List of works - Alberto Collareta

A Secondary Nursery Area for the Copper Shark Carcharhinus brachyurus from the Late Miocene of Peru

article published in 2017

A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology ⬇️

journal article from 'Nature' published in 2023

A new ichnotaxonomic name for burrows in vertebrate coprolites from the Miocene Chesapeake Group of Maryland, U.S.A ⬇️

scientific article published on 31 May 2022

Dawn of the Delphinidans: New Remains of Kentriodon from the Lower Miocene of Italy Shed Light on the Early Radiation of the Most Diverse Extant Cetacean Clade

scientific article published on 11 February 2024

Description of the Skeleton of the Fossil Beaked Whale Messapicetus gregarius: Searching Potential Proxies for Deep-Diving Abilities

scientific article published in 2018

Did the Giant Extinct Shark Carcharocles megalodon Target Small Prey? Bite Marks on Marine Mammal Remains from the Late Miocene of Peru

article by Alberto Collareta et al published March 2017 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)

Fossil marine vertebrates of Cerro Los Quesos: Distribution of cetaceans, seals, crocodiles, seabirds, sharks, and bony fish in a late Miocene locality of the Pisco Basin, Peru

Ghosts of the Holobiont: Borings on a Miocene Turtle Carapace from the Pisco Formation (Peru) as Witnesses of Ancient Symbiosis

scientific article published in 2022

High crustal diversity preserved in the lunar meteorite Mount DeWitt 12007 (Victoria Land, Antarctica)

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Ichnotaxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Monti Pisani tetrapod ichnoassociation (Tuscany, Italy) and new insights on Middle Triassic Dinosauromorpha

scientific article

Koristocetus pescei gen. et sp. nov., a Diminutive Sperm Whale (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae) from the Late Miocene of Peru

scholarly article by Alberto Collareta et al published 7 December 2017 in Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe

New and overlooked occurrences of the rarely reported protochelonibiine “turtle” barnacles from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe

scientific article published in 2021

No deep diving: evidence of predation on epipelagic fish for a stem beaked whale from the Late Miocene of Peru

scientific article

Piscivory in a Miocene Cetotheriidae of Peru: first record of fossilized stomach content for an extinct baleen-bearing whale.

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Remarkable multicuspid teeth in a new elusive skate (Chondrichthyes, Rajiformes) from the Mediterranean Pliocene ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Stratigraphic framework of the late Miocene Pisco Formation at Cerro Los Quesos (Ica Desert, Peru)

Symbiont-Bearing Colonial Corals and Gastropods: An Odd Couple of the Shallow Seas

scientific article published in 2023

The Late Miocene Elasmobranch Assemblage from Cerro Colorado (Pisco Formation, Peru)

scientific article published in 2017

The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis

scientific article published on 30 August 2024

Turtle barnacles have been turtle riders for more than 30 million years