2001. Kinkel, M., J. G. M. Thewissen, and H. A. Oelschlager. Rotation of middle ear ossicles during cetacean development. Journal of Morphology, 249:126-131.
2001. Maas, M. C., S. T. Hussain, J.J.M. Leinders, and J.G.M. Thewissen. A new isectolophid tapiromorph (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the early Eocene of Pakistan. Journal of Paleontology 75:407-417.
2001, Maas, M.C., J.G.M. Thewissen, S. Sen, N. Kazanci, and J. Kappelman. Enigmatic new ungulates from the early middle Eocene of Central Anatolia, Turkey. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21:578-590.
2001. Perrin, W. P., B. Würsig, and J.G. M. Thewissen (editors). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press.
2001. Thewissen, J. G. M., and S. Bajpai. Dental morphology of the Remingtonocetidae (Cetacea, Mammalia). Journal of Paleontology 75:463-465.
2001. Thewissen, J. G. M., and S. Bajpai. Whale origins as posterchild for macroevolution. BioScience, December 2001.
2001. Thewissen, J.G.M. and E. L. Simons. Skull of Megalohyrax eocaenus (Hyracoidea, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21:98-106.
2001. Thewissen, J. G. M., E.M. Williams, L.J. Roe, and S.T. Hussain. Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls. Nature 412, submitted August 2001.
2001. Thewissen, J.G.M., and E.M. Williams, and S.T. Hussain. Eocene mammal faunas from northern Indo-Pakistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21:347-366.
In review, Spoor, F, S. Bajpai, S.T. Hussain, K. Kumar, and J.G.M. Thewissen. Origin of the cetacean semicircular canal system. Nature, submitted July, 2001.
In press, Madar, S.I., J.G.M. Thewissen, and S. T. Hussain. Additional holotype remains of Ambulocetus natans (Cetacea, Ambulocetidae), and their implications for locomotion in early whales. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Accepted July, 2001.
2000. S. Bajpai, and J. G. M. Thewissen. A new, diminuitive whale from Kachchh (Gujarat, India) and its implications for locomotor evolution of cetaceans. Current Science (New Delhi) 79:1478-1482.
2000. Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., R. J. Burnham, D. C. Campbell, R.M. Feldmann, E.S. Gaffney, R.F. Kay, R. Lozsán, R. Purdy, and J.G.M. Thewissen. A new near-shore marine fauna and flora from the early Neogene of northwestern Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology74:957-968.
2000. Thewissen, J.G.M., and S.T. Hussain. Attockicetus praecursor, a new remingtonocetid cetacean from marine Eocene sediments of Pakistan. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 7:133-146.
1999. Thewissen, J.G.M., and S. I. Madar. Ankle morphology of the earliest cetaceans and its implications for the phylogenetic relations among ungulates. Systematic Biology, 48:21-30.
1998. Thewissen, J.G.M., S.T. Hussain, M. Arif, A. Aslan, S.I. Madar, and L.J. Roe. New localities of Eocene vertebrates in northern Pakistan and their significance for the origin of modern orders of mammals. Proceedings of the third GEOSAS Workshop held at Islamabad, Pakistan, March 1-5, 1998, pp. 19-34.
1998. Thewissen, J.G.M., S. I. Madar, and S. T. Hussain. Whale ankles and phylogenetic relations. Nature, 395:452.
1998. Thewissen, J. G. M., Editor: The Emergence of Whales, Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacea. Plenum Press, 475 pp.
1998. Bajpai, S., and J. G. M. Thewissen. Middle Eocene cetaceans from the Harudi and Subathu Formations of India. In: Thewissen, J. G. M., Editor: The Emergence of Whales, Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacea. Pp. 213-133. Plenum Press.
1998. Roe, L. J., J. G. M. Thewissen, J. Quade, J. R. O'Neil, S. Bajpai, A. Sahni, and S. T. Hussain. Isotopic approaches to understanding the terrestrial to marine transition of the earliest cetaceans. In: Thewissen, J. G. M., Editor: The Emergence of Whales, Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacea. Pp. 399-421. Plenum Press.
1998. Thewissen, J. G. M. Cetacean origins: evolutionary turmoil during the invasion of the oceans. In: Thewissen, J. G. M., Editor: The Emergence of Whales, Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacea. 451-464. Plenum Press.
1998. Kalmey, J. K., J.G.M. Thewissen, D. E. Dluzen. Age-related size reduction of foramina in the cribriform plate. Anatomical Record 251:326-329.
1998. Maas, M.C., J. G. M. Thewissen, and J. Kappelman. Hypsamasia seni (Mammalia: Embrithopoda) and other mammals from the Eocene Kartal Formation of Turkey. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum 34:286-297.
1998. Thewissen, J. G. M., and S. T. Hussain. Systematic review of the Pakicetidae, Early and middle Eocene Cetacea (Mammalia) from Pakistan and India. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum 34:220-238.
1997. Aslan, A., and J. G. M. Thewissen. Preliminary evaluation of Kuldana paleosols and implications for interpreting vertebrate fossil assemblages, Kuldana Formation, Northern Pakistan. Palaeovertebrata 25:261-277.
1997. Milinkovitch, M. C., and J. G. M. Thewissen. Eventoed fingerprints on cetacean ancestry. Nature, 388:622-624.
1997. Thewissen, J. G. M., and F. E. Fish. Locomotor evolution in the earliest cetaceans: functional model, modern analogues, and paleontological evidence. Paleobiology 23:482-490.
1997. Thewissen, J.G.M., and S.T. Hussain. New Kohatius (Omomyidae) from the Eocene of Pakistan. Journal of Human Evolution 32:473-477.
1997. Thewissen, J.G.M., S. I. Madar, E. Ganz, S. T. Hussain, M. Arif, H. Hussain. Fossil yak (Bos grunniens: Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Himalayas of Pakistan. Kirtlandia (Cleveland) 50:11-16.
1996. Bajpai, S., J.G.M. Thewissen, and A. Sahni. Indocetus (Cetacea, Mammalia) endocasts from Kachchh (India). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:582-584.
1996. Thewissen, J.G.M., S.I. Madar, and S.T. Hussain. Ambulocetus natans, an Eocene cetacean (Mammalia) from Pakistan. Courier Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg 191:1-86.
1996. Thewissen, J.G.M., L.J. Roe, J.R. O'Neil, S.T. Hussain, A. Sahni, and S. Bajpai. Evolution of cetacean osmoregulation. Nature 381:379-380.
1995. Maas, M.C. and J.G.M. Thewissen. Enamel microstructure of Pakicetus (Mammalia: Archaeoceti). Journal of Paleontology 69:1154-1163.
1995. Thewissen, J.G.M. and S.A. Etnier. Adhesive devices of the thumb of vespertilionoid bats (Chiroptera). Journal of Mammalogy 76:925-936.
1995. Thewissen, J.G.M. Phylogenetic aspects of cetacean origins: a morphologic perspective. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 2:157-184.
1994. Savage, R.J.G., and D.P. Domning, and J.G.M. Thewissen. Fossil Sirenia of the west Atlantic and Carribean Region. V. The most primitive known sirenian, Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14:427-449.
1994. Thewissen, J.G.M., S.T. Hussain, and M. Arif. Fossil evidence for the origin of aquatic locomotion in archaeocete whales. Science 263:210-212.
1993. Thewissen, J.G.M. Eocene marine mammals from the Himalayan foothills. Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society 9:125-127. Erratum: Research and Exploration 9:487.
1993. Thewissen, J.G.M., and S.K. Babcock. The implications of the propatagial muscles of flying and gliding mammals for archontan systematics. In: Primates and their Relatives in Phylogenetic Perspective (R.D.E. MacPhee, editor), Plenum, New York, pp. 91-110.
1993. Thewissen, J.G.M., and S.T. Hussain. Origin of underwater hearing in whales. Nature 361: 444-445.
1992. Kay, R.F., J.G.M. Thewissen, and A.D. Yoder. The cranial anatomy of Ignacius graybullianus and the affinities of the Plesiadapiformes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89:477-498.
1992. Thewissen, J.G.M. Temporal data in phylogenetic systematics: An example from the mammalian fossil record. Journal of Paleontology 66:1-8.
1992. Thewissen, J.G.M. and S.K. Babcock. The origin of flight in bats: To go where no mammal has gone before. BioScience 42:340-345.
1992. Thewissen, J.G.M. and D.P. Domning. The role of phenacodontids in the origin of modern orders of ungulate mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12:494-504.
1992. Thewissen, J.G.M. and M.C. McKenna. Paleobiogeography of Indo-Pakistan: A response to Briggs, Patterson, and Owen. Systematic Biology 41:248-251.
1991. Thewissen, J.G.M. Limb osteology and function of the primitive Paleocene ungulate Pleuraspidotherium, with notes on Tricuspiodon and Dissacus (Mammalia). Geobios (Lyon) 24:483-495.
1991. Thewissen, J.G.M. and S.K. Babcock. Distinctive cranial and cervical innervation of wing muscles: New evidence for bat monophyly. Science 251:834-936.
1990. Thewissen, J.G.M. Comment on "Paleontological view of the ages of the Deccan Traps, the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, and the India-Asia collision." Geology 18:185-188.
1990. Thewissen, J.G.M. Evolution of the Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra). Papers on Paleontology, University of Michigan 29:1-107.
1990. Thewissen, J.G.M. and S.T. Hussain. Postcranial osteology ot the most primitive artiodactyl, Diacodexis pakistanensis (Dichobunidae). Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia (Berlin) 19:37-48.
1989. Thewissen, J.G.M. Mammalian frontal diploic vein and the human foramen caecum. Anatomical Record 223:242-244.
1989. Thewissen, J.G.M. and P.D. Gingerich. Skull and endocranial cast of Eoryctes melanus, a new palaeoryctid (Mammalia: Insectivora) from the early Eocene of western North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9:459-470.
1988. Shoshani, J., C.A. Goldman, and J.G.M. Thewissen. Orycteropus afer. Mammalian Species 300:1-8.
1987. Thewissen, J.G.M. and J.-L. Franzen. Fossillagerstatte Messel. Cranium (Utrecht) 4:86-90.
1987. Thewissen, J.G.M., and P.D. Gingerich. Revision of Probathyopsis (Mammalia, Dinocerata) from the late Paleocene and early Eocene of western North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 27: 195-219.
1987. Thewissen, J.G.M., P.D. Gingerich, and D.E. Russell. Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla (Mammalia) from the early-middle Eocene Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27:247-274.
1987. Thewissen, J.G.M. and G.R. Smith. Vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Idaho. Contributions from the Musuem of Paleontology , University of Michigan 27:237-245.
1986. Thewissen, J.G.M., and D.M. Badoux. The descriptive and functional myology of the forelimb of the Aardvark (Orycteropus afer Pallas, 1766). Anatomischer Anzeiger, (Jena) 162:109-123.
1985. Thewissen, J.G.M. Cephalic evidence for the affinities of the Tubulidentata. Mammalia 49:257-284.
1983. Hussain, S.T., P.Y. Sondaar, S.M.I. Shah, J.G.M. Thewissen, E.F.H.M. Cousin, and C.F. Spoor. Fossil mammal bones of Pakistan, a field atlas. Part I: the artiodactyl astragalus. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Pakistan 14:4-30.
1983. Russell, D.E., J.G.M. Thewissen, and D. Sigogneau-Russell. A new artiodactyl (Mammalia) from the Eocene of North-West Pakistan. Part II. Cranial osteology. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie voor Wetenschappen, Series B 86:285-300.
1983. Thewissen, J.G.M., D.E. Russel, P.D. Gingerich, and S.T. Hussain. A new artiodactyl (Mammalia) from the Eocene of North-West Pakistan. Dentition and classification. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie voor Wetenschappen, Series B 86:153-180.
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