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A new platyrostrine sperm whale from the Early Miocene of the southeastern Pacific (East Pisco Basin, Peru) supports affinities with the southwestern Atlantic cetacean fauna

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  • 1. D.O. Terre et Histoire de la Vie, Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 29 rue Vautier, B-1000 Brussels (Belgium) olivier.lambert@naturalsciences.be (corresponding author)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, via S. Maria 53, I-56126 Pisa (Italy) and Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Pisa, via Roma 79, I-56011 Calci (Italy) alberto.collareta@unipi.it
  • 3. Department of Paleontology, University of Zürich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, CH-8006 Zürich (Switzerland) Departamento de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de Historia Natural-Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Avenida Arenales 1256, P-15072 Lima 11 (Peru) aldo.benitespalomino@uzh.ch
  • 4. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, via S. Maria 53, I-56126 Pisa (Italy) and Dottorato Regionale in Scienze della Terra "Pegaso", via S. Maria 53, I-56126 Pisa (Italy) marco.merella@phd.unipi.it
  • 5. CR2P (CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne Université), Département Origines et Évolution, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) muizon@mnhn.fr
  • 6. D.O. Terre et Histoire de la Vie, Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 29 rue Vautier, B-1000 Brussels (Belgium) and Evolution & Diversity Dynamics Lab, UR Geology, Université de Liège, 14 Allée du 6 Août, B-4000 Liège (Belgium) r.bennion@uliege.be
  • 7. Departamento de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de Historia Natural-Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Avenida Arenales 1256, P-15072 Lima (Peru) mariourbina01@hotmail.com
  • 8. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, via S. Maria 53, I-56126 Pisa (Italy) and Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Pisa, via Roma 79, I-56011 Calci (Italy) giovanni.bianucci@unipi.it

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Lambert, Olivier, Collareta, Alberto, Benites-Palomino, Aldo, Merella, Marco, Muizon, Christian de, Bennion, Rebecca, Urbina, Mario, Bianucci, Giovanni (2023): A new platyrostrine sperm whale from the Early Miocene of the southeastern Pacific (East Pisco Basin, Peru) supports affinities with the southwestern Atlantic cetacean fauna. Geodiversitas 45 (22): 659-679, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a22, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2023v45a22.pdf

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