Michael J. Novacek

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Evolution and Paleontology Studies(107), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology(53), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies(44), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(20), Morphological variations and asymmetry(13)

Publications170 total

Systematics of the genus Palaeictops Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia: Leptictidae), with the description of two new species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
A new large zalambdalestid mammal from the Gobi Desert and formal stratigraphic description of the Upper Cretaceous Zos Formation
Cretaceous Research·2025
Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Nature·2025
The history of scientific relations between Cuba and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) : 160 years of collecting and collaborating (1857-2017)
American Museum of Natural History eBooks·2024
100 years of dinosaur eggs
Nature·2023
A new Early Paleogene fossil mammal locality in the central-eastern Nemegt Basin, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, and notes on mammalian biostratigraphy
Journal of Paleontology·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
First occurrence of the eutherian mammal <i>Asioryctes nemegtensis</i> from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, and a revised alpha taxonomy based on the skull and dentition
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Combined data analysis of fossil and living mammals: a Paleogene sister taxon of Placentalia and the antiquity of Marsupialia
Cladistics·2022· 25 cited
Un sauropode de 85 tonnes
Books·2020
The history of scientific relations between Cuba and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH): 160 years of collecting and collaborating (1857-2017)
American Museum of Natural History eBooks·2017· 5 citedOpen Access
Two new tritylodontids (Synapsida, Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Upper Jurassic, southwestern Mongolia. (American Museum novitates, no. 3874)
American Museum Novitates·2017
Two New Tritylodontids (Synapsida, Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Upper Jurassic, Southwestern Mongolia
American Museum Novitates·2017· 16 citedOpen Access
Systematics of the Genus<i>Palaeictops</i>Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia: Leptictidae), with the Description of Two New Species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming
American Museum Novitates·2016· 5 citedOpen Access
Systematics of the genus Palaeictops Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia, Leptictidae), with the description of two new species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming. (American Museum novitates, no. 3867)
2016
Origin and transformation of the mammalian stapes
2014· 48 cited
Revisiting Leopold: Resource Stewardship in the National Parks
PARKS·2014· 63 citedOpen Access
A deltatheroidan mammal from the Upper Cretaceous Baynshiree Formation, eastern Mongolia
Cretaceous Research·2014· 29 cited
Fossils of the Flaming Cliffs
Scientific American A Matter of Time·2014· 2 cited
Response to Comment on “The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post–K-Pg Radiation of Placentals”
Science·2013· 20 citedOpen Access
The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post–K-Pg Radiation of Placentals
Science·2013· 1.2k cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Guillermo W. Rougier(13), Malcolm C. McKenna(11), John R. Wible(9), Mark A. Norell(9), André R. Wyss(5), Carl C. Swisher(5), John J. Flynn(4), Robert J. Asher(4), Demberelyin Dashzeveg(3), Quentin D. Wheeler(3), Jin Meng(2), Nancy B. Simmons(2), Michael Archer(2), James M. Clark(2), Luis M. Chiappe(2), Perle Altangerel(2), Thomas Ε. Lovejoy(2), Reynaldo Charrier(2), Analía M. Forasiepi(2), Lowell Dingus(2)