Books, Chapters, Comments, Editorials, Extended Abstracts, Reviews

Publications are in reverse chronological order. Within the same year, they are sorted by the last name of the first author, then by number of authors, then by last name of the second author. Send me an email if you would like a PDF.

Friscia, A.R., M.R. Borths & D.A. Croft. 2023. Comparing the evolution of the extinct, endemic carnivorous mammals of South America and Africa (sparassodonts and hyaenodonts); pp. 59-77 in Casanovas-Vilar, I., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Janis, C.M., Saarinen, J. (eds.), Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems. Springer (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Book Series), Cham, Switzerland.
Žliobaitė, I., M. Fortelius, R.L. Bernor, L.W. van den Hoek Ostende, C.M. Janis, K. Lintulaakso, L.K. Säilä, L. Werdelin, I. Casanovas-Vilar, D.A. Croft, L.J. Flynn, S.S.B. Hopkins, A. Kaakinen, L. Kordos, D.S. Kostopoulos, L. Pandolfi, J. Rowan, A. Tesakov, I. Vislobokova, Z. Zhang, M. Aiglstorfer, D.M. Alba, M. Arnal, P.-O. Antoine, M. Belmaker, M. Bilgin, J.-R. Boisserie, M.R. Borths, S.B. Cooke, J.A. van Dam, E. Delson, J.T. Eronen, D. Fox, A.R. Friscia, M. Furió, I.X. Giaourtsakis, L. Holbrook, J. Hunter, S. López-Torres, J. Ludtke, R. Minwer-Barakat, J. van der Made, B. Mennecart, D. Pushkina, L. Rook, J. Saarinen, J.X. Samuels, W. Sanders, M.T. Silcox & J. Vepsäläinen. 2023. The NOW Database of fossil mammals; pp. 33-42 in I. Casanovas-Vilar, I., L.W. van den Hoek Ostende, C.M. Janis & J. Saarinen (eds.), Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems. Springer (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Book Series), Cham, Switzerland.
Rougier, G.W., T.J. Gaudin, & D.A. Croft. 2021. Head of the class: John R. Wible’s transformative insights into mammalian craniodental anatomy. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 28(4):1021–1025.
Croft, D.A. & G.M. López. 2020. Gondwanan Perspectives: Evolution, biogeography, and paleoecology of the native ungulates of South America. Ameghiniana 57(2):71-79.
Croft, D.A. 2018. Evolution of teeth in South America. Science 362:533.
Croft, D.A., D.F. Su & S.W. Simpson. 2018. Introduction to paleoecological reconstruction; pp. 1-5 in D.A. Croft, D.F. Su, and S.W. Simpson (eds.), Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities. Springer (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series), Cham, Switzerland.
Croft, D.A., D.F. Su & S.W. Simpson (eds.). 2018. Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities. Springer (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series), Cham, Switzerland, 410 pp. [ISBN: 978-3-319-94264-3; proceedings from an international symposium of 16 invited speakers held at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and CWRU in Sept. 2015]
Green, J.L. & D.A. Croft. 2018. Using dental mesowear and microwear for dietary inference: a review of current techniques and applications; pp. 53-73 in D.A. Croft, D.F. Su, and S.W. Simpson (eds.), Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities. Springer (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series), Cham, Switzerland.
Su. D.F. & D.A. Croft. 2018. Making sense of the evidence: synthesizing paleoecological data; pp. 395-404 in D.A. Croft, D.F. Su, and S.W. Simpson (eds.), Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities. Springer (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series), Cham, Switzerland.
Croft, D.A. 2016. Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys: the Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 320 pp. [ISBN: 978-0-253-02084-0]
Croft, D.A. & R.K. Engelman. 2014. Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia. High-latitude paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):237-238. [Book Review]
Charrier, R., D.A. Croft, J.J. Flynn, L. Pinto & A.R. Wyss. 2012. Mamíferos fósiles cenozoicos en Chile: Implicancias paleontológicas y tectónicas. Continuación de investigaciones iniciadas por Darwin en América del Sur; pp. 281-316 in A. Veloso and A. Spotorno (eds.), Evolución: Darwin y la Evolución: Avances en la Universidad de Chile. Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
Croft, D.A. 2012. Punctuated isolation: the making and mixing of South America’s mammals; pp. 9-19 in B.D. Patterson and L.P. Costa (eds.), Bones, Clones, and Biomes: The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Flynn, J.J., R. Charrier, D.A. Croft & A.R. Wyss. 2012. Cenozoic Andean faunas: shedding new light on South American mammal evolution, biogeography, environments, and tectonics; pp. 51-75 in B.D. Patterson and L.P. Costa (eds.), Bones, Clones, and Biomes: The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Croft, D.A. 2011. The beginning of the Age of Mammals in South America, Part III. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18(3):215-216. [Review of The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia]
Croft, D.A. 2008. Why do deer have antlers: fighting or display?; pp. 237-240 in M. Benton (ed.), The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. Thames & Hudson, London. [ISBN: 978-0-500-25143-0]
Croft, D.A., R. Charrier, J.J. Flynn & A.R. Wyss. 2008. Recent additions to knowledge of Tertiary mammals from the Chilean Andes. I Simposio Paleontología en Chile, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago. Libro de Actas 1:91-96.
Charrier, R., A. Chávez, S. Elgueta, G. Hérail, J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft, A.R. Wyss & M. García. 2002. Rapid tectonic and paleogeographic evolution; the Chucal Anticline, Altiplano of Arica, northern Chile. Extended abstracts, Fifth International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Toulouse, France, pp. 137-140.
Charrier, R., G. Hérail, J.J. Flynn, R. Riquelme, M. García, D.A. Croft, & A. Wyss. 2000. El Cordón Chapiquiña-Belén en el borde occidental del Altiplano Chileno: significado paleogeográfico y contexto tectónico regional. IX Congreso Geológico Chileno, Puerto Varas, Chile, Actas 1, p. 763-767.
Croft, D.A. 1999. Placentals: endemic South American ungulates; pp. 890–906 in R. Singer (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, IL. [ISBN: 1884964966]
Charrier, R., G. Hérail, J.J. Flynn, R. Riquelme, M. García, D.A. Croft & A. Wyss. 1999. Opposite thrust-vergencies in the Precordillera and Western Cordillera in Northern Chile and structurally linked Cenozoic paleoenvironmental evolution. Abstracts, IV International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Göttingen, Germany, pp. 155-158.