Uhen Lab Publications
Uhen, M. D., B. Allen, N. Behboudi, M. E. Clapham, E. Dunne, A. Hendy, P. A. Holroyd, M. Hopkins, P. Mannion, P. Novack-Gottshall, C. Pimiento, and P. Wagner. 2023. Paleobiology Database User Guide Version 1.0. PaleoBios 40.
Prothero, D. R., Domning, D., Fordyce, R. E., Foss, S., Janis, C., Lucas, S., Marriott, K. L., Metais, G., Naish, D., Padian, K., Rössner, G., Solounias, N., Spaulding, M., Stucky, R. M., Theodor, J., and Uhen, M., 2022, On the unnecessary and misleading taxon “Cetartiodactyla”: Journal of Mammalian Evolution, v. 29, no. 1, p. 93-97.
Peredo, C. M., Pyenson, N. D., and Uhen, M. D., 2022, Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales: Sci Rep, v. 12, no. 1, p. 11448.
Uhen, M., and Peredo, C., 2021, The first possible remingtonocetid from North America: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 66, no. 1, p. 77-83.
Smith, K. M., Hastings, A. K., Bebej, R. M., and Uhen, M. D., 2021, Biogeographic, stratigraphic, and environmental distribution of Basilosaurus (Mammalia, Cetacea) in North America with a review of the late Eocene shoreline in the southeastern coastal plain: Journal of Paleontology, v. 96, no. 2, p. 439-451.
Jukar, A. M., Lyons, S. K., Wagner, P. J., and Uhen, M. D., 2021, Late Quaternary extinctions in the Indian Subcontinent: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 562.
Currano, E., Cleveland, C., Contreras, D., Koll, R., Meredith, D., Peters, S., Uhen, M. D., and Zaffos, A., 2021, Introducing PBot, the integrative paleobiotany portal: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 53, no. 6.
Nelson, M.D. and Uhen, M.D., 2020, A new platanistoid, Perditicetus yaconensis gen. et sp. nov. (Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Chattian–Aquitanian Nye Formation of Oregon: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 18, no. 18, p. 1497-1517.
Hudgins, M. N., Uhen, M. D., and Hinnov, L. A., 2020, The evolution of respiratory systems in Theropoda and Paracrocodylomorpha, the end-Triassic extinction, and the role of Late Triassic atmospheric O2 and CO2: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 545.
Close, R. A., Benson, R. B. J., Alroy, J., Carrano, M. T., Cleary, T. J., Dunne, E. M., Mannion, P. D., Uhen, M. D., and Butler, R. J., 2020, The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 287, no. 1924, p. 20200372.
Churchill, M., and Uhen, M. D., 2019, Taxonomic implications of morphometric analysis of earless seal limb bones: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 64, no. 2, p. 213–230.
Lukes, L. A., Ryker, K., Millsaps, C., Lockwood, R., Uhen, M. D., George, C. O., Bentley, C., and Berquist, P. J., 2019, Leveraging a Large Database to Increase Access to Undergraduate Research Experiences: Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, v. 2, no. 4, p. 4-13.
Close, R. A., Benson, R. B. J., Alroy, J., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Benito, J., Carrano, M. T., Cleary, T. J., Dunne, E. M., Mannion, P. D., Uhen, M. D., and Butler, R. J., 2019, Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale: Nat Ecol Evol, v. 3, no. 4, p. 590-597.
Lockwood, R., Cohen, P. A., Uhen, M. D., and Ryker, K., 2018, Utilizing the Paleobiology Database to Provide Educational Opportunities for Undergraduates: Elements of Paleontology, p. 1-22.
Hudgins, M. N., Uhen, M. D., and Hinnov, L. N., 2018, The evolution of respiratory systems in Theropoda and Paracrocodylomorpha and the end-Triassic extinction: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts of Papers, v. 2018, p. 1523.
Thewissen, J. G. M., and Uhen, M. D., 2018, Evolutionary patterns, in Würsig, B., Thewissen, J. G. M., and Kovacs, K. M., eds., Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals: London, Academic Press, p. 344.
Uhen, M.D., 2018, Dental morphology, in Würsig, B., Thewissen, J. G. M., and Kovacs, K. M., eds., Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals: London, Academic Press, p. 246-250.
Uhen, M. D., 2018, Basilosaurids and kekenodontids, in Würsig, B., Thewissen, J. G. M., and Kovacs, K. M., eds., Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals: London, Academic Press, p. 78-80.
Uhen, M.D., 2018, The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolutinon; book review: Quarterly Review of Biology, v. 93, no. 4, p. 377-378.
Peredo, C.M., N.D. Pyenson, C.D. Marshall, and M.D. Uhen. 2018. Tooth loss precedes the origin of baleen in whales. Current Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.047
Peredo, C.M., J.S. Peredo, and N.D. Pyenson. 2018. Convergence on dental simplification in the evolution of whales. Paleobiology 44(3): 434-443.
Peredo, C.M. and N.D. Pyenson. 2018. Salishicetus meadi, a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution. Royal Society Open Science 5: 172336.
Gilbert, K.N., L.C. Ivany, and M.D. Uhen. 2018. Living fast and dying young: Life history and ecology of a Neogene sperm whale. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(2): e1439038.
Nelson, M.D. and M.D. Uhen. 2018. First occurrence of a squalodelphinid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Washington State. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(2): e1428197.
Peredo, C.M., M.D. Uhen, and M.D. Nelson. 2018. A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early Miocene Astoria Formation and a revision of the stem delphidan family Kentriodontidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(2): e1411357.
Dewaele, L., C.M. Peredo, P. Meyvisch, S. Louwye. 2018. Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species. Royal Society Open Science 5(3): 172437.
Jukar, A.M., S.K. Lyons, and M.D. Uhen. 2018. A cranial correlate of body mass in proboscideans. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Pimiento, C., J.N. Griffin, C.F. Clements, D. Silvestro, S. Varela, M.D. Uhen, and C. Jaramillo. 2017. The Pliocene megafaunal extinction and its impact on functional diversity. Nature ecology & evolution 1(8): 1100-1106.
Peredo, C.M., N.D. Pyenson, A.T. Boersma. 2017. Decoupling tooth loss from the evolution of baleen in whales. Frontiers in Marine Science 4:67.
Uhen, M.D. 2017. Dental morphology; pp. 246-250 in B. Wuersig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and K.M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press, London.
Uhen, M.D. 2017. Basilosaurids and kekenodontids; pp. 78-80 in B. Wuersig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and K.M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press, London.
Pauli, J.N., S.D. Newsome, J.A. Cook, C. Harrod, S.A. Steffan, C.J. Baker, M. Ben-David, D. Bloom, G.J. Bowen, T.E. Cerling, C. Cicero, C. Cook, M. Dohm, P.S. Dharampal, G. Graves, R. Gropp, K.A. Hobson, C. Jordan, B. McFadden, S. Pilaar Birch, J. Poelen, S. Ratnasingham, L. Russell, C.A. Stricker, M.D. Uhen, C.T. Barnes, and B. Hayden. 2017. Opinion: Why we need a centralized repository for isotopic data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114(12): 2997-3001.
Peredo, C.M., N.D. Pyenson, M.D. Uhen, and C.D. Marshall. 2017. Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans. PLoS One 12(5): e0178243.
Peredo, C. M., and M. D. Uhen. 2016. A new basal chaeomysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Late Oligocene Pysht Formation of Washington, USA. Papers in Palaeontology 2(4): 533-554.
Peredo, C. M., and M. D. Uhen. 2016. Exploration of marine mammal paleogeography in the Northern Hemisphere over the Cenozoic using beta diversity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 449:227-235.
Arrighi, J. M., E. S. Lencer, A. Jukar, D. Park, P. C. Phillips, and R. H. Kaplan. 2013. Daily temperature fluctuations unpredictably influence developmental rate and morphology at a critical early larval stage in a frog. BMC Ecology 13:18.
Hartstone-Rose, A., H. Selvey, J. R. Villari, M. Atwell, and T. Schmidt. 2014. The Three-Dimensional Morphological Effects of Captivity. PLoS One 9:e113437.
Petruny, L.M., Wright, A.J. & Smith, C.E. 2014. Getting it right for the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis): A last opportunity for effective marine spatial planning? Marine Pollution Bulletin 85(1): 24-32.
Prothero, D. R., Domning, D., Fordyce, R. E., Foss, S., Janis, C., Lucas, S., Marriott, K. L., Metais, G., Naish, D., Padian, K., Rössner, G., Solounias, N., Spaulding, M., Stucky, R. M., Theodor, J., and Uhen, M., 2022, On the unnecessary and misleading taxon “Cetartiodactyla”: Journal of Mammalian Evolution, v. 29, no. 1, p. 93-97.
Peredo, C. M., Pyenson, N. D., and Uhen, M. D., 2022, Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales: Sci Rep, v. 12, no. 1, p. 11448.
Uhen, M., and Peredo, C., 2021, The first possible remingtonocetid from North America: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 66, no. 1, p. 77-83.
Smith, K. M., Hastings, A. K., Bebej, R. M., and Uhen, M. D., 2021, Biogeographic, stratigraphic, and environmental distribution of Basilosaurus (Mammalia, Cetacea) in North America with a review of the late Eocene shoreline in the southeastern coastal plain: Journal of Paleontology, v. 96, no. 2, p. 439-451.
Jukar, A. M., Lyons, S. K., Wagner, P. J., and Uhen, M. D., 2021, Late Quaternary extinctions in the Indian Subcontinent: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 562.
Currano, E., Cleveland, C., Contreras, D., Koll, R., Meredith, D., Peters, S., Uhen, M. D., and Zaffos, A., 2021, Introducing PBot, the integrative paleobiotany portal: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 53, no. 6.
Nelson, M.D. and Uhen, M.D., 2020, A new platanistoid, Perditicetus yaconensis gen. et sp. nov. (Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Chattian–Aquitanian Nye Formation of Oregon: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 18, no. 18, p. 1497-1517.
Hudgins, M. N., Uhen, M. D., and Hinnov, L. A., 2020, The evolution of respiratory systems in Theropoda and Paracrocodylomorpha, the end-Triassic extinction, and the role of Late Triassic atmospheric O2 and CO2: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 545.
Close, R. A., Benson, R. B. J., Alroy, J., Carrano, M. T., Cleary, T. J., Dunne, E. M., Mannion, P. D., Uhen, M. D., and Butler, R. J., 2020, The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 287, no. 1924, p. 20200372.
Churchill, M., and Uhen, M. D., 2019, Taxonomic implications of morphometric analysis of earless seal limb bones: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 64, no. 2, p. 213–230.
Lukes, L. A., Ryker, K., Millsaps, C., Lockwood, R., Uhen, M. D., George, C. O., Bentley, C., and Berquist, P. J., 2019, Leveraging a Large Database to Increase Access to Undergraduate Research Experiences: Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, v. 2, no. 4, p. 4-13.
Close, R. A., Benson, R. B. J., Alroy, J., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Benito, J., Carrano, M. T., Cleary, T. J., Dunne, E. M., Mannion, P. D., Uhen, M. D., and Butler, R. J., 2019, Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale: Nat Ecol Evol, v. 3, no. 4, p. 590-597.
Lockwood, R., Cohen, P. A., Uhen, M. D., and Ryker, K., 2018, Utilizing the Paleobiology Database to Provide Educational Opportunities for Undergraduates: Elements of Paleontology, p. 1-22.
Hudgins, M. N., Uhen, M. D., and Hinnov, L. N., 2018, The evolution of respiratory systems in Theropoda and Paracrocodylomorpha and the end-Triassic extinction: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts of Papers, v. 2018, p. 1523.
Thewissen, J. G. M., and Uhen, M. D., 2018, Evolutionary patterns, in Würsig, B., Thewissen, J. G. M., and Kovacs, K. M., eds., Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals: London, Academic Press, p. 344.
Uhen, M.D., 2018, Dental morphology, in Würsig, B., Thewissen, J. G. M., and Kovacs, K. M., eds., Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals: London, Academic Press, p. 246-250.
Uhen, M. D., 2018, Basilosaurids and kekenodontids, in Würsig, B., Thewissen, J. G. M., and Kovacs, K. M., eds., Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals: London, Academic Press, p. 78-80.
Uhen, M.D., 2018, The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolutinon; book review: Quarterly Review of Biology, v. 93, no. 4, p. 377-378.
Peredo, C.M., N.D. Pyenson, C.D. Marshall, and M.D. Uhen. 2018. Tooth loss precedes the origin of baleen in whales. Current Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.047
Peredo, C.M., J.S. Peredo, and N.D. Pyenson. 2018. Convergence on dental simplification in the evolution of whales. Paleobiology 44(3): 434-443.
Peredo, C.M. and N.D. Pyenson. 2018. Salishicetus meadi, a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution. Royal Society Open Science 5: 172336.
Gilbert, K.N., L.C. Ivany, and M.D. Uhen. 2018. Living fast and dying young: Life history and ecology of a Neogene sperm whale. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(2): e1439038.
Nelson, M.D. and M.D. Uhen. 2018. First occurrence of a squalodelphinid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Washington State. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(2): e1428197.
Peredo, C.M., M.D. Uhen, and M.D. Nelson. 2018. A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early Miocene Astoria Formation and a revision of the stem delphidan family Kentriodontidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(2): e1411357.
Dewaele, L., C.M. Peredo, P. Meyvisch, S. Louwye. 2018. Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species. Royal Society Open Science 5(3): 172437.
Jukar, A.M., S.K. Lyons, and M.D. Uhen. 2018. A cranial correlate of body mass in proboscideans. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Pimiento, C., J.N. Griffin, C.F. Clements, D. Silvestro, S. Varela, M.D. Uhen, and C. Jaramillo. 2017. The Pliocene megafaunal extinction and its impact on functional diversity. Nature ecology & evolution 1(8): 1100-1106.
Peredo, C.M., N.D. Pyenson, A.T. Boersma. 2017. Decoupling tooth loss from the evolution of baleen in whales. Frontiers in Marine Science 4:67.
Uhen, M.D. 2017. Dental morphology; pp. 246-250 in B. Wuersig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and K.M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press, London.
Uhen, M.D. 2017. Basilosaurids and kekenodontids; pp. 78-80 in B. Wuersig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and K.M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press, London.
Pauli, J.N., S.D. Newsome, J.A. Cook, C. Harrod, S.A. Steffan, C.J. Baker, M. Ben-David, D. Bloom, G.J. Bowen, T.E. Cerling, C. Cicero, C. Cook, M. Dohm, P.S. Dharampal, G. Graves, R. Gropp, K.A. Hobson, C. Jordan, B. McFadden, S. Pilaar Birch, J. Poelen, S. Ratnasingham, L. Russell, C.A. Stricker, M.D. Uhen, C.T. Barnes, and B. Hayden. 2017. Opinion: Why we need a centralized repository for isotopic data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114(12): 2997-3001.
Peredo, C.M., N.D. Pyenson, M.D. Uhen, and C.D. Marshall. 2017. Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans. PLoS One 12(5): e0178243.
Peredo, C. M., and M. D. Uhen. 2016. A new basal chaeomysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Late Oligocene Pysht Formation of Washington, USA. Papers in Palaeontology 2(4): 533-554.
Peredo, C. M., and M. D. Uhen. 2016. Exploration of marine mammal paleogeography in the Northern Hemisphere over the Cenozoic using beta diversity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 449:227-235.
Arrighi, J. M., E. S. Lencer, A. Jukar, D. Park, P. C. Phillips, and R. H. Kaplan. 2013. Daily temperature fluctuations unpredictably influence developmental rate and morphology at a critical early larval stage in a frog. BMC Ecology 13:18.
Hartstone-Rose, A., H. Selvey, J. R. Villari, M. Atwell, and T. Schmidt. 2014. The Three-Dimensional Morphological Effects of Captivity. PLoS One 9:e113437.
Petruny, L.M., Wright, A.J. & Smith, C.E. 2014. Getting it right for the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis): A last opportunity for effective marine spatial planning? Marine Pollution Bulletin 85(1): 24-32.