AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Fiscal Year 2015 Scientific Publications

Division of Anthropology 2

Division of Invertebrate Zoology 7

Division of Paleontology 13

Division of Physical Sciences

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Department of Astrophysics 20

Division of Zoology 30

Department of Herpetology 30

Department of Ichthyology 33

Department of Mammalogy 34

Department of Ornithology 41

Center for Biodiversity and Conservation 44

Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics 46

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DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Archer, W., D.R. Braun, J.W.K. Harris, J.T. McCoy, and B.G. Richmond. 2014. Early aquatic resource use in the Turkana Basin. Journal of Human Evolution 77: 74–87.

Chirchir, H., T.L. Kivell, C.B. Ruff, J.J. Hublin, K. Carlson, B. Zipfel, and B.G. Richmond. 2015. Recent origin of low trabecular bone density in modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112 (2): 366–371.

Crist, W., A.J. de Voogt, and A.-E. Dunn-Vaturi. 2015. Facilitating interaction: Board games as social lubricants in the ancient Near East. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 34(3) de Voogt, A.J. 2015. Navigating the disciplines: games, scripts and the role of language in cultural transmission. Evolutionary Biology. [doi: 10.1007 /s 11692-015-9316-9] de Voogt, A.J., N. Epstein, and L. Linders. 2014. Duru calculation and the understanding of mancala expertise. Cognition & Culture 15(3): 133–152. de Voogt, A.J. 2014. The cultural transmission of script in : the presence of syllabaries. Scripta 6: 121–143. de Voogt, A.J. 2014. The introduction of mancala to Sai Island. In J.R. Anderson & D.A. Welsby (editors), The fourth cataract and beyond: Proceedings of the 121st International Conference for Nubian Studies, pp. 1017–1020. British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 1. Leuven: Peeters.

Eerkens, J.W., A.J. de Voogt, T.L. Dupras, S.C. Rose, E.J. Bartelink, and V. Francigny. 2014. Intra-and inter-individual variation in 813C and 815N in human dental calculus and comparison to bone collagen and apatite isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science 52: 64–71. [IF 2.139]

Francigny, V., and de Voogt, A.J. 2015. Jeux de la nature en depots votifs. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100: 241– 251.

Francigny, V., R. David, and A.J. de Voogt. 2015. Soleb & Sedeinga. Paris: El-Nour. [55 pages]

2 Hedquist, S.L., S.B. Koyiyumptewa, W. Bernardini, T.J. Ferguson, P.M. Whiteley, and L.J. Kuwanwisiwma. 2015. Mapping the Hopi Landscape for Cultural Preservation. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research special issue on Geospatial Technologies and Indigenous Communities Engagement 6:1: 39–58.

Hedquist, S.L., S.B. Koyiyumptewa, K.C. Hill, T.J. Ferguson, P.M. Whiteley, and L.J. Kuwanwisiwma. 2014. Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language. American Anthropologist 16(2): 324–331.

Kendall, L., and J. Yang. 2014. Goddess with a Picasso face; Art markets, collectors and sacred things in the circulation of Korean Shaman paintings. Journal of Material Culture, 19 (4): 401–423.

Kendall, L. 2014. Intangible Traces and Material Things: The Performance of Heritage Handicraft. Acta Koreana. 72: 537–555

Kendall, L. 2015. Can Commodities Be Sacred? Material Religion in Seoul and Hanoi. In P. van der Veer (editor), Handbook of Religion and the Asian City. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 367–384.

Kendall, L. 2015. A Most Singular and Solitary Expeditionist: Berthold Laufer Collecting China. In J. A. Bell and E. L. Hasinoff (editors), The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 60–90

Kendall, L. 2015. Numinous dress/iconic costume: Korean shamans dressed for the gods and for the camera. In H. Behrend, A Dreschke, and M. Zillinger (editors), Trance Mediums and New Media: Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction. New York: Fordham University Press. 116–136.

Kendall, L. 2014. “China to the Anthropologist!”: Franz Boas, Berthold Laufer, and a Road Not Taken in Early American Anthropology. In

3 R. Rarnell and F. W. Gleach (editors), Anthropologists and Their Traditions across national Borders. Histories of Anthropology Annual vol. 8: 1–40. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Kendall, L. 2014. Conclusion: marriages and families in Asia: something old and something new? In S.M. Tam, W.C. A. Wong, and D. Wang (editors), Gender and Family in East Asia: 226–240. London and New York: Routledge.

Rabey, K., D.J. Green, A. Taylor, D. Begun, B.G. Richmond, and S. McFarlin. 2015. Locomotor activity influences muscle and bone growth but not muscle attachment site morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 78: 91–102.

Roach, N.T., and B.G. Richmond. 2015. Clavicle length, throwing performance and the reconstruction of the Homo erectus shoulder. Journal of Human Evolution 80: 107–113.

Smith, A.L., S. Benazzi, J.A. Ledogar, K. Tamvada, L. Smith, G.W. Weber, M.A. Spencer, P.W. Lucas, S. Michael, K. Al-Fadhalah, A.S. Almusallam, P.C. Dechow, I.R. Grosse, C.F. Ross, B.G. Richmond, B.W. Wright, Q. Wang, C. Byron, D.E. Slice, S. Wood, D. Dzialo, M. Berthaume, and D.S. Strait. 2015. The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Paranthropus boisei. Anatomical Record 298: 145–167.

Smith, A.L., S. Benazzi, J.A. Ledogar, K. Tamvada, L. Smith, G.W. Weber, M.A. Spencer, P.C. Dechow, I.R. Grosse, C.F. Ross, B.G. Richmond, B.W. Wright, Q. Wang, C. Byron, D.E. Slice, and D.S. Strait. 2015. Biomechanical implications of intraspecific shape variation in chimpanzee crania: moving towards an integration of geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis. Anatomical Record 298: 122–144.

Spencer, C.S. 2014. Modeling the Evolution of Bureaucracy: Political-Economic Reach and Administrative Complexity. Social Evolution & History 13(1): 42–66.

Spencer, C.S., and E.M. Redmond. 2014. A Pre-Hispanic Chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela: Excavations at Gaván- complex Sites. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 100. New York, NY. 2 vols. 896 pages, 11 chapters, 7 appendices, 404 figures, 43 tables.

Spencer, C.S., and E.M. Redmond. 2014. A Trial Analysis of Use-Wear Evidence on Chipped Stone Tools. Appendix B in A Pre-Hispanic Chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela: Excavations at Gaván-

4 complex Sites. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 100: 821–843.

Spencer, C.S. and E.M. Redmond, and R.A. Gassón. 2014. Radiocarbon and Thermoluminescence Dates From Gaván-complex Sites. Appendix E in A Pre-Hispanic Chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela: Excavations at Gaván-complex Sites. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 100: 852–856.

Spencer, C.S., and E.M. Redmond. 2014. Analysis of Misfired Sherds and Kiln Wasters from B12, B21, and B97. Appendix F in A Pre-Hispanic Chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela: Excavations at Gaván-complex Sites. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 100: 857–861.

Thomas, D.H. 2014. The Life and Times of Junípero Serra: A Pan-Borderlands Perspective [A Tibesar Distinguished Lecture]. The Americas 71(2): 185–225.

Thomas, D.H. 2014. Exploring and Explaining Alta Toquima: The Higher You Get, the Higher You Get. The SAA Archaeological Record: 32–37.

Thomas, D.H. 2014. The Shellfishers of St. Catherines Island: Hardscrabble Foragers and Farming Beachcombers? Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 9(2): 169–182.

Thomas, D.H. 2014. Alta Toquima: Why Did Foraging Families Spend Summers at 11,000 Feet? In Archaeology in the Great Basin and Southwest, edited by Nancy J. Parezo and Joel C. Janetski, pp. 130–148. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Thomas, D.H., and L.N. Stutz. 2014. Perspectives—Socially Responsible and Culturally Conscious Approaches to Cremations in the New and Old Worlds. In I. Kuijt, C.P. Quinn and G. Cooney (editors), Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context: 35–46. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

Thomas, D.H., and E. Blair. 2014. The Guale Uprising of 1597: An Archaeological Perspective from Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (Georgia). In

5 L.M. Panich and T.D. Schneider (editors), Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory: 25–40. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press

Thomas, D.H., D.K. Kennet, B. Culleton, J. Dexter, and S. Mensing. 2014. High Precision AMS 14C Chronology for Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada. Journal of Archaeological Science 52: 621–632.

Wheeler, W.C., and P.M. Whiteley. 2015. Historical Linguistics as a Sequence Optimization Problem: the Evolution and Biogeography of Uto-Aztecan Languages. Cladistics 31:2: 113–125.

Whiteley, P.M. 2015. Chacoan Kinship. In C.C. Heitman and S. Plog (editors), Chaco Revisited: New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: 272–304. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

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DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY

Bird, T.L., R.A. Wharton, and L. Prendini. 2015. Cheliceral morphology in Solifugae (Arachnida): Primary homology, terminology, and character survey. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 394: 1–355.

Bolzern, A., N.I. Platnick, and L. Berniker. 2015. Three new genera of soft-bodied goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. American Museum Novitates 3824: 1–59.

Clouse, R. M. Janda, B. Blanchard, P. Sharma, B. Hoffman, A. Andersen, J. Czekanski-Moir, P. Krushelnycky, C. Rabeling, E. Economo, E. Sarnat, D. General, G. Alpert, and W.C. Wheeler. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of an Indo-Pacific carpenter ant (: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse sources. Cladistics 7: [doi: 10.1111/cla.12099]

Clouse, R.M. and W.C. Wheeler. 2014. Descriptions of two new, cryptic of Metasiro (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Neogoveidae) from South Carolina, USA, including a discussion of mitochondrial mutation rates. Zootaxa 3814: 177–201.

Cushing, P.E., M.R. Graham, L. Prendini, and J.O. Brookhart. 2015. A multilocus molecular phylogeny of the endemic North American camel spider family Eremobatidae (Arachnida: Solifugae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 92: 280–293.

Derelle, R., G. Torruella, V. Klimesc, H. Brinkman, E. Kim, B.F. Lang, and M. Elias. 2015. Bacterial proteins pinpoint a single root. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112: e693–e699.

Foord, S.H., V. Gelebe, and L. Prendini. 2014. Effects of aspect and altitude on scorpion diversity along an environmental gradient in the Soutpansberg, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 113: 114–120.

Ford, E.K. St. John, and W.C. Wheeler. 2015. Towards Improving Searches for Optimal Phylogenies. Systematic Biology 64: 56–65.

Garcete-Barrett, B.R., U. Drechsel, and J.M. Carpenter.

7 2015. Parachartergus smithii (de Saussure, 1854), a new record of social from Paraguay (Hymenoptera: : ). Paraguay Biodiversidad 1 (3): 12–15.

González-Santillán, E., and L. Prendini. 2015. Systematic revision of the North American syntropine vaejovid scorpions with a subaculear tubercle, Konetontli González-Santillán and Prendini, 2013. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 397: 1–78.

González-Santillán, E., and L. Prendini. 2015. Phylogeny of the North American vaejovid scorpion subfamily Syntropinae Kraepelin, 1905, based on morphology, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Cladistics 31(4): 341–405.

Gotlieb, A., G. Pisanty, J.G. Rozen, Jr., A. Müller, G. Röder, C. Sedivy, and C. Praz. 2014. Nests, floral preferences, and immatures of the Haetosmia vechti (Hymenoptera: : ). American Museum Novitates 3808: 1–20.

Hermes, M.G., G.A.R. Melo, and J. M. Carpenter. 2014. The higher-level phylogenetic relationships of the Eumeninae (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespidae), with emphasis on Eumenes sensu lato. Cladistics 30 (5): 453–484. [doi:10.1111/cla.12059]

Kim, E., and S. Maruyama. 2014. A contemplation on the secondary origin of green algal and plant plastids. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 83: 331–336.

Kim, E., Y. Lin, R.K. Kerney, L. Blumenberg, and C. Bishop. 2014. Phylogenetic analysis of algal symbionts associated with four North American egg . PLOS ONE [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108915]

Kumar, P.G., J.M. Carpenter, and G. Sharma. 2014. A review of the Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika, 1970 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini) from the Indian subcontinent, with the description of a new species from the eastern Himalayas. Zootaxa 3802 (1): 131–143.

Kumar, P.G., J.M. Carpenter, K. Lambert, and K. P. M. Shareef. 2014. Additional notes on the genus Apodynerus Giordani Soika, 1993 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Indian subcontinent. Halteres 5: 46–50.

Kumar, P.G., K.P.M. Shareef, K. Lambert, and J.M. Carpenter.

8 2014.A taxonomic review of the Oriental genus Labus de Saussure, 1867 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Indian subcontinent. Biosystematica 7 (2): 29–37.

Kumar, P.G., J.M. Carpenter, and P.M. Sureshan. 2015. A taxonomic review of the genus Cyrtolabulus van der Vecht, 1969 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India. Diversity, Natural History and Conservation 5: 49–55.

Loria, S.F., and L. Prendini. 2014. Homology of the lateral eyes of Scorpiones: A six-ocellus model. PLOS ONE 9(12): e112913 (30 pp.). [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112913.]

Mattoni, C.I., S. García-Hernández, R. Botero-Trujillo, J.A. Ochoa, A.A. Ojanguren-Affilastro, R. Pinto-da-Rocha, and L. Prendini. 2015. Scorpion sheds ‘tail’ to escape: Consequences and implications of autotomy in scorpions (Buthidae: Ananteris). PLOS ONE 10(1): e0116639 (15 pp.). [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116639.]

McMahan, C.D., L.R. Freeborn, W.C. Wheeler, and B.I. Crother. 2014. Forked tongues revisited: molecular apomorphies support morphological hypotheses of squamate evolution. Copeia 103 (3): 525–529.

Menard, K.L., R.T. Schuh, and J.B. Woolley. 2014. Total-evidence phylogenetic analysis and reclassification of the (Insecta: Heteroptera: ), with the recognition of new tribes and subtribes and a redefinition of Phylini. Cladistics 30: 391–427.

Nguyen, L.T.P., H.T. Dang, J. Kojima, and J.M. Carpenter. 2014. An annotated distributional checklist of solitary of the subfamily Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Vietnam. Entomologica Americana 120 (1–2): 7–17.

Pedraza, P., N.R. Salinas, A. L. Virnig, and W.C. Wheeler. 2015. Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the Andean clade and the placement of new Colombian blueberries (Ericaceae, Vaccinieae). PhytoKeys 49: 13–31.

Peloso, P.L.V., D.R. Frost, S.J. Richards, M. Rodrigues, S. Donnellan, M. Matsui, C.J. Raxworthy, S.D. Biju, E.M. Lemmon, A.R. Lemmon, and W.C. Wheeler. 2015. The Impact of Anchored Phylogenomics and Taxon Sampling on Phylogenetic Inference in Narrowmouthed (Anura, ). Cladistics 19: [doi: 10.1111/cla.12118.]

Perrard, A., M. Arca, Q. Rome, F. Muller, J. Tan, S. Bista, H. Nugroho, R. Baudoin, M. Baylac, J.-F. Silvain, J.M. Carpenter, and C. Villemant.

9 2014. Geographic variation of melanisation patterns in a hornet species: Genetic differences, climatic pressures or aposematic constraints? PLOS ONE 9 (4): e94162. [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094162]

Perrard, A., M. Baylac, J.M. Carpenter, and C. Villemant. 2014. Evolution of wing shape in hornets: why is the wing venation efficient for species identification? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 2665–2675. [doi: 10.1111/jeb.12523]

Platnick, N.I., and L. Berniker. 2014. The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3811: 1–75.

Platnick, N.I., and L. Berniker. 2014. The goblin spider genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), part 3. American Museum Novitates 3819: 1–67.

Platnick, N.I., L. Berniker, and C. Víquez. 2014. A new goblin spider genus of the Zyngoonops group from Costa Rica, with notes on Coxapopha (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3820: 1–20.

Platnick, N.I., and L. Berniker. 2015. The goblin spider genus Khamisia and its relatives (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3837: 1–66

Prendini, L. 2015. Three new Uroplectes (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with punctate metasomal segments from tropical central Africa. American Museum Novitates 3840: 1–32.

Rozen, Jr., J.G. 2014. Nesting biology and immature stages of the panurgine bee genera Rhophitulus and Cephalurgus (: Andrenidae: Protandrenini). American Museum Novitates 3814: 1–16.

Rozen, Jr., J.G. 2015. Nest and immatures of the South American anthidiine bee Notanthidium (Allanthidium) chilense (Urban) (Apoidea: Megachilidae). American Museum Novitates 3826: 1–12.

Rozen, Jr., J.G., G. Pisanty, V. Trunz, D. Bénon, A. Dorchin, and C.J. Praz. 2015. Nesting biology, flower preferences, and larval morphology of the little- known Old World bee Ochreriades fasciatus (Apoidea: Megachilidae: ). American Museum Novitates 3830: 1–18.

10 Santibáñez-Lopez, C.E., O.F. Francke, and L. Prendini. 2014. Kolotl n. gen. (Scorpiones: Diplocentridae) a new scorpion genus from Mexico. American Museum Novitates 3815: 1–14.

Santibáñez-Lopez, C.E., O.F. Francke, and L. Prendini. 2014. Shining a light into the world’s deepest caves: Phylogenetic systematics of the troglobiotic scorpion genus Alacran Francke, 1982 (Typhlochactidae: Alacraninae). Invertebrate Systematics 28: 643–664.

Santos Junior, J.N.A. Dos, O.T. Silveira, and J.M. Carpenter. 2015. Phylogeny of Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 and taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia exigua species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae), with description of four new species. Zootaxa 3956 (2): 151–182.

Schuh, R.T., C. Weirauch, and K. Menard. 2014. Resolving the Identities of Phylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) described by O.M. Reuter from Australia in 1904. Entomologica Americana 120: 4–6.

Schuh, R.T., P. Štys, G. Cassis, M. Lehnert, D. Swanson, and T. Bruce. 2015. New genera and species of Plokiophilidae from Australia, Fiji, and Southeast Asia, with a revised classification of the family (Insecta: Heteroptera: Cimicoidea). American Museum Novitates 3825: 24 pp.

Schuh, R.T., C. Weirauch, and H. Grillo. 2015. Revision of Aphelonotus Uhler (: Heteroptera: Pachynomidae), with description of six new species and documentation of nymphal morphology for three species. American Museum Novitates: 43 pp.

Sharma, P.P., T. Gupta, E.E. Schwager, W.C. Wheeler, and C.G. Extavour. 2014. Subdivision of cap-n-collar expression domains constitutes a mandibulate synapomorphy. EvoDevo 5: 1–11.

Sharma, P., and W.C. Wheeler. 2014. Cross-bracing uncalibrated nodes in molecular dating improves congruence of and molecular age estimates. Frontiers in Zoology 11: 57.

Sharma, P.P., S. Kaluziak, A.R. Perez-Porro, V.L. González, G. Hormiga, W.C. Wheeler, and G. Giribet. 2014. Phylogenomic interrogation of Chelicerata reveals systemic conflicts in phylogenetic signal. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31: 2963–2984.

Sharma, P.P., E.E. Schwager, C.G. Extavour, and W.C. Wheeler. 2014. Hox gene duplications correlate with posterior heteronomy in scorpions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20140661.

Siddiqui, J.A., I. Bodlah, J.M. Carpenter, M. Naeem, M. Ahmad, and M.A. Bodlah.

11 2015. Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan. Zootaxa 3 914 (5): 501–524.

Tahir, H.M., and L. Prendini. 2014. Redescription of Heterometrus latimanus and confirmation of the genus Heterometrus (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) in Pakistan. American Museum Novitates 3805: 1–23.

Tahir, H.M., S. Navidpour, and L. Prendini. 2014. First reports of Razianus Farzanpay, 1987 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Iraq and Pakistan, descriptions of two new species, and redescription of Razianus zarudnyi (Birula, 1903). American Museum Novitates 3806: 1–26.

Talal, S., I. Tesler, J. Sivan, R. Ben-Shlomo, H.M. Tahir, L. Prendini, S. Snir, and E. Gefen. 2015. Scorpion speciation in the Holy Land: Multilocus phylogeography corroborates diagnostic differences in morphology and burrowing behavior among Scorpio subspecies and justifies recognition as phylogenetic, ecological and biological species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91: 226–237.

Wheeler, W.C., N. Lucaroni, L. Hong, L.M. Crowley, and A. Varón. 2015. POY version 5: Phylogenetic analysis using dynamic homologies under multiple optimality criteria. Cladistics 31: 189–196.

Wheeler, W.C., and P.M. Whiteley. 2015. Historical Linguistics as a Sequence Optimization Problem: Uto-Aztecan Language Evolution and Biogeography. Cladistics 31: 113–125.

12 DIVISION OF PALEONTOLOGY

Ascanio, D.A.D. Rincón, B.J. Shockey, F. Anaya, and A. Solórzano. 2015. Palaeothentid Marsupials of the Salla Beds of Bolivia (Late Oligocene): Two New Species and Insights into the Post-Eocene Radiation of Palaeothentoids. Journal of Mammalian Evolution [doi: 10.1007/s10914-015-9295-8]

Bai, B., Y. Wang, J. Meng, Q. Li, and X. Jin. 2014. New Early Eocene basal tapiromorph from southern China and its phylogenetic implications. PLOS ONE 9(10): e110806. [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110806]

Balanoff, A.R, G.S. Bever, and M.A. Norell. 2014. Reconsidering the avian status of the oviraptorosaur brain (Oviraptorosauria: Theropoda). PLOS ONE 9(12): e113559.

Bi, S-d, Y-Q Wang, J. Guan, and J. Meng. 2014. Three new haramiyidan species reinforces early divergence of . Nature 514: 579–584. [doi: 10.1038/nature13718]

Brusatte S.L., R., Butler, P.M. Barrett, M.T. Carrano, D. Evans, G.T. Lloyd, P.D. Mannion, M.A. Norell, Daniel J. Peppe, P. Upchurch, and T.E. Williamson. 2014. The extinction of the dinosaurs. Biological Reviews 90 (2): 628–642 [doi: 10.1111/brv.12128]

Brusatte, S.L., G.T. Lloyd, S.C. Wang, and M.A. Norell. 2014. Gradual assembly of avian body plan culminated in rapid rates of evolution across dinosaur-bird transition. Current Biology 24(20): 2386–2392.

Carvalho, M.G.P.de, and L.C.M. de O Ponciano. 2015. trilobites from the Amazonas Basin: systematic diversity, taphonomy, and bogeographic significance. Bol. Mus. Para. Emilio Goeldi, Cienc. Nat., Belem, vol.10, n.1, 37–48.

Choiniere, J.N., J.M. Clark, M.A. Norell, and X. Xu. 2014. Cranial Osteology of Haplocheirus solleris. American Museum Novitates 3816: 1–44.

Clarke, J.A., D.T. Ksepka, N.A. Smith, and M.A. Norell. 2014. Corrigendium: Combined phylogenetic analysis of a new North American fossil species confirms widespread Eocene distribution for stem rollers (Aves, Coracii). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 226–229.

DeBaets, K., N.H. Landman, and K. Tanabe. 2015. Ammonoid embryonic development. In

13 C. Klug, D. Korn, K. DeBaets, I. Kruta, and R.H. Mapes (editors), Ammonoid Paleobiology, 113–205. New York, NY: Springer Press.

Dyke, G., M. Vremir, S.L. Brusatte, G.S. Bever, E. Buffetaut, S. Chapman, Z. Csiki-Sava, A. Kellner, E. Martin, D. Naish, M.A. Norell, A. Ősi, F.L. Pinheiro, E. Prondvai, M. Rabi, T. Rodrigues, L. Steel, H. Tong, B.C. Vila Novp, and M. Witton. 2014. Thalassodromeus sebesensis – a new name for an old turtle. Comment on “Thalassodromeus sebesensis, an out of place and out of time Gondwanan tapejarid pterosaur”, Grellet-Tinner and Codrea. Gondwana Research. [doi:10.1016/j.gr.2014.06.002]

Egerton, V.M., R.A. Wogelius, M.A. Norell, N.P. Edwards, W.I. Sellers, U. Bergmann, D.Sokaras, R. Alonso-Mori, K. Ignatyev, A. van Veelen, J.Anné, F. Knoll, and P.L. Manning. 2015. The mapping and differentiation of biological and environmental elemental signatures in the fossil remains of a 50 million year old bird. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (Royal Society of Chemistry) 30: 627–634.

Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł., C. Li, F. Mao, J. Meng, and Y. Wang. 2015. A large mimotonid from the Middle Eocene of China sheds light on the evolution of lagomorphs and their kin. Science Reports 5: 9394. [doi:10.1038/srep09394]

Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł., C-K Li, Q. Li, J. Meng, and Y. Wang. 2015. Strenulagus (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) from the Middle Eocene Irdin Manha Formation of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China. Aata Geologica Sinica (English edition) 89(1): 12–26.

Frost, S.R., C.C. Gilbert, K.D. Pugh, E.H. Guthrie, and E. Delson. 2015. The hand of Cercopithecoides williamsi (Mammalia, ): Earliest evidence for thumb reduction among colobine monkeys. PLOS ONE 10(5): e0125030. [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125030]

Heers, A.M., and K.P. Dial. 2015. Wings versus legs in the avian bauplan: Development and evolution of alternative locomotor strategies. Evolution 69-2: 305–320.

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22 2015. A unified explanation for the supernova rate- mass dependence based on supernovae detected in Sloan galaxy spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 450: 905–925.

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Hubbard, A., and D.S. Ebel. 2014. Protoplanetary dust porosity and FU Orionis outbursts: solving the mystery of Earth’s missing volatiles. Icarus 237: 84–96.

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Kelly, P.L., S.A. Rodney, T. Treu, R.J. Foley, G. Brammer, K.B. Schmidt, A. Zitrin, A. Sonnenfeld, L.-G. Strolger, O. Graur, A.V. Filippenko, S.W. Jha, A.G. Riess, M. Bradac, B.J. Weiner, D. Scolnic, M.A. Malkan, A. von der Linden, M. Trenti,

23 J. Hjorth, R. Gavazzi, A. Fontana, J.C. Merten, C. McCully, T. Jones, M. Postman, A. Dressler, B. Patel, S.B. Cenko, M.L. Graham, and B. E. Tucker. 2015. Multiple images of a highly magnified supernova formed by an early-type cluster galaxy lens. Science 347: 1123–1126.

Konopacky, Q.M., S.J. Thomas, B.A. Macintosh, D. Dillon, N. Sadakuni, J. Maire, M. Fitzgerald, S. Hinkley, P. Kalas, T. Esposito, C. Marois, P.J. Ingraham, F. Marchis, M.D. Perrin, J.R. Graham, J.J. Wang, R.J. De Rosa, K. Morzinski, L. Pueyo, J.K. Chilcote, J.E. Larkin, D. Fabrycky, S.J. Goodsell, B.R. Oppenheimer, J. Patience, L. Saddlemyer, and A. Sivaramakrishnan. 2014. Gemini planet imager observational calibrations V: astrometry and distortion. Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V 9147: 914784.

Kraus, A.L., S.M. Andrews, B.P. Bowler, G. Herczeg, M.J. Ireland, M.C. Liu, S. Metchev, and K.L. Cruz. 2015. An ALMA disk mass for the candidate protoplanetary companion to FW Tau. The Astrophysical Journal 798: L23.

Leigh, N.W.C., and A.M. Geller. 2015. Small-N collisional dynamics – II. Roaming the realm of not-so-Small-N. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 450: 1724.

Leigh, N.W.C., I.Y. Georgiev, T. Böker, C. Knigge, M. den Brok. 2015. Nuclear star cluster formation in energy-space. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 451: 859.

Leigh, N.W.C., M. Giersz, M. Marks, J.J. Webb, A. Hypki, C.O. Heink, P. Kroupa, and A. Sills. 2015. The state of globular clusters at birth II: primordial binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 446: 226.

Leigh, N.W.C., N. Lützgendorf, A.M. Geller, T.J. Maccarone, C. Heinke, and A. Sesana. 2014. On the co-existence of stellar-mass and intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 444: 29.

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Bezy, R.L., and C.J. Cole. 2014. and reptiles of the Madrean Archipelago of Arizona and New Mexico. American Museum Novitates 3810: 1–23.

Bletz, M., G. Rosa, F. Andreone, E. Courtois, D. Schmeller, N. Rabibisoa, F. Rabenmananjara, L. Raharivololoniaina, M. Vences, C. Weldon, D. Edmonds, C.J. Raxworthy, R. Harris, M. Fisher, and A. Crottini. 2015. Widespread presence of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in wild amphibian communities in Madagascar. Scientific Reports 5, article 8633. [doi:10.1038/srep08633.]

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Jenkins, R., M.F.F. Tognelli, P. Bowles, N. Cox, J.L. Brown, L. Chan, F. Andreone, A. Andriamazava, R.R. Andriantsimanarilafy, M. Anjeriniaina, P. Bora, L.D. Brady, E.F. Hantalalaina, F. Glaw, R.A. Griffiths, C. Hilton-Taylor, M. Hoffmann, V. Katariya, N.H. Rabibisoa, J. Rafanomezantsoa, D. Rakotomalala, H. Rakotondravony, N.A. Rakotondrazafy, J. Ralambonirainy, J-B. Ramanamanjato, H. Randriamahazo, C.J. Randrianantoandro, H.H. Randrianasolo, J.E. Randrianirina, H. Randrianizahana, A.P. Raselimanana, A. Rasolohery, F.M. Ratsoavina, C.J. Raxworthy, E. Robsomanitrandrasana, F. Rollande, P.P. van Dijk, A.D. Yoder, and . 2014. Extinction Risks and the Conservation of Madagascar's Reptiles. PLOS One: 9(8): e100173. [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100173.]

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Taylor, H.L., C.J. Cole, and C.R. Cooley. 2014. Origins and evolution in the Aspidoscelis cozumela complex of parthenogenetic teiid lizards: morphological and karyotypic evidence and paradoxes. Journal of Herpetology 48: 343–354.

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Alter, S.E., B. Brown, and M.L.J. Stiassny. 2015. Multi-locus phylogeny reveals convergent evolution in lower Congo River spiny eels. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 224 [doi: 10.1186/s12862-015-0507-x]

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Chakrabarty, P., B. Faircloth, W.B. Ludt, C. McMahan, T.J. Near, A. Dornburg, J.S. Albert, J. Arroyave, M.L.J. Stiassny, L. Sorenson, and M.E. Alfaro. 2015. Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non-monophyly of Characiformes. Systematic Biology.

Chakrabarty, P., and J.S. Sparks. 2015. Formalizing the names of subfamilies and tribes of ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae). Zootaxa 3964(2): 298–299.

Fedrizzi, N., M.L.J. Stiassny, J.T. Boehm, E.R. Dougherty, G. Amato, and M. Mendez. 2015. Population genetics structure of the Dwarf Seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) in Florida. PLOS One. 10(7): e0132308. [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132308]

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Sparks, J. S., and P. Chakrabarty. 2015. Description of a new genus of ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with a review of the current generic-level composition of the family. Zootaxa 3947(2): 181–190.

Stiassny, M.L.J., and S.E. Alter. 2015. Phylogenetics of Teleogramma, a riverine clade of African fishes, with a description of the deep-water molluskivore—Teleogramma obamaorum— from the lower reaches of the middle Congo River. American Museum Novitates 3831: 1–18.

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Curtis, A.A., G. Lai, F. Wei, and B. Van Valkenburgh. 2015. Repeated loss of frontal sinuses in arctoid carnivorans. Journal of Morphology 276(1): 22–32.

Curtis, A.A., and B. Van Valkenburgh. 2014. Beyond the sniffer: frontal sinuses in Carnivora. The Anatomical Record 297(11): 2047-2064.

Dávalos, L.M., P.M. Velazco, O. Warsi, P. Smits, and N.B. Simmons. 2014. Integrating incomplete fossils by isolating conflictive signal in saturated and non-Independent morphological characters. Systematic Biology 63(4): 582– 600. http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/63/4/582.full.pdf+html

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34 W.L. Applequist and L.M. Campbell (editors), DNA banking for the 21st century: Proceedings of the workshop on DNA banking, 49–58. St. Louis, Missouri: The William Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Fenton, M.B., and N.B. Simmons. 2014. Bats: A World of Science and Mystery. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press: 303 pages.

Góis, F., L.R. González Ruiz, G.J. Scillato-Yané, and E. Soibelzon. 2015. A Peculiar New Pampatheriidae (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Cingulata) from the Pleistocene of Argentina and Comments on Pampatheriidae Diversity. PLOS ONE 10(6): e0128296. [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128296.]

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Gutiérrez, E.E., R.P. Anderson, R.S. Voss, J. Ochoa-G., M. Aguilera, and S.A. Jansa. 2014. Phylogeography of the mouse opossum Marmosa robinsoni: with insights into the biogeographic history of dry habitats in northern South America. Journal of Mammalogy 95: 1175–1188.

Gutiérrez, E.E., R.A. Boria, and R. P. Anderson. 2014. Can biotic interactions cause allopatry? Niche models, competition, and distributions of South American mouse opossums. Ecography 37: 741–753.

Gutiérrez, E.E., R.P. Anderson, R.S. Voss, J. Ochoa-G., M. Aguilera, and S.A. Jansa. 2014. Phylogeography of Marmosa robinsoni: insights into the biogeography of dry forests in northern South America. Journal of Mammalogy 95: 1175–1188. http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1644/14-MAMM-A-069

Hand, S.J., B. Sige, M. Archer, G.F. Gunnell, and N.B. Simmons. 2015. A new Early Eocene (Ypresian) bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with comments on patterns of diversity in the earliest chiropterans. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. [doi: 10.1007/s10914-015-9286]

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Herrera, J.P., L. Tongasoa, and P.C. Wright. 2015. Interactions between plants and primates explain the diversity of communities. American Journal of Primatology 77(S1): 138.

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Herrera, J.P. 2015. Environmental instability and functional traits explain lemur ecological community structure. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156(S60): 164.

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Lima, L., O. Espinosa-Álvarez, P.A. Ortiz, J.A. Trejo-Varón, J.C. Carranza, C.M. Pinto, G.A. Buck, E.P. Camargo, and M.M.G. Teixeira. 2015. Genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi in bats, and multilocus phylogenetic and phylogeographical analyses supporting Tcbat as an independent DTU (discrete typing unit). Acta Tropica 151: 166–177. [doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.07.015]

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Andersen, M.J., H.T. Shult, A. Cibois, J-C Thibault, C.E. Filardi, and R.G. Moyle. 2015. Rapid diversification and secondary sympatry in Australo-Pacific kingfishers (Aves: Alcedinidae: Todiramphus). Royal Society Open Science 2(2): 140375.

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