High concentration of long-snouted beaked whales (genus Messapicetus) from the Miocene of Peru

Palaeontology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1077-1098

  Bianucci, Giovanni ^a   Lambert, Olivier ^b,c   Post, Klaas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cetacea; Messapicetus; Miocene; Palaeobiogeography; Palaeoecology; Peru; Phylogeny; Taphonomy; Ziphiidae

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL RECORD; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN; WHALE;

ICA; PERU;

AVES; CETACEA; ODONTOCETI; PINNIPEDIA; PISCES; PONTOPORIIDAE; TESTUDINES; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 77956833730     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00995.x     Document Type: Article

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