• Supplemental Material for 'A trilobite cluster from the Silurian Rochester Shale of New York : predation patterns and possible defensive behavior. (American Museum novitates, no. 3937)' 

  Bicknell, Russell D C; Paterson, John R; Hopkins, Melanie J (2019-09-09)

  Supplemental Material for 'A trilobite cluster from the Silurian Rochester Shale of New York : predation patterns and possible defensive behavior. (American Museum novitates, no. 3937)'
• A trilobite cluster from the Silurian Rochester Shale of New York : predation patterns and possible defensive behavior. (American Museum novitates, no. 3937) 

  Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Paterson, John R.; Hopkins, Melanie J. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-09-09)

  Evidence of predator-prey interactions in the fossil record offers important insights into extinct ecosystems. As direct predator-prey relationships are rarely preserved, records of failed predation upon prey species are ...
• Karyotypes of the North American parthenogenetic whiptail lizard Aspidoscelis velox, and return of Aspidoscelis innotatus to the synonymy of A. velox (Reptilia, Squamata, Teiidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3936) 

  Cole, Charles J.; Cordes, James E.; Walker, James M. (James Martin) (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-08-30)

  Aspidoscelis velox is a triploid parthenogenetic species with clonal inheritance. We studied karyotypes of population samples representing diverse localities from much of its range. All specimens were triploids, but six ...
• First species of Inbiomyia from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil (Diptera, Inbiomyiidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3935) 

  Riccardi, Paula Raile.; Amorim, Dalton de Souza. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-08-12)

  We describe and illustrate Inbiomyia azevedoi, sp. nov., the first species of Inbiomyiidae known from the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. SEM photos show that the bifurcated labella have on their ventral face rows ...
• New fossil birds from the earliest Eocene of Mongolia. (American Museum novitates, no. 3934) 

  Hood, Sarah C.; Torres, Chris R.; Norell, Mark.; Clarke, Julia A.; Mongolian-American Museum Paleontological Project. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-08-09)

  Understanding of the Asian early Paleogene avifauna is limited relative to that of North American and European avifauna of the same period. While major patterns of mammalian faunal exchange among these three regions across ...
• Implications of the tympanal hearing organ and ultrastructure of chaetotaxy for the higher classification of Embioptera. (American Museum novitates, no. 3933) 

  Szumik, Claudia.; Juárez, María Laura, 1980-; Ramírez, Martín J.; Goloboff, Pablo A.; Pereyra, Verónica V. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-07-30)

  Several slowly evolving characters are evaluated with the main objective of reinforcing the higher classification of Embioptera. An embiopteran femoral auditory organ, described here for the first time, exhibits differences ...
• Supplemental Material for 'Psittacosaurus amitabha, a new species of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Ondai Sayr locality, central Mongolia. (American Museum novitates, no. 3932)' 

  Napoli, James G.; Hunt, Tyler; Erickson, Gregory M.; Norell, Mark A. (2019-07-25)

  Supplemental Material for 'Psittacosaurus amitabha, a new species of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Ondai Sayr locality, central Mongolia. (American Museum novitates, no. 3932)'
• Psittacosaurus amitabha, a new species of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Ondai Sayr locality, central Mongolia. (American Museum novitates, no. 3932) 

  Napoli, James G.; Hunt, Tyler.; Erickson, Gregory M.; Norell, Mark. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-07-25)

  Psittacosaurus is the most speciose nonavian dinosaur genus, represented by at least 10 (and possibly as many as 19) species uncovered over a wide geographic range. Here, we report a new species of large-bodied Psittacosaurus ...
• Early nesting biology of the bee Caupolicana yarrowi (Cresson) (Colletidae, Diphaglossinae) and its cleptoparasite Triepeolus grandis (Friese) (Apidae, Nomadinae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3931) 

  Rozen, Jerome G., Jr. (Jerome George), 1928-; Danforth, Bryan N.; Smith, Corey Shepard.; Decker, Brenna L.; Dorian, Nicholas N.; Dority, Delina.; Kilpatrick, Shelby Kerrin.; Krichilsky, Erin.; Laws, Angela N.; Urban-Mead, Katherine R.; Cane, James H. (James Harley), 1955- (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-28)

  The first part of this publication, written by a group of participants in Bee Course 2018, results from the discovery of three nests of Caupolicana yarrowi (Cresson, 1875) at the base of the Chiricahua Mountains in ...
• Stratigraphy and paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 436) 

  O'Leary, Maureen A.; Bouaré, Mohamed L.; Claeson, Kerin M.; Heilbronn, Kelly.; Hill, Robert V.; McCartney, Jacob A.; Sessa, Jocelyn A.; Sissoko, Famory.; Tapanila, Leif.; Wheeler, E. A.; Roberts, Eric M. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-28)

  An epicontinental sea bisected West Africa periodically from the Late Cretaceous to the early Eocene, in dramatic contrast to the current Sahara Desert that dominates the same region today. Known as the Trans-Saharan Seaway, ...
• Myrmecicultoridae, a new family of myrmecophilic spiders from the Chihuahuan Desert (Araneae, Entelegynae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3930) 

  Ramírez, Martín J.; Grismado, Cristian J.; Ubick, Darrell.; Ovcharenko, V. I.; Cushing, Paula Elizabeth, 1964-; Platnick, Norman I.; Wheeler, Ward.; Prendini, Lorenzo.; Crowley, Louise M.; Horner, Norman V. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-26)

  The new genus and species Myrmecicultor chihuahuensis Ramírez, Grismado, and Ubick is described and proposed as the type of the new family, Myrmecicultoridae Ramírez, Grismado, and Ubick. The species is ecribellate, with ...
• Systematics of the short-tailed whipscorpion genus Stenochrus Chamberlin, 1922 (Schizomida, Hubbardiidae), with descriptions of six new genera and five new species. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 435) 

  Monjaraz-Ruedas, Rodrigo.; Prendini, Lorenzo.; Francke, Oscar F. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-20)

  The short-tailed whipscorpion genus, Stenochrus Chamberlin, 1922 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae Cook, 1899), occurring in North and Central America, is redefined and revised based on simultaneous phylogenetic analysis of 61 ...
• Description of a new species of ponyfish (Teleostei, Leiognathidae, Equulitini, Photolateralis) from the Gulf of Oman. (American Museum novitates, no. 3929) 

  Sparks, John S.; Chakrabarty, Prosanta. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-19)

  A new species belonging to the leiognathid genus Photolateralis, collected from the coastal waters of Oman, is described herein. Photolateralis is unique among leiognathid genera in possessing a species-specific translucent ...
• A new mormoopid bat from the Oligocene (Whitneyan and early Arikareean) of Florida, and phylogenetic relationships of the major clades of Mormoopidae (Mammalia, Chiroptera). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 434) 

  Morgan, Gary S.; Czaplewski, Nicholas J.; Simmons, Nancy B. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-17)

  A new genus and species of fossil bat, Koopmanycteris palaeomormoops, representing an ancient member of the endemic Neotropical family Mormoopidae, is described from the Oligocene of Florida. This new species is known from ...
• Caudal cranium of Thylacosmilus atrox (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta), a South American predaceous sabertooth. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 433) 

  Forasiepi, Analía M.; MacPhee, R. D. E.; Hernández del Pino, Santiago. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-14)

  The caudal cranium of the South American sabertooth Thylacosmilus atrox (Thylacosmilidae, Sparassodonta, Metatheria) is described in detail, with emphasis on the constitution of the walls of the middle ear, cranial ...
• Mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru. Part 3, Marsupials (Didelphimorphia). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 432) 

  Voss, Robert S.; Fleck, David W. (David William), 1969-; Jansa, Sharon A. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-14)

  This report is the third in our monographic series on mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluvial region of northeastern Peru. Based on taxonomic analysis of specimens collected in the ...
• The fishes of the Amazon : distribution and biogeographical patterns, with a comprehensive list of species. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 431) 

  Dagosta, Fernando C. P.; Pinna, Mário C. C. de. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-06-13)

  We provide a general compilation of the diversity and geographical distribution of Amazonian fishes, updated to the end of 2018. Our database includes documented distributions of 4214 species (both Amazonian and from ...
• A review of the Eliurus tanala complex (Rodentia, Muroidea, Nesomyidae), with description of a new species from dry forests of western Madagascar. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 430) 

  Jansa, Sharon A.; Carleton, Michael D.; Soarimalala, Voahangy.; Rakotomalala, Zafimahery.; Goodman, Steven M. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-05-08)

  Based on 372 specimens examined, we integrated information from two mitochondrial and four nuclear gene sequences, morphological comparisons and morphometric analyses, as well as distributional patterns and ecological ...
• Phylogenetic analysis and revision of the trilobite subfamily Balnibarbiinae (Olenidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3928) 

  Hopkins, Melanie J. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-05-07)

  The Balnibarbiinae is one of eight subfamilies of the Olenidae, a diverse family of late Cambrian to Ordovician trilobites. Balnibarbiine species occur in a relatively continuous section of deeper-water sediments exposed ...
• A new morphological dataset reveals a novel relationship for the adzebills of New Zealand (Aptornis) and provides a foundation for total evidence neoavian phylogenetics. (American Museum novitates, no. 3927) 

  Musser, Grace M.; Cracraft, Joel. (American Museum of Natural History., 2019-05-03)

  Relationships among Neoaves, a group comprising approximately 95% of all extant birds, are difficult to resolve because of multiple short internodes presumably created by a rapid evolutionary radiation around the K/Pg ...

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