List of works - Nicholas D. Pyenson

A new dwarf seal from the late Neogene of South America and the evolution of pinnipeds in the southern hemisphere

A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea)

scientific article

Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm Whales

scientific article

Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans

scientific article

Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea ⬇️

scientific article

Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements

scientific article published on 3 November 2021

Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean

scholarly article by Jorge Vélez-Juarbe & Nicholas D. Pyenson published March 2012 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Borealodon osedax, a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and its implications for fossil whale-fall communities

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Brain size evolution in whales and dolphins: new data from fossil mysticetes

Carcasses on the coastline: measuring the ecological fidelity of the cetacean stranding record in the eastern North Pacific Ocean

article published in 2010

Comment on "Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales".

scientific article

Convergence on dental simplification in the evolution of whales

Decoupling Tooth Loss from the Evolution of Baleen in Whales

Diplomacy for the world’s hottest sea

scientific article published on 23 June 2022

Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales

scientific article

Diversity biases in terrestrial mammalian assemblages and quantifying the differences between museum collections and published accounts: A case study from the Miocene of Nevada

article

Early and fast rise of Mesozoic ocean giants

Early development and orientation of the acoustic funnel provides insight into the evolution of sound reception pathways in cetaceans

scientific article

Elephant seal (Mirounga sp.) from the Pleistocene of the Antofagasta Region, northern Chile

article

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

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Extreme dispersal or human-transport? The enigmatic case of an extralimital freshwater occurrence of a Southern elephant seal from Indiana

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Feeding morphology and body size shape resource partitioning in an eared seal community

Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

scientific article

Fossil Sirenia from the Pleistocene of Qatar: new questions about the antiquity of sea cows in the Gulf Region

scientific article published in 2022

Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator

scholarly article

High frequency echolocation, ear morphology, and the marine–freshwater transition: A comparative study of extant and extinct toothed whales

scientific article

How to Produce Translational Research to Guide Arctic Policy

scientific article

Hyper-longirostry and kinematic disparity in extinct toothed whales

Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics.

scientific article published in May 2017

Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of 'river dolphins' in the Americas

scientific article published in September 2015

Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years

scientific article published in 2012

Late Pleistocene gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) offshore Georgia, U.S.A., and the antiquity of gray whale migration in the North Atlantic Ocean

article by Scott E. Noakes et al published December 2013 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales

Mandible allometry in extant and fossil Balaenopteridae (Cetacea: Mammalia): the largest vertebrate skeletal element and its role in rorqual lunge feeding

scholarly article by Nicholas D. Pyenson et al published 17 December 2012 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Marine tetrapod macroevolution: Physical and biological drivers on 250Ma of invasions and evolution in ocean ecosystems

scientific article published in 2014

Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density.

scientific article

Miocene whale-fall from California demonstrates that cetacean size did not determine the evolution of modern whale-fall communities

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2007)

Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales

scientific article published in 2021

Morphology of the odontocete melon and its implications for acoustic function

New Holocene grey whale () material from North Carolina: the most complete North Atlantic grey whale skeleton to date

New Middle Eocene Whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru ⬇️

article

New Seal (Carnivora, Phocidae) Record from the Late Miocene–Pliocene of Guafo Island, Southern Chile ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 September 2022

New data from the first discovered paleoparadoxiid (Desmostylia) specimen shed light into the morphological variation of the genus Neoparadoxia

scientific article published in 2022

New sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the iterative evolution of feeding ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous

scientific article published in 2010

Norrisanima miocaena, a new generic name and redescription of a stem balaenopteroid mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Novel muscle and connective tissue design enables high extensibility and controls engulfment volume in lunge-feeding rorqual whales

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

Oh, the shark has such teeth: Did megatooth sharks play a larger role in prehistoric food webs?

scientific article published in 2022

Origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum

scholarly article

Oroclinal bending of the Juan Fernández Ridge suggested by geohistory analysis of the Bahía Inglesa Formation, north-central Chile

article

Osteological correlates and phylogenetic analysis of deep diving in living and extinct pinnipeds: What good are big eyes?

Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: new evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile

article

Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record

scholarly article by Nicholas D. Pyenson & Simon N. Sponberg published 26 August 2011 in Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Reconstructing cetacean brain evolution using computed tomography

scientific article published in May 2003

Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2014)

Requiem forLipotes: An evolutionary perspective on marine mammal extinction

Salishicetus meadi, a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution.

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Scaling of lunge-feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass-specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity

scientific article published in 2011

Stretchy nerves are an essential component of the extreme feeding mechanism of rorqual whales

scientific article published in May 2015

Structure and Function in the Lunge Feeding Apparatus: Mechanical Properties of the Fin Whale Mandible

scientific article published in November 2017

The Ecological Rise of Whales Chronicled by the Fossil Record

scientific article

The antiquity of riverine adaptations in Iniidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) documented by a humerus from the late Miocene of the Ituzaingó Formation, Argentina

scientific article

The dilemma of trade samples and the importance of museum vouchers--caveats from a study on the extinction of Steller's sea cow: a comment on Crerar et al. (2014)

scientific article

The high fidelity of the cetacean stranding record: insights into measuring diversity by integrating taphonomy and macroecology ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2011)

The repeated evolution of dental apicobasal ridges in aquatic-feeding mammals and reptiles ⬇️

The rise of ocean giants: maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

scientific article

Tooth Loss Precedes the Origin of Baleen in Whales

scientific article published on 29 November 2018

Tortonian pontoporiid odontocetes from the Eastern North Sea

Treating medieval manuscripts as fossils

scientific article

Using morphology to infer physiology: case studies on rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae)

scientific article published in 2015

Vertebrate evolution. Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

scientific article

What are the limits on whale ear bone size? Non-isometric scaling of the cetacean bulla

scientific article published in 2021

What do we know about the fossil record of pinnipeds? A historiographical investigation

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

What happened to gray whales during the Pleistocene? The ecological impact of sea-level change on benthic feeding areas in the North Pacific Ocean

scientific article published in 2011

When sharks nearly disappeared

Where to find fantastic beasts at sea

scientific article

Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants

scientific article

List of works by Nicholas D. Pyenson

A new dwarf seal from the late Neogene of South America and the evolution of pinnipeds in the southern hemisphere

A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea)

Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm Whales

Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans

Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea ⬇️

Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements

Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean

Borealodon osedax, a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and its implications for fossil whale-fall communities

Brain size evolution in whales and dolphins: new data from fossil mysticetes

Carcasses on the coastline: measuring the ecological fidelity of the cetacean stranding record in the eastern North Pacific Ocean

Comment on "Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales".

Convergence on dental simplification in the evolution of whales

Decoupling Tooth Loss from the Evolution of Baleen in Whales

Diplomacy for the world’s hottest sea

Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales

Diversity biases in terrestrial mammalian assemblages and quantifying the differences between museum collections and published accounts: A case study from the Miocene of Nevada

Early and fast rise of Mesozoic ocean giants

Early development and orientation of the acoustic funnel provides insight into the evolution of sound reception pathways in cetaceans

Elephant seal (Mirounga sp.) from the Pleistocene of the Antofagasta Region, northern Chile

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

Extreme dispersal or human-transport? The enigmatic case of an extralimital freshwater occurrence of a Southern elephant seal from Indiana

Feeding morphology and body size shape resource partitioning in an eared seal community

Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

Fossil Sirenia from the Pleistocene of Qatar: new questions about the antiquity of sea cows in the Gulf Region

Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator

High frequency echolocation, ear morphology, and the marine–freshwater transition: A comparative study of extant and extinct toothed whales

How to Produce Translational Research to Guide Arctic Policy

Hyper-longirostry and kinematic disparity in extinct toothed whales

Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics.

Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of 'river dolphins' in the Americas

Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years

Late Pleistocene gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) offshore Georgia, U.S.A., and the antiquity of gray whale migration in the North Atlantic Ocean

Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales

Mandible allometry in extant and fossil Balaenopteridae (Cetacea: Mammalia): the largest vertebrate skeletal element and its role in rorqual lunge feeding

Marine tetrapod macroevolution: Physical and biological drivers on 250Ma of invasions and evolution in ocean ecosystems

Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density.

Miocene whale-fall from California demonstrates that cetacean size did not determine the evolution of modern whale-fall communities

Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales

Morphology of the odontocete melon and its implications for acoustic function

New Holocene grey whale () material from North Carolina: the most complete North Atlantic grey whale skeleton to date

New Middle Eocene Whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru ⬇️

New Seal (Carnivora, Phocidae) Record from the Late Miocene–Pliocene of Guafo Island, Southern Chile ⬇️

New data from the first discovered paleoparadoxiid (Desmostylia) specimen shed light into the morphological variation of the genus Neoparadoxia

New sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the iterative evolution of feeding ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous

Norrisanima miocaena, a new generic name and redescription of a stem balaenopteroid mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California

Novel muscle and connective tissue design enables high extensibility and controls engulfment volume in lunge-feeding rorqual whales

Oh, the shark has such teeth: Did megatooth sharks play a larger role in prehistoric food webs?

Origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum

Oroclinal bending of the Juan Fernández Ridge suggested by geohistory analysis of the Bahía Inglesa Formation, north-central Chile

Osteological correlates and phylogenetic analysis of deep diving in living and extinct pinnipeds: What good are big eyes?

Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: new evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile

Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record

Reconstructing cetacean brain evolution using computed tomography

Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea

Requiem forLipotes: An evolutionary perspective on marine mammal extinction

Salishicetus meadi, a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution.

Scaling of lunge-feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass-specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity

Stretchy nerves are an essential component of the extreme feeding mechanism of rorqual whales

Structure and Function in the Lunge Feeding Apparatus: Mechanical Properties of the Fin Whale Mandible

The Ecological Rise of Whales Chronicled by the Fossil Record

The antiquity of riverine adaptations in Iniidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) documented by a humerus from the late Miocene of the Ituzaingó Formation, Argentina

The dilemma of trade samples and the importance of museum vouchers--caveats from a study on the extinction of Steller's sea cow: a comment on Crerar et al. (2014)

The high fidelity of the cetacean stranding record: insights into measuring diversity by integrating taphonomy and macroecology ⬇️

The repeated evolution of dental apicobasal ridges in aquatic-feeding mammals and reptiles ⬇️

The rise of ocean giants: maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

Tooth Loss Precedes the Origin of Baleen in Whales

Tortonian pontoporiid odontocetes from the Eastern North Sea

Treating medieval manuscripts as fossils

Using morphology to infer physiology: case studies on rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae)

Vertebrate evolution. Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

What are the limits on whale ear bone size? Non-isometric scaling of the cetacean bulla

What do we know about the fossil record of pinnipeds? A historiographical investigation

What happened to gray whales during the Pleistocene? The ecological impact of sea-level change on benthic feeding areas in the North Pacific Ocean

When sharks nearly disappeared

Where to find fantastic beasts at sea

Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants

“Snagging” teeth and premolar homologies in Paleoparadoxiidae (Mammalia: Desmostylia)