Assistant
Research ScientistVertebrate Paleontologist
Assistant
Research Scientist
PhD., Loma Linda University, California, 2002
Contact
Geoscience Research Institute
Loma Linda, California 92350 USA
(909) 558-4548
(909) 558-4314 FAX
email: resperante@univ.llu.edu
Specialty
Taphonomy of fossil vertebrates
Paleoenvironments
Research Interests
Taphonomy of fossil marine mammals
Rates of deposition in biogenic sediments
Trends in the fossil record
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of basins based of taphonomic and sedimentologic information
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.
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