First fossil record of stomach content for a baleen whale: fish remains associated to a Cetotheriidae from the Miocene of the Pisco Formation (Peru)

• Main Authors: COLLARETA, ALBERTO, TINELLI, CHIARA, LANDINI, WALTER, CARAMELLA, DAVIDE, Lambert, Olivier, Post, Klaas, Di Celma, Claudio, Panetta, Daniele, Tripodi, Maria, Salvadori, Piero, BIANUCCI, GIOVANNI
• Other Authors: Antonio Caruso, Claudia Cosentino, Collareta, Alberto, Tinelli, Chiara, Landini, Walter, Post, Klaa, Caramella, Davide, Bianucci, Giovanni
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Tipografia dell'Università 2015
• Subjects: Pisco; baleen whale; baleen whales; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/749759

During their evolutionary history, ancestors of modern baleen whales progressively replaced their teeth with horny structures known as baleens, thus abandoning a primitive raptorial feeding in favor of various bulk-filter feeding strategies. Among extant mysticetes, Balaenidae and Neobalaenidae slow...