Work on Oligocene whales from South Carolina resulted in two publications, one in 1974 and one in 1976.Whitmore, Frank C. Jr. and A. E. Sanders. 1974. The Cetacea 30 million years ago. American Zoologist 15: 812; Whitmore and Sanders. 1976. Review of the Oligocene Cetacea. Systematic Zoology 25:304-320.  During the 1970s Whitmore was principal investigator on the study of Paleocene vertebrates from Saudi Arabia. Paleoecological studies of this estuarine fauna established the geographical position of part of the ancient Tethys Sea, and contributed to the delineation of lime deposits needed for cement manufacture.Whitmore, Frank C. Jr., C.T. Madden, I.M. Nagvi, D.L. Schmidt, W. Langston, Jr., and R. C. Wood. 1979. Paleocene vertebrates from coastal deposits on the Harrat Hadan area, At Taif region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. United States Geological Survey, Aaudi Arabian Mission, Project Report 269, Open-file Report OF-80-227. Part of Whitmore's duties at the U.S. Geological Survey, involved handling "examination and report" (E & R) requests. Some were submitted by colleagues in other disciplines whose investigations turned up bone specimens. Others came in via USGS public-relations people from citizens who wanted to know about something they found in their backyard or while on vacation. One E & R stood out above all the others, "The Case of the Papal Proboscidean."
