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Academic Editor

Nicholas D. Pyenson

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

Work details

Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals

Smithsonian Institution

Department of Paleobiology

National Museum of Natural History

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Articles published in PeerJ

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

August 16th, 2016

Alexandra T. Boersma, Nicholas D. Pyenson

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

September 1st, 2015

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

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On Prophoca and Leptophoca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm: redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications

February 21st, 2017

A new species of Metopocetus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of the Netherlands

January 28th, 2016

Options for modulating intra-specific competition in colonial pinnipeds: the case of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Wadden Sea

June 9th, 2015

Organization and distribution of glomeruli in the bowhead whale olfactory bulb

April 28th, 2015

Occurrence of the megatoothed sharks (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) in Alabama, USA

October 14th, 2014