[PDF][PDF] An overview of the fossil record of cetaceans from the East Pisco Basin (Peru)

G Bianucci, A Collareta - Bollettino della Società Paleontologica …, 2022 - researchgate.net
The East Pisco Basin is one of the forearc basins that formed during the Cenozoic along the
coast of Peru due to the subduction of the Farrallon-Nazca plate beneath the South …

Taphonomy of marine vertebrates of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Insights into the origin of an outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte

G Bosio, A Collareta, C Di Celma, O Lambert… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The Miocene Pisco Formation, broadly exposed in the Ica Desert of southern Peru, is among
the most outstanding Cenozoic marine Fossil-Lagerstätten worldwide. It is renowned for its …

Reconstructing body size in extinct crown Cetacea (Neoceti) using allometry, phylogenetic methods and tests from the fossil record

ND Pyenson, SN Sponberg - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2011 - Springer
Living cetaceans exhibit interspecific size ranging across several orders of magnitude, and
rank among the largest vertebrates ever. Details of how cetaceans evolved different body …

Did the giant extinct shark Carcharocles megalodon target small prey? Bite marks on marine mammal remains from the late Miocene of Peru

A Collareta, O Lambert, W Landini, C Di Celma… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
We report on bite marks incising fossil mammal bones collected from upper Miocene
deposits of the Pisco Formation exposed at Aguada de Lomas (southern Peru) and …

Macroraptorial sperm whales (cetacea, odontoceti, physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Peru

O Lambert, G Bianucci… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The three extant sperm whale species, the giant Physeter macrocephalus and the diminutive
Kogia species, are relict members of the superfamily Physeteroidea, whose evolutionary …

Vertebrate palaeoecology of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): glimpses into the ancient Humboldt Current ecosystem

A Collareta, O Lambert, FG Marx, C de Muizon… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The northward-flowing Humboldt Current hosts perpetually high levels of productivity along
the western coast of South America. Here, we aim to elucidate the deep-time history of this …

Sequence stratigraphy and paleontology of the Upper Miocene Pisco Formation along the western side of the lower Ica Valley (Ica Desert, Peru)

C Di Celma, E Malinverno, G Bosio… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2017 - arpi.unipi.it
The sequence stratigraphic framework and a summary of the fossil fauna of the Upper
Miocene portion of the Pisco Formation exposed along the western side of the Ica River …

Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)

G Bianucci, C Di Celma, W Landini, K Post… - Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Hundreds of fossil marine vertebrates cropping out at Cerro Colorado (Pisco Basin, Peru)
are identified and reported on a 1: 6500 scale geological map and in a joined stratigraphic …

Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the lower Miocene marine vertebrate assemblage of Ullujaya (Chilcatay Formation, East Pisco Basin, southern Peru)

G Bianucci, A Collareta, G Bosio, W Landini… - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
The taphonomy and palaeoecology of the early Miocene (Burdigalian) vertebrate
assemblage of Ullujaya (East Pisco Basin, Peru) is here described. Vertebrate remains are …

New beaked whales from the late Miocene of Peru and evidence for convergent evolution in stem and crown Ziphiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti)

G Bianucci, C Di Celma, M Urbina, O Lambert - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
The Ziphiidae (beaked whales) represent a large group of open-ocean odontocetes (toothed
cetaceans), whose elusive and deep diving behavior prevents direct observation in their …