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A Late Triassic chimaeroid egg capsule from New Zealand: early evidence of chimaeroid reproductive mode from the eastern margin of Gondwana

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A Link No Longer Missing: New Evidence for the Cetotheriid Affinities of Caperea

scientific article

A New Marine Reptile (Sauropterygia) from New Zealand: Further Evidence for A Late Cretaceous Austral Radiation of Cryptoclidid Plesiosaurs

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A claim in search of evidence: reply to Manger's thermogenesis hypothesis of cetacean brain structure.

scientific article published on 09 September 2008

A fossil sea turtle (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the upper Oligocene Pomahaka Formation, New Zealand

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A leatherback turtle (Dermochelys) from Kaikoura, New Zealand

scholarly article

A monogenetic, Surtla-type, Surtseyan volcano from the Eocene-Oligocene Waiareka-Deborah volcanics, Otago, New Zealand: A model

scientific article published in June 1989

A new Early Oligocene toothed 'baleen' whale (Mysticeti: Aetiocetidae) from western North America: one of the oldest and the smallest

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A new Eomysticetid (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand and a re-evaluation of ‘Mauicetus’waitakiensis

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A new Oligo-Miocene dolphin from New Zealand: Otekaikea huata expands diversity of the early Platanistoide ⬇️

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

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

A new billfish (Perciformes, Xiphioidei) from the late Oligocene of New Zealand

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A new cancrid crab from New Zealand

scientific article (publication date: December 1996)

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

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A new fossil dolphin with tusk-like teeth from New Zealand and an analysis of procumbent teeth in fossil cetaceans ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 November 2023

A new genus and species of eomysticetid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) and a reinterpretation of ‘Mauicetus’lophocephalus Marples, 1956: Transitional baleen whales from the upper Oligocene of New Zealand

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A new genus and species of kekenodontid from the late Oligocene of New Zealand with comments on the evolution of tooth displacement in Cetacea

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A new tiny fossil penguin from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand and the morphofunctional transition of the penguin wing ⬇️

scientific article published on 31 July 2024

A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

A palaeobiogeographical synthesis of Australasian Mesozoic marine tetrapods

scientific article published in 2017

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

scientific article published on 2 June 2022

A review of Australian fossil Cetacea ⬇️

scientific article published in 1982

A review of kentriodontine dolphins (Cetacea; Deiphinoidea; Kentriodontidae): Systematics and biogeography

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Alexandronectes zealandiensis gen. et sp. nov., a new aristonectine plesiosaur from the lower Maastrichtian of New Zealand

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An Early Triassic basal actinopterygian fish (Osteichthyes) from D'Urville Island, New Zealand

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An associated specimen of Carcharodon angustidens (Chondrichthyes, Lamnidae) from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand, with comments on Carcharodon interrelationships

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An ecological survey of the hot Springs area, Hurunui River, Canterbury, New Zealand

scholarly article

An update of monocot macrofossil data from New Zealand and Australia

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Anatomy of nasal complex in the southern right whale, Eubalaena australis (Cetacea, Mysticeti)

scientific article

Anatomy, feeding ecology, and ontogeny of a transitional baleen whale: a new genus and species of Eomysticetidae (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

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Ancestor-descendant relationships in evolution: origin of the extant pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata

scientific article

Ancient marine isoscapes and isotopic evidence of bulk-feeding by Oligocene cetaceans

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

Archaic Baleen Whales from the Oligocene-Earliest Miocene of the Southwest Pacific

scholarly article

Archaic baleen whale from the Kokoamu Greensand: earbones distinguish a new late Oligocene mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from New Zealand

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Aureia rerehua, a new platanistoid dolphin from the Oligocene of New Zealand with a unique feeding method ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 February 2024

Australodelphis mirus, a bizarre new toothless ziphiid-like fossil dolphin (Cetacea: Delphinidae) from the Pliocene of Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

scholarly article by Ewan Fordyce published in 2002

Awamokoa tokarahi, a new basal dolphin in the Platanistoidea (late Oligocene, New Zealand)

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Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity

scientific article

Biological Plasticity in Penguin Heat-Retention Structures

scientific article published on 27 December 2011

Book review: Whales and dolphins

scholarly article

Cetaceans have complex brains for complex cognition

scientific article

Correction to: Enamel Microstructure in Cetacea: a Case Study in Evolutionary Loss of Complexity

scholarly article

Cosmopolitanism and Miocene survival of Eomysticetidae (Cetacea: Mysticeti) revealed by new fossils from New Zealand

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Dental anomaly in a fossil squalodont dolphin from New Zealand, and the evolution of polydonty in whales

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Dental erosion in South Atlantic dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinidae): A macro and microscopic approach

scholarly article by Carolina Loch et al published 23 April 2012 in Marine Mammal Science

Distribution and habitat of the blue duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, in the South Island, New Zealand

scholarly article

Early penguin fossils, plus mitochondrial genomes, calibrate avian evolution ⬇️

scientific article

Elemental and chemical characterization of dolphin enamel and dentine using X-ray and Raman microanalyzes (Cetacea: Delphinoidea and Inioidea).

scientific article published on 25 November 2013

Enamel ultrastructure in fossil cetaceans (Cetacea: Archaeoceti and Odontoceti)

scientific article

Extensively remodeled, fractured cetacean tympanic bullae show that whales can survive traumatic injury to the ears

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Fossil dolphin Otekaikea marplesi (latest Oligocene, New Zealand) expands the morphological and taxonomic diversity of Oligocene cetaceans ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 September 2014

Fossil dolphin bones from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand

scholarly article

Gigantic mysticete predators roamed the Eocene Southern Ocean

Gigantism Precedes Filter Feeding in Baleen Whale Evolution

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Hearing from the ocean and into the river: the evolution of the inner ear of Platanistoidea (Cetacea: Odontoceti)

scientific article published in 2021

Juvenile morphology in baleen whale phylogeny

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Juvenile morphology: a clue to the origins of the most mysterious of mysticetes?

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

Kaiika maxwelli, a new Early Eocene archaic penguin (Sphenisciformes, Aves) from Waihao Valley, South Canterbury, New Zealand

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Like phoenix from the ashes: how modern baleen whales arose from a fossil ‘dark age’

scientific article published in 2019

Matapanui, a replacement name for Matapa Boessenecker & Fordyce, 2016

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Mechanical properties of dental tissues in dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinoidea and Inioidea)

scholarly article by Carolina Loch et al published July 2013 in Archives of Oral Biology

Megalampris keyesi, a giant moonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes) from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand

scientific article published on 11 September 2006

Mitochondrial phylogenetics and evolution of mysticete whales.

scientific article

Mysticetes baring their teeth: a new fossil whale, Mammalodon hakataramea, from the Southwest Pacific ⬇️

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New fossil penguins (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Oligocene of New Zealand reveal the skeletal plan of stem penguins

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Oligocene Whales and Dolphins from the Southwest Pacific

scholarly article

On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon “Cetartiodactyla”

scientific article published in 2021

Papahu taitapu, gen. et sp. nov., an early Miocene stem odontocete (Cetacea) from New Zealand

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Papahu-like fossil dolphin from Kaikoura, New Zealand, helps to fill the Early Miocene gap in the history of Odontoceti

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Penguin heat-retention structures evolved in a greenhouse Earth

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2011)

Quaternary Fossil Gray Whales from Taiwan

article by Cheng-Hsiu Tsai et al published April 2014 in Paleontological Research

Radiation of extant cetaceans driven by restructuring of the oceans

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Rautangaroa, a new genus of feather star (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

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Records of two Paleogene turtles and notes on other Tertiary reptilian remains from New Zealand

scientific article published in 1979

Retroposon analysis of major cetacean lineages: the monophyly of toothed whales and the paraphyly of river dolphins

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Rhabdosteid dolphins (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Middle Miocene, Lake Frome area, South Australia

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Simocetus rayi (Odontoceti: Simocetidae, New Family): A Bizarre New Archaic Oligocene Dolphin from the Eastern North Pacific ⬇️

scientific chapter published in 2002

Skeleton of two minke whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, stranded on the south-east coast of New Zealand

scholarly article

Speciation in the deep: genomics and morphology reveal a new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Stem albatrosses wandered far: a new species of Plotornis (Aves, Pan-Diomedeidae) from the earliest Miocene of New Zealand ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 November 2023

Stranding of a Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823, at New Brighton, New Zealand

scholarly article

Strontium isotopes reveal a globally unique assemblage of Early Miocene baleen whales ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 March 2024

Taxonomic status of Victorian fossil whales assigned to the genus Cetotolites McCoy, 1879 ⬇️

The Earliest Gulp-Feeding Mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

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The Evolutionary History of Whales and Dolphins

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The Evolutionary History of Whales and Dolphins

article published in 1994

The Kentriodontidae and the Origin of the Delphinoids

scholarly article

The Strangest Bird

The cerebral cortex of the pygmy hippopotamus, Hexaprotodon liberiensis (Cetartiodactyla, Hippopotamidae): MRI, cytoarchitecture, and neuronal morphology

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The distribution of the blue duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, in the South Island: a preliminary study

scholarly article

The first pre-Pleistocene cetacean from Madagascar, western Indian Ocean

scholarly article

The fossil vertebrate primary type specimens in the collection of the University of Otago Department of Geology ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 August 2024

The heterothermic loophole exploited by penguins

scientific article published in 2007

The moa footprints from the Pliocene – early Pleistocene of Kyeburn, Otago, New Zealand ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 November 2023

The morphology and systematics of New Zealand fossil cetacea ⬇️

1978 doctoral thesis by R. Ewan Fordyce at University of Canterbury

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

scientific article

The strangest bird: recent fossil discoveries reveal the surprising evolutionary history of penguins

scientific article published on November 1, 2012

Trace fossil evidence of predation upon bone-eating worms on a baleen whale skeleton from the Oligocene of New Zealand

scientific article published in 2014

Ultrastructure of enamel and dentine in extant dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinoidea and Inioidea)

scholarly article by Carolina Loch et al published 17 November 2012 in Zoomorphology

Use of Micro-Computed Tomography for Dental Studies in Modern and Fossil Odontocetes: Potential Applications and Limitations

Whale evolution and Oligocene southern ocean environments

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