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Robert Boessenecker
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
I'm currently the Chief Paleontologist at the Charleston Center for Paleontology. I've been here on the east coast for eight years, studying fossil cetaceans from the Oligocene rocks of Charleston, South Carolina, and some of the other vertebrates. Most of my recent research has focused on the study of toothed mysticetes like Coronodon and early odontocetes (dolphins) including xenorophids (e.g. Inermorostrum, Xenorophus), giant dolphins (Ankylorhiza), and spear-toothed dolphins (Waipatiidae). In June 2024 I will be returning to California and starting as the Colclough Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the San Diego Natural History Museum, where I will be studying Miocene and Pliocene baleen whales – and probably a few walruses as well.
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Colleagues and Paleontology websites

  • Robert Boessenecker, the website
  • Ewan Fordyce, University of Otago
  • Carolina Loch Silva, University of Otago
  • Gabriel Aguirre, University of Otago
  • Felix Marx, University of Otago
  • Morgan Churchill, U. Wyoming
  • Rachel Racicot, Yale
  • Jonathan Geisler, NYCOM
  • Brian Beatty, NYCOM
  • N. Adam Smith, Nescent
  • Alton Dooley, VMNH
  • Lee Hall, SWCA Environmental consultants
  • Ashley Poust, UC Berkeley
  • Jade Simon, Montana State
  • John Scannella, Museum of the Rockies
  • Liz Freedman, Museum of the Rockies
  • Denver Fowler, Museum of the Rockies
  • Department of Geology, University of Otago
  • Evolution of Whales and Dolphins - NYCOM
  • PaleoResource Consultants
  • Museum of the Rockies
  • University of California Museum of Paleontology
  • San Diego Natural History Museum
  • Sierra College Natural History Museum
  • Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
  • Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • ELASMO.com

Blogroll

  • PALEO & GEO TOPICS: Comments by R. L. Squires
    EVOLUTION OF PLANTS
    3 days ago
  • Mary Anning's Revenge
    Prehensile Penises, The Return
    1 year ago
  • A Central Coast Paleontologist
    They Just Can’t Help Themselves, Can They?
    5 years ago
  • Valley of the Mastodon | The director's blog from the Western Science Center
    Fossil Friday – Camelops jaw
    5 years ago
  • March of the Fossil Penguins
    Penguin Genomes Unveiled
    5 years ago
  • Caribbean Paleobiology
    Descubrimiento Inesperado: Focas Monje en el Miocene del Pacífico Norte
    6 years ago
  • UCMP Blog
    Reading between the rocks: Reinterpreting the Late Ordovician mass extinction
    6 years ago
  • Updates from the Paleontology Lab
    Coming to a close…
    7 years ago
  • Blogozoic - Travis Park
    Six Years a Sunfish
    8 years ago
  • Dinosaur Postcards
    July 2016: Back in the Hell Creek Formation!
    9 years ago
  • The Integrative Paleontologists
    Moving!
    9 years ago
  • Rantings of a Canadian Evolutionary Biologist
    Preparing a manuscript for publication
    11 years ago
  • The Aquatic Amniote
    Aquatic Amniote Reboot - coming soon!
    13 years ago
  • Phenomena: Laelaps
  • Tetrapod Zoology: Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals - living and extinct | Scientific American Blog Network

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