The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7302, 2010, Pages 105-108

  Lambert, Olivier ^a   Bianucci, Giovanni ^b   Post, Klaas ^c   De Muizon, Christian ^d   Salas Gismondi, Rodolfo ^e   Urbina, Mario ^e   Reumer, Jelle ^c,f  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SHARK; WHALE;

ARTICLE; BITE; CARCHAROCLES MEGALODON; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; ENERGY; FEEDING; FOSSIL; HEAD; JAW; KNOWLEDGE; LEVIATHAN MELVILLEI; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; PERU; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; SKULL; SPERM WHALE; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MANDIBLE; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPERM WHALE; TOOTH; WHALE, KILLER;

PERU;

CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; MYSTICETI; ORCINUS ORCA; PHYSETER; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE; TETRAPODA;

EID: 77954228178     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09067     Document Type: Article

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