Nicholas D Pyenson

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Affiliate Curator at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, 2013-2015 Paleontological Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Ecology Evolutionary Studies Marine Biology Paleontology Zoology

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals

Smithsonian Institution

Department of Paleobiology

National Museum of Natural History

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

February 5, 2021

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

Sabrina L. Groves, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10882 PubMed 33604200

September 2, 2020

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

Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro, Maria H. Zicos, Nicholas D. Pyenson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9665 PubMed 32953258

October 8, 2019

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

Matthew S. Leslie, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7629 PubMed 31608165

August 16, 2016

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

Alexandra T. Boersma, Nicholas D. Pyenson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2321 PubMed 27602287

September 1, 2015

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

Nicholas D. Pyenson, Jorge Vélez-Juarbe, Carolina S. Gutstein, Holly Little, Dioselina Vigil, Aaron O’Dea

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1227 PubMed 26355720

Academic Editor on

November 11, 2020

Age relationships with telomere length, body weight and body length in wild dugong (Dugong dugon)

Phaothep Cherdsukjai, Kittisak Buddhachat, Janine Brown, Manthanee Kaewkool, Anocha Poommouang, Patcharaporn Kaewmong, Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong, Korakot Nganvongpanit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10319 PubMed 33240643

May 1, 2019

Anatomy of Rhinochelys pulchriceps (Protostegidae) and marine adaptation during the early evolution of chelonioids

Serjoscha W. Evers, Paul M. Barrett, Roger B. J. Benson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6811 PubMed 31106054

October 12, 2018

A new tuskless walrus from the Miocene of Orange County, California, with comments on the diversity and taxonomy of odobenids

Isaac Magallanes, James F. Parham, Gabriel-Philip Santos, Jorge Velez-Juarbe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5708 PubMed 30345169

October 9, 2018

A late surviving Pliocene seal from high latitudes of the North Atlantic realm: the latest monachine seal on the southern margin of the North Sea

Leonard Dewaele, Olivier Lambert, Stephen Louwye