Publications

§postdoc author, *graduate student author, uundergraduate author, †alphabetical authorship

*Whiting, E.T. and Fox, D.L., 2021. Latitudinal and environmental patterns of species richness in lizards and snakes across continental North America. Journal of Biogeography 48: 291-304. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13996.

Michel, L.A., Lehmann, T., McNulty, K.P., Driese, S.G., Dunsworthy, H., Fox, D.L., Harcourt-Smith, W.E., Jenkins, K., and Peppe, D.J., 2020. Sedimentological and paleoenvironmental study from Waregi Hill in the Hiwegi Formation (early Miocene) on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Sedimentology 67: 3567-3594. doi: 10.1111/sed.12762.

Hunda, B., Storrs, G., and Fox, D.L., 2019. Notice of transfer of the University of Minnesota paleontology collections to Cincinnati Museum Center. Journal of Paleontology 93: 1031-1032.

*Haveles, A.W., Fox, D.L., and Fox-Dobbs, K., 2019. Carbon isoscapes of rodent diets in the Great Plains USA deviate from regional gradients in C₄ grass abundance due to a preference for C₃ plant resources. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 527: 53-66.

Lukens, W.E., Fox, D.L., Snell, K.E., Wiest, L.A., Layzell, A.L., Uno, K.T., Polissar, P.J., Martin, R.A., Fox-Dobbs, K., and Peláez-Campomanes, P., 2019. Pliocene paleoenvironments in the Meade Basin, southwest Kansas. Journal of Sedimentary Research 89: 416-439.

Fox, D.L., Pau, S., Taylor, L., Strömberg, C.A.E., Osborne, C.P., Bradshaw, C., Conn, S., Beerling, D.J., and Still, C.J., 2018. Climatic controls on C4 grassland distributions during the Neogene: a model-data comparison. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 147 (19 pp.) doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00147.

*Maxbauer, D.P., Feinberg, J.M., Fox, D.L., and Nater, E., 2017. Response of pedogenic magnetite to changing vegetation in soils developed under uniform climate, topography, and parent material. Scientific Reports 7:17575. DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-17722-2

Lukens, W.E., Lehmann, T., Peppe, D.J., Fox, D.L., Driese, S.G., and McNulty, K.P., 2017. The Early Miocene critical zone at Karungu, Western Kenya: an equatorial, open habitat with few primate remains. Frontiers in Earth Science 5: 87. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00087

Nengo, I., Tafforeau, P., Gilbert, C.C., Fleagle, J.G., Miller, E.R., Feibel, C., Fox, D.L., Feinberg, J., Pugh, K.D., Berruyer, C., Mana, S., u Engle, Z., and Spoor, F., 2017. New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution. Nature 548: 169-174. doi:10.1038/nature23456

†Badgley, C., Smiley, T.M., Terry, R., Davis, E.B., DeSantis, L.R.G., Fox, D.L., Hopkins, S.B., Jezkova, T., Matocq, M.D., Matzke, N., McGuire, J.L., Mulch, A., Riddle, B.R., Roth, V.L., Samuels, J.X., Strömberg, C.A.E., Yanites, B.J., 2017. Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32: 211-226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.12.010. (authorship alphabetical after first three authors)

*Maxbauer, D.P., Feinberg, J.M., Fox, D.L., 2016. MAX UnMix: A web application for unmixing magnetic coercivity distributions. Computers and Geosciences 95: 140-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2016.07.009

Smith, J.J., Layzell, A.L., Lukens, W.E., Morgan, M.L., Keller, S.M., Martin, R.A., and Fox, D.L., 2016. Getting to the bottom of the High Plains aquifer: New insights into the depositional history, stratigraphy, and paleoecology of the Cenozoic High Plains, in Keller, S.M., and Morgan, M.L., eds., Unfolding the Geology of the West: Geological Society of America Field Guide 44, p. 93–124. doi:10.1130/2016.0044(04).

*Maxbauer, D.P., Feinberg, J.M., Fox, D.L., and Clyde, W.C., 2016. Magnetic minerals as recorders of weathering, diagenesis, and paleoclimate: a core-outcrop comparison of Paleocene-Eocene paleosols in the Bighorn Basin, WY, U.S.A. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 452: 15-26. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.029.

Marcot, J.D., Fox, D.L., and Niebuhr, S.R., 2016. Late Cenozoic onset of the latitudinal diversity gradient of North American mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: 7189-7194. published online 13 June 2016. doi:10.1073/pnas.1524750113

*Maxbauer, D.P., Feinberg, J.M., Fox, D.L., 2015. Magnetic mineral assemblages in soils and paleosols as the basis for paleoenvironmental proxies: A review of magnetic methods and challenges. Earth-Science Reviews 155: 28-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.01.014 39.

Fox, D.L., Martin, R.A., Roepke, E., Fetrow, A.C., Fischer-Femal, B., Uno, K.T., FoxDobbs, K., Snell, K.E., Haveles, A., and Polissar, P.J., 2015. Biotic and abiotic forcing during the transition to modern grassland ecosystems: evolutionary and ecological responses of small mammal communities over the last 5 million years. In: Polly, P.D., Head, J.J., and Fox, D.L. (eds.), Earth-Life Transitions: Paleobiology in the Context of Earth System Evolution. Paleontological Society Papers 21: 197-218. 38.

*Vietti, L.A., Bailey, J.V., Fox, D.L., and Rogers, R.R., 2015. Rapid formation of framboidal sulfides in bone surfaces from a simulated marine carcass-fall. PALAIOS 30: 327-334.

*Garret, N.D., Fox, D.L., McNulty, K.P., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., and Van Platinga, A., 2015. Stable isotope paleoecology of late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age humans from the equatorial East Africa Lake Victoria basin, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 82: 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.005.

Clementz, M.T., Fordyce, R.E., Peek, S.L., and Fox, D.L., 2014. Ancient Marine Isoscapes and Isotopic Evidence of Bulk-feeding by Oligocene Cetaceans. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 400: 28-40.

*Moron, S., Fox, D.L., Feinberg, J.M., Jaramillo, C., Bayona, G., Montes, C., and Bloch, J.I., 2013. Climate change during the Early Paleogene in the Bogotá Basin (Colombia) inferred from paleosol carbon isotope stratigraphy, major oxides, and environmental magnetism. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 388: 115-127.

Domingo, L., Koch, P.L., Hernández Fernández, M., Fox, D.L., Domingo, M.S., and Alberdi, M.T., 2013. Late Neogene and early Quaternary paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic conditions in southwestern Europe: isotopic analyses on mammalian taxa. PLoS One 8: e63739. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063739

Faith, J.T., Tryon, C., Peppe, D., Fox, D.L., 2013. The fossil history of Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi) in equatorial East Africa. Journal of Biogeography 40: 359-369. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02796.x

*Matson, S.D., Rook, L., Oms, O., Fox, D.L., 2012. Carbon isotopic record of the relative roles of biotic and abiotic factors in the Late Miocene extinction of Oreopithecus bambolii, Baccinello Basin (Tuscany, Italy). Journal of Human Evolution 63: 127-139.

Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T, van Plantinga, A., Nightingale, S., Ogondo, J., and Fox, D.L., 2012. Late Pleistocene artefacts and fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Lake Victroria, Kenya. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 47: 14-38.

Fox, D.L., Martin, R.A., Honey, J.G., and Pelaez-Campomanes, P., 2012. Pedogenic carbonate stable isotope record of environmental change during the Neogene in the southern Great Plains, southwest Kansas, USA: carbon isotopes and the evolution of C4-dominated grasslands. GSA Bulletin 124: 444-462. doi:10.1130/B30401.1

Fox, D.L., Martin, R.A., Honey, J.G., and Pelaez-Campomanes, P., 2012. Pedogenic carbonate stable isotope record of environmental change during the Neogene in the southern Great Plains, southwest Kansas, USA: oxygen isotopes and paleoclimate during the evolution of C4-dominated grasslands. GSA Bulletin 124: 431-443. doi:10.1130/B30402.1.

Faith, J.T., Choiniere, J.N., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., and Fox, D.L., 2011. Taxonomic status and paleoecology of Rusingoryx atopocranion (Mammalia, Artiodactyla), an extinct Pleistocene bovid from Rusinga Island, Kenya. Quaternary Research 75: 697-707. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2010.11.006.

*Rose, P.J., Fox, D.L., Marcot, J.D., Badgley, C., 2011. Flat latitudinal gradient in Paleocene mammal richness suggests decoupling of climate and biodiversity. Geology 39: 163-166. doi:10.1130/G31099.1

Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., Fox, D.L., Jenkins, K., and Dunsworth, H., 2010. The Pleistocene Archaeology and Environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 59: 657-671. doi:10.1016/j.hevol.2010.07.020.

Runkel, A.C., Mackey, T.J., Cowan, C.A., and Fox, D.L., 2010. Tropical shoreline ice in the late Cambrian: Implications for Earth's climate between the Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. GSA Today 20(11): 4-10. doi: 10.1130/GSATG84A.1.

Cerling, T.E., Levin, N.E., Quade, J., Wynn, J.G., Fox, D.L., Kingston, J.D., Klein, R.G., and Brown, F.H., 2010. Comment on the paleoenvironment of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 328: 1105-d (3 pp.). DOI: 10.1126/science.1185274

Woodhead, J. Reisz, R., Fox, D.L., Drysdale, R., Hellstrom, J., Maas, R., Cheng, H., and Edwards, R.L., 2010. Speleothem climate records from deep time? Exploring the potential with an example from the Permian. Geology 38: 455-458. DOI: 10.1130/G30354.1

Edwards, E.J., Osborne, C.P., Strömberg, C.A.E., Smith, S.A., and the C4 Grasses Consortium, 2010. The evolutionary origins of C4 grasses. Science 328: 587-591. DOI: 10.1126/science.1177216 (ninth author of 19 authors listed alphabetically in the C4 Grasses Consortium)

*Matson, S.D. and Fox, D.L., 2010. Stable isotopic evidence for terrestrial latitudinal climate gradients in the late Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 287: 28-44. 20. Qian, H., Badgley, C., and Fox, D.L., 2008. The latitudinal gradient of beta diversity in relation to climate and topography for mammals in North America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 111-122.

§Marcot, J.D. and Fox, D.L., 2008. StrataPhy: a new computer program for stratocladistic analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica 11.5.5A, 16 pp., http://palaeoelectronica.org/2008_1/142/index.html.

Martin, R.A., Peláez-Campomanes, P., Honey, J.G., Fox, D.L., Zakrzewski, R.J., Albright, L.B., Lindsay, E.H., Opdyke, N.D., and Goodwin, H.T., 2008. Rodent community change at the Pliocene–Pleistocene transition in southwestern Kansas and identification of the Microtus immigration event on the Central Great Plains. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 267: 196-207.

*Matson, S.D. and Fox, D.L., 2008. Can oxygen isotopes from turtle bone be used to reconstruct paleoclimates? PALAIOS 23: 24-34. DOI: 10.2110/palo.2006.p06-049r.

Fox-Dobbs, K., Bump, J.K., Peterson, R.O., Fox, D.L., and Koch, P.L., 2007. Carnivorespecific stable isotope variables and variation in grey wolf foraging ecology: case studies from Isle Royale, Minnesota, and La Brea. Canadian Journal of Zoology 85: 458-471.

Fox, D.L., Fisher, D.C., Vartanyan, S., Tikhonov, A.N., Mol, D., and Buigues, B., 2007. Paleoclimatic implications of oxygen isotopic variation in late Pleistocene and Holocene tusks of Mammuthus primigenius from northern Eurasia. Quaternary International 169- 170: 154-165.

Rountrey, A.N., Fisher, D.C., Vartanyan, S., and Fox, D.L., 2007. Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analyses of a Juvenile Woolly Mammoth Tusk: Evidence of Weaning. Quaternary International 169-170: 166-173.

Angielczyk, K. and Fox, D.L., 2006. Exploring new uses for measures of fit of phylogenetic hypotheses to the fossil record. Paleobiology 32: 147-165.

†Cowan, C.A., Fox, D.L., Runkel, A.C., and Saltzman, M.R., 2005. Terrestrial-marine carbon cycle coupling in ~500 million year-old phosphatic brachiopods. Geology 33(8): 661-664.

Fox, D.L. and Koch, P.L., 2004. Carbon and oxygen isotopic variability in Neogene paleosol carbonates: constraints on the evolution of the C4-dominated grasslands of the Great Plains, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 207: 305-329.

Fox, D.L. and Fisher, D.C, 2004. Dietary reconstruction of Gomphotherium (Mammalia, Proboscidea) based on carbon isotope composition of tusk enamel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 206: 311-335.

Fox, D.L. and Koch, P.L., 2003. Tertiary history of C4 biomass in the Great Plains, U.S.A. Geology 31: 809-812. 8. Fisher, D.C, Fox, D.L., and Agenbroad, L.D., 2003. Tusk growth rate and season of death of Mammuthus columbi from Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA. DEINSEA 9: 117-133.

Fisher, D.C. and Fox, D.L., 2003. Season of death and terminal growth histories of Hiscock mastodons. In: Laub, R.S. (ed.), The Hiscock Site: Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology in Western New York State. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 37: 83-100.

Fisher, D.C., Foote, M., Fox, D.L., and Leighton, L.R., 2002. Stratigraphy in phylogeny reconstruction—Comment on Smith (2000). Journal of Paleontology 76(4): 585-586.

Fox, D.L. and Fisher, D.C., 2001. Stable isotope ecology of a late Miocene population of Gomphotherium (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from Port of Entry Pit, Oklahoma: diet, climate and diagenesis. PALAIOS 16: 279-293.

Mol, D., Coppens, Y., Tikhonov, A., Agenbroad, L.D., MacPhee, R., Flemming, C., Buigues, B., de Marliave, C., van Geel, B., van Reenen, G., Pals, J.P., Fisher, D.C., and Fox, D.L., 2001. The Jarkov Mammoth: 20,000-year-old carcass of a Siberian woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799). In: Cavarretta, G., Giola, P., Mussi, M., and Palombo, M.R. (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Congress, “The World of Elephants” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, pp. 305-309.

Badgley, C. and Fox, D.L., 2000. Ecological biogeography of North American mammals: species density and ecological structure in relation to environmental gradients. Journal of Biogeography 27: 1437-1467.

Fox, D.L., 2000. Growth increments in Gomphotherium and implications for late Miocene climate change in North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 156: 327-348.

Fox, D.L., Fisher, D.C. and Leighton, L.R., 1999. Reconstructing phylogeny with and without temporal data. Science 284: 1816-1819.

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