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 p; 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.
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Archibald, J. D. 2022. Freeman 375: A chimerical version of Origin of species. In van Wyhe, J., ed. 2002- The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (1.2 MB pdf)
Archibald, J. D. 2021. Opinion letter in response to “Do Religion and Science Clash or Coexist. New York Times Nov. 14. (4.3 MB pdf)
Archibald, J. D. 2020 Ungulata. In De Queiroz, K., Cantino, P., Gauthier, J. eds. Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 943-947. (3.8MB pdf)
Archibald, J. D. 2018 Charles Darwin's Personal Library. In van Wyhe, J., ed. 2002- The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (2.4 MB pdf)
Archibald, J. D. 2018. Marco Solinas From Aristotle’s Teleology to Darwin’s Genealogy: The Stamp of Inutility. Philosophical Inquires 6:R1–R3. (41K pdf)
Averianov, A. O. and Archibald, J. D. 2017. Therian postcranial bones from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 321: 433-384 (3.5MB pdf)
Archibald, J. D. 2016. Book Dispatch from Rome. Hoja Volante 272:12-16. (1.3MB pdf)
Averianov, A. O. and Archibald, J. D. 2016. New evidence on the stem placental mammal Paranyctoides from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Palaeontologica Polonica 67:25-33. (604KB pdf)
Averianov, A. O. and Archibald, J. D. 2015. Evolutionary transition of dental formula in Late Cretaceous eutherian mammals. The Sciences of Nature (formerly Naturwissenschaften) 102:1-8 (online first). (2.5MB pdf)
Averianov, A. O., Archibald, J. D., Skutchas, P. P., Dyke, G. J. 2014. New mammal remains from the Late Cretaceous Bostobe Formation (Northeast Aral Sea Region, Kazakhstan). Palaeoworld 23:314-320. (2.3MB pdf)
Archibald, J. D. 2014. What the dinosaur record says about extinction scenarios. In Keller, G., and Kerr, A.C., eds. Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects. Geological Society of America Special Paper 505. (300KB pdf)
Averianov, A. O., Archibald, J. D., Dyke, G. J. 2014. A new eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica online first. (2.1MB pdf)
Averianov, A. O. and Archibald, J. D. 2013. Variation and taxonomy of Asiamerican eutherian mammal Paranyctoides . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 50: 895-903.
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Archibald, J. D. and MacLeod, N. 2013. The end-Cretaceous extinction. In MacLeod, N., Archibald, J. D., and Levin, P., eds. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Extinction (two volumes). Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, pp. 497-512.
Averianov, A. O. and Archibald, J. D. 2013. New material and reinterpretation of the Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal Paranyctoides from Uzbekistan. Acta Palaeontologca Polonica. 58:17-23. ( 256KB pdf ).
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 ).
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012. 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. Precis 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 Proceeding s, 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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