reviewed

Research Article

Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct Giant Shark Megalodon from the Miocene of Panama

Catalina Pimiento ,

* E-mail: pimientoc@ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Center of Paleoecology and Archaeology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Republic of Panama
⨯
Dana J. Ehret,

Affiliations Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
⨯
Bruce J. MacFadden,

Affiliations Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Research on Learning (DRL), Education and Human Resources (EHR), National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America
⨯
Gordon Hubbell

Affiliation Jaws International, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
⨯

Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct Giant Shark Megalodon from the Miocene of Panama

Catalina Pimiento,
Dana J. Ehret,
Bruce J. MacFadden,
Gordon Hubbell

Published: May 10, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010552

Reader Comments

Post a new comment on this article

Media coverage of article

Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 14 Sep 2011 at 23:23 GMT

The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: Live Science
Title: “Ancient Nursery of Giant, Extinct Sharks Found | LiveScience”
http://www.livescience.co...

Publication: MSNBC
Title: “Unearthed shark nursery could be oldest ever - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

If you see any additional coverage of this paper in the press or blogosphere, please reply to this thread and add the link to the article.

Competing interests declared: PLoS ONE Staff

Subject Areas
?

For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here.
We want your feedback. Do these Subject Areas make sense for this article? Click the target next to the incorrect Subject Area and let us know. Thanks for your help!

Sharks
Is the Subject Area "Sharks" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Dentition
Is the Subject Area "Dentition" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Teeth
Is the Subject Area "Teeth" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Miocene epoch
Is the Subject Area "Miocene epoch" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Paleobiology
Is the Subject Area "Paleobiology" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Paleozoology
Is the Subject Area "Paleozoology" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Marine fossils
Is the Subject Area "Marine fossils" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Fossils
Is the Subject Area "Fossils" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.

Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct Giant Shark Megalodon from the Miocene of Panama

Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct Giant Shark Megalodon from the Miocene of Panama

Reader Comments

Post Your Discussion Comment

Why should this posting be reviewed?

Thank You!

Media coverage of article

Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 14 Sep 2011 at 23:23 GMT