Journal Articles

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 any PDFs.

2023-24

Armella, M.A., G.E. Alonso, D.A. García-López, D.A. Croft & C.M. Muruaga. 2024. Systematics and biostratigraphic inferences of a new notoungulate assemblage (Mammalia, Pan-Perissodactyla) from the India Muerta Formation (Late Miocene), northwestern Argentina. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 24(1):44-70.
Armella, M.A., D.A. García-López & D.A. Croft. 2024. Cranial anatomy and petrosal morphology of a complete juvenile individual of Neobrachytherium (Proterotheriidae, Litopterna, Mammalia). American Museum Novitates 4023:1-57.
Lee, N.J., J.J. Flynn, A.R. Wyss & D.A. Croft. 2024. Early Miocene sloth (Folivora) remains from Pampa Castillo, southern Chile, including a natural cranial endocast. Ameghiniana 61(3):148-169.
Barasoain, D., D.A. Croft, A.E. Zurita, V.H. Contreras & R.L. Tomassini. 2023. The last horned armadillos. Phylogeny and decline of Peltephilidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata). Papers in Palaeontology 9(4):e1514.
Engelman, R.K. & D.A. Croft. 2023. A new record of a carnivorous metatherian (Sparassodonta) from the late Miocene – early Pliocene Santa María Group of Catamarca, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 129:104493.
Fernández-Monescillo, M., P.-O. Antoine, D.A. Croft & F. Pujos. 2023. Intraspecific craniomandibular and dental analysis of Pseudotypotherium exiguum (Mesotheriidae, Notoungulata) from Monte Hermoso, late Neogene, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 43(6):e2184269.
Fernández-Monescillo, M., D.A. Croft, P.-O. Antoine & F. Pujos. 2023. Resolution of the long-standing controversy over the type species of the genus Pseudotypotherium (Mesotheriidae, Notoungulata). Palaeoworld 32(3):547-554.
Fernández-Monescillo, M., D.A. Croft, F. Pujos & P.-O. Antoine. 2023. Taxonomic history and intraspecific analysis of Mesotherium cristatum (Mammalia, Notoungulata, Mesotheriidae) from the Early-Middle Pleistocene of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Historical Biology 35(6):1028-1040.
McGrath, A.J., J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft, J.M.H. Chick, H.E. Dodson & A.R. Wyss. 2023. Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications. Papers in Palaeontology 9(1):e1477.
Nelson, A., R.K. Engelman & D.A. Croft. 2023. How to weigh a fossil mammal? South American notoungulates as a case study for estimating body mass in other extinct clades. Journal of Mammal Evolution 30(3):773-809.

2020-22

Barasoain, D, A.E. Zurita, D.A. Croft, C.I. Montalvo, V.H. Contreras, A.R. Miño-Boilini & R.L. Tomassini. 2022. A new glyptodont (Xenarthra: Cingulata) from the late Miocene of Argentina: new clues about the oldest extra-Patagonian radiation in southern South America. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 29:263–282.
Engelman, R.K. & D.A. Croft. 2022. Identifying tooth position of isolated teeth of sparassodonts (Mammalia: Metatheria) using geometric morphometrics. Palaeontologia Electronica 25(1):25.1.a8.
McGrath, A.J., J. Chick, D.A. Croft, H.E. Dodson, J.J. Flynn & A.R. Wyss. 2022. Cavioids, chinchilloids, and erethizontids (Rodentia, Mammalia, Hystricognathi) of the early Miocene Pampa Castillo Fauna, Chile. American Museum Novitates 3984:1-46.
Perini, F.A, T. Macrini, J.J. Flynn, K. Bamba, X. Ni, D.A. Croft & A.R. Wyss. 2022. Comparative endocranial anatomy, encephalization, and phylogeny of Notoungulata (Placentalia, Mammalia). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 29:369–394.
Saylor, B.Z., A.M. Catena, D.I. Hembree, F. Anaya & D.A. Croft. 2022. Lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, and sedimentary environments of the Middle Miocene Quebrada Honda Basin in southern Bolivia and implications for Andean climate and uplift. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 601:111135.
Croft, D.A. & M. Lorente. 2021. No evidence for parallel evolution of cursorial limb adaptations among Neogene South American native ungulates (SANUs). PLOS ONE 16(8):e0256371.
Croft, D.A., J.J. Flynn, A.R. Wyss, R. Charrier, & F. Anaya. 2021. New chinchillid rodents (Hystricognathi: Caviomorpha) from northern Chile and Bolivia fill a 17-million-year gap in the pan-chinchilline fossil record. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 28(4):1205–1236.
Gasparini, G.M., R. Parisi Dutra, F.A. Perini, D.A. Croft, M.A. Cozzuol, R.A. Missagia, & S.G. Lucas. 2021. On the supposed presence of Miocene Tayassuidae and Dromomerycinae (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) in South America. American Museum Novitates 3638:1-27.
Catena, A. & D.A. Croft. 2020. What are the best modern analogs for ancient South American mammal communities? Evidence from ecological diversity analysis (EDA). Palaeontologia Electronica 23(1):a03.
Croft, D.A. & F. Anaya. 2020. A new typothere notoungulate (Mammalia: Interatheriidae) from the Miocene Nazareno Formation of southern Bolivia. Ameghiniana 57(2):189-208.
Croft, D.A., J.N. Gelfo & G.M. López. 2020. Splendid innovation: the South American native ungulates. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 48:259-290.
Croft, D.A., J.-N. Martinez & P.M. Tapia. 2020. The first record of a Miocene terrestrial mammal (Astrapotheria: Uruguaytheriinae) from northern coastal Peru. Ameghiniana 57(2):146-158.
Engelman, R.K., F. Anaya & D.A. Croft. 2020. Australogale leptognathus gen. et. sp. nov., a second species of small sparassodont (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the middle Miocene locality of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 27(1):37-54.
Engelman, R.K., J.J. Flynn, A.R. Wyss & D.A. Croft. 2020. Eomakhaira molossus, a new saber-toothed sparassodont (Metatheria: Thylacosmilinae) from the early Oligocene (?Tinguirirican) Cachapoal locality, Andean Main Range, Chile. American Museum Novitates 3975:1-75.
Gibert, L, A. Deino, L. Valero, F. Anaya, M. Leria, B. Saylor & D.A. Croft. 2020. Chronology of late middle Miocene terrestrial deposits and fossil vertebrates from Quebrada Honda (Bolivia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 560:110013.
McGrath, A.J., F. Anaya & D.A. Croft. 2020. New proterotheriids (Litopterna, Mammalia) from the middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia, and trends in diversity and body size of proterotheriid and macraucheniid litopterns. Ameghiniana 57(2):159-188.

2015-2019

Eldridge, M.D.B, R.M.D. Beck, D.A. Croft, K.J. Travouillon & B.J. Fox. 2019. An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria). Journal of Mammalogy 100(3):802–837.
Engelman, R.K. & D.A. Croft. 2019. Strangers in a strange land: Ecological dissimilarity to metatherian carnivores may partly explain early colonization of South America by Cyonasua-group procyonids (Carnivora). Paleobiology 45:598-611.
Brandoni, D., A.A. Carlini, F. Anaya, P. Gans & D.A. Croft. 2018. New remains of Megathericulus patagonicus Ameghino (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) from the Serravallian (middle Miocene) of Bolivia; chronologic and biogeographic implications. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 25:327-337.
Croft, D.A., R.K. Engelman, T. Dolgushina & G. Wesley. 2018. Diversity and disparity of sparassodonts (Metatheria) reveal non-analogue nature of ancient South American mammalian carnivore guilds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285:20172012.
Engelman, R.K., J.J. Flynn, P. Gans, A.R. Wyss, & D.A. Croft. 2018. Chlorocyon phantasma, a late Eocene borhyaenoid (Mammalia: Metatheria: Sparassodonta) from the Los Helados locality, Andean Main Range, central Chile. American Museum Novitates 3918:1-22.
McGrath, A.J., F. Anaya & D.A. Croft. 2018. Two new macraucheniids (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the late middle Miocene (Laventan South American Land Mammal Age) of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(3):e1461632.
Wyss, A.R., J.J. Flynn & D.A. Croft. 2018. New Paleogene notohippids and leontiniids (Toxodontia; Notoungulata; Mammalia) from the early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna of the Andean Main Range, Central Chile. American Museum Novitates 3903:1-42.
Arnal, M., M.G. Vucetich, D.A. Croft, M.S. Bargo, J.C. Fernicola & S.F. Vizcaíno. 2017. Systematic revision and evolutionary history of Acarechimys Patterson in Kraglievich 1965 (Rodentia, Caviomorpha, Octodontoidea). Ameghiniana 54(3):307–330.
Catena, A.M., D.I. Hembree, B.Z. Saylor, F. Anaya & D.A. Croft. 2017. Paleosol and ichnofossil evidence for significant Neotropical habitat variation during the late middle Miocene (Serravallian). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 487:381-398.
Engelman, R.K., F. Anaya & D.A. Croft. 2017. New palaeothentid marsupials (Paucituberculata) from the middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia, and their implications for the palaeoecology, decline and extinction of the Palaeothentoidea. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15: 787-820.
Antoine, P-O., M.A. Abello, S. Adnet, A.J. Altamira, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabin, F. Corfu, D.A. Croft, M. Ganerød, C. Jaramillo, S. Klaus, L. Marivaux, R. Navarrete, M.J. Orliac, F. Parra, M.E. Pérez, F. Pujos, J.-C. Rage, A. Ravel, C. Robinet, M. Roddaz, J.V. Tejada-Lara, J. Vélez-Juarbe, F. Wesselingh & R. Salas Gismondi. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59.
Catena, A.M., D.I. Hembree, B.Z. Saylor, F. Anaya & D.A. Croft. 2016. Paleoenvironmental analysis of the Neotropical fossil mammal site of Cerdas, Bolivia (middle Miocene) based on ichnofossils and paleopedology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 459:423-439
Croft, D.A., A.A. Carlini, M.R. Ciancio, D. Brandoni, N.E. Drew, R.K. Engelman & F. Anaya. 2016. New mammal faunal data from Cerdas, Bolivia, a middle-latitude Neotropical site that chronicles the end of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum in South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(5):e1163574.
Engelman, R.K. & D.A. Croft. 2016. Evidence for sexual dimorphism in the early Miocene palaeothentid Acdestis owenii (Marsupialia: Paucituberculata). Ameghiniana 53(4):444-462.
Bradham, J., J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft & A.R. Wyss. 2015. New notoungulates (Notostylopidae and basal toxodontians) from the early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna of the Andean Main Range, central Chile. American Museum Novitates 3841:1-24.
Cadena, E.A., Anaya, F. & D.A. Croft. 2015. Giant fossil tortoise and freshwater chelid turtle remains from the middle Miocene, Quebrada Honda, Bolivia: evidence for lower paleoelevations for the southern Altiplano. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 64:190-198.
Engelman, R.K., F. Anaya & D.A. Croft. 2015. New specimens of Acyon myctoderos (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Ameghiniana 52(2):204-225.
Gaudin, T.J. & D.A. Croft. 2015. Paleogene Xenarthra and the evolution of South American mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 96(4):622-634.

2010-2014

Engelman, R.K. & D.A. Croft. 2014. A new species of small-bodied sparassodont (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the middle Miocene locality of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):672-688.
Croft, D.A. 2013. What constitutes a fossil mammal community in the early Miocene Santa Cruz Formation? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(2):401-409.
Macrini, T.E., J.J. Flynn, X. Ni, D.A. Croft & A.R. Wyss. 2013. Comparative study of notoungulate (Placentalia, Mammalia) bony labyrinths and new phylogenetically informative inner ear characters. Journal of Anatomy 223(5):442-461.
Antoine, P-O., L. Marivaux, D.A. Croft, G. Billet, M. Ganerød, C. Jaramillo, T. Martin, M.J. Orliac, J. Tejada, A.J. Altamirano, F. Duranthon, G. Fanjat, S. Rousse & R. Salas Gismondi. 2012. Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279:1319-1326.
Bertrand, O.C., J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft & A.R. Wyss. 2012. Two new taxa (Caviomorpha, Rodentia) from the early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna, (Chile). American Museum Novitates 3750:1-36.
Shockey, B.J., J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft, P. Gans & A.R. Wyss. 2012. New leontiniid Notoungulata (Mammalia) from Chile and Argentina: comparative anatomy, character analysis, and phylogenetic hypotheses. American Museum Novitates 3737:1-64.
Croft, D.A., J.M.H. Chick & F. Anaya. 2011. New middle Miocene caviomorph rodents from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18(4):245-268.
Croft, D.A., K. Niemi & A. Franco. 2011. Incisor morphology reflects diet in caviomorph rodents. Journal of Mammalogy 92(4):871-879.
Macrini, T.E., J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft & A.R. Wyss. 2010. Inner ear of a notoungulate placental mammal: anatomical description and examination of potentially phylogenetically informative characters. Journal of Anatomy 216(5):600-610.
Townsend, B. & D.A. Croft. 2010. Middle Miocene mesotheriine diversity at Cerdas, Bolivia, and a reconsideration of Plesiotypotherium minus. Palaeontologia Electronica 13.1.1A:1-36.

2005-2009

Croft, D.A., F. Anaya, D. Auerbach, C. Garzione & B.J. MacFadden. 2009. New data on Miocene Neotropical provinciality from Cerdas, Bolivia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 16(3):175-198.
Croft, D.A. & L.C. Anderson. 2008. Locomotion in the extinct notoungulate Protypotherium. Palaeontologia Electronica 11.1.1A: 1-20.
Croft, D.A. & D. Weinstein. 2008. The first application of the mesowear method to endemic South American ungulates (Notoungulata). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 269(1-2):103-114.
Croft, D.A., J.J. Flynn & A.R. Wyss. 2008. The Tinguiririca Fauna of Chile and the early stages of “modernization” of South American mammal faunas. Arquivos do Museu Nacional 66(1):191-211.
Flynn, J.J., R. Charrier, D.A. Croft, P.B. Gans, T.M. Heriott, J.A. Wertheim & A.R. Wyss. 2008. Chronologic implications of new Miocene mammals from the Cura-Mallín and Trapa Trapa formations, Laguna del Laja region, south central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 26(4):412-423.
Reguero, M.A., D.A. Croft, G.M. López & R.N. Alonso. 2008. Eocene archaeohyracids (Mammalia: Notoungulata: Hegetotheria) from the Puna, northwest Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 26(2)225-233.
Townsend, K.E. & D.A. Croft. 2008. Diets of notoungulates from the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina: new evidence from enamel microwear. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1):217-230.
Townsend, K.E. & D.A. Croft. 2008. Enamel microwear in caviomorph rodents. Journal of Mammalogy 89(3):729-742.
Croft, D.A. 2007. The middle Miocene (Laventan) Quebrada Honda Fauna, southern Bolivia, and a description of its notoungulates. Palaeontology 50(1):277-303.
Croft, D.A., J.J. Flynn, & A.R. Wyss. 2007. A new basal glyptodontid and other Xenarthra of the early Miocene Chucal Fauna, northern Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):781-797. [Featured article]
Shockey, B.J., D.A. Croft & F. Anaya. 2007. Analysis of function in the absence of extant functional homologues: a case study using mesotheriid notoungulates (Mammalia). Paleobiology 33(2):227-247.
Croft, D.A. 2006. Do marsupials make good predators? Insights from predator-prey diversity ratios. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8(7):1193-1214. [Featured on cover]
Croft, D.A. & F. Anaya. 2006. A new middle Miocene hegetotheriid (Notoungulata: Typotheria) and a phylogeny of the Hegetotheriidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(2):387-399.
Croft, D.A., L.R. Heaney, J.J. Flynn & A.P. Bautista. 2006. Fossil remains of a new, diminutive Bubalus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Bovini) from Cebu Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 87(5):1037-1051. [Featured on BioOne]
Silverstein, J.C., J.M. Ehrenfeld, D.A. Croft, F.W. Dech, S. Small & S. Cook. 2006. Tele-immersion: preferred infrastructure for anatomy instruction. Journal of Computing in Higher Education 18(1):80-93.
Charrier, R., A. Chávez, S. Elgueta, G. Hérail, J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft, A.R. Wyss & M. García. 2005. Rapid tectonic and paleogeographic evolution associated with the development of the Chucal anticline and the Chucal-Lauca Basin in the Altiplano of Arica, northern Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19(1):35-54.
Flynn, J.J., D.A. Croft, R. Charrier, A.R. Wyss, G. Hérail & M. García. 2005. New Mesotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata, Typotheria), geochronology and tectonics of the Caragua area, northernmost Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19(1):55-74.
Woodman, N. & D.A. Croft. 2005. Fossil shrews from Honduras: significance for evolution in Cryptotis (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae). Fieldiana: Geology(New Series) 51:1-30.

Prior to 2005

Croft, D.A., J.J. Flynn & A.R. Wyss. 2004. Notoungulata and Litopterna of the early Miocene Chucal Fauna, northern Chile. Fieldiana: Geology (New Series) 50:1-49.
Croft, D.A., T. Kaye, & L. Panko. 2004. A new method for finding small vertebrate fossils: ultraviolet light at night. Palaeontology 47(4):795-800.
Croft, D.A., M. Bond, J.J. Flynn, M. Reguero & A.R. Wyss. 2003. Large archaeohyracids (Typotheria, Notoungulata) from central Chile and Patagonia including a revision of Archaeotypotherium. Fieldiana: Geology (New Series) 49:1-38.
Croft, D.A., J.P. Radic, E. Zurita, R. Charrier, J.J. Flynn & A.R. Wyss. 2003. A Miocene toxodontid (Mammalia: Notoungulata) from the sedimentary series of the Cura-Mallín Formation, Lonquimay, Chile. Revista Geológica de Chile 30(2):285-298.
Flynn, J.J, A.R. Wyss, D.A. Croft, & R. Charrier. 2003. The Tinguiririca Fauna, Chile: biochronology, paleoecology, biogeography, and a new earliest Oligocene South American land mammal “age”. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 195(3-4):229-259.
Reguero, M., D.A. Croft, J.J. Flynn, & A.R. Wyss. 2003. Small archaeohyracids (Typotheria, Notoungulata) from Chubut, Argentina and central Chile: trans-Andean temporal correlation. Fieldiana: Geology (New Series) 48:1-17.
Flynn, J.J., D.A. Croft, R. Charrier, G. Hérail & A.R. Wyss. 2002. The first Cenozoic mammal fauna from the Chilean Altiplano. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):200-206.
Croft, D.A. 2001. Cenozoic environmental change in South America as indicated by mammalian body size distributions (cenograms). Diversity and Distributions 7(6):271-287.
Croft, D.A. & H.A. Semken, Jr. 1994. Distribution of mammalian osteological elements recovered from waterscreened features, house fill, and overburden of the Wall Ridge Earthlodge (13ML176), Mills County, Iowa. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11:65-67.