Publications

 

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  1. Micucci, L., Z. Landry, K. Khidas, and D. Fraser. 2026. Comparative size distributions of Pleistocene and Modern Canadian wolves (Canis lupus). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09810-w

  2. Whittingham, M., H. Maddin, and D. Fraser. Regional-scale trends in floral community change through the Pennsylvanian of the Maritimes Basin, Atlantic Canada. Gondwana Research 154: 216-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.12.015

  3. Landry, Z., C. Barron-Ortiz, J. Miller, L. Orlando, H. Tiffin, G. Zazula, C. Bataille, and D. Fraser. A 2D geometric morphometric analysis of the occlusal enamel patterns of eastern Beringian equid cheek teeth, with taxonomic implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206: zlag004.

  4. Brenning, M., F.J. Longstaffe, J. Miller, and D. Fraser. Stable isotope composition and analysis of (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in female Qamanirjuaq caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) antlers. Ecology and Evolution 15: e72294. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72294

  5. Strauch,R.J., J. S. Berv, D. Fraser, N. D. Pyenson, and C. M. Peredo. 2025. Morphological diversity of the cetacean mandibular symphysis coincides with novel modes of aquatic feeding. Palaeobiology :1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10061

  6. Paterson, R. S. S., M. Mackie, A. Capobianco, N.S. Heckeberg, D. Fraser, F. Munir, I. Patramanis, J. Ramos-Madrigal, S. Liu, A. D. Ramsoee, M.R. Dickinson, C. Baldreki, M. Gilbert, R. Sardella, L. Bellucci, G. Scorrano, F. Racimo, J.V. Olsen, K.E.H. Penkman, E. Willerslev, R.D.E.MacPhee, N. Rybczynski, S. Hoehna, and E. Cappellini. Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid. Nature 643: 719-724. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09231-4

  7. Running Horse (Tašunke Iyanke Wiŋ) Collin, Y., C. Bataille, S. Hershauer, M. Hunska Tašunke Icu (Chief Joseph American Horse), A. Nujipi (Harold Left Heron), W. Justin, J. (qwyxnmitkw) Stelkia, T. (C’wyelx) Pierre, J. Aaron Stelkia, S. Asikłuk Topkok, B. Leonard, B. (Naatoonistaahs) Soop, A. Luta Wiŋ (Antonia Loretta Afraid of Bear-Cook), W. Wiŋ (Anita Afraid of Bear), T. Omniya (Robert Milo Yellow Hair), M. Gonzalez (Nantan Hinapan), B. Dull Knife (Mapiya K’o Yake’ Wi), Mažasu (Wendell W. Yellow Bull), B. Means, C. Tecumseh Collin (Wanka’tuya Kiya), M. Koskey, J. Kapp, Z. Landry, D. Fraser, J. Southon, E.E. Lindroos, A. Hassler, L. Chauvey, G. Tressières, L. Calviere-Tonasso, S. Schiavinato, A. Seguin-Orlando, A. Perdereau, P. H. Oliveira, JM Aury, P. Wincker, I. Kirillova, S. Konstantinovich Vasiliev, M. A. Kusliy, A. Graphodatsky, A. Tishkin, I. Barnes, P. Druckenmiller, C. N. Jass, R. MacPhee, C. Barrón-Ortiz, P. Groves, D. Mann, D. Froese, M. Wooller, J. H. Miller, B. Crowley, G. Zazula, E. Hall, S. Hewitson, B. Shapiro, and L. Orlando. Sustainability Insights from Late Pleistocene climate change and horse migration patterns. Science 388: 748-755. DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2355

  8. Whittingham, M., V. Korasidis, and D. Fraser. 2024. Functional stasis and changing climate preferences among mammalian communities from the PETM of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Cambridge Prisms Extinction; 2: e20. https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2024.25

  9. Brenning, M., F.J. Longstaffe, and D. Fraser. Variation in stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope compositions along antlers of Qamanirjuaq caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus). Ecology and Evolution 14: e11006. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11006

  10. Landry, Z., M.J. Roloson, and D. Fraser. Investigating the reliability of metapodials as taxonomic indicators for Beringian horses. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 29: 863–875. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09626-4

  11. Fraser, D., A. Villaseñor, A. B. Tóth, M. Balk, J. T. Eronen, W. A. Barr, A. K. Behrensmeyer, M. Davis, A. Du, J. T. Faith, G. R. Graves, N. J. Gotelli, A. M. Jukar, C. V. Looy, B. J. McGill, J. H. Miller, S. Pineda-Munoz, R. Potts, A. B. Shupinski, L. C. Soul, S. K. Lyons. Late Quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas. Nature Communications 13: 3940. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31595-8

  12. Fraser, D.*, and C. VanBuren*. Conservation palaeobiology (chapter submitted for the newest volume of The Complete Dinosaur).

  13. Christison, B.E., F. Gaidies, S. Pineda-Munoz, A. R. Evans, M. A. Gilbert, and D. Fraser. 2022. Dietary niches of creodonts and carnivorans of the late Eocene Cypress Hills Formation 103: 2-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab123

  14. Fraser, D., S. Kim, J. Welker, M. Clementz. 2021b. Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) enamel phosphate δ18O values reflect climate seasonality: Implications for paleoclimate reconstruction Ecology and Evolution 11: 17005-17021. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8337

  15. Landry, Zoe, S. Kim, R.B. Trayler, M. Gilbert, G. Zazula, and D. Fraser. Testing for ecological differences among Pleistocene and modern Yukon gray wolves (Canis lupus) using dental microwear and stable isotope analyses. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 571: 110368. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003101822100153X 

  16. S.A.F. Darroch, D. Fraser, and M.M. Casey. 2021. The preservation potential of terrestrial biogeographic patterns. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20202927. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2927

  17. Fraser, D., L.C. Soul, M.A. Balk, W.A. Barr, A.K. Behrensmeyer, A. Du, J. Eronen, J.T. Faith, N.J. Gotelli, G. Graves, A.M. Jukar, C.V. Looy, J.H. Miller, S. Pineda-Munoz, A.B. Shupinski, A.B. Tóth, A. Villaseñor, and S.K. Lyons. 2021a. Investigating biotic interactions in deep time. Trends in Ecology and Evolution: 38:61-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.09.001 

  18. Pineda-Munoz, S., A.M. Jukar, K. Amatangelo, W.M. Balk, W.A. Barr, A.K. Behrensmeyer, J.L. Blois, M. Davis, A. Du, J.T. Eronen, D. Fraser, N.J. Gotelli, C. Looy, J.H. Miller, L.C. Soul, A.B. Tóth, A. Villaseñor, S. Wing, S.K. Lyons. 2020. Body mass-related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America. Ecography 44: 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05027

  19. Fraser, D. and S. K. Lyons. 2020. Mammal community structure across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 196:271-290. https://doi.org/10.1086/709819

  20. Tóth, A., S.K. Lyons, W. A. Barr, A.K. Behrensmeyer, J.L. Blois, R. Bobe, M. Davis, A. Du, J.T. Eronen, J.T. Faith, D. Fraser, N.J. Gotelli, G.R. Graves, A.M. Jukar, J.H. Miller, S. Pineda-Munoz, L.C. Soul, A. Villaseñor, and J. Alroy. 2019. Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction Science 365: 1305-1308. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6459/1305
  21. Fraser, D., R.J. Haupt, and W. A. Barr. 2018. Phylogenetic signal in tooth wear dietary niche proxies: what it means for those in the field 8: 1363-11367. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.4540
  22. Fraser, D., R.J. Haupt, and W. A. Barr. 2018. Phylogenetic signal in tooth wear dietary niche proxies. Ecology and Evolution 8: 5355-5368. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.4052
  23. Fraser, D. and S. K. Lyons. 2017. Biotic interchange has structured Western Hemisphere mammal communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26: 1408-1422. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.12667/abstract;jsessionid=3F2ED4E116D6EA6A6BAF029CECE70760.f02t01
  24. Boessenecker, R.W., D. Fraser, M. Churchill, J. H. Geisler. 2017. A toothless dwarf dolphin (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) points to explosive feeding diversification of modern whales (Neoceti). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:
    20170531.     http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1861/20170531  image_5160_1e-Inermorostrum-xenops
  25. Fraser, D. 2017. Can latitudinal richness gradients be measured in the terrestrial fossil record? Paleobiology 43: 479-494.
    http://paleobiol.geoscienceworld.org/content/43/3/479
    Associated data: http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.8p0s7
  26. Lyons, S. K., J. H. Miller, D. Fraser, F. A. Smith, A. Boyer, E. Lindsey, A. M. Mychajliw. 2016. The changing role of mammal life histories in late Quaternary extinction vulnerability on continents and islands. Biology Letters 12: 1-7.
    http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/6/20160342.abstract
  27. Gorelick, R.*, D. Fraser*, M. Mansfield, J. W. Dawson, S. Wijenayake, and S. M. Bertram. 2016. Evolution of avian W chromosomes: no gradual diminution, but abrupt shortening of W in ancestral Neognathae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (BJLS-4190 In Press).
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bij.12832/abstract
  28. Fraser, D., R. Gorelick, and N. Rybczynski. 2015. Macroevolution and climate change influence phylogenetic community assembly of North American hoofed mammals. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 114: 485-494.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bij.12457/abstract
    NOTE: We used the “all branches additive” time scaling method in the paleotree package (Bapst, 2012 Methods in Ecology and Evolution). The AR(1) correlation structure was specified for the gls models.
  29. Hoffmann, J., D. Fraser, and M. T. Clementz. 2015. Controlled feeding trials with ungulates: A new application of in vivo dental molding to assess the abrasive factors of microwear. Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 1538-1547.
    http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2015/04/06/jeb.118406.abstract
  30. Fraser, D., C. Hassall, R. Gorelick, and N. Rybczynski. 2014. Mean annual precipitation explains spatiotemporal patterns of Cenozoic mammal beta diversity and latitudinal diversity gradients in North America. PLoS One 9: e106499.
    http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0106499
  31. Fraser, D. and N. Rybczynski. 2014. Complexity of ruminant masticatory evolution. Journal of Morphology 275:1093-1102.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.20284/abstract
  32. Fraser, D., T. Zybutz, and J. M. Theodor. 2014. Ruminant mandibular mesowear: a new scheme for increasing paleoecological sample sizes. Journal of Zoology 291: 41-48.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.12149/abstract
  33. Cullen, T.M., D. Fraser, N. Rybczynski, and C. Schroder-Adams. 2014. Early evolution of sexual dimorphism and polygyny within Pinnipedia. Evolution 68: 1469-1484.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12360/full
    Featured on the cover of the May 2014 issue of Evolution.
    THE NICHE CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL - Scott‐Phillips - 2014 - Evolution - Wiley Online Library
  34. R. Gorelick*, D. Fraser*, B. J. M. Zonneveld, and D. P. Little. 2014. Cycad chromosome numbers uncorrelated with genome size. International Journal of Plant Sciences 175: 986-997.
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/678085
  35. Fraser, D. and J. M. Theodor. 2013. Ungulate diets reveal patterns of grassland evolution in North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 369: 409-421.
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018212006311
  36. Fraser, D. and J.M. Theodor. 2011. Anterior dentary shape as an indicator of diet in ruminant artiodactyls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31: 1366-1375.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2011.605404
  37. Fraser, D. and J. M. Theodor. 2011. Comparing ungulate dietary proxies using discriminant function analysis. Journal of Morphology 272: 1513-1526.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.11001/abstract
  38. Fraser, D. and J. M. Theodor. 2010. The use of gross dental wear in dietary studies of extinct lagomorphs. Journal of Paleontology 84: 720-729.
    http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/4/720
  39. Fraser, D., J. C. Mallon, R. Furr, and J. M. Theodor. 2009. Improving the repeatability of low magnification microwear methods using high dynamic range imaging. PALAIOS 24: 818-825
    http://palaios.sepmonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/12/818
 

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