Publications

Our lab publications are listed below. Lab members are highlighted in bold, undergraduate and postbaccalaureate authors are denoted with an asterisk*. Please contact us if you are unable to access any of our publications and we will be happy to send a copy.

16. Sims, M.E., Jones, M.F., Czaplewski, N.J., and Anderson, D.K., 2025. Rediscovered lost holotypes of two Paleogene mammals, a Neogene bird, and other published specimens from an orphaned collection. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2506755.

https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2506755

15. Anemone, R.L., Jones, M.F., Van Regenmorter, J., and Beard, K.C., 2024. A latest Paleocene mammal fauna from the Great Divide Basin in southern Wyoming and a revised biozonation of the Clarkforkian land mammal age. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, p. e2424139-2.

https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2424139

14. Jones, M.F., Beard, K.C., and Simmons, N.B., 2024. Phylogeny and systematics of early Paleogene bats. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, v. 31, no. 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-024-09705-8

13. Simmons, N.B., and Jones, M.F., 2024. Foraging in the fossil record: Diet and behavior of the earliest bats. In A Natural History of Bat Foraging: Evolution, Physiology, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation (D. Russo and B. Fenton, eds.). Academic Press, London, UK, p. 7-39.

https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91820-6.00008-5

12. Jones, M.F., and Beard, K.C., 2023. Nyctitheriidae (Mammalia, ?Eulipotyphla) from the late Paleocene of Big Multi Quarry, southern Wyoming, and a revision of the subfamily Placentidentinae. Annals of Carnegie Museum, v. 88, p. 115-159. https://doi.org/10.2992/007.088.0202

11. Schauf, A.J., Jones, M.F., and Oh, P., 2023. Simulating the dynamics of dispersal and dispersal ability in fragmented populations with mate-finding Allee effects. Ecology and Evolution, v. 13, p. e10021. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10021

10. Rietbergen, T.B., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Aase, A., Jones, M.F., Medeiros, E.D., and Simmons, N.B., 2023. The oldest known bat skeletons and their implications for Eocene chiropteran diversification. PLOS One, v. 18, p. e0283505. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283505

9. Jones, M.F., and Hasiotis, S.T., 2023. Terrestrial locomotor behaviors of the big brown bat (Vespertilionidae: Eptesicus fuscus). Mammal Research, v. 68, p. 253-262.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-022-00669-9

8. Jones, M.F., Li, Q., Ni, X., and Beard, K.C., 2021. The earliest Asian bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) address major gaps in bat evolution. Biology Letters, v. 17, p. 20210185.

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0185

7. Thomas, P., Jones, M.F., and Mattingly, S., 2021. Using Wikipedia to teach scholarly peer review: a creative approach to open pedagogy. Journal of Information Literacy, v. 15, p. 178-190.

https://doi.org/10.11645/15.2.2913

6. Beard, K.C., Jones, M.F., Thurber, N.A.*, and Sanisidro, O., 2020. Systematics and paleobiology of Chiromyoides (Mammalia, Plesiadapidae) from the upper Paleocene of western North America and western Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 39, p. e1730389-2.

https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1730389

5. Jones, M.F., Coster, P.M.C., Licht, A., Métais, G., Ocakoğlu, F., Taylor, M.H., and Beard, K.C., 2019. A stem bat (Chiroptera: Palaeochiropterygidae) from the late middle Eocene of northern Anatolia: implications for the dispersal and palaeobiology of early bats. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, v. 99, p. 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-018-0338-z

4. Jones, M.F., and Hasiotis, S.T., 2018. Terrestrial behavior and trackway morphology of Neotropical bats. Acta Chiropterologica, v. 20, p. 229-250. https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2018.20.1.018

3. Jones, M.F., 2017. Greater Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes melambrotus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T.S. Schulenberg, ed.). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.

https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.gyhvul1.01

2. Jones, M.F., Dzenowski, N.D., and McLeod, D.S., 2017. A new state size record for the red-spotted toad (Anaxyrus punctatus): Implications for a species in need of conservation in Kansas. Collinsorum, v. 6, p. 11-12.

1. York, H.A., Foster, P.F., Jones, M.F., Schwartz, W.H., Vezeau, A.L., and Zerwekh, M.S., 2008. Observations of cavity-roosting behavior in Costa Rican Lophostoma brasiliense. Mammalian Biology, v. 73, p. 230-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2007.02.008

Recent Lab Presentations

2025

Jones, M.F., Siemann, C.K., den Ouden, D., Moghe, S., and Beard, K.C., Subfamily-level relationships within Nyctitheriidae (Mammalia, ?Eulipotyphla) illuminate patterns of dispersal and evolution in a group of Paleogene insectivores. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2025, p. 333-334. Birmingham, UK.

Siemann, C.K., Beard, K.C., and Jones, M.F., A description of Pararyctes pattersoni and Palaeoryctes sp. nov. (Mammalia, Palaeoryctidae) from the late Paleocene Fort Union Formation of Wyoming, USA. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2025, p. 577-578. Birmingham, UK.

Jones, M.F., Upham, N.S., Baez, J.R.*, Simmons, N.B., and Beard, K.C., An early Cenozoic bat stem lineage and the origins of Chiroptera. International Bat Research Conference, Event Descriptions and Abstracts, 2025, p. 185. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

2024

Jones, M.F., and Baez, J.R.*, The early middle Eocene bat fauna of Powder Wash, Utah, USA. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2024, p. 293-294. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Beard, K.C., Anemone, R.L., and Jones, M.F., 2024. Later Clarkforkian (latest Paleocene) mammals from the Great Divide Basin (southwestern Wyoming) and a revised biozonation scheme for the Clarkforkian NALMA. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2024, p. 97-98. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Baez, J.R.*, Upham, N.S., and Jones, M.F., 2024. Rates of species diversification of bats (Chiroptera) compared with paleobiotic and paleoenvironmental variables. 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

2023

Jones, M.F., Baez, J.R.*, Upham, N.S., Beard, K.C., and Simmons, N.B., 2023. Evolution of Eocene bats and the origins of modern groups. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2023, p. 236. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Baez, J.R.*, Jones, M.F., and Upham, N.S., 2023. Refining fossil bat occurrence ages to study rates of species diversification near the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2023, p. 79. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Jones, M.F., Beard, K.C., Martin, R.P., Salem, M.J., Chaimanee, Y., and Jaeger, J.-J., 2023. A new species of Witwatia (Chiroptera: Philisidae) and evaluation of the diet of large Eocene bats. Symposium of the North American Society for Bat Research Abstracts. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Baez, J.R.*, Jones, M.F., and Upham, N.S., 2023. Refining fossil bat occurrence ages to study rates of species diversification near the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. Evolution. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.