| Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity FG Marx, RE Fordyce Royal Society Open Science 2 (4), 140434, 2015 | 239 | 2015 |
| Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans: Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales FG Marx, MD Uhen Science 327 (6001), 993-996, 2010 | 227 | 2010 |
| Cetacean paleobiology FG Marx, O Lambert, MD Uhen John Wiley & Sons, 2016 | 173 | 2016 |
| Assessing the quality of the fossil record: insights from vertebrates MJ Benton, AM Dunhill, GT Lloyd, FG Marx Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358 (1), 63-94, 2011 | 152 | 2011 |
| A behavioural framework for the evolution of feeding in predatory aquatic mammals DP Hocking, FG Marx, T Park, EMG Fitzgerald, AR Evans Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284, 20162750, 2017 | 123 | 2017 |
| The more the merrier? A large cladistic analysis of mysticetes, and comments on the transition from teeth to baleen FG Marx Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18 (2), 77-100, 2011 | 106 | 2011 |
| Gigantism precedes filter feeding in baleen whale evolution RE Fordyce, FG Marx Current Biology 28, in press, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| The pygmy right whale Caperea marginata: the last of the cetotheres RE Fordyce, FG Marx Proc. R. Soc. B 280 (1753), 20122645, 2013 | 99 | 2013 |
| A new Early Oligocene toothed ‘baleen’ whale (Mysticeti: Aetiocetidae) from western North America: one of the oldest and the smallest Marx, F.G., Tsai, C.-H, RE Fordyce Royal Society Open Science 2, 150476, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
| Suction feeding preceded filtering in baleen whale evolution FG Marx, DP Hocking, T Park, T Ziegler, AR Evans, EMG Fitzgerald Memoirs of Museum Victoria 75, 71-82, 2016 | 72 | 2016 |
| Strontium isotope stratigraphy and the thermophilic fossil fauna from the middle Miocene of the East Pisco Basin (Peru) G Bosio, E Malinverno, A Collareta, C Di Celma, A Gioncada, M Parente, ... Journal of South American Earth Sciences 97, 102399, 2020 | 53 | 2020 |
| Ancient whales did not filter feed with their teeth DP Hocking, FG Marx, EMG Fitzgerald, AR Evans Biology Letters 13, 20170348, 2017 | 47 | 2017 |
| A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert FG Marx, N Kohno Royal Society Open Science 3, 160542, 2016 | 47 | 2016 |
| Taphonomy of marine vertebrates of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): insights into the origin of an outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte G Bosio, A Collareta, C Di Celma, O Lambert, FG Marx, C de Muizon, ... PLOS One 16, e0254395, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
| How whales used to filter: exceptionally preserved baleen in a Miocene cetotheriid FG Marx, A Collareta, A Gioncada, K Post, O Lambert, E Bonaccorsi, ... Journal of Anatomy, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| Speciation in the deep: genomics and morphology reveal a new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu EL Carroll, MR McGowen, ML McCarthy, FG Marx, N Aguilar, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1961), 20211213, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| Marine mammals through time: when less is more in studying palaeodiversity FG Marx Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 276 (1658 …, 2009 | 42 | 2009 |
| Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought G Bianucci, FG Marx, AC Collareta, A Di Stefano, W Landini, C Morigi, ... Biology Letters 15, 20190175, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| A new Miocene baleen whale from Peru deciphers the dawn of cetotheriids FG Marx, O Lambert, C de Muizon Royal Society Open Science 4, 170560, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Like phoenix from the ashes: how modern baleen whales arose from a fossil ‘dark age’ FG Marx, EMG Fitzgerald, RE Fordyce Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
R Ewan FordyceProfessor of Geology, University of OtagoCorreu electrònic verificat a otago.ac.nz