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Description of the skeleton of the fossil beaked whale Messapicetus gregarius: searching potential proxies for deep-diving abilities
Benjamin Ramassamy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, 1350, Denmark
Department of Natural History and Palaeontology, the Museum of
Southern Jutland, Gram, 6100, Denmark
Olivier Lambert
D.O. Terre et Histoire de la Vie, Institut royal des Sciences
naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
Alberto Collareta
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Pisa,
56126, Italy
Dottorato Regionale Pegaso in Scienze della Terra, via Santa Maria 53,
Pisa, 56126, Italy
Mario Urbina
Departemento de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de Historia
Natural-Universidad, Lima, 15072, Peru
Giovanni Bianucci
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Pisa,
56126, Italy
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We present a dataset of 23032 fossil occurrences of marine organisms from the Late Miocene to the Early Pliocene (~11 to 3.6 million years ago) from the Mediterranean Sea. This dataset will allow us, for the first time, to quantify the biodiversity impact of the Messinian salinity crisis, a major geological event that possibly changed global and regional climate and biota.
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Short summary
Extant beaked whales perform deep dives to forage for squids. We studied the morphology of the fossil ziphiid Messapicetus gregarius to evaluate its ability to perform such dives. Our analysis suggests an enlargement of the pterygoid sinus system in deep divers. In M. gregarius, the pterygoid sinus is enlarged, but other lines of evidence indicate that the coastal environment also represented an important part of its home range.
Extant beaked whales perform deep dives to forage for squids. We studied the morphology of the...
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