The oldest and the rarest - combining insight from both hemispheres to gain a global picture of baleen whale origins and macroevolution

Project Information

MYSTICETI

Grant agreement ID: 656010

DOI 10.3030/656010

Project closed

EC signature date 12 March 2015

Start date 16 November 2015

End date 15 November 2018

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 264 780,00

EU contribution € 264 780,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT ROYAL DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE BELGIQUE
Belgium

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert

Author(s): Felix G. Marx, Naoki Kohno
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 3/10, 2016, Page(s) 160542, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160542

A new Miocene baleen whale from Peru deciphers the dawn of cetotheriids

Author(s): Felix G. Marx, Olivier Lambert, Christian de Muizon
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 4/9, 2017, Page(s) 170560, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170560

A Link No Longer Missing: New Evidence for the Cetotheriid Affinities of Caperea

Author(s): Felix G. Marx, R. Ewan Fordyce
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 11/10, 2016, Page(s) e0164059, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164059

A behavioural framework for the evolution of feeding in predatory aquatic mammals

Author(s): David P. Hocking, Felix G. Marx, Travis Park, Erich M. G. Fitzgerald, Alistair R. Evans
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 284/1850, 2017, Page(s) 20162750, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2750

Suction feeding preceded filtering in baleen whale evolution

Author(s): Felix G. Marx, David P. Hocking, Travis Park, Tim Ziegler, Alistair R. Evans, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald
Published in: Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Issue 75, 2016, Page(s) 71-82, ISSN 1447-2546
Publisher: Museum Victoria
DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2016.75.04

Ancient whales did not filter feed with their teeth

Author(s): David P. Hocking, Felix G. Marx, Erich M. G. Fitzgerald, Alistair R. Evans
Published in: Biology Letters, Issue 13/8, 2017, Page(s) 20170348, ISSN 1744-9561
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0348

How whales used to filter: exceptionally preserved baleen in a Miocene cetotheriid

Author(s): Felix G. Marx, Alberto Collareta, Anna Gioncada, Klaas Post, Olivier Lambert, Elena Bonaccorsi, Mario Urbina, Giovanni Bianucci
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, Issue 231/2, 2017, Page(s) 212-220, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12622

The cochlea of the enigmatic pygmy right whale Caperea marginata informs mysticete phylogeny

Author(s): Travis Park, Felix G. Marx, Erich M. G. Fitzgerald, Alistair R. Evans
Published in: Journal of Morphology, Issue 278/6, 2017, Page(s) 801-809, ISSN 0362-2525
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20674

Northern pygmy right whales highlight Quaternary marine mammal interchange

Author(s): Cheng-Hsiu Tsai, Alberto Collareta, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald, Felix G. Marx, Naoki Kohno, Mark Bosselaers, Gianni Insacco, Agatino Reitano, Rita Catanzariti, Masayuki Oishi, Giovanni Bianucci
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 27/19, 2017, Page(s) R1058-R1059, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.056

Gigantism Precedes Filter Feeding in Baleen Whale Evolution

Author(s): R. Ewan Fordyce, Felix G. Marx
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 28/10, 2018, Page(s) 1670-1676.e2, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.027

A Miocene pygmy right whale fossil from Australia

Author(s): Felix G. Marx, Travis Park, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald, Alistair R. Evans
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 6, 2018, Page(s) e5025, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5025

Clawed forelimbs allow northern seals to eat like their ancient ancestors

Author(s): David P. Hocking, Felix G. Marx, Renae Sattler, Robert N. Harris, Tahlia I. Pollock, Karina J. Sorrell, Erich M. G. Fitzgerald, Matthew R. McCurry, Alistair R. Evans
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 5/4, 2018, Page(s) 172393, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172393

Reply to comment by Kienle et al . 2017

Author(s): David P. Hocking, Felix G. Marx, Travis Park, Erich M. G. Fitzgerald, Alistair R. Evans
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 284/1863, 2017, Page(s) 20171836, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1836

Gigantic mysticete predators roamed the Eocene Southern Ocean

Author(s): Felix G. Marx, Mónica R. Buono, Alistair R. Evans, R. Ewan Fordyce, Marcelo Reguero, David P. Hocking
Published in: Antarctic Science, Issue 31/02, 2019, Page(s) 98-104, ISSN 0954-1020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s095410201800055x

A large Late Miocene cetotheriid (Cetacea, Mysticeti) from the Netherlands clarifies the status of Tranatocetidae

Author(s): Felix G. Marx, Klaas Post, Mark Bosselaers, Dirk K. Munsterman
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 7, 2019, Page(s) e6426, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6426

Like phoenix from the ashes: how modern baleen whales arose from a fossil ‘dark age’

Author(s): Felix Marx, Erich Fitzgerald, R. Ewan Fordyce
Published in: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Issue 64, 2019, ISSN 0567-7920
Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
DOI: 10.4202/app.00575.2018