Hotspots of tropical marine biodiversity are areas that harbour disproportionately large
numbers of species compared to surrounding regions. The richness and location of these …

Inferring the size of extinct animals is fraught with danger, especially when they were much
larger than their modern relatives. Such extrapolations are particularly risky when allometry …

Carcharocles megalodon (“Megalodon”) is the largest shark that ever lived. Based on its
distribution, dental morphology, and associated fauna, it has been suggested that this …

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 …

Aim Given its catastrophic consequences, the extinction of apex predators has long been of
interest to modern ecology. Despite major declines, no present‐day species of marine apex …

The teeth of two megatooth macro-predatory shark species (Carcharocles chubutensis and
Carcharocles megalodon; Otodontidae, Chondrichthyes) occur within the Miocene …

A newly discovered elasmobranch assemblage from the fossil-bearing area of Zamaca
(Chilcatay Formation, southern Peru) is described herein, providing a first comprehensive …

The Cantaure Formation (Burdigalian to? early Langhian) is located in the Falcón Basin,
North Western Venezuela, and includes one of the most diverse Neogene teleostean and …

The new late Miocene elasmobranch assemblage from Cerro Colorado (Pisco Formation)
described herein provides a first comprehensive view on the composition and structure of …

Abstract The lLate Miocene Chagres Formation from northern Panama contains the
youngest outcrops of the Panama Canal Basin. Here we report two chondrichthyan …