Piscivory in a Miocene Cetotheriidae of Peru: first record of fossilized stomach content for an extinct baleen-bearing whale

• Published in: The Science of Nature
• Main Authors: Collareta, A, Landini, W., Lambert, O., Post, K., Tinelli, C., DI CELMA, Claudio Nicola, Panetta, D., Tripodi, M., Salvadori, P. A., Caramella, D., Marchi, D., Urbina, M., Bianucci, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Pisco; baleen whales
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11581/387235; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-015-1319-y; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-015-1319-y

Instead of teeth, modern mysticetes bear hairfringed keratinous baleen plates that permit various bulkfiltering predation techniques (from subsurface skimming to lateral benthic suction and engulfment) devoted to various target prey (from small invertebrates to schooling fish). Current knowledge abo...