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 …

The abundance of fossil sharks and other cartilaginous fishes in northern Chile is widely
known. Fossil sites such as the Bahia Inglesa Formation were affected by intense …

Bioapatite of fossil bone and teeth is susceptible to alteration and ion exchange during
burial and diagenesis, varying its Sr content through the geological time. Nevertheless, fossil …

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 …

Abstract The Humboldt Current System along the Pacific coast of South America creates one
of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. To trace the origin of the water masses in this …

Shark–cetacean trophic interactions, preserved as bite marks in the fossil record, mostly
correspond to isolated or fragmentary findings that bear limited information about major …

Phosphorite deposits form through phosphogenesis, a mechanism of diffusion and
concentration of interstitial phosphate in sediments leading to Ca-phosphate mineral …

In spite of the widespread occurrence of epibiotic turtle barnacles (Coronuloidea:
Chelonibiidae and Platylepadidae) on extant marine turtles (Chelonioidea: Cheloniidae and …

Nowadays, the requiem sharks comprise one of the most diverse and widespread families of
selachians, ie, Carcharhinidae. Among the carcharhinids, the genus Carcharhinus has the …

The detailed study of diatom laminations conducted by means of backscattered electron
imaging serves as tool to unravel details of past ocean dynamics. In this paper we apply this …