R. Ewan Fordyce

Robert Ewan Fordyce (1953–2023), New Zealand paleontologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Fordyce, R.E. 1994. Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species (Waipatiidae, new family), an archaic Late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand. Pp. 147–176 in Berta, A. & Deméré, T. (eds.). Contributions in marine mammal paleontology honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29. BHL Reference page.

Aguirre-Fernández, G. & Fordyce, R.E. 2014. Papahu taitapu, gen. et sp. nov., an early Miocene stem odontocete (Cetacea) from New Zealand. Journal of vertebrate paleontology 34(1): 195–210. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.799069 Reference page.
Gottfried, M.D. & Fordyce, R.E. 2015. A Late Triassic chimaeroid egg capsule from New Zealand: early evidence of chimaeroid reproductive mode from the eastern margin of Gondwana. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(5): 371–375. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.880752 Reference page.

Marx, F.G. & Fordyce, R.E. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2: 140434. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140434 Reference page.
Tanaka, Y. & Fordyce, R.E. 2015. A new Oligo-Miocene dolphin from New Zealand, Otekaikea huata expands diversity of the early Platanistoidea. Paleontologia Electronica 18(2):23A [71pp.]. DOI: 10.26879/518 Reference page.

Otero, R.O., O’Gorman, J.P., Hiller, N., O’Keefe, F.R. & Fordyce, R.E. 2016. Alexandronectes zealandiensis gen. et sp. nov., a new aristonectine plesiosaur from the lower Maastrichtian of New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(2): e1054494. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1054494 Reference page.

Baumiller, T.K., Fordyce, R.E. 2018. Rautangaroa, a new genus of feather star (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand. Journal of Paleontology. 92(5): 872–882. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2018.17 Reference page.

Corrie, J.E. & Fordyce, R.E. 2024. A new genus and species of kekenodontid from the late Oligocene of New Zealand with comments on the evolution of tooth displacement in Cetacea. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2023.2297696 Reference page.