Michelangelo Bisconti

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Professor of Paleontology at the University "G. d'Annunzio", Chieti-Pescara. Born in 1970. Magna cum laude Laurea in Natural Sciences at University of Pisa. PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Pisa. Main interests in vertebrate paleontology with focus on baleen whale evoloution (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). PostDoc at the University of Pisa. Grants from University of Torino, American Museum of Natural History (New York) and European Community through Synthesys Programme (realized in Brussels, Leiden and Budapest). Current positions: Associate Paleontology Research at San Diego Natural History Museum and Scientific Director of excavation, preparation, study and teaching about the whale from Montalcino on behalf of the Soprintendenza Archeologia Toscana.

Adaptive & Self-Organizing Systems Anatomy & Physiology Animal Behavior Anthropology Artificial Intelligence Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Developmental Biology Ecology Evolutionary Studies Marine Biology Paleontology Robotics Taxonomy Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Pisa

Work details

grant recipient

Università degli studi di Torino

January 2019 - March 2020

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra

Study of fossil cetaceans in the Piedmont collections with focus on the collections in Torino and Asti to prepare a general catalogue of the fossil cetaceans of the region.

Paleontology Research Associate

San Diego Natural History Museum

January 2011 - June 2020

Paleobiology Department

Baleen whale paleontology and evolution through study of anatomy, embryology, functional morphology, fossil record, phylogeny and paleobiogeography.

Doctoral Student and PostDoc

University of Pisa

November 1998 - May 2005

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra

Evolution of archaic baleen whales from the Italian Neogene. Paleobiogeography of marine biota of South America and Galapagos.

Grant recipient

Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo, Livorno

May 2005 - December 2013

Anthropology, Zoology, Vertebrate Paleontology

Research and education in Physical Anthropology, Vertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology.

Contractor

Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti Paesaggio per le province di Siena, Grosseto, Arezzo

March 2019 - October 2019

Scientific direction at the site and preparation lab of a fossil balaenopterid found at Poggio alle Mura (Montalcino, Siena). Scientific coordination of multidisciplinary study of the same fossil balaenopterid whale. In twitter: #brunellawhale #whaleinavineyard #pliocenerenaissance

PeerJ Contributions

Articles 4

August 12, 2020

A new balaenopterid species from the Southern North Sea Basin informs about phylogeny and taxonomy of Burtinopsis and Protororqualus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae)

Michelangelo Bisconti, Mark E.J. Bosselaers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9570

January 13, 2020

A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera

Michelangelo Bisconti, Dirk K. Munsterman, René H.B. Fraaije, Mark E.J. Bosselaers, Klaas Post

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8315 PubMed 31976176

May 17, 2019

A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti)

Michelangelo Bisconti, Dirk K. Munsterman, Klaas Post

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6915 PubMed 31149399

June 27, 2017

Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species

Michelangelo Bisconti, Olivier Lambert, Mark Bosselaers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3464 PubMed 28663936