His thesis investigating the evolution and development of mammalian molar cusp patterns was supervised by Irma Thesleff and Mikael Fortelius.
Mikael Fortelius (born 1 February 1954) is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeontology at the University of Helsinki and the coordinator of the Neogene of the Old World database of fossil mammals.
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His research involves the evolution of Eurasian land mammals and terrestrial environments during the Neogene, ecomorphology of ungulates, developmental biology, the function and evolution of mammalian teeth, and scaling problems (changes in size with growth or as species evolve).
Sanders, W.J., 2003, chap 10, Proboscidea, in Mikael Fortelius (ed) Geology and paleontology of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey, Columbia University Press, New York
Mikael Persbrandt | Zouk Mikael | Mikael Stanne | Mikael Fortelius | Mikael Forssell | Toivo Mikael Kivimäki | Mikael Wiehe | Mikael Tellqvist | Mikael Salomon | Mikael Håfström | Mikael Åkerfeldt | Mikael Stenmark | Mikael Stahre | Mikael Odenberg | Mikael Nalbandian | Mikael Löfgren | Mikael Lofgren | Mikael Granlund | Mikael Ericsson | Mikael Dahlberg | Mikael Daez | Mikael Colville-Andersen | Mikael Bols | Mikael Bodlore-Penlaez | Mikael Blomkvist | Mikael Andersson (footballer born 1978) |
It was first named by Tao Deng, Xiaoming Wang, Mikael Fortelius, Qiang Li, Yang Wang, Zhijie J. Tseng, Gary T. Takeuchi, Joel E. Saylor, Laura K. Säilä and Guangpu Xie in 2011.