| Fossil dolphin Otekaikea marplesi (latest Oligocene, New Zealand) expands the morphological and taxonomic diversity of Oligocene cetaceans Y Tanaka, RE Fordyce PLoS One 9 (9), e107972, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| A new Oligo-Miocene dolphin from New Zealand: Otekaikea huata expands diversity of the early Platanistoidea Y Tanaka, RE Fordyce Palaeontologia Electronica 18 (2), 1-71, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Awamokoa tokarahi, a new basal dolphin in the Platanistoidea (late Oligocene, New Zealand) Y Tanaka, RE Fordyce Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15 (5), 365-386, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Historically significant late Oligocene dolphin Microcetus hectori Benham 1935: a new species of Waipatia (Platanistoidea) Y Tanaka, RE Fordyce Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 45 (3), 135-150, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Papahu-like fossil dolphin from Kaikoura, New Zealand, helps to fill the Early Miocene gap in the history of Odontoceti Y Tanaka, RE Fordyce New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 59 (4), 551-567, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
| A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador Y Tanaka, J Abella, G Aguirre-Fernández, M Gregori, RE Fordyce PloS one 12 (12), e0188380, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| A New Late Miocene Odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan Suggests Rapid Diversification of Basal Miocene Odobenids Y Tanaka, N Kohno PloS one 10 (8), e0131856, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| A new species of Middle Miocene baleen whale from the Nupinai Group, Hikatagawa Formation of Hokkaido, Japan Y Tanaka, T Ando, H Sawamura PeerJ 6, e4934, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| An early and new member of Balaenopteridae from the upper Miocene of Hokkaido, Japan Y Tanaka, M Watanabe Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| A new skull of the fossil porpoise Numataphocoena yamashitai (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) from the upper part of the Horokaoshirarika Formation (lower Pliocene), Numata Town … Y Tanaka, H Ichishima Palaeontologia Electronica 19 (3), 1-28, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Unravelling the identity of the platanistoid Notocetus vanbenedeni Moreno, 1892 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina) M Viglino, MR Buono, Y Tanaka, JI Cuitiño, RE Fordyce Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 20 (1), 2082890, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| Fossil herpetocetine baleen whales (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae) from the lower Pliocene Horokaoshirarika Formation at Numata, Hokkaido, northern Japan Y Tanaka, H Furusawa, LG Barnes Paleontological Research 22 (4), 295-306, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| A New and Ontogenetically Younger Specimen of Numataphocoena yamashitai from the Upper Part of the Horokaoshirarika Formation (Lower Pliocene), Numata, Hokkaido, Japan Y Tanaka Paleontological Research 20 (2), 105-115, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| A geologically old and ontogenetically young Herpetocetus sp. from the late Miocene of Hokkaido, Japan Y Tanaka, M Watanabe Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 (4), (1)-(11), 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| 北海道産鰭脚類化石のデジタル生体復元―フォトグラメトリーおよび 3D CG ソフトによる制作 新村龍也， 田中嘉寛， 甲能直樹， 山田一孝， 佐々木基樹 化石 99, 85-92, 2016 | 5 | 2016 |
| Rostrum morphology and feeding strategy of the baleen whale indicate that right whales and pygmy right whales became skimmers independently Y Tanaka Royal Society Open Science 9 (11), 221353, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| A new early Miocene archaic dolphin (Odontoceti, Cetacea) from New Zealand, and brain evolution of the Odontoceti Y Tanaka, M Ortega, RE Fordyce New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1-15, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| The First Cetacean Record from the Osaka Group (Middle Pleistocene, Quaternary) in Osaka, Japan Y Tanaka, H Taruno Paleontological Research 23 (2), 166-173, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| Balaenoptera edeni skull from the Holocene (Quaternary) of Osaka City, Japan Y Tanaka, H Taruno Palaeontologia Electronica 20 (3), 1-13, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| A new member of fossil balaenid (Mysticeti, Cetacea) from the early Pliocene of Hokkaido, Japan Y Tanaka, H Furusawa, M Kimura Royal Society open science 7 (4), 192182, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
R Ewan FordyceProfessor of Geology, University of OtagoVerified email at otago.ac.nz
