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Mollen, Frederik
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Lambert, O.; Stewart, J.R.; Louwye, S.; De Coninck, L.; Bosselaers, M.; Crété, L.; Goolaerts, S.; Mallet, C.; Mollen, F.H. (2026). Evidence for different shark species feeding on a diminutive right whale and a relative of the beluga in the Early Pliocene of the southern North Sea. Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 71(1): 69-84. https://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.01297.2025, meer Medici, L.; Ferretti, A.; Collareta, A.; Bosio, G.; Bianucci, G.; Carnevale, G.; Casati, S.; Clò, S.; Lanteri, L.; Lugli, F.; Marramà, G.; Mollen, F.H.; Savioli, M.; Malferrari, D. (2026). Bioapatite crystallinity and Rare Earth Element signatures in fossil and Recent sharks: A window into Past and Present seas. Chem. Geol. 702: 123200. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.123200, meer Amadori, M.; Staggl, M.A.; Mollen, F.H.; Villalobos-Segura, E.; Kriwet, J. (2025). Lines of distinction: morphometric tools for exploring past and present taxonomic diversities of galeomorph sharks, in: Hunter, J. et al. SVP 2025: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s 85th Annual Meeting, 12-15 November, Birmingham, UK: Program & Abstracts Book . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, : pp. 76-77, meer Flaum, B.; Schmitt, K.; Hu, R.; Kong, T.F.; Mollen, F.H.; Baum, D.; Debiais-Thibaud, M.; Dean, M. (2025). Staghorn or stingray? High-resolution network analysis of cartilaginous trabeculae, in: SICB 2025 Annual Meeting Abstracts, 3-7 January, Atlanta, Georgia. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 65(Suppl. 1): pp. S159, meer Li, A.; Schindler, M.; Paskin, M.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Scott, E.; Hauert, S.; Payne, N.; Cade, D.; Goldbogen, J.; Mollen, F.H.; Baum, D.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2025). Functional models from limited data: parametric anatomy and 3D kinematics of basking shark feeding, in: SICB 2025 Annual Meeting Abstracts, 3-7 January, Atlanta, Georgia. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 65(Suppl. 1): pp. S296, meer Rochat, L.; Pollerspöck, J.; Mollen, F.H.; Sperone, E.; Reinero, F.R.; Micarelli, P. (2025). Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno (1943–2024): The greatest shark expert of the 20th century. Afr. J. Mar. Sci. 47(3): 317-318. https://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2025.2585609, meer Schindler, M.; Li, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Payne, N.; Amini, S.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Hu, R.; Dean, M. (2025). Against the grain: untangling the tangled denticles of basking sharks, in: SICB 2025 Annual Meeting Abstracts, 3-7 January, Atlanta, Georgia. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 65(Suppl. 1): pp. S462-S463, meer Blumer, M.J.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Ciecierska-Holmes, J.; Redl, S.; Pechriggl, E.J.; Mollen, F.H.; Dean, M.N. (2024). Intermediate filaments spatially organize intracellular nanostructures to produce the bright structural blue of ribbontail stingrays across ontogeny. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 12: 1393237. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2024.1393237, meer Surapaneni, V.A.; Blumer, M.J.; Tadayon, K.; McIvor, A.J.; Redl, S.; Honis, H.-R.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Dean, M.N. (2024). Ribbontail stingray skin employs a core–shell photonic glass ultrastructure to make blue structural color. Advanced Optical Materials 12(12): 2301909. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.202301909, meer Devloo-Delva, F.; Burridge, C.P.; Kyne, P.M.; Brunnschweiler, J.M.; Chapman, D.D.; Charvet, P.; Chen, X.; Cliff, G.; Daly, R.; Drymon, J.M.; Espinoza, M.; Fernando, D.; Garcia Barcia, L.; Glaus, K.; González‐Garza, B.I.; Grant, M.I.; Gunasekera, R.M.; Hernández, S.I.; Hyodo, S.; Jabado, R.W.; Jaquemet, S.; Johnson, G.; Ketchum, J.T.; Magalon, H.; Marthick, J.R.; Mollen, F.H.; Mona, S.; Naylor, G.J.P.; Nevill, J.E.G.; Phillips, N.M.; Pillans, R.D.; Postaire, B.D.; Smoothey, A.F.; Tachihara, K.; Tillet, B.J.; Valerio‐Vargas, J.A.; Feutry, P. (2023). From rivers to ocean basins: the role of ocean barriers and philopatry in the genetic structuring of a cosmopolitan coastal predator. Ecol. Evol. 13(2): e9837. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9837, meer Mollen, F.H.; Iglésias, S.P. (2023). An inventory of Bramble sharks Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Elasmobranchii, Echinorhinidae) in natural history collections worldwide for conservation status assessment. Zoosystema 45(22): 653-747. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a22, meer Surapaneni, V.A.; Schindler, M.; de Faria, L.; Ziege, R.; Bidan, C.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2023). Groovy and gnarly: Surface wrinkles as a multi-functional motif for terrestrial and marine environments. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62(S1): S303-S304, meer White, W.T.; Mollen, F.H.; O’Neill, H.L.; Yang, L.; Naylor, G.J.P. (2023). Species in disguise: A new species of Hornshark from Northern Australia (Heterodontiformes: Heterodontidae). Diversity 15(7): 849. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15070849, meer Assemat, A.; Adnet, S.; Bayez, K.; Hassler, A.; Arnaud-Godet, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Girard, C.; Martin, J.E. (2022). Exploring diet shifts and ecology in modern sharks using calcium isotopes and trace metal records of their teeth. J. Fish Biol. Early view. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15211, meer Barone, M.; Mollen, F.H.; Giles, J.L.; Marshall, L.J.; Villate-Moreno, M.; Mazzoldi, C.; Pérez-Costas, E.; Heine, J.; Guisande, C. (2022). Performance of iSharkFin in the identification of wet dorsal fins from priority shark species. Ecological Informatics 68: 101514. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101514, meer Goolaerts, S.; Christiaens, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Mottequin, B.; Steurbaut, E. (2022). Applying micro-CT imaging in the study of historically and newly collected specimens of Belosaepia (Sepiida, Coleoidea, Cephalopoda) from the Early Eocene (Ypresian) of Belgium. Riv. ital. paleontol. stratigr. (Testo stamp.) 128(3): 585-606. https://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/16617, meer Surapaneni, V.A.; Schindler, M.; Ziege, R.; de Faria, L.C.; Wölfer, J.; Bidan, C.M.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M.N. (2022). Groovy and gnarly: Surface wrinkles as a multifunctional motif for terrestrial and marine environments. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62(3): 749-761. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac079, meer Collareta, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Merella, M.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2021). Remarkable multicuspid teeth in a new elusive skate (Chondrichthyes, Rajiformes) from the Mediterranean Pliocene. Paläontol. Z. 95(1): 117-128. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542-020-00542-7, meer Collareta, A.; Merella, M.; Mollen, F.H.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2020). The extinct catshark Pachyscyllium distans (Probst, 1879) (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes) in the Pliocene of the Mediterranean Sea. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 295(2): 129-139. https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2020/0877, meer Goolaerts, S.; De Ceuster, J.; Mollen, F.H.; Gijsen, B.; Bosselaers, M.; Lambert, O.; Uchman, A.; Van Herck, M.; Adriaens, R.; Houthuys, R.; Louwye, S.; Bruneel, Y.; Elsen, J.; Hoedemakers, K. (2020). The upper Miocene Deurne Member of the Diest Formation revisited: unexpected results from the study of a large temporary outcrop near Antwerp International Airport, Belgium. Geol. Belg. 23(3-4): 219-252. https://dx.doi.org/10.20341/gb.2020.011, meer Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2020). L’histoire de la description du squale bouclé Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Echinorhinidae) et la redécouverte des illustrations du type perdu. Zoosystema 42(14): 173-193. https://hdl.handle.net/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a13, meer Mollen, F.H. (2020). Lost and found: the posthumous portrait of Louis Agassiz by Henry Ulke (1876), and their noteworthy relationship. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 139(1): 1-9. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13358-020-00203-x, meer Mollen, F.H. (2019). Making Louis Agassiz’s wish come true: combining forces and a new protocol for collecting comparative skeletal material of sharks, skates and rays, as a comment and an addition to ‘The need of providing tooth morphology in descriptions of extant elasmobranch species’ by Guinot et al. (2018). Zootaxa 4571(2): 295-300. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.13, meer Mollen, F.H. (2018). Checklist anxiety: the case for sharks, skates and rays. J. Fish Biol. 93(1): 163-164. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13733, meer Mollen, F.H.; Hovestadt, D.C. (2018). A new partial skeleton of a palaeospinacid shark (Neoselachii, Synechodontiformes) from the Albian of northern France, with a review of the taxonomic history of Early Cretaceous species of Synechodus Woodward, 1888. Geodiversitas 40(25): 557-574. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a25, meer Mollen, F.H.; van Bakel, B.W.M.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2016). A partial braincase and other skeletal remains of Oligocene angel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Squatiniformes) from northwest Belgium, with comments on squatinoid taxonomy. Contributions to Zoology 85(2): 147-171, meer Mollen, F.H.; Wintner, S.P.; Iglésias, S.P.; Van Sommeran, S.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2012). Comparative morphology of rostral cartilages in extant mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae) using CT scanning. Zootaxa 3340: 29-43, meer Mollen, F.H.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2012). The taxonomic value of rostral nodes of extinct sharks, with comments on previous records of the genus Lamna (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Pliocene of Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina (USA). Acta Geol. Pol. 62(1): 117-127, meer Fraaije, R.H.B.; van Bakel, B.W.M.; Jagt, J.W.M.; Mollen, F.H. (2011). A new axiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from the Neogene of Belgium and the Netherlands. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 260(2): 157-163. dx.doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0167, meer Mollen, F.H. (2010). A partial rostrum of the Porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Miocene of the North Sea basin and the taxonomic importance of rostral morphology in extinct sharks. Geol. Belg. 13(1-2): 61-76, meer Mollen, F.H. (2008). A new Middle Eocene species of Premontreia (Elasmobranchii, Scyliorhinidae) from Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. Geol. Belg. 11(3-4): 123-131, meer Natanson, L.J.; Wintner, S.P.; Johansson, F.; Piercy, A.; Campbell, P.; De Maddalena, A.; Gulak, S.J.B.; Human, B.; Fulgosi, F.C.; Ebert, D.A.; Hemida, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Vanni, S.; Burgess, G.H.; Compagno, L.J.V.; Wedderburn-Maxwell, A. (2008). Ontogenetic vertebral growth patterns in the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 361: 267-278. dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps07399, meer Mollen, F.H. (2007). A new species of Abdounia (Elasmobranchii, Carcharhinidae) from the base of the Boom Clay Formation (Oligocene) in northwest Belgium. Geol. Belg. 10(1-2): 69-79, meer
Peer reviewed publicaties (3) [show]
Li, T.; Schindler, M.; Paskin, M.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Scott, E.; Hauert, S.; Payne, N.; Cade, D.E.; Goldbogen, J.A.; Mollen, F.H.; Baum, D.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M.N. (2025). Functional models from limited data: A parametric and multimodal approach to anatomy and 3D kinematics of feeding in basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus). Anat. Rec. Online first. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.25693, meer Reinecke, T.; Mollen, F.H.; Gijsen, B.; D'Haeze, B.; Hoedemakers, K. (2024). Batomorphs (Elasmobranchii: Rhinopristiformes, Rajiformes, Torpediniformes, Myliobatiformes) of the middle to late Ypresian, early Eocene, in the Anglo-Belgian Basin (south-western North Sea Basin) – a review and description of new taxa. Palaeontos 35: 1-172, meer Reinecke, T.; Mollen, F.H.; Seitz, J.C.; Motomura, H.; Hovestadt, D.C.; Hoedemakers, K. (2023). Iconography of jaws and representative teeth of extant rhinopristiform and dasyatoid batoids (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) for comparison with fossil batoid material. Palaeontos 34: 3-158, meer
Boek [show]
Jagt, J.W.M.; Harle, N.; Strijckers, J.; Mollen, F.H. (2015). Haai. Natuurhistorisch Museum: Maastricht. 39 pp., meer
Boekhoofdstukken (3) [show]
Silva, K.C.R.; Oddone, M.C.; Mollen, F.H. (2022). Estudo morfológico dentário do tubarão noturno Carcharhinus signatus (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae), in: 21ª Mostra da Produção Universitária - MPU, Rio Grande/RS, Brasil, 19 a 21 de outubro de 2022. pp. 1-4, meer Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H.; Naylor, G.J.P. (2018). L’histoire de la disparition précoce du Squale bouclé (Echinorhinus brucus) révélée par une approche intégrative en écologie historique, in: VIIe Rencontres de l’Ichtyologie en France, Paris, 27-30 mars 2018. pp. 81, meer Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2018). The story of the early extirpation of the Bramble shark (Echinorhinus brucus, Echinorhinidae) exhumed by an integrative historical ecology approach, in: ICES WGHIST Report 2018. Interim report of the Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (WGHIST) 4-7 September 2018 Brest, France. CM Documents - ICES, CM 2018(HAPISG:19): pp. 23-24, meer
Abstracts (10) [show]
Denné, E.; Mollen, F.H.; Vellekoop, J. (2026). Elasmobranch community responses to early Eocene climate events in the North Sea Basin, in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, 4 March 2026, Oostende. VLIZ Special Publication, 96: pp. 59, meer Li, T.; Paskin, M.; Schindler, M.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Mollen, F.H.; Baumgärtner, D.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2023). Lessons from really big fish: integrating incomplete data in parametric modelling of coherent skeletal model, in: ICVM 2023: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns, Australia, 28 July - 1 August 2023 . , meer Schindler, M.; Liu, C.; Li, T.; Paskin, M.; Png, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Payne, N.; Amini, S.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Dean, M. (2023). Armed to the teeth: Adaptive functionality of shark denticles from material and mechanical perspectives, in: ICVM 2023: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns, Australia, 28 July - 1 August 2023 . , meer Assemat, A.; Adnet, S.; Bayez, K.; Hassler, A.; Arnaud-Godet, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Girard, C.; Martin, J.E. (2022). De l’émail à l’estomac: apport de la géochimie isotopique du calcium à l’étude du régime alimentaire chez les élasmobranches actuels et fossiles, in: RIF 2022: 8e Rencontres de l'Ichtyologie en France, 15-18 mars 2022, Paris: Livre des résumés. pp. 9-10, meer Schindler, M.; Liu, C.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Tang, T.; De Falco, P.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Dean, M.; Hanna, S. (2022). Hierarchical design of basking shark gill rakers and their potential for high-volume suspension filters, in: SICB Annual Meeting 3–7 January 2022, Phoenix, Arizona. , meer Surapaneni, V.A.; Wölfer, J.; Schindler, M.; de Faria, L.C.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M.N. (2022). Ecomorphology of multifunctional wrinkles across terrestrial and aquatic organisms - a source of inspiration for functionalized biomimetic surfaces, in: SEB Annual Conference 2022, Montpellier, France from 5 to 8 July 2022. , meer Assemat, A.; Adnet, S.; Bayez, K.; Hassler, A.; Arnaud-Godet, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Girard, C.; Martin, J.E. (2021). Contribution of calcium isotope geochemistry to the study of diet in present and fossil elasmobranchs, case of Megalodon, in: Saslis, H. et al. 2nd Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap (CPEG), Online, 5th-9th September 2021 (hosted by the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin): Abstract Book. pp. 28, meer Collareta, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Merella, M.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2020). Ginglymostomatid-like multicuspid teeth in an elusive rajid skate from the Tuscan Pliocene, in: 64th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting. Virtual meeting 16th–18th December 2020 hosted by Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK: Programme, abstracts and AGM papers. pp. 63, meer Devloo-Delva, F.; Burridge, C.P.; Kyne, P.M.; Brunnschweiler, J.M.; Chapman, D.D.; Charvet, P.; Chen, X.; Cliff, G.; Daly, R.; Drymon, J.M.; Espinoza, M.; Fernando, D.; Garcia Barcia, L.; Glaus, K.; Grant, M.I.; Gunasekera, R.M.; Hernández, S.I.; Hyodo, S.; Jabado, R.W.; Jaquemet, S.; Johnson, G.; Magalon, H.; Marthick, J.R.; Mollen, F.H.; Mona, S.; Naylor, G.J.P.; Nevill, J.E.G.; Phillips, N.M.; Pillans, R.D.; Postaire, B.D.; Smoothey, A.F.; Tachihara, K.; Tillet, B.J.; Valerio, J.; Feutry, P. (2020). From rivers to ocean basins – Global genetic population structure of the bull shark, in: OCS Virtual Conference, November 3 & 4, 2020: Program and abstracts. pp. 8, meer Mollen, F.H.; Hilte, F.; Bauwens, J. (2016). Onderzoek blaast nieuw leven in oude braamhaai van Oostende, in: Lescrauwaet, A.-K. et al. (Ed.) Abstractenboek studiedag “Vissen in het verleden. Een multidisciplinaire kijk op de geschiedenis van de Belgische zeevisserij”. VLIZ Special Publication, 76: pp. 63-66, meer
Overige publicaties (6) [show]
Demarrez, I.; Mollen, F.H. (2025). De Egemse kleigroeve Ampe, een schatkamer vol historische mariene biodiversiteit. De Roede van Tielt 56(2): 172-179, meer Mollen, F.H.; Iglésias, S.P. (2024). An inventory of Bramble sharks in natural history collections for conservation status assessment. Oceans Past News 27: 3, meer Goolaerts, G.; Christiaens, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Steurbaut, E.; Mottequin, B. (2020). Applying micro-CT imaging in the study of fossil sepiids and nautilids (Cephalopoda): examples from the Eocene of Belgium. Abstracts - Geological Society of America 52(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020am-357179, meer Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2020). First and last record of Bramble sharks in France spans 300 years at exactly the same location. Oceans Past News 17: 3, meer Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2018). Cold case: The early disappearance of the Bramble shark (Echinorhinus brucus) in European and adjacent waters. Oceans Past News 10: 1-5, meer Haelters, J.; Mollen, F.H. (2007). Reuzenhaaien Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) op de visveiling in België in 2006 en 2007, in: De Strandvlo 27(3-4). De Strandvlo: Driemaandelijks Tijdschrift van De Strandwerkgroep België, 27(3-4): pp. 94-102, meer