Past Field
Work:
URBAC Expedition Crew Fall 2006
Field site at
Dzharakuduk, Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan. Fossil sites are in the
badlands
behind
the encampment in the middle of the photo. The two round
structures are called yurts.
For scale, the
largest yurt on the
left measures 7 meters in diameter and the highest point on the
escarpment is 150
meters above camp (Photo by Igor Danilov).
Field work in the Hell Creek Formation, southeastern Montana, Summer
2007 (Photos by
Justin Strauss).
Field site at
Shakh-Shakh 2 in southwestern Kazakhstan, Fall 2007, Gareth
Dyke & Dmitri
Malakhov expedition.
Recent
Research:
Nine field seasons from 1994
through 2006 concentrated on Late Cretaceous sites in Uzbekistan, a
former republic of the Soviet Union. These are approximately 90
million years old and preserve ecologies along the coast of ancient
shallow inland seas. The team was composed of Uzbek,
Russian, British, American, and Canadian scientists (URBAC). We
were interested in what the faunas could tell us about the evolution,
ecology, and faunal turnover during this time. I was specifically
interested in the mammals in this fauna. In Uzbekistan we
found and described the oldest eutherian dominated mammalian fauna in
the world. The National
Science Foundation, the Civilian Research
Defense Fund, and the National Geographic
Society sponsored the research. I continue my broader
interests in the analysis of extinction and faunal turnover that was
originally spurred by my work on vertebrate turnover at the
Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary. These studies have been broadened to
other intervals in the Late Cretaceous. Such studies also continue to
raise broader theoretical questions of how phylogenetic systematics
should play a role in the analysis of faunal turnover, including both
questions of extinction and speciation. Most recently research
has turned to questions surrounding how nature's order has been
represented in the Western and scientific traditions, beginning with
the Greeks and moving forward in time to modern ideas of systematic
representations.
Complete CV for
J. D. Archibald (220KB
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since 1996:
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Archibald, J. D. 2012. Darwin’s two competing
phylogenetic trees: marsupials as ancestors or sister taxa? Archives of natural history 39:217-233
(1.6MB pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2012. Dinosaur Extinction: Past
and Present Perceptions. In Brett-Surman, M. K., Holtz, T. R., Farlow,
J. O., and Walter, B, eds. The
Complete Dinosaur, Second Edition. Bloomington: Indiana
Press, pp. 1027-1038 (176KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2012. Eutheria (Placental
Mammals). In Encyclopedia of
Life Sciences. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Nature
Publishing Group, www.elsnet, p. 1-4. (320KB pdf).
Chester,
S. G. B., Sargis, E. J.,
Szalay, F. S., Archibald, J. D., and Averianov, A. O.2012.
Therian femora from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Acta
Palaeontologca Polonica. 57:53-64. (752KB pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A. O. 2012.
Phylogenetic analysis, taxonomic revision, and dental ontogeny of the
Cretaceous Zhelestidae (Mammalia: Eutheria). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
164:361-426. (3.4MB pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2011. Gould's real contribution. Skeptic 16:12. (236KB pdf).
Archibald, J. D., Zhang, Y., Harper, T., and Cifelli, R. L.
2011. Protungulatum,
confirmed Cretaceous occurrence of an otherwise Paleocene eutherian
(placental?) mammal. Journal
of Mammalian Evolution 18:153-161. (365KB pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2011. Extinction
and Radiation: How the Fall of the Dinosaurs Led to the Rise of The
Mammals. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University
Press, 120p. The book can be purchased for a 25% discount
using the indicated pdf (238KB pdf).
Averianov,
A. O., Archibald, J. D., and Ekdale, E. G. 2010. New
material of the Late Cretaceous deltatheroidan mammal Sulestes and a phylogenetic
reassessment of the metatherian-eutherian dichotomy. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
8:301-330. (1.1MB pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and 28 additional authors.
2010. Cretaceous extinctions: Multiple causes. Science 328:973. (844KB pdf).
Chester, S. G. B., Sargis, E. J., Szalay, F. S.,
Archibald, J. D., and Averianov, A. O. 2010. Mammalian distal
humeri from
the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica. 55:199-211. (816KB pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2009. Edward
Hitchcock's pre-Darwin (1840)
"Tree of life." Journal of the
History of Biology. 42:561-592. (712KB pdf).
Chester,
S. G. B., Sargis, E. J.,
Szalay, F. S., Archibald, J. D., and Averianov, A. O. 2008. Therian femora from
the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology
28(supplement to no. 3):53A. (64KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and MacLeod, N. 2007. Dinosaurs, extinction
theories for. Encyclopedia of
Biodiversity, Elsevier, p. 1-9. (112KB
pdf).
Archibald,
J. D. and Averianov, A. O. 2007.
Zhelestids: Stem Eutherians or basal laurasiatherians, but no
evidence for placental orders in the Cretaceous. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
27(supplement to no. 3):41A. (80KB
pdf).
Chester, S. G. B., Sargis, E. J.,
Szalay, F. S., Archibald, J. D., and Averianov, A. O. 2007. Functional analysis
of mammalian humeri from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
27(supplement to no. 3):58A. (336KB
pdf).
Zhang, Y. and Archibald, J.
D. 2007. Late Cretaceous mammalian fauna
from the Hell Creek Formation, southeastern Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(supplement
to no. 3):171A. (96KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2006. Review of Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs:
Origins, Evolution, and Structure. by Zofia
Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo. Journal of Mammal Evolution
13:147-149. (123KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2006. A cacophony of causes.
Review of Extinction: How Life
Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago by Douglas H. Erwin. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
21:428. (80KB
pdf).
Averianov,
A. O. and Archibald, J. D. 2006.
Further data on the multituberculate mammal Uzbekbaatar from the Late
Cretaceous of Uzbekistan Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica. 51:377-380.
(192KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A. O. 2006. Late
Cretaceous asioryctitherian eutherian mammals from Uzbekistan and
phylogentic analysis of Asioryctitheria. Acta Palaeontologca
Polonica
51:351-376. (980KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A. O. 2005. Mammalian Faunal Succession
in the Cretaceous of the Kyzylkum Desert. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 25 (supplement. to no. 3):32A. (60KB
pdf).
MacLeod,
N. and Archibald, J. D. 2005. Decline and
fall of the non-Avian dinosurs. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology
25 (supplement. to no. 3):87A. (57KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A. O.
2005. Mammalian Faunal Succession in the Cretaceous of the Kyzylkum
Desert. Journal of Mammal
Evolution 12:9-22. (664KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2005. Eutheria
(Placental Mammals). In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London,
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Nature Publishing Group, www.elsnet, p. 1-4. (156KB
pdf).
Averianov, A. O. and Archibald, J. D. 2005. Mammals from the
mid-Cretaceous Khodzhakul Formation, Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan. Cretaceous Research 26: 593-608. (848KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2005. Were
dinosaurs the victims of a single catastrophe? No, it only
finished them off. Natural
History 114: 52-53. (424KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2005. Shape of
Mesozoic dinosaur richness: Comment. Geology 33: e74. (62KB
pdf).
Rose, K. D. and Archibald, J. D., eds.
2005. The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origin and Relationships of
the Major Extant Clades. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University
Press, 259p. The book can be purchased for a 20% discount
using the indicated pdf (591KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Rose, K. D. 2005.
Womb with view: The Rise of Placentals. In, K. D. Rose & J.
D. Archibald (eds). The Rise of Placentals Mammals: Origin and
Relationships of the Major Extant Clades, Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins University Press, p. 1-8. (91KB
pdf).
Diem, S. and Archibald, J. D. 2005.
Range extension of southern chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaurs into
northwestern Colorado. Journal of Paleontology. Journal
of Paleontology
79: 251–258. (2.3MB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Fastovsky, D. E.
2004. Dinosaur extinction. In, Weishampel, D. B et
al., eds., The Dinosauria. University of California Press,
p.672-684 (316KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2004. Eutheria
(Placental Mammals). In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London,
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Nature Publishing Group, www.elsnet, p. 1-4.
Ekdale, E. G., Archibald, J. D., Averianov,
A. O. 2004. Petrosal bones of placental mammals from the
Late Cretaceous Uzbekistan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
49:161-176 (960KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2003. Timing and
biogeography of the eutherian radiation: Fossils and molecules
compared. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 28:350-359 (653KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A. O.
2003. The Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal Kulbeckia. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology 23:404-419 932KB
pdf).
Averianov, A. O. and Archibald, J. D.
2003. Mammals from the Upper Cretaceous Aitym Formation, Kyzylkum
Desert, Uzbekistan. Cretaceous Research 24:171-191 (769KB
pdf).
Szalay, F. S., Sargis, E. J., Archibald, J.
D. and Averianov, A.O. 2003. Late Cretaceous therian
postcranials from the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan: A preliminary
assessment of taxonomic properties. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 23(supplement. to no. 3):103A.
Averianov, A. O., Archibald, J. D. and
Martin. T. 2003. Placental nature of the alleged marsupial from
the Cretaceous of Madagascar. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
48:149-151(128KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2003. A new
periodical on mammals. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
48:152 (56KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2002. Dinosaur
extinction: Changing Views. Dinosaur Extinction: Changing Views," In
Dinosaurs: The Science Behind the Stories, Geological Institute,
p.99-106 (200KB
pdf).
Hunter, J. P. and Archibald,
J.D. 2002.
Mammals from the end of the Age of Dinosaurs in North Dakota and
southeastern
Montana. Hell Creek Formation and its faunas and floras.
Geological
Society of America Special Paper 361:191-215 (436KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2002. On the
Brink, essay review of Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's
Mass Extinctions. Peter D. Ward. Biosciences. 52:445-446 (205KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A. O. 2001. Paranyctoides
and allies from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia. Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica 46:533-551. (1.3MB
pdf proof version).
Archibald, J. D., Averianov, A. O., and
Ekdale, E. G. 2001. Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and
other extant eutherian mammals. Nature 414:62-65 (212KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Deutschman, D. 2001.
Quantitative analysis of the timing of origin of extant placental
orders. Journal of Mammal Evolution 8:107-124 (205KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 2001. Eutheria. In Encyclopedia
of Life Sciences. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Nature
Publishing Group, www.els.net, p. 1-4 (176KB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A.O. 2001.
Zhelestids, archaic ungulates, and Placentalia. Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology 21(supplement. to no. 3):29A.
Ekdale, E. G., Archibald, J. D. and
Averianov, A. O. 2001. Ear regions of archaic ungulates and zhelestids.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
21(supplement. to no. 3):47A.
Archibald, J. D. 2001. Dinosaurs, extinction
theories for. In, Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Volume 2. San
Diego, Academic Press, p. 95-108.
Archibald, J. D. 2000.
Review of Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia: With Emphasis on the Late
Miocene Faunas, Geology, and Palaeoenvironments of the Emirate of Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Peter J. Whybrow and Andrew Hill, eds. American
Scientist 88:368.
Archibald, J. David. 2000. Dinosaur
abundance was
not declining in a "3 m gap" at the top of the Hell Creek Formation,
Montana
and North Dakota: Comment. Geology 28:1150-1151 (371KB
pdf).
Diem, S. D. and Archibald, J. D. 2000.
Vertebrate fauna from the Upper Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation,
northwestern Colorado. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
20(supplement. to no. 3):38A.
Archibald D., Sues H.-D., Averianov A.,
Danilov I., Rezvyi A., Ward D., King C. & Morris N. 1999. New
paleontologic, biostratigraphic, and sedimentologic results at
Dzharakuduk (U. Cret.), Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan. Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (supplement. to no. 3):29A-30A.
Archibald, J. D. 1999. Pruning and grafting
on the mammalian phylogenetic tree. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
44:220-222.
Archibald, J. D. 1999. Molecular dates and
the mammalian radiation. Correspondence, Trends in Ecology &
Evolution
14:278.
Eaton, J.G., Diem, S., Archibald, J.D.,
Schierup, C., and Munk, H. 1999 Vertebrate paleontology of the Upper
Cretaceous rocks of the Markagunt Plateau, southwestern Utah. In,
Gillette, D.D., ed. Vertebrate Fossils of Utah.
Archibald, J. D. 1999. Divergence times of
mammals. Science, Technical Comment 285:2831a.
Archibald, J. D. 1998. "Gaps" in the K-T
Record. Letters, Science 279:1114-1115.
Archibald, J. D. 1998. Shiva Impact.
Member's Dialogue, The Planetary Report, May/June, p.3.
Archibald, J. D. 1998. Death, Taxes, and
Extinction: An Example from the Dinosaurs. National Forum, The Phi
Kappa Phi Journal 78(3):28-31.
Archibald, J. D., Sues, H.-D., Averianov, A.
O., King, C., Ward, D. J., Tsaruk, O. A., Danilov, I. G., Rezvyi, A. S,
Veretennikov, B. G., and Khodjaev, A.).1998. Précis of the
Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, and Sedimentology at Dzharakuduk
(Turonian? - Santonian), Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan. In,
Kirkland, J. I. and Lucas, S., eds.. Lower to Middle Cretaceous
Terrestrial Ecosystems. New Mexico Museum of Natural History &
Science Bulletin 14: 21-28.
Archibald, J. D. 1998. Emerging importance
of the
Grand Staircase-Escalante region in Cretaceous vertebrate
biostratigraphy, western U.S. Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument Science Symposium Proceedings, pg.1-3.
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A. O. 1998.
Eskhodnaya formula koryennukh zubov dlya platsentarnykh
mlyekopetayushchekh (Mammalia, Eutheria) [Original tooth formula
fundamental for placental mammals (Mammalia, Eutheria)], Otchyetnaya
Nauchnaya Syesseya po Etogam Rabot 1997, 7 [in Russian]
Archibald, J. D. 1998. Archaic Ungulates
("Condylartha"). In, C. Janis, K. Scott, & L. Jacobs,
(eds.). Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1.
Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 292-331.
Janis, C. M., Archibald, J. D., Cifelli, R.
L., Lucas, S. G., Schaff, C. R., Schoch, R. M., and Williamson, T. E.
1998. Part III: Archaic Ungulates and ungulate-like mammals. In,
C. Janis, K. Scott, & L. Jacobs, (eds.). Evolution of
Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1. Terrestrial Carnivores,
Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, p. 247- 259.
Nessov, L. A., Archibald, J. D.
(corresponding author), and Kielan-Jaworowska, Z. 1998. Ungulate-like
mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and a phylogenetic
analysis of Ungulatomorpha. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of
Natural History 34:40-88 (10.6MB
pdf).
Archibald, J. D. 1997. El Impacto del
retroceso de los mares. Mundo Cientifico, 176:155-157.
Archibald, J. D. and Averianov, A.O. 1997.
New evidence for the ancestral placental premolar count. Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(supplement. to no. 3):p.29A.
(Archibald, J.D. and Averianov, A.O.)
Archibald, J. D. 1997. Extinction (biology).
McGraw-Hill 1998 Yearbook of Science &Technology, p.
129-132.
Archibald, J. D. 1997. Evolution. In,
Currie, P. J. and Padian, K., eds., Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs.
San Diego, Academic Press, p. 217-220.
Archibald, J. D. 1997. Extinction, In,
Currie,
P. J. and Padian, K., eds., Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. San
Diego,
Academic Press, p. 221-229.
Archibald, J. D. 1997. Speciation. In,
Currie,
P. J. and Padian, K., eds., Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. San
Diego,
Academic Press, p. 693-695.
Archibald, J. D. 1997. Species. In,
Currie, P. J. and Padian, K., eds., Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs.
San Diego, Academic Press, p. 695-699.
Archibald, J. D. 1996. L'impact du retrait
des mers. La Recherche 293: 67-69.
Archibald, J. D. 1996. Dinosaur
Extinction and
the End of an Era: What the Fossils Say. New York: Columbia
University
Press, 237p.
Archibald, J. D. 1996. Fossil evidence for a
Late Cretaceous origin of "hoofed" mammals. Science
272:1150-1153.
Archibald, J. D. 1996. Testing extinction
theories at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary using the vertebrate
fossil record, In, MacLeod, N., and Keller, G., eds. The
Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction: biotic and environmental changes. New
York, W. W.
Norton & Co., p. 373-398.
Archibald, J. D. 1996. Dinosaur Extinction
and the End of an Era: What the Fossils Say. In, Wolberg, D. L.
and Stump, E., eds., Dinofest International: Symposium April
18-21, 1996, Program with Abstracts, Arizona State University, p.
25.
Archibald, J. D. 1996. Acid trauma at the
Cretaceous-tertiary (K/T) boundary in eastern Montana: Comment. GSA
Today 6: 21.
Archibald, J. D. 1996. No statistical
support for
sudden (or gradual) extinction of dinosaurs. Reply. Geology 24:
958-959.
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