Emanuele Peri- PhD
- Researcher at University of Florence
Emanuele Peri
- PhD
- Researcher at University of Florence
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Introduction
I am a vertebrate palaeontologist, and over the past few years I focused my research on the palaeobiology of fossil cetaceans (with particular attention to odontocetes). I am skilled in the acquisition of 3D models using from different souces (e.g. digital photogrammetry, CT scan) and in the analysis of 3D data (e.g., biomechanics). I also have experience in 3D modelling to reconstruct fossil vertebrates. More in general, I have a great passion for the virtual analysis applied to fossils.
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October 2023 - October 2025
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- Researcher in palaeontology of late Cenozoic vertebrates
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Publications (10)
Faeces produced by marine vertebrates and macro-invertebrates contain sufficient organic matter to represent a usable food source for a wide array of macroscopic animals. In some extant marine environments, coprophagy even represents a crucial trophic interaction in food webs. In ancient ecosystems, coprophagy by macroscopic animals is occasionally...
Herein we describe a new finding of a medium-sized sperm whale from the Burdigalian (Lower Miocene) of the Pietra leccese formation (southern Italy) on the basis of a partly prepared specimen that includes a partial cranium, seven detached teeth, the fragmentary right mandible and two partial vertebral bodies. Because of the overall compression of...
Differing from the extant physeteroids, macroraptorial sperm whales are currently regarded as apex predators of the Miocene seas based on several morphofunctional observations. Here, we estimate the bite force of Zygophyseter varolai, a macroraptorial physeteroid from lower upper Miocene strata of the Pietra leccese formation (Apulia, Italy) using...
The ocean sunfishes of the family Molidae comprise one of the tetraodontiform clades with the least known fossil record. Here, we report on what appears to be an isolated paraxial ossicle likely pertaining to the Molidae from a widely known marine vertebrate-bearing deposit of Southern Italy, i.e., the Miocene Pietra Leccese formation of Apulia. Th...
We report on a partial skeleton of sperm whale (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Pietra leccese, a Miocene limestone widely exposed in the Salento Peninsula (southern Italy). This specimen was found in Tortonian strata cropping out at the Cisterna quarry, not far from the holotype of the stem physeteroid Zygophyster varolai. The presenc...
Ethmoturbinates, nasoturbinates, and maxilloturbinates are well developed in the narial tract of land‐dwelling artiodactyls ancestral to whales, but these are greatly reduced or lost entirely in modern whales. Aegyptocetus tarfa is a semiaquatic protocetid from the middle Eocene of Egypt. Computed axial tomography scans of the skull show that A. ta...
We report on an isolated cetacean postcanine tooth that was collected close to the village of Melpignano (Lecce Province, Apulia region) from the Miocene "Pietra leccese" formation of southeastern Italy. This tooth exhibits a transversely compressed and roughly semi-circular crown featuring several large, broad-based accessory denticles that are ar...
