Morphological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Cetacea

By J. Geisler, A. Sanders. Journal of mammalian evolution, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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7. F. G. Marx
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• An Anatomical and Phylogenetic Study of the Osteology of the Petrosal of Extant and Extinct Artiodactylans (Mammalia) and Relatives (2010, background): “…are occasionally present on this surface, which Luo and Gingerich (1999: 13, 45) hypothesized were likely made by the ramus superior of the stapedial artery or possibly a petrosquamous vein (see also Fordyce, 1994; Geisler and Luo, 1998; Geisler and Sanders, 2003; Mead and Fordyce, 2009).”
• A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans (2013, background): “Various phylogenetic analyses have used many extinct marine mammals from the eastern North Pacific as “benchmark” taxa, including several odontocetes (Geisler & Sanders 2003; Lambert 2008a; Geisler et al. 2011), mysticetes (Bouetel & Muizon 2006; Marx 2011; Geisler et al. 2011), pinnipeds (Berta &…”
• The Taxonomic and Evolutionary History of Fossil and Modern Balaenopteroid Mysticetes (2005, methodology): “…and elevation of the Eschrichtioidea to a new rank; Mitchell, 1989), monophyly of the Balaenopteroidea has been supported by recent morphological (Geisler and Luo, 1996; Geisler and Sanders, 2003) and molecular studies (Arnason et al., 1993; Arnason and Gullberg, 1994, 1996; Rychel et al., 2004).”
• MANDIBULAR AND DENTAL VARIATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SUCTION FEEDING IN ODONTOCETI (2006, background): “However, the monophyly of ‘‘Platanistoidea,’’ including extant families Platanistidae, Iniidae, Lipotidae, and Pontoporiidae, is far from certain (Geisler and Sanders 2003; Rice 1998); this may represent a poly- or paraphyletic assemblage of relict dolphin lineages that convergently evolved…”
• Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record (2011, background): “Kentriodontidae represents a basal group of delphinidans or delphinoids (Fordyce and Muizon 2001; Fordyce 2009), but the phylogenetic rela- tionships of kentriodontids have remained volatile, and many workers suggest that the group may be para- or polyphyletic (Geisler and Sanders 2003).”
• The More the Merrier? A Large Cladistic Analysis of Mysticetes, and Comments on the Transition from Teeth to Baleen (2011, background): “Steeman et al. 2009), but unlike all previous morphological studies (e.g., Geisler and Sanders 2003 ; S teeman2007; Bisconti 2008), the present analysis found the pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, to be closely related to a clade comprising eschrichtiids (gray whales) and balaenopterids (rorqua”