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Giovanni Bianucci

Giovanni Bianucci

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Giovanni Bianucci is affiliated with the University of Pisa in Italy and specializes in research within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work primarily focuses on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Paleontology, with additional research in the interdisciplinary subfield of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Oceanography.

The main topics addressed in Bianucci's research include Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Marine animal studies overview, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Among recent publications, Bianucci contributed to the following papers:

  • "Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru)" (2020, Life)
  • "Taphonomy of marine vertebrates of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Insights into the origin of an outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Vertebrate Palaeoecology of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Glimpses into the Ancient Humboldt Current Ecosystem" (2021, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering)
  • "The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis" (2024, Science)
  • "Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of fossil bones from a Miocene marine Konservat-Lagerstätte" (2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)

Bianucci frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, notably Alberto Collareta, Giulia Bosio, Mario Urbina, Claudio Di Celma, and Marco Merella.

The scientist's work is commonly published in venues such as Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, Life, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Journal of Maps, and Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru

    Olivier Lambert;Giovanni Bianucci;Klaas Post;Christian de Muizon

  • Macroraptorial sperm whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Peru

    Olivier Lambert;Giovanni Bianucci;Christian De Muizon

  • Earliest Mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru Sheds New Light on the Origin of Baleen Whales

    Olivier Lambert;Manuel Martínez-Cáceres;Giovanni Bianucci;Claudio Di Celma

  • High concentration of long-snouted beaked whales (genus Messapicetus) from the Miocene of Peru.

    Giovanni Bianucci;Olivier Lambert;Klaas Post

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

    Giovanni Bianucci;Claudio Di Celma;Walter Landini;Klaas Post

  • SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE UPPER MIOCENE PISCO FORMATION ALONG THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE LOWER ICA VALLEY (ICA DESERT, PERU)

    Claudio Di Celma;Elisa Malinverno;Giulia Bosio;Alberto Collareta

  • Oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of fish otoliths

    P. Iacumin;G. Bianucci;A. Longinelli

  • Did the giant extinct shark Carcharocles megalodon target small prey? Bite marks on marine mammal remains from the late Miocene of Peru

    Alberto Collareta;Olivier Lambert;Walter Landini;Claudio Di Celma

  • Biogeographic relationships of the Galapagos terrestrial biota: parsimony analyses of endemicity based on reptiles, land birds and Scalesia land plants

    M Bisconti;Walter Landini;Giovanni Bianucci;G Cantalamessa

  • A new stem-sperm whale (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Latest Miocene of Peru

    Olivier Lambert;Giovanni Bianucci;Christian de Muizon

  • A Reevaluation of Pliophoca etrusca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Pliocene of Italy: Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Implications

    Annalisa Berta;Sarah Kienle;Giovanni Bianucci;Silvia Sorbi

  • A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa

    Giovanni Bianucci;Olivier Lambert;Klaas Post

  • A New Beaked Whale (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from the Middle Miocene of Peru

    Olivier Lambert;Giovanni Bianucci;Klaas Post

  • Stratigraphic framework of the late Miocene to Pliocene Pisco Formation at Cerro Colorado (Ica Desert, Peru)

    C. Di Celma;E. Malinverno;K. Gariboldi;A. Gioncada

  • The dolomite nodules enclosing fossil marine vertebrates in the East Pisco Basin, Peru: Field and petrographic insights into the Lagerstätte formation

    Karen Gariboldi;Anna Gioncada;Giulia Bosio;Elisa Malinverno

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

    Alberto Collareta;Walter Landini;Olivier Lambert;Klaas Post

  • Inside baleen: Exceptional microstructure preservation in a late Miocene whale skeleton from Peru

    Anna Gioncada;Alberto Collareta;Karen Gariboldi;Olivier Lambert

  • Huaridelphis raimondii, a new early Miocene Squalodelphinidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Chilcatay Formation, Peru

    Olivier Lambert;Giovanni Bianucci;Mario Urbina

  • 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

    Giovanni Bianucci;Claudio Di Celma;Alberto Collareta;Walter Landini

  • Systematics, biostratigraphy and evolutionary pattern of the Oligo-Miocene marine mammals from the Maltese Islands☆

    Giovanni Bianucci;Michael Gatt;Rita Catanzariti;Silvia Sorbi

  • Killing in the Pliocene: shark attack on a dolphin from Italy

    Giovanni Bianucci;Barbara Sorce;Tiziano Storai;Walter Landini

  • Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the lower Miocene marine vertebrate assemblage of Ullujaya (Chilcatay Formation, East Pisco Basin, southern Peru)

    Giovanni Bianucci;Alberto Collareta;Giulia Bosio;Walter Landini

  • Aegyptocetus tarfa, n. gen. et sp. (Mammalia, Cetacea), from the Middle Eocene of Egypt: Clinorhynchy, Olfaction, and Hearing in a Protocetid Whale

    Giovanni Bianucci;Philip D. Gingerich

  • A Miocene relative of the Ganges River dolphin (Odontoceti, Platanistidae) from the Amazonian Basin

    Giovanni Bianucci;Olivier Lambert;Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi;Julia Tejada

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Urbina
Mario Urbina National University of San Marcos
Anna Gioncada
Anna Gioncada University of Pisa
Claudio Di Celma
Claudio Di Celma University of Camerino
Christian de Muizon
Christian de Muizon French National Museum of Natural History
Igor M. Villa
Igor M. Villa University of Milano-Bicocca
Giancarlo Molli
Giancarlo Molli University of Pisa
Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
Annalisa Berta
Annalisa Berta San Diego State University
Massimo D'Orazio
Massimo D'Orazio University of Pisa
Giuseppina Micela
Giuseppina Micela National Institute for Astrophysics

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