Evolution of Sensory Systems

Team

Dr.  Rachel Racicot, PhD
Fachbereichsleiterin Evolution of Sensory Systems

Current Positions

Head of Section in Messel Research, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, September 2023–present

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, May 2021–present

Research Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology and The Dinosaur Institute, Natural History

Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, July 2017–present

Research Associate, Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, November 2018–present

 

Prior Positions

Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, August 2020–August 2023

Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, August 2021–August 2023

Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, October 2019­–July 2021

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, W.M. Keck Science Department, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, CA, July 2018–July 2019

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, July 2017–June 2018

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, The Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, October 2015–July 2017

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Howard University, Washington, DC, 2014–2015

Degrees Earned

PhD Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale University, 2008–2014 Dissertation title: “What goes on inside the heads of porpoises?: Internal anatomy in fossil and Recent porpoises based on CT scans” (PhD supervisor: Jacques Gauthier)

MPhil, Yale University, 2008–2011

MS Evolutionary Biology, San Diego State University, 2004–2007 (MS supervisor: Annalisa Berta)

BS Biology: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999–2002

Publications in Peer–Reviewed Journals And Volumes (*Student authors)

Vertebrates

Submitted/In review/In revision/In press

  1. Chochinov AV, Darroch SAF, Laflamme M, Racicot RA. (submitted) Phyllostomids (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) have a nose for good food: digital endocasts of New World leaf-nosed bats indicate dietary preference. Journal of Morphology
  2. Sanchez-Posada C, Racicot RA, Ruf I, Krings M, Rössner GE. (in revision) The oldest platanistoid dolphin from the Paratethys realm, Romaleodelphis pollerspoeckii, gen. et sp. nov. (Miocene, Austria). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

2023

  1. Park T, Ekdale EG, Racicot RA, Marx FG (2023) Testing for convergent evolution in baleen whale cochleae. In Convergent Evolution. Animal Form and Function, V. Bels and A. Russell (eds). ISTE, London.

2022

  1. Racicot RA (2022) Evolution of whale sensory ecology: frontiers in nondestructive anatomical investigations. Anatomical Record. 305: 736–752.
  1. Racicot RA, Preucil VA* (2022) Bony labyrinths of the Blackfish (Delphinidae: Globicephalinae). Marine Mammal Science. 38: 29–41.

2021

  1. Kraatz B, Belabbas R, Fost L, Ge D, Lang M, Lopez-Torres S, Ravosa M, Racicot R, Sharp A, Sherratt E, Silcox M, Slowiak J, Winkler A, Zeinal M, Ruf I (2021) Lagomorphs as a model morphological system. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, Special issue „Recent Advances in the Evolution of Euarchontoglires“ https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.636402

2020

  1. Galatius A, Racicot R, McGowen M, Olsen MT (2020) Evolution and diversification of delphinid skull shapes. iScience, 101543.
  2. Martins MCI*, Park T, Racicot RA, Cooper N. 2020. Intraspecific variation in the cochleae of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)and its implications for comparative studies across odontocetes. PeerJ 8:e8916.

 

2019

  1. Racicot RA, Darroch SAF, Boessenecker RW, Geisler J (2019) Evidence for convergent evolution of ultrasonic hearing in toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Biology Letters 15: 20190083.
  2. Galatius A, Olsen MT, Steeman M, Racicot RA, Bradshaw CD, Miller LA (2019) Raising your voice: Evolution of narrow band high frequency signals in odontocetes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126: 213–224.

2018

  1. Racicot RA, Darroch SAF, Kohno N. 2018. Neuroanatomy and inner ear labyrinths of the narwhal and beluga (Cetacea: Monodontidae). Journal of Anatomy 233: 421–439.
  2. Racicot RA (2018) Dolphins, porpoises, and monodontids, Evolution. In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (B. Würsig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and K.M. Kovacs, eds.), 3rd Ed, pp. 271–274, Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, CA, USA.

2017

  1. Racicot RA (2017) Fossil secrets revealed: X–ray CT scanning and applications in paleontology. In: L. Tapanila and I.A. Rahman (eds.), Virtual Paleontology. Paleontological Society Papers 22: 21­–38.
  2. Field DJ, Boessenecker R, Racicot RA, Ásbjörnsdóttir L, Jónasson K, Hsiang A, Behlke A, Vinther J (2017) The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: A partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation. Palaeontology. 60: 141–148.

2016

  1. Racicot RA, Gearty W*, Flynn J, Kohno N (2016) Comparative anatomy of the bony labyrinth of extant and extinct porpoises (Cetacea: Phocoenidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119: 831–846.

2015

  1. Hsiang AY, Field DJ, Webster TH, Behlke A, Davis MB, Racicot RA, Gauthier JA (2015) The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:87.
  2. Ekdale EG, Racicot RA (2015) Anatomical evidence for low frequency sensitivity in the inner ear of Zygorhiza kochii (Cetacea, Basilosauridae). Journal of Anatomy 226: 22–39.

2014

  1. Racicot RA, Rowe T (2014) Endocranial anatomy of a new fossil porpoise (Odontoceti, Phocoenidae) from the Pliocene San Diego Formation of California. Journal of Paleontology 88: 652–663. (Cover Article)
  2. Racicot RA, Deméré T, Boessenecker R, Beatty B (2014) Unique feeding morphology in a new prognathous extinct porpoise from the Pliocene of California. Current Biology 24: 774 779. (Cover Article)

2013

  1. Racicot RA, Colbert MW (2013) Morphology and variation of porpoise (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) cranial endocasts. Anatomical Record 296: 979–992.
  2. Racicot RA, Berta A (2013) Comparative morphology of True Porpoise (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) pterygoid sinuses: Phylogenetic and Functional Implications. Journal of Morphology 274: 49–62. (Cover Article)

2009

  1. Burns KJ, Racicot RA (2009) Molecular phylogenetics of a clade of lowland tanagers: Implications for avian participation in the Great American Interchange. The Auk 126: 635–648.

2005

  1. Colbert MW, Racicot RA, Rowe T (2005) Anatomy of the cranial endocast of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, based on HRXCT. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12:195–207.

 

Invertebrates

2022

  1. Darroch SAF, Gibson BM, Syversen M*, Rahman IA, Racicot RA, Dunn FS, Gutarra-Diaz S, Schindler E, Wehrmann A, Laflamme M. (2022) The life and times of Pteridinium simplex. Paleobiology. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2022.2.

2021

  1. Darroch SAF, Cribb AT*, Buatois LA, Germs GJB, Kenchington CG, Smith EF, Mocke H, O’Neil GR, Schiffbauer JD, Maloney KM, Racicot RA, Turk KA*, Gibson BM*, Almond J, Koester B*, Boag TM, Tweedt SM, Laflamme M (2020) The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion. Earth Science Reviews, 212, 103435.

2020

  1. Maloney KM, Boag TH, Facciol AJ, Gibson BG, Cribb A, Koester BE, Kenchington CG, Racicot RA, Darroch SAF, Laflamme M (2020) Palaeoenvironmental analysis of Ernietta-bearing Ediacaran deposits in southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 556, 109884.

2019

  1. Cribb AT, Kenchington CG, Koester B, Gibson BM, Boag TH, Racicot RA, Mocke H, Laflamme M, Darroch SAF (2019) Increase in metazoan ecosystem engineering prior to the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary in the Nama Group, Namibia. Royal Society Open Science 6: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190548.
  2. Gibson BM, Rahman I, Maloney K, Racicot RA, Mocke H, Laflamme M, Darroch SAF (2019) Gregarious suspension feeding in a modular Ediacaran organism. Science Advances 5:eaaw0260.
  3. Clark EG, Fezzaa K, Burke JE, Racicot RA, Shaw JO, Westacott S, Briggs DEG (2019) A farewell to arms: using X-ray synchrotron imaging to investigate autotomy in brittle stars. Zoomorphology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-019-00451-7.

2017

  1. Darroch SAF, Rahman IA, Gibson B, Racicot RA, Laflamme M (2017) Inference of facultative mobility in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Parvancorina. Biology Letters 13: 20170033.

2016

  1. Darroch SAF, Boag T, Racicot RA, Tweedt S, Mason S, Erwin DH, Laflamme M (2016) A mixed Ediacaran–metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub–basin, Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 459: 198–208.

2015

  1. Rahman I, Darroch SAF, Racicot RA, Laflamme M (2015) Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems. Science Advances 1:10, e1500800.
  2. Darroch SAF, Sperling EA, Boag T, Racicot RA, Mason SJ, Morgan AS, Tweedt S, Myrow P, Johnston DT, Erwin DH, Laflamme M (2015) Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 282: 20151003.

2012

  1. Vinther J, Jell P, Kampouris G, Carney R, Racicot RA, Briggs DEG (2012) The origin of multiplacophorans – convergent evolution of Aculiferan molluscs. Palaeontology 55:1007–1019.

 

Publications in Preparation (draft stage with figures)

Racicot RA, Budd AF, Huang D, Smith ND. Morphological data partitions possess different levels of phylogenetic signal for the evolutionary relationships of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia).

Kofranek A-K M, Boessenecker RW, Darroch SAF, Ruf R, Racicot RA. First porpoise fossils (Artiodactyla: Phocoenidae) from the Pliocene of South Carolina Goose Creek Formation shed light on their sensory performance and biogeography.

Racicot RA, Ruf R. Development of the brain of the Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata).

 

Other Publications

Racicot RA, Ruf I (2020) MicroCT scans of an iodine stained prenatal rabbit. https://www.morphosource.org/projects/0000C1184

Palaeontology [online] editorial board (2018) Perspectives – Palaeontology in 2017. Palaeontology [online], Volume 7, Article 12, 1–14.

Palaeontology [online] team (2016) Perspectives: 2015 in Palaeontology. Palaeontology[online], Volume 6, Article 1, 1–6.

Racicot RA (2014) Fossil Focus: Porpoises. Palaeontology [online], Volume 4, Article 10, 1–8.

Racicot RA and Colbert MA (2002) „Tursiops truncatus“ (online), Digital Morphology. http://digimorph.org/specimens/Tursiops_truncatus/.

Dr. Adrian Richter
Laborleiter im Bereich Computertomographie und REM

Positionen

from 09/2024  

Laborleiter micro-CT und REM, Senckenberg Institut für Naturforschung Frankfurt                                                  

02/2022 – present  

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow am Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), erste zwei Monate als Postdoctoral Scholar bei OIST angestellt, Thema: Evolutio of the ant feeding system.                                                                                                                                  

2020 – 2022

Technical Assistant Max-Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, micro-CT scanning und 3D-Druck                                                                                                                                      

03/2019 – 08/2019

Visiting Research Student, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Projektthema: Comparative morphology of ant heads                                                                                                                                

Ausbildung

02/2019 – 11/2022

Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.) in Zoologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

10/2016 – 09/2018     

Titel: “The evolution of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) head morphology. Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Rolf G. Beutel

MSc in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena                       

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Rolf G. Beutel

10/2013 – 09/2016

BSc in Biologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena                                                                                                                                

Betreuer: PD DR. Hans Pohl

Boudinot, B.E.*, Bock, B.L., Weingardt, M., Tröger, D., Batelka, J., Di, L. Richter A., … Beutel, R. G. (2024). Et latet et lucet: Discoveries from the Phyletisches Museum amber and copal collection in Jena, Germany. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71(1), 111-176.

Brazidec, M.*, Vilhelmsen, L., Boudinot, B.E., Richter, A., Hammel, J.U., Perkovsky, E.E., … Perrichot, V. (2024). Unveiling ancient diversity of long-tailed wasps (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae): new taxa from Cretaceous Kachin and Taimyr ambers and their phylogenetic affinities. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 82, 151-181.

Griebenow, Z.H.*, Richter, A., van de Kamp, T., Economo, E.P., Lieberman, Z.E. 2023. Comparative morphology of male genital skeletomusculature in the Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a standardized muscular terminology for the male genitalia of Hymenoptera. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 81, 945-1018.

Richter, A.*, Economo, P.E., 2023. The feeding apparatus of ants: An overview of structure and function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20220556.

Ulmer, J.M., Mikó, I., Richter, A., Helms, A., van de Kamp, T., & Krogmann, L. 2023. ‘Social glands’ in parasitoids?–convergent evolution of metapleural glands in Hymenoptera. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(2), Article 2.

Richter, A.*, Boudinot, B.E., Hita Garcia, F., Billen, J., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G. 2023. Wonderfully weird: The head anatomy of the armadillo ant, Tatuidris tatusia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae), with evolutionary implications. Myrmecological News 33, 35-75.

Sansom, T.M., Oberst, S., Richter, A., Lai, J.C., Saadatfar, M., Nowotny, M., Evans, T.A. 2022. Low radiodensity μCT scans to reveal detailed morphology of the termite leg and its subgenual organ. Arthropod Structure & Development 70, 101191.

Richter, A.*, Boudinot, B.E., Yamamoto, S., Katzke, J., Beutel, R.G., 2022. The first reconstruction of the head anatomy of a Cretaceous insect, †Gerontoformica gracilis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), and the early evolution of ants. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(5), Article 4.

Boudinot, B.E.*, Richter, A.K., Hammel, J.U., Szwedo, J., Bojarski, B., Perrichot, V. 2022a. Genomic-phenomic reciprocal illumination: Desyopone hereon gen. et sp. nov., an exceptional Aneuretine-like fossil ant from Ethiopian amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insects 13(9), 796.

Boudinot, B.E.*, Richter, A., Katzke, J., Chaul, J.C.M., Keller, R.A., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G., Yamamoto, S., 2022b. Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of †Gerontoformica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society zlab097.

Yang, Z.L., Seitz, F., Grabe, V., Nietzsche, S., Richter, A., Reichelt, M., Beutel, R.G. Beran, F.* 2022. Rapid and selective absorption of plant defense compounds from the gut of a sequestering insect. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 846732.

Aibekova, L.*, Boudinot, B.E., Beutel, R.G., Richter, A., Keller, R.A., Hita-Garcia, F., Economo, E.P. 2022. The skeletomuscular system of the mesosoma of Formica rufa workers (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(2), Article 2.

Boudinot, B.E.*, Moosdorf, O.T.D.*, Beutel, R.G., Richter, A. 2021. Anatomy and evolution of the head of Dorylus helvolus (Formicidae: Dorylinae): Patterns of sex‐and caste‐limited traits in the sausagefly and the driver ant. Journal of Morphology 282(11), 1616-1658.

Wöhrl, T.*, Richter, A., Guo, S., Reinhardt, L., Nowotny, M., Blickhan, R., 2021. Comparative analysis of a geometric and an adhesive righting strategy against toppling in inclined hexapedal locomotion. Journal of Experimental Biology 224(15), jeb242677.

Richter, A.*, Schoeters, E., Billen, J., 2021a. Morphology and closing mechanism of the mandibular gland orifice in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Morphology 282(8), 1127-1140

Richter, A.*, Hita Garcia, F., Keller, R.A., Billen, J., Katzke, J., Boudinot, B.E., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G., 2021b. The head anatomy of Protanilla lini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae), with a hypothesis of their mandibular movement. Myrmecological News 31, 85-114.

Beutel, R.G., Richter, A.*, Keller, R.A., Hita Garcia, F., Matsumura, Y., Economo, E. P., Gorb, S. N. 2020. Distal leg structures of the Aculeata (Hymenoptera): a comparative evolutionary study of Sceliphron (Sphecidae) and Formica (Formicidae). Journal of Morphology 281(7), 737-753.

Richter, A.*, Hita Garcia, F., Keller, R.A., Billen, J., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G. 2020. Comparative analysis of worker head anatomy of Formica and Brachyponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 78(1), 133-170.

Pohl, H.*, Hammel, J.U., Richter, A., Beutel, R.G. (2019). The first fossil free-living late instar larva of Strepsiptera (Insecta). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77(1), 125-140.

Liu, S.-P., Richter, A., Stoessel, A., Beutel, R.G.*, 2019. The mesosomal anatomy of Myrmecia nigrocincta workers and evolutionary transformations in Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77(1), 1-19.

Richter, A.*, Keller, R.A., Rosumek, F.B., Economo, E.P., Hita Garcia, F., Beutel, R.G., 2019. The cephalic anatomy of workers of the ant species Wasmannia affinis (Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta) and its evolutionary implications. Arthropod Structure & Development 49, 26-49.

Wipfler, B.*, Kočárek, P., Richter, A., Boudinot, B., Bai, M., Beutel, R.G. 2019. Structural features and life habits of† Alienoptera (Polyneoptera, Dictyoptera, Insecta). Palaeoentomology 2(5), 465-473.

Beutel, R.G.*, Yan, E., Richter, A., Büsse, S., Miller, K., Yavorskaya, M., Wipfler, B. 2017. The head of Heterogyrus milloti (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) and its phylogenetic implications. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 75(2), 261-280.

Richter, A., Wipfler, B., Beutel, R.G., Pohl, H.*, 2017. The female cephalothorax of Xenos vesparum Rossi, 1793 (Strepsiptera: Xenidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 75(2), 327-347.

Dr. Mickael Mourlam
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

FORSCHUNGSINTERESSEN

Paläobiologie; Evolution; Phylogenie; geometrische Morphometrie; µCT-Scan-Untersuchung; Anpassung an das Leben im Wasser; Entstehung der Echolokation; Ursprung der Wale;

Mammalogie; Artiodactyla; endemische europäische paläogene Paarhufer; Cetancodonta; „archaeoceti“; Protocetidae; Raoellidae; Xenorophidae; Simocetidae;

Anatomie; Bulla tympanica; Gehörknöchelchen; Petrosum; knöchernes Labyrinth.

AKADEMISCHE POSITION

Seit 2024 Postdoktorand, Abteilung Messelforschung und Mammalogie, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main

AUSBILDUNG

2019    PhD in Paläobiologie

            “Die Hörregion der Artiodactyla: phylogenetische und ökologische Signale”

            CNRS – Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM)

2015    Master-Abschluss in Paläontologie

            Université Montpellier 2 – Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM)

            Université de Poitiers – Institute of Paleoprimatology, Human Paleontology: Evolution        and Paleoenvironments” (iPHEP)

2012    Bachelor-Abschluss in Wissenschaft von Erde, Universum und Umwelt             Université de Strasbourg – Université Montpellier 2

Orliac, M. J., Mourlam, M. J., Boisserie, J. R., Costeur, L. and Lihoreau, F. 2023. Evolution of semiaquatic habits in hippos and their extinct relatives: insights from the ear region. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 198(4): 1092-1105. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac112

Hautier, L., Tabuce, R., Mourlam, M. J., Kassegne, K. E., Amoudji, Y. Z., Orliac, M.J., Quillévéré, F., Charruault, A.-L., Johnson, A. K. and Guinot, G. 2021. New middle Eocene proboscidean from Togo illuminates the early evolution of the elephantiform-like dental pattern. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 288(1960): 20211439. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1439

Kassegne, K. E., Mourlam, M. J., Guinot, G., Amoudji, Y. Z., Martin, J. E., Togbe, K. A., Johnson, A. K. and Hautier, L. 2021. First partial cranium of Togocetus from Kpogamé (Togo) and the protocetid diversity in the Togolese phosphate basin. Annales de Paléontologie, 107(2): 102488. doi: 10.1016/j.annpal.2021.102488

Assemat, A., Mourlam, M. J., Weppe, R., Maugoust, J., Antoine, P.-A. and Orliac, M. J. 2020. The ossicular chain of Cainotheriidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia). Journal of Anatomy, 237(2): 250-262. doi: 10.1111/joa.13190

Mourlam, M. J. and Orliac, M. J. 2019. Early Evolution of the Ossicular Chain in Cetacea: Into the Middle Ear Gears of a Semi-Aquatic Protocetid Whale. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 286(1912): 20191417. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1417

Mourlam, M. J. and Orliac, M. J. 2017. Infrasonic and ultrasonic hearing evolved after the emergence of modern whales. Current Biology, 27(12): 1776-1781. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.061

Mourlam, M. J. and Orliac, M. J. 2017. Protocetid (Cetacea, Artiodactyla) bullae and petrosals from the middle Eocene locality of Kpogamé, Togo: new          insights into the early history of cetacean hearing. Journal of Systematic          Palaeontology, 16(8): 621-644. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1328378

Data Paper

Hautier, L., Tabuce, R., Kassegne, K. E., Amoudji, Y. Z., Mourlam, M. J., Orliac, M.J., Quillévéré, F., Charruault, A.-L., Johnson, A. K. and Guinot, G. 2021. 3D models related to the publication: New middle Eocene proboscidean from Togo illuminates the early evolution of the elephantiform-like dental pattern. MorphoMuseuM, doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.145

Kassegne, K. E., Mourlam, M. J., Guinot, G., Amoudji, Y. Z., Martin, J. E., Togbe, K. A., Johnson, A. K. and Hautier, L. 2021. 3D models related to the publication: First partial cranium of Togocetus from Kpogamé (Togo) and the protocetid diversity in the Togolese phosphate basin. MorphoMuseuM, doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.143

Assemat, A., Mourlam, M. J. and Orliac, M. J. 2020. 3D models related to the publication: The ossicular chain of Cainotheriidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia). MorphoMuseuM, doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.110

Mourlam, M. J. and Orliac, M. J. 2019. 3D models related to the publication: Early Evolution of the Ossicular Chain in Cetacea: Into the Middle Ear Gears of a Semi-Aquatic Protocetid Whale. MorphoMuseuM, doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.94

Orliac, M. J. and Mourlam, M. J. 2017. 3D models related to the publication: Infrasonic and ultrasonic hearing evolved after the emergence of modern whales. MorphoMuseuM, doi: 10.18563/m3.3.2.e4

Mourlam, M. J. and Orliac, M. J. 2017. 3D models related to the publication:            Protocetid (Cetacea, Artiodactyla) bullae and petrosals from the middle Eocene            locality of Kpogamé, Togo: new insights into the early history of cetacean hearing.       MorphoMuseuM, doi: 10.18563/m3.3.1.e2