Nature Communications (May 2022)
Trophic position of Otodus megalodon and great white sharks through time revealed by zinc isotopes
- Jeremy McCormack,
- Michael L. Griffiths,
- Sora L. Kim,
- Kenshu Shimada,
- Molly Karnes,
- Harry Maisch,
- Sarah Pederzani,
- Nicolas Bourgon,
- Klervia Jaouen,
- Martin A. Becker,
- Niels Jöns,
- Guy Sisma-Ventura,
- Nicolas Straube,
- Jürgen Pollerspöck,
- Jean-Jacques Hublin,
- Robert A. Eagle,
- Thomas Tütken
Affiliations
- Jeremy McCormack
- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Michael L. Griffiths
- Department of Environmental Science, William Paterson University
- Sora L. Kim
- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California Merced
- Kenshu Shimada
- Department of Environmental Science and Studies and Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University
- Molly Karnes
- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California Merced
- Harry Maisch
- Department of Marine and Earth Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University
- Sarah Pederzani
- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Nicolas Bourgon
- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Klervia Jaouen
- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Martin A. Becker
- Department of Environmental Science, William Paterson University
- Niels Jöns
- Department of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr University Bochum
- Guy Sisma-Ventura
- Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research Institute
- Nicolas Straube
- Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen
- Jürgen Pollerspöck
- Bavarian State Collection of Zoology
- Jean-Jacques Hublin
- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Robert A. Eagle
- Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California
- Thomas Tütken
- Institute for Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg-University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30528-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Here the authors demonstrate the use of zinc isotopes (δ66Zn) to geochemically assess trophic levels in extant and extinct sharks. They show that the Neogene megatooth shark (Otodus megalodon) and the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) occupied a similar trophic level.
