LATEST NEWS
- 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 publishes an article 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