Abstract The Peruvian Province, from 6° S in Peru to 42° S in Chile, is a highly productive
coastal marine region whose biology and fossil record have long been studied separately …

We report on bite marks incising fossil mammal bones collected from upper Miocene
deposits of the Pisco Formation exposed at Aguada de Lomas (southern Peru) and …

Living true seals (phocids) are the most widely dispersed semi-aquatic marine mammals,
and comprise geographically separate northern (phocine) and southern (monachine) …

Marine mammals are key components of aquatic ecosystems. Feeding strategies identified
in extant cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, marine otters, and polar bears are associated with …

Body size and feeding morphology influence how animals partition themselves within
communities. We tested the relationships among sex, body size, skull morphology and …

Records of aquatic mammal fossils (eg cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, mustelids, and
desmostylians) from Latin America (Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, including Antartica) span …

The fossil record of pinnipeds (seals, fur seals and walruses) is globally distributed,
spanning from the late Oligocene to the Holocene. This record shows a complex …

A new taxon of stem otariid, Eotaria citrica sp. nov., is described from the upper Burdigalian
to lower Langhian “Topanga” formation of Orange County, California. The new species is …

Background Prophoca and Leptophoca represent the oldest known genera of phocine
seals, dating from the latest early to middle Miocene. Originally, Prophoca rousseaui and …

Koretsky, IA, Barnes, LG, Rahmat, SJ—The origin of pinnipeds has been a contentious
issue, with opposite sides debating monophyly or diphyly. This review uses evidence from …