Morgan Churchill

1.3k total citations
27 papers, 806 citations indexed

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Morgan Churchill is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Morgan Churchill has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 806 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Paleontology and 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Morgan Churchill's work include Marine animal studies overview (21 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (15 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (11 papers). Morgan Churchill is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (21 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (15 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (11 papers). Morgan Churchill collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Morgan Churchill's co-authors include Robert W. Boessenecker, Annalisa Berta, Mark T. Clementz, Jonathan H. Geisler, Brian L. Beatty, Anjali Goswami, Naoki Kohno, Christian de Muizon, Julien Clavel and Danielle Fraser and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Morgan Churchill

27 papers receiving 787 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Morgan Churchill United States	18	602	358	290	249	105	27	806
Michelle Spaulding United States	11	420 0.7×	397 1.1×	174 0.6×	250 1.0×	71 0.7×	14	750
Emily A. Buchholtz United States	15	321 0.5×	452 1.3×	247 0.9×	167 0.7×	52 0.5×	19	760
Robert W. Boessenecker United States	22	976 1.6×	604 1.7×	592 2.0×	407 1.6×	266 2.5×	66	1.3k
Loïc Costeur Switzerland	21	462 0.8×	917 2.6×	155 0.5×	316 1.3×	50 0.5×	84	1.2k
Mette Elstrup Steeman Denmark	6	393 0.7×	168 0.5×	149 0.5×	139 0.6×	156 1.5×	7	491
Bastien Mennecart Switzerland	19	317 0.5×	643 1.8×	121 0.4×	284 1.1×	34 0.3×	75	799
Aaron R. Wood United States	15	235 0.4×	384 1.1×	110 0.4×	168 0.7×	45 0.4×	20	715
B. N. Tiwari India	13	257 0.4×	433 1.2×	133 0.5×	225 0.9×	26 0.2×	23	693
Jorge Vélez‐Juarbe United States	19	514 0.9×	555 1.6×	481 1.7×	236 0.9×	135 1.3×	57	971
Xavier Valentin France	22	185 0.3×	875 2.4×	426 1.5×	286 1.1×	22 0.2×	57	1.1k

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Boessenecker, Robert W., et al.. (2023). Tusked walruses (Carnivora: Odobenidae) from the Miocene–Pliocene Purisima Formation of Santa Cruz, California (U.S.A.): a new species of the toothless walrus Valenictus and the oldest records of Odobeninae and Odobenini. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 43(3). 1 indexed citations

Goswami, Anjali, Julien Clavel, Anne‐Claire Fabre, et al.. (2023). Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1880). 20220083–20220083. 7 indexed citations

Goswami, Anjali, Julien Clavel, Anne‐Claire Fabre, et al.. (2022). Attenuated evolution of mammals through the Cenozoic. Science. 378(6618). 377–383. 37 indexed citations

Felice, Ryan N., Julien Clavel, Travis Park, et al.. (2022). The tempo of cetacean cranial evolution. Current Biology. 32(10). 2233–2247.e4. 28 indexed citations

Churchill, Morgan, et al.. (2021). Evolution of orbit size in toothed whales (Artiodactyla: Odontoceti). Journal of Anatomy. 239(6). 1419–1437. 5 indexed citations

Boessenecker, Robert W., Morgan Churchill, Emily A. Buchholtz, Brian L. Beatty, & Jonathan H. Geisler. (2020). Convergent Evolution of Swimming Adaptations in Modern Whales Revealed by a Large Macrophagous Dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina. Current Biology. 30(16). 3267–3273.e2. 28 indexed citations

Clavel, Julien, et al.. (2020). Wonky whales: the evolution of cranial asymmetry in cetaceans. BMC Biology. 18(1). 86–86. 28 indexed citations

Boessenecker, Robert W., et al.. (2019). The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon : a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ. 7. e6088–e6088. 45 indexed citations

Churchill, Morgan, Jonathan H. Geisler, Brian L. Beatty, & Anjali Goswami. (2018). Evolution of cranial telescoping in echolocating whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Evolution. 72(5). 1092–1108. 37 indexed citations

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Berta, Annalisa, Morgan Churchill, & Robert W. Boessenecker. (2018). The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 46(1). 203–228. 77 indexed citations

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Boessenecker, Robert W., Danielle Fraser, Morgan Churchill, & Jonathan H. Geisler. (2017). A toothless dwarf dolphin (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) points to explosive feeding diversification of modern whales (Neoceti). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1861). 20170531–20170531. 40 indexed citations

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Churchill, Morgan, et al.. (2016). The origin of elephant seals: implications of a fragmentary late Pliocene seal (Phocidae: Miroungini) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 59(4). 544–550. 15 indexed citations

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Churchill, Morgan, et al.. (2016). The Origin of High-Frequency Hearing in Whales. Current Biology. 26(16). 2144–2149. 82 indexed citations

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Loch, Carolina, Robert W. Boessenecker, Morgan Churchill, & Jules Kieser. (2016). Enamel ultrastructure of fossil and modern pinnipeds: evaluating hypotheses of feeding adaptations in the extinct walrus Pelagiarctos. Die Naturwissenschaften. 103(5-6). 44–44. 11 indexed citations

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Boessenecker, Robert W. & Morgan Churchill. (2015). The oldest known fur seal. Biology Letters. 11(2). 20140835–20140835. 26 indexed citations

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Churchill, Morgan, Mark T. Clementz, & Naoki Kohno. (2014). Predictive equations for the estimation of body size in seals and sea lions (Carnivora: Pinnipedia). Journal of Anatomy. 225(2). 232–245. 24 indexed citations

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Churchill, Morgan, Mark T. Clementz, & Naoki Kohno. (2014). Cope's rule and the evolution of body size in Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora). Evolution. 69(1). 201–215. 31 indexed citations

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Kim, Sora L., J. G. M. Thewissen, Morgan Churchill, et al.. (2014). Unique Biochemical and Mineral Composition of Whale Ear Bones. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 87(4). 576–584. 3 indexed citations

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Churchill, Morgan, Robert W. Boessenecker, & Mark T. Clementz. (2014). Colonization of the Southern Hemisphere by fur seals and sea lions (Carnivora: Otariidae) revealed by combined evidence phylogenetic and Bayesian biogeographical analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 172(1). 200–225. 46 indexed citations

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Boessenecker, Robert W. & Morgan Churchill. (2013). A Reevaluation of the Morphology, Paleoecology, and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Enigmatic Walrus Pelagiarctos. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e54311–e54311. 33 indexed citations

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