Abstract The Humboldt Current System along the Pacific coast of South America creates one
of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. To trace the origin of the water masses in this …

Shark–cetacean trophic interactions, preserved as bite marks in the fossil record, mostly
correspond to isolated or fragmentary findings that bear limited information about major …

Contrasting with their current ranges in the Antarctic and subantarctic zones, the fossil
record reveals that phocids (true and elephant seals) inhabited widespread subtropical …

In the present study, we present a new monachine phocid, Magophoca brevirostris n. gen.,
n. sp., the fifth monachine described from the Pisco Formation (Peru). Coming from the Cerro …

The fossil record of the genus Carcharodon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) dates to the late
Oligocene and has a near global distribution. Today the genus is represented by a single …

Abstract The Bahía Inglesa Formation in the Atacama Region of Chile (27° S) hosts one the
world's best-preserved Cenozoic marine vertebrate death assemblages attributed to harmful …

Abstract The Huayquerian Stage of the South American chronostratigraphic scheme (named
for the Huayquerías del Este, Argentina) was originally based on a poorly known mammal …

Pelecanus paranensis sp. nov., a new pelican (Aves, Pelecanidae) from the marine Upper
Miocene Paraná Formation, which crops out in the Province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, is …

The previously scarce fossil record of Ziphiidae (beaked whales) has greatly increased
recently thanks to the serendipitous discovery of high specimen concentrations along deep …

We describe a new specimen of the Balaenopteridae from the upper Miocene, Pisco
Formation, Peru. The holotype specimen is nearly a complete skeleton and most of the …