RAUL ESPERANTE, PhD

Recent projects

• Taphonomy of fossil whales in the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru
• Taphonomy of modern whales in the Colorado River delta, Baja California, Mexico
• Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the vertebrate-bearing Jurassic/Cretaceous and Cretaceous/Tertiary boundaries of the Iberian System, Spain

Selected publications

• Esperante, Raúl, Brand, L., Poma, A. Fossil baleen whales in the Pisco Formation, Peru: taphonomy and sedimentology. In preparation.
• Brand, L. Esperante, R. Carvajal, C. Chadwick, A., Poma, O., Alomía, M. DeLucchi, F. Melo, L. Fossil whale taphonomy and constrains on diatom accumulation rate, Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru. In preparation.
• Esperante, Raúl, Brand, L., Poma, A. Fossil baleen preserved in diatomaceous sediments of the Pisco Formation, southern Peru. In preparation.
• Esperante, Raúl, Brand, L. 2002. Preservation of baleen whales in tuffaceous and diatomaceous deposits of the Pisco Fm, southern Peru. First International Palaeontological Congress (IPC2002), Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts Number 68, 51.
• Esperante, Raúl, Brand, L., Chadwick, A., Poma, A. 2002. Taphonomy of fossil whales in the diatomaceous sediments of the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru. In: Current topics on taphonomy and fossilization, De Renzi, M., Pardo Alonso, M. V., Belinchón, M., Peñalver, E., Montoya, P., Márquez-Aliaga, A. (Editors), Valencia, Spain, pages 337-343.
• Esperante-Caamano, Raúl, Brand, L., Chadwick, A., DeLucchi, F. 2000. Fossil whales of the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru: stratigraphy, distribution, and taphonomy. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, Abstracts with Program 32(7): A499.
• Esperante-Caamano, Raúl, Brand, L., Chadwick, A., Poma, A. 1999. Taphonomy of fossil whales in the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, western Peru. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, Abstracts with Program 31(7): A466.