Institute for a College of Science Sustainable Earth

Mark D. Uhen, PhD Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences

Education PhD, Geology, University of Michigan Key Interests

Vertebrate Paleontology | Paleobiology | Cenozoic | Marine Mammal Evolution | Paleodiversity

CONTACT Phone: 703-993-5264 | Email: [email protected] Website: http://uhenlab.weebly.com

SELECT PUBLICATIONS Research Focus › Mauricio Peredo, C., N.D. My research focuses on the origin and evolution of cetaceans (whales and dolphins), major Pyenson, M.D. Uhen, C.D. evolutionary transitions in general, functional morphology, use of stratigraphic data in Marshall. (2020). The apparent phylogenetic analysis, and theoretical aspects of diversification. I have published many papers in exponential radiation of scientific journals, contributed chapters to edited books, co-authored a book on the evolution of Phanerozoic land vertebrates whales, and presented at numerous scientific conferences. I am also a Research Associate at the is an artefact of spatial sampling biases. The Royal United States National Museum of Natural History, and the Chair of the Executive Committee of Society Publishing 287. the Paleobiology Database.

› Churchill, M. and M. D. Uhen. Current Projects (2019). Taxonomic implications ■ Marine mammal body mass evolution over the Cenozoic of morphometric analysis of earless seal limb bones. Acta ■ Latitudinal gradients in marine mammal diversity over the Cenozoic. Palaeontologica Polonica 64(2), 213-230. ■ Early evolution and diversification of mysticete cetaceans.

› Godfrey, S.J., M.D. Uhen, J.E. ■ Morphometrics of early cetacean hind limbs and axial skeletons. Osborne, L.E. Edwards. (2016). A new specimen of Agorophius pygmaeus (Agorophiidae, Odontoceti, Cetacea) from the early Oligocene Ashley Formation of South Carolina, USA. Cambridge University Press, Vol. 90, 154-169.

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