[HTML][HTML] Anatomy, feeding ecology, and ontogeny of a transitional baleen whale: a new genus and species of Eomysticetidae (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Oligocene …

RW Boessenecker, RE Fordyce - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
The Eocene history of cetacean evolution is now represented by the expansive fossil record
of archaeocetes elucidating major morphofunctional shifts relating to the land to sea …

A new genus and species of eomysticetid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) and a reinterpretation of 'Mauicetus' lophocephalus Marples, 1956: Transitional baleen whales from …

RW Boessenecker, RE Fordyce - Zoological Journal of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The early evolution of toothless baleen whales (Chaeomysticeti) remains elusive, despite a
robust record of Eocene–Oligocene archaeocetes and toothed mysticetes. Eomysticetids, a …

The earliest gulp-feeding mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

CH Tsai, RE Fordyce - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2015 - Springer
Horopeta umarere is a new genus and species of extinct baleen whales from the Kokoamu
Greensand (early Chattian, Oligocene, in the range 25–27 Ma), Hakataramea Valley, New …

The pygmy right whale Caperea marginata: the last of the cetotheres

RE Fordyce, FG Marx - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the most enigmatic of the living baleen
whales (Mysticeti). Its highly disparate morphology and the virtual absence of a described …

Skull anatomy of the Oligocene toothed mysticete Aetioceus weltoni (Mammalia; Cetacea): implications for mysticete evolution and functional anatomy

TA Demere, A Berta - Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Toothed mysticetes of the family Aetiocetidae from Oligocene rocks of the North Pacific play
a key role in interpretations of cetacean evolution because they are transitional in grade …

A new eomysticetid from the Oligocene Kokoamu Greensand of New Zealand and a review of the Eomysticetidae (Mammalia, Cetacea)

RW Boessenecker, RE Fordyce - Journal of Systematic …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Eomysticetids represent a worldwide, short-lived radiation of archaic baleen-bearing
mysticetes that elucidate morphofunctional shifts and ontogenetic change amongst early …

A new archaic baleen whale Toipahautea waitaki (early Late Oligocene, New Zealand) and the origins of crown Mysticeti

CH Tsai, RE Fordyce - Royal Society Open Science, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A new genus and species of extinct baleen whale† Toipahautea waitaki (Late Oligocene,
New Zealand) is based on a skull and associated bones, from the lower Kokoamu …

A redescription and re-evaluation of Kekenodon onamata (Mammalia: Cetacea), a late-surviving archaeocete from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand

JE Corrie, RE Fordyce - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Stem cetaceans (archaeocetes) have a substantial Eocene fossil record but are largely
absent since the Eocene–Oligocene boundary. Putative Oligocene archaeocetes are mostly …

A late Miocene–early Pliocene baleen whale assemblage from Langebaanweg, west coast of South Africa (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)

R Govender, M Bisconti, A Chinsamy - Alcheringa: An Australasian …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Govender, R., Bisconti, M. & Chinsamy, A., June 2016. A late Miocene–early Pliocene
baleen whale assemblage from Langebaanweg, west coast of South Africa (Mammalia …

Possible neobalaenid from the Miocene of Australia implies a long evolutionary history for the pygmy right whale Caperea marginata (Cetacea, Mysticeti)

EMG Fitzgerald - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the recent deluge of research into the evolution of baleen whales (Mysticeti)(Sasaki
et al., 2005; Steeman, 2007; Deméré et al., 2008; Kimura and Hasegawa, 2010; Churchill et …