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Nicholas Pyenson
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
2,215 Points

Contributions by role

Author 945
Reviewer 70
Editor 1,200

Contributions by subject area

Ecology
Evolutionary Studies
Marine Biology
Paleontology
Zoology
Taxonomy
Anatomy and Physiology
Biogeography
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Statistics
Neuroscience
Histology
Veterinary Medicine
Developmental Biology
Bioinformatics
Genomics

Nicholas D Pyenson

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Dr. Nicholas D. Pyenson is a research geologist and curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. As a paleontologist, his scientific research focuses on the repeated and convergent evolution of marine life, including iconic lineages such as sea turtles, sea cows, and especially whales.

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

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 7
  • Edited 10
  • Reviewed 2
October 18, 2022
Fossil Sirenia from the Pleistocene of Qatar: new questions about the antiquity of sea cows in the Gulf Region
Nicholas D. Pyenson, Mehsin Al-Ansi, Clare M. Fieseler, Khalid Hassan Al Jaber, Katherine D. Klim, Jacques LeBlanc, Ahmad Mujthaba Dheen Mohamed, Ismail Al-Shaikh, Christopher D. Marshall
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14075 PubMed 36275454
July 30, 2021
Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales
Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11890 PubMed 34395101
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

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May 5, 2022
Breaking the mold: telescoping drives the evolution of more integrated and heterogeneous skulls in cetaceans
Mónica R. Buono, Evangelos Vlachos
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13392 PubMed 35539009
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
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5734 PubMed 30324020
February 21, 2017
On Prophoca and Leptophoca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm: redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications
Leonard Dewaele, Olivier Lambert, Stephen Louwye
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3024 PubMed 28243538
January 28, 2016
A new species of Metopocetus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of the Netherlands
Felix Georg Marx, Mark E.J. Bosselaers, Stephen Louwye
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1572 PubMed 26835183
June 9, 2015
Options for modulating intra-specific competition in colonial pinnipeds: the case of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Wadden Sea
Rory P. Wilson, Nikolai Liebsch, Agustina Gómez-Laich, William P. Kay, Andrew Bone, Victoria J. Hobson, Ursula Siebert
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.957 PubMed 26082869
April 28, 2015
Organization and distribution of glomeruli in the bowhead whale olfactory bulb
Takushi Kishida, JGM Thewissen, Sharon Usip, Robert S. Suydam, John C. George
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.897 PubMed 25945304
October 14, 2014
Occurrence of the megatoothed sharks (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) in Alabama, USA
Dana J. Ehret, Jun Ebersole
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.625 PubMed 25332848

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

February 24, 2021
A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early to middle Miocene of the western North Pacific and a revision of kentriodontid phylogeny
Zixuan Guo, Naoki Kohno
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10945 PubMed 33665037
September 12, 2018
A close relative of the Amazon river dolphin in marine deposits: a new Iniidae from the late Miocene of Angola
Olivier Lambert, Camille Auclair, Cirilo Cauxeiro, Michel Lopez, Sylvain Adnet
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5556 PubMed 30225172