Swimming with Livyatan: a reconstruction of the vertebrate marine fauna that lived with the giant raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene of Peru

• Main Authors: BIANUCCI, GIOVANNI, LANDINI, WALTER, TINELLI, CHIARA, GARIBOLDI, KAREN, GIONCADA, ANNA, Post, Klaas, Cantalamessa, Gino, Celma, Claudio Di, Malinverno, Elisa, Urbina, M., Lambert, O.
• Other Authors: Bianucci, Giovanni, Landini, Walter, Post, Klaa, Tinelli, Chiara, Gariboldi, Karen, Gioncada, Anna
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: George Mason University, Virginia, USA 2014
• Subjects: Fossils; cetaceans; sharks; Peru; Miocene; Pisco; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/834361

In recent years, the correlation between diatom and cetacean richness patterns through time has been deeply investigated. However, the comparison of diatom and cetacean global data sets faced some criticisms, due to the gaps characterizing the cetacean fossil record, contrasting with the well-known...