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List of works by Robert W. Boessenecker

A Middle Pleistocene Sea Otter from Northern California and the Antiquity of Enhydra in the Pacific Basin

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A New Squat Lobster (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea) from the Pliocene Purisima Formation, California

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

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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 marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: December 2013)

A reevaluation of the morphology, paleoecology, and phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic walrus Pelagiarctos

scientific article published in 2013

A review of New Zealand Eomysticetidae (Mammalia, Cetacea) and implications for the evolution of baleen whales: new specimens, functional anatomy, and phylogeny ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 February 2024

A toothless dwarf dolphin (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) points to explosive feeding diversification of modern whales (Neoceti) ⬇️

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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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Anatomy, ontogeny, functional morphology, taphonomy, and phylogenetic relationships of archaic toothless mysticetes (Eomysticetidae) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

2015 doctoral thesis by Robert Boessenecker at University of Otago

Comparative taphonomy, taphofacies, and bonebeds of the Mio-Pliocene Purisima Formation, central California: strong physical control on marine vertebrate preservation in shallow marine settings

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Convergent Evolution of Swimming Adaptations in Modern Whales Revealed by a Large Macrophagous Dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Enamel ultrastructure of fossil and modern pinnipeds: evaluating hypotheses of feeding adaptations in the extinct walrus Pelagiarctos.

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Evidence for convergent evolution of ultrasonic hearing in toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti)

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Expanding the geographic and geochronologic range of early pinnipeds: new specimens of Enaliarctos from Northern California and Oregon

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First record of a leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelyidae) from the Mio-Pliocene Purisima Formation of northern California, USA

scientific article published in 2019

First records of two mackerel shark species ( Carcharodon planus comb. nov. and Carcharodon hubbelli ; Lamnidae) from New Zealand ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 December 2023

Freshwater occurrence of the extinct dolphinParapontoporia(Cetacea: Lipotidae) from the upper Pliocene nonmarine Tulare Formation of California

scholarly article by Robert W. Boessenecker & Ashley W. Poust published 27 February 2015 in Palaeontology

Geology and paleontology of the late Miocene Wilson Grove Formation at Bloomfield Quarry, Sonoma County, California

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Herpetocetus morrowi(Cetacea: Mysticeti), a new species of diminutive baleen whale from the Upper Pliocene (Piacenzian) of California, USA, with observations on the evolution and relationships of the Cetotheriidae

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Latest Pacific Basin record of a bony-toothed bird (aves, Pelagornithidae) from the Pliocene Purisima Formation of California, U.S.A

article published in 2011

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

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Multispecies leatherback assemblage from the Chandler Bridge and Ashley formations (Oligocene) of South Carolina, USA

scientific article published in 2020

New records of the archaic dolphin (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the upper Oligocene Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina, USA

scholarly article by Robert W Boessenecker & Jonathan H Geisler published 2018 in PeerJ

New records of the dolphin Albertocetus meffordorum (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) from the lower Oligocene of South Carolina: Encephalization, sensory anatomy, postcranial morphology, and ontogeny of early odontocetes

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Pleistocene survival of an archaic dwarf baleen whale (Mysticeti: Cetotheriidae)

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Problematic archaic whale Phococetus (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, USA, with comments on geochronology of the Pungo River Formation

scholarly article by Robert W. Boessenecker published 12 June 2018 in Paläontologische Zeitschrift

Taxonomy and biogeography of the Pleistocene New Zealand sea lion Neophoca palatina (Carnivora: Otariidae)

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The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses

scholarly article by Annalisa Berta et al published 30 May 2018 in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Origin of Filter Feeding in Whales ⬇️

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The earliest-known fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, from the Early Pleistocene of northern California, U.S.A

The last of the desmatophocid seals: a new species of Allodesmus from the upper Miocene of Washington, USA, and a revision of the taxonomy of Desmatophocidae

scientific article published in 2018

The oldest known fur seal

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The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: a partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation

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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

Unique Feeding Morphology in a New Prognathous Extinct Porpoise from the Pliocene of California ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: March 2014)

Youngest record of the extinct walrus Ontocetus emmonsi from the Early Pleistocene of South Carolina and a review of North Atlantic walrus biochronology

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