R. Ewan Fordyce

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

• Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

R. Ewan Fordyce

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 14 taxon names authored by R. Ewan Fordyce

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1994

• 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. 

2001

• Fordyce, R.E. & Muizon, C. de 2001. Evolutionary history of the cetaceans: a review. pp. 169–233. In: Secondary Adaptations of Tetrapods to Life in the Water. Reference page. 

2009

• King, C.M., Roberts, C.D., Bell, B.D., Fordyce, R.E., Nicoll, R.S., Worthy, T.H., Paulin, C.D., Hitchmough, R.A., Keyes, I.W., Baker, A.N., Stewart, A.L., Hiller, N., McDowall, R.M., Holdaway, R.N., McPhee, R.P., Schwarzhans, W.W., Tennyson A.J.D., Rust, S. & McCadie, I. 2009. Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. Pp. 431–551 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2009. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8 Reference page. 

2012

• Ksepka, D.T.; Fordyce, R.E.; Ando, T.; Jones, C.M. 2012: New fossil penguins (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Oligocene of New Zealand reveal the skeletal plan of stem penguins Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(2): 235–254. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.652051 . Reference page. 

2014

• 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. 

2015

• 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. 

2016

• Gottfried, M.D., Fordyce, R.E. & Rust, S. 2006. Megalampris keyesi, a giant moonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes) from the late Oligocene of New Zealand. Journal of vertebrate paleontology 26(3): 544–551. DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[544:MKAGMT]2.0.CO;2 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. 

2018

• 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. 

2021

• Carroll, E.L., McGowen, M.R., McCarthy, M.L., Marx, F.G., Aguilar, N., Dalebout, M.L., Dreyer, S., Gaggiotti, O.E., Hansen, S.S., van Helden, A., Onoufriou, A.B., Baird, R.W., Baker, C.S., Berrow, S., Cholewiak, D., Claridge, D., Constantine, R., Davison, N.J., Eira, C., Fordyce, R.E., Gatesy, J., Hofmeyr, G.J.G., Martín, V., Mead, J.G., Mignucci-Giannoni, A.A., Morin, P.A., Reyes, C., Rogan, E., Rosso, M., Silva, M.A., Spinger, M.S., Steel, D. & Olsen, M.T. 2021. Speciation in the deep: genomics and morphology reveal a new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1961): 20211213. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1213 Reference page. 

2024

• 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. 

References

• Obituary: In memory of Robert Ewan Fordyce (Ewan) Tributes Online. Accessed 15 November 2023.