LATEST NEWS
- November 2022: PI Croft presents “Los maravilloso mamíferos fósiles de la Formación Abanico de Chile central” as an invited speaker at the II Congreso Chileno de Paleontología in San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Chile.
- October 2022: PI Croft presents “Integrating geological and biological data to reconstruct ancient environments of the Andes” as part of the Origins Science Scholars Program at CWRU.
- June 2022: Our paper on the geology of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia, led by CWRU colleague Beverly Saylor, is published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
- May 2022: Two earth sciences undergraduates at CWRU join the lab for fieldwork at the Miocene fossil site of Nazareno, Bolivia thanks to an Expanding Horizons Initiative grant from CWRU’s College of Arts and Sciences.
- February 2022: PhD student Russell Engelman leads a study published in the open access journal Palaeontologia Electronica on how to identify tooth position in isolated teeth of meat-eating marsupials.
- December 2021: Check out Issue 4 of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, which honors its past editor-in-chief, John Wible, and includes our article describing new species of extinct chinchillid rodents.
- August 2021: Our paper on limb evolution in South American native ungulates is published in PLOS ONE. You can check it out here.
- February 2021: Darin Croft is named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, the fifth person to serve in this role since the journal was founded in 1993.
- July 2020: PhD student Russell Engelman is the lead author on an article published in American Museum Novitates that names a new species of carnivorous marsupial from Chile: Eomakhaira molossus.
- July 2020: PI Croft presents “Mamíferos y otros animales del Mioceno temprano y medio de Bolivia y del norte de Chile” to the Asociación Paleontológica Argentina via Google Meet. The talk will eventually be available on YouTube.
- May 2020: Our “Gondwanan Perspectives” issue of Ameghiniana is finally published! It includes eight articles on native South American ungulates, most of which were presented at a 2018 symposium at the Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología de Vertebrados in Colombia.
- February 2020: Former PhD student, Angeline Catena, publishes her third dissertation chapter (of three) in Paleontologia Electronica: “What are the best modern analogs for ancient South American mammal communities? Evidence from ecological diversity analysis (EDA).”
- September 2019: Early view version of an article by former MS student, Russell Engleman, is published in Paleobiology: “Strangers in a strange land: Ecological dissimilarity to metatherian carnivores may partly explain early colonization of South America by Cyonasua-group procyonids.”
- May 2019: Our review article on metatherians (marsupials) is published in the centennial issue of the Journal of Mammalogy.
- March 2019: Graduate student Beth Carroll successfully defends her MS thesis! Her work analyzes limb bones of the 13 million-year-old notoungulate Hemihegetotherium trilobus.
- March 2019: A small “pop-up” exhibit on our research at Quebrada Honda, Bolivia opens at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. It features a selection of fossils and reconstructions by Velizar Simeonovski from Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys. It runs through the end of the summer. The video is accessible on YouTube here.
- December 2018: “Chlorocyon phantasma, a Late Eocene Borhyaenoid (Mammalia: Metatheria: Sparassodonta) from the Los Helados Locality, Andean Main Range, Central Chile” is published in American Museum Novitates by R.K. Engelman, A.R. Wyss, J.J. Flynn, P. Gans and D.A. Croft.
- October 2018: Our edited volume on paleoecological techniques is published in Springer’s Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology series: “Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities” by D.A. Croft, D.F. Su, and S.W. Simpson.
You might also be interested in checking out the latest:
- Rafting Monkey blog posts
- Old Bones blog posts by Darin Croft
- Tweets by Darin Croft (@dcpaleo)
- Darin A. Croft Google Scholar Citations
- Darin A. Croft on ResearchGate
- Darin A. Croft on Academia.edu