Selected publications based on NOW
2025
Bekeraitė, S., Stankevič, R., Juchnevičiūtė, I., Haaga, K.A. and Spiridonov, A., 2025. Transitions and multistability in macroevolutionary dynamics of large mammals. In Acta Palaeontologica Polonica., 70(3) , pp.479-494. [doi:10.4202/app.01145.2024]
Gaiser, F., Müller, C., Phan, P., Mathes, G. and Steinbauer, M.J., 2025. Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus. In Frontiers of Biogeography , 18, p.e135081. [doi:10.21425/fob.18.135081]
Grau-Camats, M., Casanovas-Vilar, I., Crowe, C.J. and Samuels, J.X., 2025. Gliding between continents: a review of the North American record of the giant flying squirrel Miopetaurista (Rodentia, Sciuridae) with the description of new material from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee) In Journal of Mammalian Evolution , 32(1), pp.1-12. [doi:10.1007/s10914-025-09751-w]
Li, C., Wang, S.Q., Wang, Y., Deng, T., Ma, J., Wang, B., Jiangzuo, Q. and Sun, D., 2025. Savanna ecosystems and mammalian adaptations in Mid-Miocene Northern China In Scientific Reports , 15(1), p.25586. [doi:10.1038/s41598-025-10718-3]
Nascimento, J.C. and Pires, M.M., 2025. Variation in prey availability over time shaped the extinction dynamics of sabertoothed cats In Journal of Evolutionary Biology , p.voaf043. [doi:10.1093/jeb/voaf043]
Tholt, A., Başoğlu, O., Bektaş, Y., Bernor, R., Carlson, J.P., Dağ, Ö., Doğan, U., Erkman, A.C., Kaya, F., Kaymakçı, N. and Gözlük Kırmızıoğlu, P., 2025. Building better biochronology: New fossils and 40Ar/39Ar radioisotopic dates from Central Anatolia In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 122(12), p.e2424428122. [doi:10.1073/pnas.2424428122]
Wang, S.Q., Jiangzuo, Q., Bibi, F., Zhang, C., Li, C., Li, S., Fu, J., Xing, L., Jiang, H., Guo, D. and Zhang, Y., 2025. Central Asian radiation of modern large-mammal faunas in Miocene In Science Advances , 11(43), p.eadt5079. [doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt5079]
2024
Bekeraite, S., Juchneviciute, I. and Spiridonov, A., 2024. Bayesian network analysis reveals the assembly drivers and emergent stability of Eurasian Pleistocene large mammal communities. In Journal of Mammalian Evolution , 31(4), pp.1-16. [doi:10.1007/s10914-024-09735-2]
Faurby, S., Silvestro, D., Werdelin, L. and Antonelli, A., 2024. Reliable biogeography requires fossils: insights from a new species-level phylogeny of extinct and living carnivores. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 291(2028), p.20240473. [doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.0473]
Foister, T.I., Liu, L., Saarinen, J., Tallavaara, M., Zhang, H. and Žliobaite, I., 2024. Quantifying heterogeneity of hominin environments in and out of Africa using herbivore dental traits. In Quaternary Science Reviews , 337, p.108791. [doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108791]
Juhn, M.S., Balisi, M.A., Doughty, E.M., Friscia, A.R., Howenstine, A.O., Jacquemetton, C., Marcot, J., Nugen, S. and Van Valkenburgh, B., 2024. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. In Paleobiology , pp.1-10. [doi:10.1017/pab.2024.27]
Lubbers, K.E., Samuels, J.X. and Joyner, T.A., 2024. Species distribution modeling of North American beavers from the late Pliocene into the future. In Journal of Mammalogy , p.gyae131. [doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyae131]
Madern, P.A., Braumuller, Y., Mavikurt, A.C., Mayda, S., Bergwerff, L., Janssen, N., Cantalapiedra, J., Robles, J.M., Casanovas-Vilar, I., van Welzen, P.C. and van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., 2024. Where’s dinner? Variation in carnivoran distributional responses to the mid-Vallesian faunal turnover. In Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments , 104(1), pp.181-190. [doi:10.1007/s12549-023-00588-w]
Parker, A.K., Pushkina, D. and Liu, L., 2024. An assessment of body size and dietary biases in fossil mammal assemblages of the Pleistocene of Eurasia. In Annales Zoologici Fennici, Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board , 61(1): 253-280. [doi:10.5735/086.061.0117]
Polly, P. D., 2024. Book review: Evolution of Cenozoic land mammal faunas and ecosystems: 25 years of the NOW database of fossil mammals: by Lars W. van den Hoek OstendeIsaac Casanovas-Vilar, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Christine M. Janis, and Juha Saarinen (eds.), 231 pp. In Historical Biology , 1-2. [doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2357603]
Ren, Y., Xu, Z., Li, M., Dai, W. and Wang, J., 2024. How Geomorphology Maps the Dispersal Barriers of Large Herbivorous Mammals in China. In Journal of Biogeography , 51(12), pp.2323-2577. [doi:10.1111/jbi.15007]
Žliobaite, I., 2024. Laws of macroevolutionary expansion. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 121(33), p.e2314694121. [doi:10.1073/pnas.2314694121]
2023
Bibi, F. and Cantalapiedra, J.L., 2023. Plio-Pleistocene African megaherbivore losses associated with community biomass restructuring. In Science , 380(6649), pp.1076-1080. [doi:10.1126/science.add8366]
Jiangzuo, Q., Werdelin, L., Sanisidro, O., Yang, R., Fu, J., Li, S., Wang, S. and Deng, T., 2023. Origin of adaptations to open environments and social behaviour in sabretoothed cats from the northeastern border of the Tibetan Plateau. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 290(1997), p.20230019. [doi:10.1098/rspb.2023.0019]
Liu, L., Galbrun, E., Tang, H., Kaakinen, A., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. and Žliobaite, I., 2023. The emergence of modern zoogeographic regions in Asia examined through climate-dental trait association patterns. In Nature Communications , 14(1), p.8194. [doi:10.1038/s41467-023-43807-w]
Orak, Z., Kostopoulos, D.S. and Ataabadi, M.M., 2023. Late Miocene large-sized Bovidae (Mammalia) from Dimeh, SW Iran: contribution to depositional diachrony and palaeobiogeography. In Geobios . [doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2023.05.001]
2022
Bogner, E. and Samuels, J.X., 2022. The first canid from the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee: new perspective on the distribution and ecology of Borophagus. In Journal of Paleontology , pp.1-11. [doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.46]
Farias, R.C. and Miron, S., 2022. A generalized approach for Boolean matrix factorization. In Signal Processing , p.108887. [doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2022.108887]
Huang, S., Saarinen, J.J., Eyres, A., Eronen, J.T. and Fritz, S.A., 2022. Mammalian body size evolution was shaped by habitat transitions as an indirect effect of climate change. In Global Ecology and Biogeography , pp.1-12. [doi:10.1111/geb.13594]
Iliopoulos, G. and Roussiakis, S., 2022. The fossil record of giraffes (Mammalia: Giraffidae) in Greece. In Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 2, Springer, Cham. , (301-333). [doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_10]
Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaite, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. In Mammalian Biology , pp.1-15. [doi:10.1007/s42991-022-00323-6]
Oberg, D.E. and Samuels, J.X., 2022. Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae. In Palaeontologia Electronica , 25(3), pp.1-39. [doi:10.26879/1150]
Pappa, S. and Tsoukala, E., 2022. The Fossil Record of Bears (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ursidae) in Greece. In Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 2, Springer, Cham. , (595-627). [doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_21]
Toivonen, J., Fortelius, M. and Žliobaite, I., 2022. Do species factories exist? Detecting exceptional patterns of evolution in the mammalian fossil record. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 289(1972), p.20212294. [doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.2294]
Žliobaite, I., 2022. Recommender systems for fossil community distribution modelling. In Methods in Ecology and Evolution , 13(8), pp.1690-1706. [doi:10.1111/2041-210x.13916]
2021
Antoine, P.O., Reyes, M.C., Amano, N., Bautista, A.P., Chang, C.H., Claude, J., De Vos, J. and Ingicco, T., 2021. A new rhinoceros clade from the Pleistocene of Asia sheds light on mammal dispersals to the Philippines. In Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , zlab009. [doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab009]
Hall, A.S. and Cote, S., 2021. Ruminant mesowear reveals consistently browse-dominated diets throughout the early and middle Miocene of eastern Africa. In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , p.110253. [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110253]
Radomski, T., 2021. Rapoport effects are inconsistently demonstrated through time. In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , p.110568. [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110568]
Žliobaite, I. and Fortelius, M., 2021. On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record. In Paleobiology , pp.1-11. [doi:10.1017/pab.2021.22]
2020
Bai, B., Meng, J., Janis, C.M., Zhang, Z.Q. and Wang, Y.Q., 2020. Perissodactyl diversities and responses to climate changes as reflected by dental homogeneity during the Cenozoic in Asia. In Ecology and Evolution , 10(13), pp.6333-6355. [doi:10.1002/ece3.6363]
Catena, Angeline M. and Croft, Darin A, 2020. What are the best modern analogs for ancient South American mammal communities? Evidence from ecological diversity analysis (EDA). In Palaeontologia Electronica , 23(1):a03. [doi:10.26879/962]
Faith, J.T., Braun, D.R., Davies, B., DeSantis, L.R., Douglass, M.J., Esteban, I., Hare, V., Levin, N.E., Luyt, J., Pickering, R. and Power, M.J., 2020. Ecometrics and the paleoecological implications of Pleistocene faunas from the western coastal plains of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. In Journal of Quaternary Science . [doi:10.1002/jqs.3247]
Koufos, G.D., 2020. New tragulid remains from the early/middle Miocene and a revision of their occurrence in Greece. In Historical Biology , pp.1-16. [doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1795650]
Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende , Melike Bilgin , Yanell Braumuller , János Hír , Peter Joniak , Pablo Peláez-Campomanes , Jérôme Prieto , Panagiotis Skandalos , Isaac Casanovas-Vilar., 2020. Generically speaking, a survey on Neogene rodent diversity at the genus level in the NOW Database. In Fossil Imprint , 46. 118-127. [doi:10.37520/fi.2020.008]
Schap, J.A., Samuels, J.X. and Joyner, A., 2020. Ecometric estimation of present and past climate of North America using crown heights of rodents and lagomorphs. In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , p.110144. [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110144]
2019
Faurby, S., Werdelin, L. and Antonelli, A., 2019. Dispersal ability predicts evolutionary success among mammalian carnivores. In bioRxiv , p.755207. [doi:10.1101/755207]
Figueirido, B., Palmqvist, P., Pérez-Claros, J.A. and Janis, C.M., 2019. Sixty-six million years along the road of mammalian ecomorphological specialization. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 116(26), pp.12698-12703. [doi:10.1073/pnas.1821825116]
Ge, D., Feijó, A., Cheng, J., Lu, L., Liu, R., Abramov, A.V., Xia, L., Wen, Z., Zhang, W., Shi, L. and Yang, Q., 2019. Evolutionary history of field mice (Murinae: Apodemus), with emphasis on morphological variation among species in China and description of a new species. In Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , 187(2), pp.518-534. [doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz032]
Oksanen, O., Žliobaite, I., Saarinen, J., Lawing, A.M. and Fortelius, M., 2019. A Humboldtian approach to life and climate of the geological past: estimating palaeotemperature from dental traits of mammalian communities. In Journal of Biogeography , 46(8), pp.1760-1776. [doi:10.1111/jbi.13586]
Wessels, W., de Bruijn, H., Markovic, Z. and Milivojevic, M., 2019. Small mammals from the opencast lignite mine Gracanica (Bugojno, middle Miocene), Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments , pp.1-6. [doi:10.1007/s12549-018-0366-8]
Žliobaite, I., 2019. Revisiting biogeography of livestock animal domestication. In bioRxiv , p.786442. [doi:10.1101/786442]
2018
Kaya, F., Bibi, F., Zliobaite, I., Eronen, J., Hui, T. and Fortelius, M, 2018. The rise and fall of the Old World savannah fauna and the origins of the African savannah biome. In Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2, 241-246. [doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0414-1]
2017
Sukselainen, L. K., Kaakinen, A., Eronen, J. T., Passey, B. H., Harrison, T., Zhaoqun, Z. and Fortelius, M, 2017. The palaeoenvironment of the middle Miocene pliopithecid locality in Damiao, Inner Mongolia, China. In Journal of Human Evolution , 108: 31-46. [doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.014]
Zliobaite, I., Puolamäki, K., Eronen, J. and Fortelius, M, 2017. A survey of computational methods for fossil data analysis. In Evolutionary Ecology Research , 18. [PDF]
2016
Fortelius, H. L. M., Zliobaite, I., Kaya, F., Bibi, F., Bobe, R., Leakey, L., Leakey, M., Patterson, D., Rannikko, J. C. and Werdelin, L, 2016. An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin. In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Biological Sciences , 371(1698). [doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0232]
Kaya, F., Kaymakci, N., Bibi, F., Eronen, J. T., Pehlevan, C., Erkman, A., Langereis, C. and Fortelius, M, 2016. Magnetostratigraphy and paleoecology of the hominid-bearing locality Çorakyerler, Tuglu Formation (Çankiri Basin, Central Anatolia). In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 36(2). [doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1071710]
Mirzaie Ataabadi, M., Kaakinen, A. P., Kunimatsu, Y., Nakaya, H., Orak, Z., Paknia, M., Sakai, T., Salminen, M. J., Sawada, Y., Sen, S., Suwa, G., Watabe, M., Zaree, G., Zhaoqun, Z. and Fortelius, H. L. M, 2016. The late Miocene hominoid-bearing site in the Maragheh Formation, Northwest Iran. In Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments , 96(3): 349-371. [doi:10.1007/s12549-016-0241-4]
Salonen, J. S., Saarinen, J. J., Miettinen, A. I., Hirvas, H., Usoltseva, M., Fortelius, H. L. M. and Sorsa, M, 2016. The northernmost discovery of a Miocene proboscidean bone in Europe. In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 454: 202-211. [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.034]
2015
Arppe, L., Kaakinen, A., Passey, B., Zhang, Z. and Fortelius, M, 2015. Small mammal tooth enamel carbon isotope record of C4 grasses in late Neogene China. , 133: 288-297. [doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.09.003]
Fortelius, H. L. M., Geritz, S. A. H., Gyllenberg, M. A. G., Raia, P. and Toivonen, J. T, 2015. Modeling the Population-Level Processes of Biodiversity Gain and Loss at Geological Timescales. In American Naturalist , 186(6): 742-754. [doi:10.1086/683660]
Sukselainen, L., Fortelius, M. & Harrison, T, 2015. Co-occurrence of pliopithecoid and hominoid primates in the fossil record: An ecometric analysis. In Journal of Human Evolution , 84: 25-41. [doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.04.009]
2014
Bingham, E. and Mannila, H, 2014. Towards Computational Techniques for Identifying Candidate Chronofaunas. In Annales Zoologici Fennici , 51: 43-48. [doi:10.5735/086.051.0205]
Eronen, J.T., Kaakinen, A., Liu, L., Passey, B.H., Tang, H., Zhang, Z, 2014. Here be Dragons: Mesowear of the classic Chinese "Hipparion" faunas from Baode, Shanxi Province, China. In Annales Zoologici Fennici , 51: 227-244. [PDF] [doi:10.5735/086.051.0222]
Fortelius, M., Eronen, J.T., Kaya, F., Tang, H., Raia, P., Puolamäki, K, 2014. Evolution of Neogene mammals in Eurasia: environmental forcing and biotic interactions. In Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science , 42: 579-604. [doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-050212-124030]
Liow, L.H. and Finarelli, J.A, 2014. A dynamic global equilibrium in carnivoran diversification over 20 million years. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 281: 20132312. [doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2312]
Martin-Serra, A., Figueirido, B., Palmqvist, P, 2014. A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Morphological Evolution and Locomotor Performance of the Carnivoran Forelimb. In PLoS ONE , 9(1): e85574. [PDF] [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085574]
Saarinen, J.J., Boyer, A.G., Brown, J.H, Costa, D.P., Ernest, S.K.M., Evans, A.R., Fortelius, M., Gittleman, J.L., Hamilton, M.J., Harding, L.E., Lintulaakso, K., Lyons, S.K., Okie, J.G., Sibly, R.M., Stephens, P.R., Theodor, J., Uhen, M.D., Smith, F.A, 2014. Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 281. [PDF] [doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2049]
Wu, S., Zhang, F., Edwards, S. V., Wu, W., Ye, J., Bi, S., Ni, X., Quan, C., Meng, J., Organ, C. L, 2014. The evolution of bipedalism in jerboas (Rodentioa: Dipopoidea): Origin in humid and forested environments. In Evolution , 68(7): 2108-2118. [doi:10.1111/evo.12404]
2013
Kaakinen, A. P., Passey, B. H., Zhang, Z., Pesonen, L., Liu, L., Fortelius, M, 2013. Stratigraphy and paleoecology of the classical dragon bone localities of Baode County, Shanxi Province, China. Pp. 203-217 in Wang, X., Flynn, L.J. and Fortelius, M. (Eds), In Fossil Mammals of Asia, New York: Columbia University Press . [doi:10.7312/columbia/9780231150125.003.0007]
Mirzaie Ataabadi, M., Liu, L., Eronen, J. T., Bernor, R., Fortelius, M, 2013. Continental Scale Patterns in Neogene Mammal Community Evolution and Biogeography: A Europe-Asia Perspective. Pp. 629-655 in Wang, X., Flynn, L.J. and Fortelius, M. (Eds), In Fossil Mammals of Asia, New York: Columbia University Press . [doi:10.7312/wang15012-029]
Okie, J.G., Boyer, A.G., Brown, J.H., Costa, D.P., Ernest, S.K.M., Evans, A.R., Fortelius, M., Gittleman, J.L., Hamilton, M.J., Harding, L.E., Lintulaakso, K., Lyons, S.K., Saarinen, J.J., Smith, F.A., Stephens, P.R., Theodor, J., Uhen, M.D., Sibly, R.M, 2013. Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 280: 20131007. [PDF] [doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1007]
Raia, P. and Fortelius, M, 2013. Cope’s Law of the Unspecialized, Cope’s Rule, and weak directionality in evolution. In Evolutionary Ecology Research , 15: 747-756. [PDF]
Tang, H., Eronen, J.T., Micheels, A., Ahrens, B, 2013. Strong interannual variation of the Asian summer monsoon in the Late Miocene. In Climate Dynamics , 41: 135-153. [doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1655-y]
Uhen, M. D., Barnosky, A. D., Bills, B., Blois, J., Carrano, M. T., Carrasco, M. A., Erickson, G. M., Eronen, J. T., Fortelius, M., Graham, R. W., Grimm, E. C., O'Leary, M. A., Mast, A., Piel, W. H., Polly, P. D., Säilä, L. K, 2013. From card catalogs to computers: Databases in vertebrate paleontology. In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 33:13-28. [PDF] [doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.716114]
Wagner, P.J. and Marcot, J.D, 2013. Modelling distributions of fossil sampling rates over time, space and taxa: assessment and implications for macroevolutionary studies. In Methods in Ecology and Evolution , 4(8): 703-713. [doi:10.1111/2041-210x.12088]
Zhang, Z., Kaakinen, A. P., Liu, L., Lunkka, J.P., Sen, S., Gose, W.A., Qiu, Z. Zheng, S., Fortelius, M, 2013. Mammalian biochronology of the Late Miocene Bahe Formation. Pp. 187-202 in Wang, X., Flynn, L.J. and Fortelius, M. (Eds), In Fossil Mammals of Asia, New York: Columbia University Press . [doi:10.7312/columbia/9780231150125.003.0006]
2012
Bradshaw, C.D., Lunt, D.J., Flecker, R., Salzmann, U., Pound, M.J., Haywood, A.M., Eronen, J.T, 2012. The relative roles of CO2 and palaeogeography in determining late Miocene climate: results from a terrestrial model-data comparison. In Climate of the Past , 8: 1257-1285. [doi:10.5194/cp-8-1257-2012]
Eronen, J.T., Fortelius, M., Micheels, A., Portmann, F.T., Puolamäki, K., Janis, C.M, 2012. Neogene Aridification of the Northern Hemisphere. In Geology , 40: 823-826. [doi:10.1130/G33147.1]
Eronen, J.T., Micheels, A., Utescher, T, 2012. Comparison of estimates for Mean Annual Precipitation from different proxies. A Pilot Study for European Neogene. In Evolutionary Ecology Research , 13: 851-867. [PDF]
Evans, A.R., Jones, D., Boyer, A.G., Brown, J.H., Costa, D.P., Dayan, T., Ernest, S.K.M., Fitzgerald, E.M.G. Fortelius, M. Gittleman, J.L. Hamilton, M.J., Harding, L.E., Lintulaakso, K., Lyons, S.K., Okie, J.G., Saarinen, J.J., Sibly, R.M., Smith, F.A., Stephens, P.R., Theodor, J., Uhen, M.D, 2012. Maximum rates of body size macroevolution in mammals. In PNAS , 109: 4187-4190. [PDF] [doi:10.1073/pnas.1120774109]
Liu, L., Puolamäki, K., Eronen, J.T., Mirzaie, M., Hernesniemi, E., Fortelius, M, 2012. Estimating Net Primary Productivity from Dental Traits. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 27: 2793-2799. [doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.211]
Raia P., Carotenuto F., Passaro F., Fulgione D., Fortelius, M, 2012. Ecological specialization in fossil mammals explains Cope's rule. In American Naturalist , 179: 328-337. [PDF] [doi:10.1086/664081]
Raia P., Passaro F., Carotenuto F, 2012. Habitat tracking, stasis and survival in Neogene large mammals. In Biology Letters , 8: 64-66. [doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0613]
2011
Deng, T., X. Wang, M. Fortelius, Q. Li, Y. Wang, Z.J. Tseng, G.T. Takeuchi, J. E. Saylor, L.K. Säilä, G. Xie, 2011. Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of Ice Age megaherbivores. In Science , 333: 1285-1288. [PDF] [doi:10.1126/science.1206594]
Eronen, J. T., Evans, A. R., Fortelius, M., Jernvall, J, 2011. Genera are often better than species for detecting evolutionary change in the fossil record: A reply to Salesa et al. In Evolution , 65: 1514-1516. [doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01220.x]
Micheels, A., Bruch, A.A., Eronen, J.T. , Fortelius, M., Harzhauser, M., Utescher, T. Mosbrugger, V, 2011. Analysis of heat transport mechanisms from a Late Miocene model experiment with a fully-coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. In Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology , 304: 337-350. [PDF] [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.021]
Polly, P.D., Eronen, J.T., Fred, M., Dietl, G., Mosbrugger, V., Scheidegger, C., Frank, D., Damuth, J., Stenseth, N.-C., Fortelius, M, 2011. History Matters: Integrative Climate Change Biology. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 278: 1131-1140. [PDF] [doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2233]
Raia, P., Carotenuto, F., Eronen, J.T., Fortelius, M, 2011. Longer in the tooth, shorter in the record? The evolutionary correlates of hypsodonty in Neogene ruminants. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B. , 278, 3474-3481. [PDF] [doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0273]
Tang, H., Micheels, A., Eronen, J.T., Fortelius, M, 2011. A regional climate model experiment to investigate the Asian monsoon in the Late Miocene. In Climate of the Past , 7: 847-868. [PDF] [doi:10.5194/cp-7-847-2011]
2010
Casanovas-Vilar, I., Garcia-Paredes, I., Alba, D.M., Van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Moya-Sola, S, 2010. The European Far West: Miocene mammal isolation, diversity and turnover in the Iberian Peninsula. In Journal of Biogeography , 37: 1079-1093. [doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02286.x]
Eronen, J. T. , Evans, A.R., Jernvall, J., Fortelius, M, 2010. The impact of regional climate on the evolution of mammals. A case study using fossil horses. In Evolution , 64: 398-408. [PDF] [doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00830.x]
Eronen, J. T., Polly, P.D., Fred, M., Damuth, J., Frank, D. C., Mosbrugger, V., Scheidegger, C., Stenseth, N. C., Fortelius, M, 2010. Ecometrics: The traits that bind the past and present together. In Integrative Zoology , 5: 88-101. [PDF] [doi:10.1111/j.1749-4877.2010.00192.x]
Eronen, J. T., Puolamäki, K., Liu, L., Lintulaakso, K., Damuth, J., Janis, C., Fortelius, M, 2010. Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals , part II: Application to fossil data. In Evolutionary Ecology Research , 12: 235-248. [PDF]
Eronen, J. T., Puolamäki, K., Liu, L., Lintulaakso, K., Damuth, J., Janis, C., Fortelius, M, 2010. Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals , part I: Estimates from present-day communities. In Evolutionary Ecology Research , 12: 217-233. [PDF]
Furio, M., Casanovas-Vilar, I., Van den Hoek Ostende, L.W, 2010. Predictable structure of Miocene insectivore (Lipotyphla) faunas in Western Europe along a latitudinal gradient. In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 304: 219-229. [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.01.039]
Saarinen, J., Oikarinen, E., Fortelius, M. and Mannila H, 2010. The living and the fossilised - how well do unevenly distributed points capture the faunal information in a grid? In Evolutionary Ecology Research , 12: 363-376. [PDF]
Solounias, N., Rivals, F., and Semprebon, G.M, 2010. Dietary interpretation and paleoecology of herbivores from Pikermi and Samos (late Miocene of Greece). In Paleobiology , 3: 113-136. [doi:10.1666/0094-8373-36.1.113]
2009
Bernor, R.L., Rook L., and Haile-Selassie Y, 2009. Paleobiogeography. <b>In:</b> (eds.) Haile-Selassie Y. and Wolde Gabriel G. Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia In University of California Press, Los Angeles , 549-563. [doi:10.1525/9780520942509-022]
Eronen J. T., Mirzaie Ataabadi M., Micheels A., Karme A., Bernor R. L., and Fortelius M, 2009. Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna. In PNAS , 106(29): 11867-11871. [PDF] [doi:10.1073/pnas.0902598106]
Koufos, G.D., Kostopoulos, D.S., and Merceron G, 2009. Palaeoecology and Palaeobiogeography. <b>In:</b> (eds.) Koufos G.D. and Nagel D. In The Late Miocene Mammal Faunas of the Mytilinii Basin, Samos Island, Greece: New Collection. Beiträge zur Paläontologie , 31: 409-428.
Liu L., Eronen J. T., and Fortelius M, 2009. Significant Mid-Latitude Aridity in the Middle Miocene of East Asia. In Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology , 279: 201-206. [PDF] [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.05.014]
Micheels, A., Eronen, J.T., and Mosbrugger, V, 2009. The Late Miocene climate sensitivity on a modern Sahara desert. In Global and Planetary Change , 67: 193-204. [PDF] [doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.02.005]
Nargolwalla, M.C, 2009. Eurasian Middle and Late Miocene Hominoid Paleobiogeography and the Geographic Origins of the Homininae. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto. .
Peláez-Campomanes, P. and van der Meulen, A.J., 2009. Diversity of mammals in the Neogene of Europe: comparing data quality of large and small mammals in the NOW database. In Hellen. J. Geosci , 44, pp.105-115. [PDF]
2008
Bernor, R.L. and L. Rook, 2008. A Current View of As-Sahabi Large Mammal Biogeographic Relationships, In Garyounis Scientific Bulletin , Special Issue 5: 285-292.
Liow L.H., Fortelius M., Bingham E., Lintulaakso K. , Mannila H., Flynn L. and Stenseth N. C, 2008. Sleep or hide, better for survival anytime (reply to Casanovas-Vilar et al.). In PNAS , 105 (35): E57. [PDF] [doi:10.1073/pnas.0806021105]
Liow, L.H., Fortelius M., Bingham E., Lintulaakso K., Mannila H., Flynn L. and Stenseth N. C, 2008. Higher originaltion and extinction ratesin larger mammals. In PNAS , 105 (16): 6097-6102. [PDF] [doi:10.1073/pnas.0709763105]
2007
Bingham E., Kabán A., and Fortelius M, 2007. The aspect Bernoulli model: multiple causes of presences and absences. In Pattern Analysis & Applications , 12: 55-78. [PDF] [doi:10.1007/s10044-007-0096-4]
Hopkins SSB, 2007. Causes of lineage decline in the Aplodontidae: Testing for the influence of physical and biological change. In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 246: 331-335. [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.10.006]
2006
Eronen J. T, 2006. Eurasian Neogene large herbivorous mammals and climate. In Acta Zoologica Fennica , 216: 1-72.
Fortelius M, Eronen J. T., Liu L, Pushkina D, Tesakov A, Vislobokova IA, and Zhang Z, 2006. Late Miocene and Pliocene large land mammals and climatic changes in Eurasia. In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 238: 219-227. [PDF] [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.042]
Fortelius M, Gionis A, Jernvall J, and Mannila H, 2006. Spectral ordering and biochronology of European fossil mammals. In Paleobiology , 32(2): 206-214. [PDF] [doi:10.1666/04087.1]
Fortelius M, and Zhang Z, 2006. An Oasis in the Desert? History of Endemism and Climate in the Late Neogene of North China. In Palaeontographica A , 277: 131-141. [PDF] [doi:10.1127/pala/277/2006/131]
Koufos GD, 2006. Palaeoecology and chronology of the Vallesian (late Miocene) in the Eastern Mediterranean region. In Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology , 234: 127-145. [doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.01.014]
Puolamäki K, Fortelius M, and Mannila H, 2006. Seriation in paleontological data using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. In PLoS Computational Biology , 2(2): e6. [PDF] [doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020006]
2005
Ukkonen A, Fortelius M, and Mannila H, 2005. Finding partial orders from unordered 0-1 data. In: In Grossman R, Bayardo R and Bennett KP. (eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 21-24, 2005 , 285-293. [PDF] [doi:10.1145/1081870.1081904]
2004
Eronen J. T., and Rook L, 2004. The Mio-Pliocene European primate fossil record: dynamics and habitat tracking. In Journal of Human Evolution , 47(5): 323-341. [PDF] [doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.08.003]
Jernvall J, and Fortelius M, 2004. Maintenance of trophic structure in fossil mammal communities: site occupancy and taxon resilience. In American Naturalist , 164(5): 614-624. [PDF] [doi:10.1086/424967]
2003
Bernor RL, Kordos L, and Rook L, 2003. Recent Advances on Multidisciplinary Research at Rudab‡nya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: A compendium. In Palaeontographia Italica , 89: 3-36.
Fortelius M, 2003. Evolution of dental capability in Western Eurasian large mammal plant-eaters 22-2 million years ago: a case for environmental forcing mediated by biotic processes. In: In Legakis A, Sfenthourakis S, Polymeni R and Thessalou-Legaki M. (eds.) The New Panorama of Animal Evolution: Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Zoology, Athens, Greece, September 2000. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow . [dataset]
Fortelius M, Eronen J, Liu LP, Pushkina D, Tesakov A, Vislobokova I, and Zhang ZQ, 2003. Continental-scale hypsodonty patterns, climatic paleobiogeography and dispersal of Eurasian Neogene large mammal herbivores. In: In Reumer JWF, and Wessels W. (eds.) Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A volume in honour of Hans de Bruijn. Deinsea , 10: 1-11. [PDF] [dataset]
Koufos GD., 2003. Late Miocene mammal events and biostratigraphy in the Eastern Mediterranean <b>In:</b> Reumer JWF & Wessels W. (eds.) Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A volume in honour of Hans de Bruijn, In Deinsea , 10: 343-372.
2002
Fortelius M, Eronen J, Jernvall J, Liu L, Pushkina D, Rinne J, Tesakov A, Vislobokova I, Zhang Z, and Zhou L, 2002. Fossil mammals resolve regional patterns of Eurasian climate change over 20 million years. In Evolutionary Ecology Research , 4: 1005-1016. [PDF] [dataset]
Jernvall, J, and Fortelius M, 2002. Common mammals drive the evolutionary increase of hypsodonty in the Neogene. In Nature , 417: 538-540. [PDF] [doi:10.1038/417538a]
2001
Agustí J, Cabrera L, Garcés, M, Krijgsman W, Oms O, and Parés JM, 2001. A calibrated mammal scale for the Neogene of Western Europe. State of the art. In Earth Science Reviews , 52: 247-260. [PDF] [doi:10.1016/S0012-8252(00)00025-8]
Agustí J, Cabrera L, and Garcés, M, 2001. Chronology and zoogeography of the Miocene hominoid record in Europe. In: In de Bonis L, Koufos GD, and Andrews P. (eds.) Hominoid Evolution and Climate Change: Volume 2, Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia. Cambridge University Press, London. , 2-18. [doi:10.1017/cbo9780511600449.001]
Agustí J, Oms O, and Remacha E, 2001. Long Plio-Pleistocene Terrestrial Record of Climate Change and Mammal Turnover in Southern Spain. In Quaternary Research , 56(3): 411-418. [doi:10.1006/qres.2001.2269]
Agustí J, and Oms O, 2001. On the age of the last hipparionine faunas in western Europe. In Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Series IIA Earth and Planetary Science , 332(4): 291-297. [doi:10.1016/s1251-8050(01)01523-3]
Agustí, J, 2001. Defining MN-units and magnetobiostratigraphic correlation of the Spanish sections. In: In Latal C, and Pillar WE. (eds.) Environmental and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Eurasian Neogene (EEDEN). Stratigraphy & Paleogeography Workshop, March 15-18 2001, Graz, Austria. Berichte des Institutes für Geologie und Paläontologie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz/Austria , 4: 23-26..
Alba DM, Agustí J, and Moyà-Solà S, 2001. Completeness of the mammalian fossil record in the Iberian Neogene. In Paleobiology , 27(1): 79-83. [PDF] [doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2001)0272.0.CO;2]
Bernor RL, Fortelius M, and Rook L, 2001. Evolutionary Biogeography and Paleoecology of the In Oreopithecus bambolii ”Faunal Zone” (late Miocene, Tusco-Sardinian Province). In: Rook L, and Torre D. (eds.) Neogene and Quaternary continental stratigraphy and mammal evolution. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana , 40(2): 139-148. [dataset]
Fortelius M, and Hokkanen A, 2001. The trophic context of hominoid occurrence in the Later Miocene of Western Eurasia - a primate-free view. In: In de Bonis L, Koufos GD, and Andrews P. (eds.) Hominoid Evolution and Climate Change: Volume 2, Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia. Cambridge University Press, London. , 19-47. [dataset] [doi:10.1017/cbo9780511600449.002]
Garcés M, Krijgsman W, and Agustí J, 2001. Chronostratigraphic framework and evolution of the Fortuna basin (Eastern Betics) since the Late Miocene. In Basin Research , 13(2): 199-216. [doi:10.1046/j.1365-2117.2001.00144.x]
2000
Krijgsman W, Garcés M, Agustí J, Raffi I, Taberner C, and Zachariasse WJ, 2000. The 'Tortonian salinity crisis' of the eastern Betics (Spain). In Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 181: 497-511. [doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(00)00224-7]
1998
Agusti J, Andrews P, Fortelius M, and Rook L, 1998. Hominoid evolution and environmental change in the Neogene of Europe: a European Science Foundation network. In Journal of Human Evolution , 34(1): 103-107. [PDF] [doi:10.1006/jhev.1997.0184]
Alroy J, Bernor RL, Fortelius M, and Werdelin L, 1998. The MN system: regional or continental? In Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssamlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie , 38: 243-258. [dataset]
1997
Werdelin L, and Fortelius M, 1997. Biogeographic characterisation of MN unit reference localities. In: In Aguilar J-P, Legendre S, and Michaux J. (eds.) Actes du Congrès BiochroM '97 Mémoires et Travaux, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Institut de Montpellier , 21: 67-73.
1996
Bernor RL, Fahlbusch V, Andrews P, de Bruijn H, Fortelius M, Rögl F, Steininger FF, and Werdelin L, 1996. The evolution of western Eurasian Neogene mammal faunas: a chronologic, systematic, biogeographic, and paleoenvironmental synthesis. In: In Bernor RL, Fahlbusch V, and Mittmann W. (eds.) The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas. Columbia University Press. , 449-470.
Fortelius M, Andrews P, Bernor RL, and Werdelin L, 1996. Preliminary analysis of taxonomic diversity, turnover and provinciality in a subsample of large land mammals from the later Miocene of western Eurasia. In: Nadachowski A, and Werdelin L. (eds.) Neogene and Quaternary Mammals of the Palaearctic. Conference in honour of Professor Kazimierz Kowalski. In Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia , 39: 167-178.
Fortelius M, Werdelin L. Andrews P, Bernor RL, Gentry A, Humphrey L, Mittmann W, and Viranta S, 1996. Provinciality, diversity, turnover and paleoecology in land mammal faunas of the later Miocene of western Eurasia. In: In Bernor RL, Fahlbusch V, and Mittmann W. (eds.) The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas. Columbia University Press. , 414-448. [dataset]
Fortelius M, van der Made J, and Bernor R, 1996. Middle and Late Miocene Suoidea of central Europe and the eastern Mediterranean: evolution, biogeography and paleoecology. In: In Bernor RL,Fahlbusch V, and Mittmann W. (eds.) The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas. Columbia University Press. , 348-377. [dataset]
