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Antoine, P-O., L. Marivaux, D.A. Croft, G. Billet, M. Ganerød, C. Jaramillo, T. Martin, M.J. Orliac, J. Tejada, A.J. Altamirano, F. Duranthon, G. Fanjat, S. Rousse, & R. Salas Gismondi. 2011. Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2011.1732
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Croft, D.A., J.M.H. Chick & F. Anaya. 2011. New middle Miocene caviomorph rodents from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18(4)245-268.
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Croft, D.A., K. Niemi & A. Franco. 2011. Incisor morphology reflects diet in caviomorph rodents. Journal of Mammalogy 92(4):871-879.
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Macrini, T.E., J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft, & A.R. Wyss. 2010. Inner ear of a notoungulate placental mammal: anatomical description and examination of potentially phylogenetically informative characters. Journal of Anatomy 216(5):600-610.
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Townsend, B. & D.A. Croft. 2010. Middle Miocene mesotheriine diversity at Cerdas, Bolivia, and a reconsideration of Plesiotypotherium minus. Palaeontologia Electronica 13(1); 1A:36p. [http://palaeo-electronica.org/2010_1/192/index.html].
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Croft, D.A., F. Anaya, D. Auerbach, C. Garzione, and B.J. MacFadden. 2009. New data on Miocene Neotropical provinciality from Cerdas, Bolivia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 16(3):175-198.
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Croft, D.A., and L.C. Anderson. 2008. Locomotion in the extinct notoungulate Protypotherium. Palaeontologia Electronica 11(1); 1A: 20p. [http://palaeo-electronica.org/2008_1/138/index.html]
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Croft, D.A. and D. Weinstein. 2008. The first application of the mesowear method to endemic South American ungulates (Notoungulata). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 269(1-2):103-114.
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Croft, D.A., J.J. Flynn, & A.R. Wyss. 2008. The Tinguiririca Fauna of Chile and the early stages of “modernization” of South American mammal faunas. Arquivos do Museu Nacional 66(1):191-211.
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Flynn, J.J., R. Charrier, D.A. Croft, P.B. Gans, T.M. Heriott, J.A. Wertheim, & A.R. Wyss. 2008. Chronologic implications of new Miocene mammals from the Cura-Mallín and Trapa Trapa formations, Laguna del Laja region, south central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 26(4):412-423.
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Reguero, M.A., D.A. Croft, G.M. López, and R.N. Alonso. 2008. Eocene archaeohyracids (Mammalia: Notoungulata: Hegetotheria) from the Puna, northwest Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 26(2)225-233.
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Townsend, K.E. & D.A. Croft. 2008. Diets of notoungulates from the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina: new evidence from enamel microwear. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1):217-230.
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Townsend, K.E. & D.A. Croft. 2008. Enamel microwear in caviomorph rodents. Journal of Mammalogy 89(3):729-742.
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Croft, D.A. 2007. The middle Miocene (Laventan) Quebrada Honda Fauna, southern Bolivia, and a description of its notoungulates. Palaeontology 50(1):277-303.
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Croft, D.A., J.J. Flynn, and A.R. Wyss. 2007. A new basal glyptodontid and other Xenarthra of the early Miocene Chucal Fauna, northern Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):781-797. [Feature article]
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Shockey, B.J., D.A. Croft, and F. Anaya. 2007. Analysis of function in the absence of extant functional homologues: a case study using mesotheriid notoungulates (Mammalia). Paleobiology 33(2):227-247.
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Croft, D.A. 2006. Do marsupials make good predators? Insights from predator-prey diversity ratios. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8(7):1193-1214. [Featured on cover]
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Croft, D.A., and F. Anaya. 2006. A new middle Miocene hegetotheriid (Notoungulata: Typotheria) and a phylogeny of the Hegetotheriidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(2):387-399.
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Croft, D.A., L.R. Heaney, J.J. Flynn, and A.P. Bautista. 2006. Fossil remains of a new, diminutive Bubalus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Bovini) from Cebu Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 87(5):1037-1051. [Featured on BioOne]
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Silverstein, J.C., J.M. Ehrenfeld, D.A. Croft, F.W. Dech, S. Small, and S. Cook. 2006. Tele-immersion: preferred infrastructure for anatomy instruction. Journal of Computing in Higher Education 18(1):80-93.
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Charrier, R., A. Chávez, S. Elgueta, G. Hérail, J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft, A.R. Wyss, and M. García. 2005. Rapid tectonic and paleogeographic evolution associated with the development of the Chucal anticline and the Chucal-Lauca Basin in the Altiplano of Arica, northern Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19(1):35-54.
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Flynn, J.J., D.A. Croft, R. Charrier, A.R. Wyss, G. Hérail, and M. García. 2005. New Mesotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata, Typotheria), geochronology and tectonics of the Caragua area, northernmost Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19(1):55-74.
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Woodman, N. and D.A. Croft. 2005. Fossil shrews from Honduras: Significance for evolution in Cryptotis (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae). Fieldiana: Geology (New Series) 51:1-30.
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Croft, D.A., J.J. Flynn, and A.R. Wyss. 2004. Notoungulata and Litopterna of the early Miocene Chucal Fauna, northern Chile. Fieldiana: Geology (New Series) 50:1-49.
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Croft, D.A., T. Kaye, and L. Panko. 2004. A new method for finding small vertebrate fossils: ultraviolet light at night. Palaeontology 47(4):795-800.
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Croft, D.A., M. Bond, J.J. Flynn, M. Reguero, and A.R. Wyss. 2003. Large archaeohyracids (Typotheria, Notoungulata) from central Chile and Patagonia including a revision of Archaeotypotherium. Fieldiana: Geology (New Series) 49:1-38.
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Croft, D.A., J.P. Radic, E. Zurita, R. Charrier, J.J. Flynn, and A.R. Wyss. 2003. A Miocene toxodontid (Mammalia: Notoungulata) from the sedimentary series of the Cura-Mallín Formation, Lonquimay, Chile. Revista Geológica de Chile 30(2): 285-298.
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Flynn, J.J, A.R. Wyss, D.A. Croft, and R. Charrier. 2003. The Tinguiririca Fauna, Chile: biochronology, paleoecology, biogeography, and a new earliest Oligocene South American land mammal “age”. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 195(3-4):229-259.
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Reguero, M., D.A. Croft, J.J. Flynn, and A.R. Wyss. 2003. Small archaeohyracids (Typotheria, Notoungulata) from Chubut, Argentina and central Chile: trans-Andean temporal correlation. Fieldiana: Geology (New Series) 48:1-17.
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Flynn, J.J., D.A. Croft, R. Charrier, G. Hérail, and A.R. Wyss. 2002. The first Cenozoic mammal fauna from the Chilean Altiplano. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):200-206.
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Croft, D.A. 2001. Changing environments in South America as indicated by mammalian body size distributions (cenograms). Diversity and Distributions 7(6): 271-287.
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Croft, D.A. and H.A. Semken, Jr. 1994. Distribution of mammalian osteological elements recovered from waterscreened features, house fill, and overburden of the Wall Ridge Earthlodge (13ML176), Mills County, Iowa. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11:65-67.

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Request article Croft, D.A. 2011. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals in South America,
Part II. [Review of The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia] Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18(3)215-216.
Request article Croft, D.A. 2008. Why do deer have antlers: fighting or display?; pp. 237-240 in M. Benton (ed.), The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. Thames & Hudson, London. [ISBN: 978-0-500-25143-0]
PDFAbstract Croft, D.A., R. Charrier, J.J. Flynn, & A.R. Wyss. 2008. Recent additions to knowledge of Tertiary mammals from the Chilean Andes. I Simposio Paleontología en Chile, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago.
PDFAbstract Charrier, R., A. Chávez, S. Elgueta, G. Hérail, J.J. Flynn, D.A. Croft, A.R. Wyss, and M. García. 2002. Rapid tectonic and paleogeographic evolution; the Chucal Anticline, Altiplano of Arica, northern Chile. Extended abstracts, Fifth International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Toulouse, France, pp. 137-140.
PDFAbstract Charrier, R., G. Hérail, J.J. Flynn, R. Riquelme, M. García, D.A. Croft, and A. Wyss. 2000. El Cordón Chapiquiña-Belén en el borde occidental del Altiplano Chileno: significado paleogeográfico y contexto tectónico regional. Actas IX Congreso Geológico Chileno, Vol. 1, p. 763-767. Puerto Varas, Chile.
PDFAbstract Croft, D.A. 1999. Placentals: endemic South American ungulates. Pp. 890–906 in R. Singer (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, IL. [ISBN: 1884964966]
PDFAbstract Charrier, R., G. Hérail, J.J. Flynn, R. Riquelme, M. García, D.A. Croft, and A. Wyss. 1999. Opposite thrust-vergencies in the Precordillera and Western Cordillera in Northern Chile and structurally linked Cenozoic paleoenvironmental evolution. Abstracts, IV International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Göttingen, Germany, pp. 155-158
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