Regional endothermy as a trigger for gigantism in some extinct macropredatory sharks

Humberto G. Ferrón

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185185

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Regional endothermy as a trigger for gigantism in some extinct macropredatory sharks

Humberto G. Ferrón

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Humberto.Ferron@uv.es

Affiliation Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat I Biologia Evolutiva, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2254-8424

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Regional endothermy as a trigger for gigantism in some extinct macropredatory sharks

Humberto G. Ferrón

Published: September 22, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185185

About the Authors

Humberto G. Ferrón

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Humberto.Ferron@uv.es

Affiliation Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat I Biologia Evolutiva, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2254-8424

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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