Inside baleen: Exceptional microstructure preservation in a late Miocene whale skeleton from Peru

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Gioncada, Anna, Collareta, Alberto, Gariboldi, Karen, Lambert, Olivier, DI CELMA, Claudio Nicola, Bonaccorsi, Elena, Urbina, Mario, Bianucci, Giovanni
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Pisco; Sei Whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11581/393056; https://doi.org/10.1130/G38216.1; https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/44/10/839/195058/Inside-baleen-Exceptional-microstructure?redirectedFrom=fulltext; https://arpi.unipi.it/retrieve/handle/11568/809640/463217/G38216_R1.pdf

Exceptionally preserved delicate baleen microstructures have been found in association with the skeleton of a late Miocene balaenopteroid whale in a dolomite concretion of the Pisco Formation, Peru. Microanalytical data (scanning electron microscopy, electron probe microanalysis, X-ray diffraction)...