The evolution of foraging capacity and gigantism in cetaceans

JA Goldbogen, PT Madsen - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The extant diversity and rich fossil record of cetaceans provides an extraordinary
evolutionary context for investigating the relationship between form, function and ecology …

Anatomical, ontogenetic, and genomic homologies guide reconstructions of the teeth-to-baleen transition in mysticete whales

J Gatesy, EG Ekdale, TA Deméré, A Lanzetti… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The transition in Mysticeti (Cetacea) from capture of individual prey using teeth to
bulk filtering batches of small prey using baleen ranks among the most dramatic …

Cenozoic megatooth sharks occupied extremely high trophic positions

ER Kast, ML Griffiths, SL Kim, ZC Rao, K Shimada… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Trophic position is a fundamental characteristic of animals, yet it is unknown in many extinct
species. In this study, we ground-truth the 15N/14N ratio of enameloid-bound organic matter …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Neurovascular evidence for a co-occurrence of teeth and baleen in an Oligocene mysticete and the transition to filter-feeding in baleen whales

EG Ekdale, TA Deméré - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Extant baleen whales (Mysticeti) have a deciduous foetal dentition, but are edentulous at
birth. Fossils reveal that the earliest mysticetes possessed an adult dentition. Aetiocetids, a …

[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 …

Towards deciphering the Cenozoic evolution of the East Pisco Basin (southern Peru)

C Di Celma, PP Pierantoni, T Volatili, G Molli… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The Cenozoic succession of the East Pisco Basin preserves the sedimentary record of
several episodes of deformation of the forearc crust along the Peruvian margin. The 1 …