Publications

Brassell, S.C., Colcord, D.E., Shilling, A.M., Stanistreet, I.G., Stollhofen, H., Toth, N., Schick, K.D., Njau, J.K., Freeman, K.H. Alkenones in Pleistocene Upper Bed I (1.803-1.900 Ma) sediments from Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania. 2022. Organic Geochemistry 170. DOI

Camargo, I., Àlvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Polly, P.D., Stuhler, J.D., and Maldonado, J.E. 2022. Molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic status of the large-eared desert shrew Notiosorex evotis (Eulipothyphla: Soricidae). Journal of Mammalogy. DOI

Farrugia, P. and Njau, J.K. 2022. Paleoecology and Vertebrate Taphonomy of the DK Site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, In S. Reynolds and R. Bobe (eds.). African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press. Pg. 394-412. DOI

Fujioka, F., Benito-Calvo, A., Mora, R., McHenry, L.J., Njau, J.K., and Torre, I. 2022. Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution 165. DOI

Hebdon, N., Polly, P.D., Peterman, D.J., and Ritterbush, K.A. 2022. Detecting mismatch in functional narratives of animal morphology: a test case with fossils. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62:817-828. DOI

Kennedy, J.R. and Guiry, E.J. 2022. Exploring Railroad Impacts on Meat Trade: An Isotopic Investigation of Meat Sourcing and Animal Husbandry at Chinese Diaspora Sites in the American West. International Journal of Historical Archaeology.DOI

Kort, A.E., Ahrens, H., Polly, P.D., and Morlo, M. 2022. Postcrania and paleobiology of Patriofelis ulta (Mammalia, Oxyaenodonta) of the Bridgerian (Early-Middle Eocene) of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41: e2045491, 1-16. DOI

Mo, J. and Polly, P.D. 2022. The role of dispersal, selection intensity, and extirpation risk in resilience to climate change: a trait-based modeling approach. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31:1184- 1193. DOI

O’Keefe, R., Meachen, J., and Polly, P.D. 2022. On information rank deficiency in phenotypic covariance matrices. Systematic Biology, 71: 810-822. DOI

Pearson, A., Polly, P.D., and Brunner, E. 2023. Updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI

Polly, P.D. 2022. The politics of public land management: the creation, reduction and restoration of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. Geological Curator, 11(7): 436- 453. DOI

Short, R.A., McGuire, J.L., Polly, P.D., and Lawing, A.M. 2023. Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammalian communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 120(7): e2201947120. DOI

Weaver, L.N., Fulghum, H.Z., Grossnickle, D.M., Brightly, W.H., Kulik, Z.T., WIlson Mantilla, G.P., and Whitney, M.R. Multituberculate Mammals Show Evidence of a Life History Strategy Similar to That of Placentals, Not Marsupials. The American Naturalist. 2022.

Zimmerman, A.N., Johnson, C.C., Phillips, G.E., and Ehret, D.J. 2023. Taxonomy and paleobiogeography of rudist bivalves from Upper Cretaceous strata, Gulf Coastal Plain and Puerto Rico, USA. Journal of Paleontology. DOI

Brannick, A.L., Fulghum, H.Z., Grossnickle, D.M., and Wilson Mantilla, GP. Taxonomic diversification decoupled from patterns of dietary diversification in Cretaceous North American metatherians. Paleontologia Electronica. 2022.

Pearson, A. and Polly, P.D. Temporal lobe evolution in extant and fossil Cercopithecoidea. Journal of Mammalian Evolution.

Brand, N., Miller-Camp, J., and Uhen, M. 2022. Where in the world does that whale hail from? Paleobiogeography and dispersal history of stem mysticetes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2022, pg. 86-87. [Poster]

Fulghum, H.Z. and Polly, P.D. 2022. Evaluating dietary diversity in the tribosphenic dentition: machine learning analysis of simple linear measurements distinguish primary and secondary diet types in extant taxa. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82nd Annual Meeting (Toronto, ON).

Fulghum, H.Z., and Polly, P.D. 2022 Evaluating dietary diversity in modern tribosphenic taxa. Great Lakes Paleontological Conference (Chicago, IL).

Fulghum, H.Z., and Polly, P.D. 2022. Assessing the diversity of modern tribosphenic dentitions using simple indices of functional morphology. Crossroads Conference (Bloomington, IN).

Fulghum, H.Z. and Polly, P.D. 2022. Evaluating dietary diversity in the tribosphenic dentition: simple linear measurements distinguish primary and secondary diet types in extant taxa. Conference, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, International.

Guiry, E.J., Noël, S., Fowler, J., Kennedy, J.R., deFrance, S.D., Orchard, T., and Needs-Howard, S. 2022. “Sulfur isotopes as an indicator of wetland use.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group Meeting, Vienna, Austria, August 22-27.

Hawley, K., Beeker, C., Johnson, C.C., and Rader, S. 2023. “Methods to identify post-depositional geochemical alterations to ceramics in Submerged Archaeological Sites: A Case Study using prehistoric eramics from Eastern Dominican Republic.” Presented at the Society for Historic Arcaheology Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, January 3-8.

Kennedy, J.R., Guiry, E.J., and deFrance, S.D. 2022. “The dynamics of fish supply in late-nineteenth-century New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and some implications for the role of transportation technology in fish trade.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group Meeting, Vienna, Austria, August 22-27.

Kort, A.E. 2022. Bizarre Backbones: A Synapomorphy in the Lumbar Vertebrae for Ferungulata. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, 2022.

Kort, A.E. 2023. Testing the function of interlocking zygapophyses in lumbar vertebrae of early placental mammals. Society of Integrative Biology Annual Meeting. 2023

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. 2022. Taphonomy and Ichnology of Nile Crocodile Feeding Behavior. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82nd Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada [Poster]

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. 2022. Taxonomic Reappraisal of the Ichnogenus Nihilichnus. The Geological Society of America Connects, Denver, CO, USA [Poster]

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. 2022. Identifying Diagnostic Crocodile Feeding Traces in Archaeological Sites. Eastern African Association of Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology, Arusha, Tanzania [Poster]

Miller-Camp, J. 2022, Dual Osteology Guide/Inventory Workflows as an Answer to Several Museum Collection Problems, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2022, pg. 243. [Poster]

Njau, J.K. 2022. Human Origins Research at Olduvai Gorge: Advances in Modern Paleoanthropology. Presented at the joint working meeting between Olduvai and D’manisi hominid projects. Conference organized by the Stone Age Institute and National Museum of Georgia. State University of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

Njau, J.K., Toth, N., Schick, Stanistreet, I., and Stollhofen, H. 2022. New stratigraphy extends Quaternary record at the Olduvai basin, Tanzania. Eastern African Association of Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology (EAAPP), Arusha, Tanzania.

Pante, M., de la Torre, I., d’Errico, F., Njau, J.K., and Blumenschine, R.J. 2022. Bone tools from Beds II-IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology. Paleoanthropology Society, Denver, CO.

Peltier, D.M., Njau, J.K., 2022. Tectonic influence on Pleistocene vertebrate diversity at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Eastern Africa Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology Biennial Conference, Arusha, Tanzania.

Peltier, D.M., Johnson, C.C., and Njau, J. 2022. Biostratigraphic Framework of Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Geological Society of America 2022 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO

Pineda Munoz, S., Chandroth, A., Fulghum, H., Hawley, K., LaBarge, T., Lopezalles, S., Nelson, A., Salcido, C.J., and Polly, P.D. "The Conservation Archives: Bridging conservation research and practice", Conference, International Biogeography Society Biennial Conference, Vancouver, Canada, Academic, International. (June 2, 2022).

Polly, P.D. "Functional tradeoffs carry phenotypes across the valley of the shadow of death: why performance trade-offs may not equate to multiple adaptive peaks", Conference, Phylogenetics Symposium 2022, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Academic, International. (November 19, 2022).

Polly, P.D. "Spatial processes, statistical models, and vertebrate evolution in a changing environment", Conference, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Toronto, CO, Canada, International. (November 4, 2022).

Polly, P.D. "Conservation Science of Park Paleontology", Panel, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Zoom, Academic. (November 1, 2022).

Royle, T.C.A, Kennedy, J.R., Guiry, E.J., Jackman, L.S., Shichiza, Y., and Yang, D.Y. 2022. “Understanding the dynamics of 19th-century Chinese shark fisheries in Northern California through ancient DNA analysis.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group Meeting, Vienna, Austria, August 22-27.

Salcido, C.J., and Polly, P.D. "Functional drivers of evolutionary rates in mandible shape of carnivorous therian mammals: a study using biomechanical modeling and geometric morphometrics", Conference, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, B, Canada, International. (November 5, 2022).

Short, R., Polly, P.D., McGuire, J.,  and Lawing, A.M. "Human impacts disrupt the functional relationship between traits and environment in large mammal communities," Conference, American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, United States, Academic. (June 18, 2022).

Zimmerman, A.N. and Johnson, C.C., 2022. Predicting suitable habitats and refugia for the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa, US West Atlantic and Northern Gulf of Mexico. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 54, No. 5, Denver, CO. Abstract #379847, Invited presentation. DOI

Fulghum, H.Z. “Evolution of Devonian Reef Systems”, Seminar, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University.

Fulghum, H.Z. “Pattern and Timing of Cenozoic Mammal Radiation”, Seminar, Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago.

Kennedy, J.R. 2022. “An intro to zooarchaeology and a case study from the Gulf of Mexico.” Paper presented for the Indiana State University Department of Earth and Environmental Systems Speaker Series, February 6.

Polly, P.D. "Paleontology and US National Monuments: Implications for Science and Public Lands", Seminar, Royal Tyrrell Museum Speaker Series, online, Drumheller, Canada, International. (February 2022).

Polly, P.D. "Spatial processes and evolutionary models", Seminar, Seminar Series, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States, Academic. (April 6, 2023).

Polly, P.D. "The assembly of New World cat communities: ecometrics and Neogene faunal turnover", Seminar, Seminar Series, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States, Academic. (April 6, 2023).

Nelson, A., Indiana University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Masters, 2020-2023. Thesis title: An exploration of the Canis lupus and Canis rufus species boundary via morphometrics.

Hawley, K. (PhD Qualifying Exam, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Anthropology)

Lopezalles, S. (PhD Qualifying Exam, Biological Sciences)

Salcido C.J., Wilson P., Tweet J.S., McCann B.E., Boyd C.A., and Santucci V.L. 2022. Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version). Natural Resource Report. NPS/THRO/NRR—2022/2385. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. DOI

Salcido, C.J., Wilson, P.J., Tweet, J.S., McCann, B.E., Boyd, C.A., and Santucci, V.L. (2022). Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (sensitive version). Natural Resource Report NPS/THRO/NRR – 2022/2347. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.