Tuscany has a rich Pliocene record of marine megafauna (MM), including mysticetes,
odontocetes, sirenians and seals among the mammals, and six orders of sharks among the …

The habitat, actuopaleontology and global fossil record of crown cetaceans, today
occupying apex positions in the marine ecosystem, is reviewed. A large Neogene …

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 …

Abstract The Mio-Pliocene Pisco Formation (Peru) is a world-famous marine vertebrate
Lagerstätte. Several fossil specimens are wrapped up in dolomitic nodules. Some others lie …

Fieldwork at Península Valdés (Chubut, Argentina) in the Puerto Madryn Formation (Late
Miocene) resulted in the discovery of a well-preserved, almost fully articulated, baleen whale …

Factors affecting cetacean preservation and distribution in ancient sedimentary successions
are not well understood. Actualistic studies have focused on coastal and deep marine …

Clavate borings found in the tympanic bulla of a Miocene cetacean from El Camp de
Tarragona Basin constitute the first evidence of the ichnogenus Gastrochaenolites in bones …

After the discovery of whale fall communities in modern oceans, it has been hypothesized
that during the Mesozoic the carcasses of marine reptiles created similar habitats supporting …

Bivalves are an important part of the methane seep fauna ever since seeps appeared in the
geologic record. The chronostratigraphic ranges of seep-inhabiting chemosymbiotic …

Faeces produced by marine vertebrates and macro-invertebrates contain sufficient organic
matter to represent a usable food source for a wide array of macroscopic animals. In some …