Supplementary material from "Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought"
Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are major ecosystem engineers, thanks to their enormous size and bulk filter feeding strategy. Their signature gigantism is thought to be a relatively recent phenomenon, resulting from a Plio-Pleistocene mode shift in their body size evolution. Here, we report the largest w...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4472516 2023-05-15T15:37:05+02:00 Supplementary material from "Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought" Bianucci, Giovanni Marx, Felix G. Collareta, Alberto Stefano, Agata Di Landini, Walter Morigi, Caterina Varola, Angelo 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4472516 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Rise_of_the_titans_baleen_whales_became_giants_earlier_than_thought_/4472516 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0175 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Evolutionary Biology FOS Biological sciences 40308 Palaeontology incl. Palynology FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Collection article 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4472516 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0175 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are major ecosystem engineers, thanks to their enormous size and bulk filter feeding strategy. Their signature gigantism is thought to be a relatively recent phenomenon, resulting from a Plio-Pleistocene mode shift in their body size evolution. Here, we report the largest whale fossil ever described: an Early Pleistocene (1.5–1.25 Ma) blue whale from Italy with an estimated body length of up to 26 m. Macroevolutionary modelling taking into account this specimen, as well as additional material from the Miocene of Peru, reveals that the proposed mode shift occurred either somewhat earlier, or perhaps not at all. Large-sized mysticetes comparable to most extant species have existed since at least the Late Miocene, suggesting a long-term impact on global marine ecosystems. Article in Journal/Newspaper baleen whales Blue whale DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are major ecosystem engineers, thanks to their enormous size and bulk filter feeding strategy. Their signature gigantism is thought to be a relatively recent phenomenon, resulting from a Plio-Pleistocene mode shift in their body size evolution. Here, we report the largest whale fossil ever described: an Early Pleistocene (1.5–1.25 Ma) blue whale from Italy with an estimated body length of up to 26 m. Macroevolutionary modelling taking into account this specimen, as well as additional material from the Miocene of Peru, reveals that the proposed mode shift occurred either somewhat earlier, or perhaps not at all. Large-sized mysticetes comparable to most extant species have existed since at least the Late Miocene, suggesting a long-term impact on global marine ecosystems. |
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Supplementary material from "Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought" |
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