The chronology of mysticete diversification (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti): Body size, morphological evolution and global change

M Bisconti, L Pellegrino, G Carnevale - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
A comprehensive revision of the localities of discovery of fossil mysticetes is presented
together with a highly inclusive phylogenetic analysis in order to provide the basis for a …

In search of the origin of crown Mysticeti

CH Tsai - Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recent research on mysticete fossils from the Late Eocene and Oligocene has
revolutionised our understanding of the diversity and evolutionary scenarios for early baleen …

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 …

An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks

EC Sibert, LD Rubin - Science, 2021 - science.org
Shark populations have been decimated in recent decades because of overfishing and
other anthropogenic stressors; however, the long-term impacts of such changes in marine …

Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy and the thermophilic fossil fauna from the middle Miocene of the East Pisco Basin (Peru)

G Bosio, E Malinverno, A Collareta, C Di Celma… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
New age estimates obtained via Strontium Isotope (87 Sr/86 Sr) Stratigraphy and new
paleoclimatic data are here presented for the Miocene Chilcatay and Pisco formations …

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 …

Stratigraphy, provenance, and timing of Neogene sedimentation in the western Valdés Basin, Patagonia. Accurate paleogeographic reconstructions as a key piece for …

JI Cuitiño, A Bilmes, MR Buono, S Bordese… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the aim to better understand the timing and geological evolution of the late Cenozoic
stratigraphic record of the onshore, western Valdés Basin in northeast Chubut province …

Strontium isotopes reveal a globally unique assemblage of Early Miocene baleen whales

FG Marx, A Coste, MD Richards, JM Palin… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The earliest Miocene (Aquitanian, 23–20 Ma) remains a critically under-
sampled 'dark age'in cetacean evolution. This is especially true of baleen whales …

[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 …

Unravelling the identity of the platanistoid Notocetus vanbenedeni Moreno, 1892 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina)

M Viglino, MR Buono, Y Tanaka, JI Cuitiño… - Journal of Systematic …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Platanistoidea remains one of the most evolutionarily intriguing lineages of toothed whales
(Odontoceti). The clade comprises mostly extinct species from the late Oligocene–early …