Macroraptorial sperm whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Peru

• Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• Main Authors: Lambert, Olivier, Bianucci, Giovanni, De Muizon, Christian
• Other Authors: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Pisa, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: Tortonian; systematics; Serravallian; Pisco Formation; phylogeny; Messinian; Livyatan; jaw muscles; Acrophyseter; feeding apparatus; [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; Pisco; Physeter macrocephalus; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02612268; https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12456

International audience The three extant sperm whale species, the giant Physeter macrocephalus and the diminutive Kogia species, are relict members of the superfamily Physeteroidea, whose evolutionary history is traced back to the late Oligocene. Although well‐preserved and diagnostic cranial remains...