Mark Bosselaers

Mark Bosselaers, Belgian paleontologist.

Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Operationele Directie Aarde en Geschiedenis van het Leven, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussel, Belgium.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

Diunatans luctoretemergo Bosselaers & Post, 2010
Parietobalaena campiniana Bisconti, Lambert & Bosselaers, 2013
Fragilicetus velponi Bisconti & Bosselaers, 2016
Metopocetus hunteri Marx, Bosselaers & Louwye, 2016
Eubalaena ianitrix Bisconti, Lambert & Bosselaers, 2017
Tranatocetus maregermanicum Marx, Post, Bosselaers & Munsterman, 2019
Archaebalaenoptera liesselensis Bisconti, Munsterman, Fraaije, Bosselaers & Post, 2020
Brabocetus gigasei Colpaert, Bosselaers & Lambert, 2014

(List may be incomplete)

Bekker, J.P., Bosselaers, M.E.J. & Herrebout, G.R. 2016. Supposedly lost syntype of the rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis (Lesson, 1828)) traced back at the Ghent University Museum. Lutra, 59(1-2): 65–73. Reference page.
Bosselaers, M. & Collareta, A. 2016. The whale barnacle Cryptolepas rhachianecti (Cirripedia: Coronulidae), a phoront of the grey whale Eschrichtius robustus (Cetacea: Eschrichtiidae), from a sandy beach in The Netherlands. Zootaxa 4154(3): 331–338. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.3.8. Reference page.
Collareta, A., Bosselaers, M. & Bianucci, G. 2016. Jumping from turtles to whales: a Pliocene fossil record depicts an ancient dispersal of Chelonibia on mysticetes. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 122(2): 35–44. Full article (PDF) DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/7229 Reference page.
Collareta, A., Margiotta, S., Varola, A., Catanzariti, R., Bosselaers, M. & Bianucci, G. 2016. A new whale barnacle from the early Pleistocene of Italy suggests an ancient right whale breeding ground in the Mediterranean. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 15(5): 473–481. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2015.10.006 Reference page.

Collareta, A., Marean, C.W., Jerardino, A. & Bosselaers, M. 2017. Cetopirus complanatus (Cirripedia: Coronulidae) from the late Middle Pleistocene human settlement of Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, South Africa). Zootaxa 4237(2): 393–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.12. Reference page.
Bisconti, M., Lambert, O. & Bosselaers, M. 2017. Revision of "Balaena" belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species. PeerJ 5: e3464. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3464 Reference page.

Collareta, A., Insacco, G., Reitano, A., Catanzariti, R., Bosselaers, M., Montes, M. & Bianucci, G. 2018. Fossil whale barnacles from the lower Pleistocene of Sicily shed light on the coeval Mediterranean cetacean fauna. Carnets Geol. 18(2): 9–22. DOI: 10.4267/2042/65747 Reference page.

Collareta, A., Reitano, A., Rosso, A., Sanfilippo, R., Bosselaers, M., Bianucci, G. & Insacco, G. 2019. The oldest platylepadid turtle barnacle (Cirripedia, Coronuloidea): a new species of Platylepas from the Lower Pleistocene of Italy. European Journal of Taxonomy, 516: 1–17. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.516 Reference page.