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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, J. Alan Holman was an American paleontologist, herpetologist, professor and Michigan State University Museum curator well known for his 1995 work called Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America which was published by Oxford Press. He graduated from Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana in 1953 with a degree of "Distinction in Biology" and a passion for research and field work. He went on to earn his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1957 and 1961, respectively. Holman spent his career as an educator and researcher. He was named Emeritus Professor of Geological Sciences and Zoology and Emeritus Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at Michigan State University after retiring in 1997.
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- Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas (1996) (448)
- Host Plant Catalog of Aphids: Palaearctic Region (2008) (173)
- Fossil snakes of North America : origin, evolution, distribution, paleoecology (2000) (162)
- Little Salt Spring, Florida: A Unique Underwater Site (1979) (144)
- Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America (1995) (143)
- Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe (1998) (108)
- Fossil Snakes of North America (2000) (84)
- Early Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 148, article 1 (1972) (59)
- The Pipe Creek Sinkhole Biota, a Diverse Late Tertiary Continental Fossil Assemblage from Grant County, Indiana (2001) (49)
- Comprar Host Plant Catalog of Aphids · Palaearctic Region | Holman, Jaroslav | 9781402082863 | Springer (2009) (48)
- Earliest Fossil Record of a Pigmy Rattlesnake (Viperidae: Sistrurus Garman) (2007) (40)
- New Paris no. 4: A Late Pleistogene Cave Deposit in Bedford County, Pennsylvania (1965) (39)
- Herpetofauna of the Calf Creek Local Fauna (Lower Oligocene: Cypress Hills Formation) of Saskatchewan (1972) (38)
- Osteology of gallinaceous birds (1964) (36)
- Nebraskophis Holman from the Late Eocene of Georgia [USA], the oldest known North American colubrid snake (2003) (32)
- Osteology of living and fossil new world quail. (1961) (30)
- Hemphillian (Late Miocene) Snakes from Nebraska, with Comments on Arikareean Through Blancan Snakes of Midcontinental North America (1995) (30)
- A Late Miocene-Early Pliocene population of Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae) from East Tennessee (2002) (29)
- Upper Miocene Snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) from Southeastern Nebraska (1977) (26)
- Amphibians and Reptiles from the Pleistocene (Illinoian) of Williston, Florida (1959) (25)
- Reptiles of the Egelhoff Local Fauna (Upper Miocene) of Nebraska (1973) (23)
- Macrosiphum on ferns: taxonomy, biology and evolution, including the description of three new species (Hemiptera: Aphididae) (2000) (23)
- Climatic Significance of Giant Tortoises from the Wood Mountain Formation (Upper Miocene) of Saskatchewan (1971) (22)
- Early Miocene anurans from Florida (1965) (22)
- Herpetofauna of the Egelhoff site (Miocene: Barstovian) of north-central Nebraska (1987) (21)
- Herpetofauna of the Wood Mountain Formation (Upper Miocene) of Saskatchewan (1970) (21)
- Late Quaternary herpetofauna of the Central Great Lakes region, U.S.A.: Zoogeographical and paleoecological implications (1992) (20)
- Texasophis galbreathi, new species, the earliest New World colubrid snake (1984) (20)
- Fossil Snakes from the Valentine Formation of Nebraska (1964) (20)
- The Hottell Ranch rhino quarries (basal Ogallala; medial Barstovian), Banner County, Nebraska; Part I; Geologic setting, faunal lists, lower vertebrates (1987) (19)
- A SMALL HERPETOFAUNA FROM THE TYPE SECTION OF THE VALENTINE FORMATION (MIOCENE: BARSTOVIAN), CHERRY COUNTY, NEBRASKA (1981) (18)
- Fossil vertebrates associated with paleo-Indian artifact at Little Salt Spring, Florida (1984) (18)
- The Pleistocene herpetofauna of Saber-tooth Caare, Citrus County, Florida (1958) (18)
- Reptiles from the Eocene Tallahatta Formation of Alabama (1988) (16)
- Herpetofauna of the Ipswichian interglacial bed (Late Pleistocene) of the Itteringham Gravel Pit, Norfolk, England (1990) (16)
- Illustrated catalogue of aphididae in the Korean Peninsula : Part 1, subfamily aphidinae ( hemiptera : sternorrhyncha ) (1999) (16)
- A middle Pleistocene herpetofauna from Cudmore Grove, Essex, England, and its paleogeographic and paleoclimatic implications (1990) (16)
- A miocene Terrapene (Testudines: Emydidae) and other Barstovian turtles from south-central Nebraska (1985) (15)
- A small miocene herpetofauna from Texas (1968) (15)
- A herpetofauna from an eastern extension of the Harrison Formation (early Miocene : Arikareean), Cherry County, Nebraska (1981) (15)
- A Texas Pleistocene Herpetofauna (1962) (15)
- Upper Eocene Snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) from Georgia (1977) (15)
- Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Christensen Bog Mastodon Bone Bed, Hancock County, Indiana (1983) (15)
- North American Quaternary cold‐tolerant turtles: distributional adaptations and constraints (2008) (14)
- Additional Miocene anurans from Florida (1968) (14)
- A new helmeted frog of the genus Thaumastosaurus from the Eocene (2003) (13)
- Paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming. Part 17. The Late Eocene snakes (1979) (13)
- 01. British Quaternary herpetofaunas a history of adaptations to Pleistocene disruptions (1993) (13)
- Palaeophis casei, new species, a tiny palaeophid snake from the early Eocene of Mississippi (1982) (12)
- The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America: Squamata (1996) (12)
- An Oligocene Snake from a Coprolite (1978) (12)
- A New Species of Emydoidea (Reptilia: Testudines) from the Late Barstovian (Medial Miocene) of Cherry County, Nebraska (1995) (12)
- The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michigan: A Quaternary and Recent Faunal Adventure (2012) (11)
- The Pleistocene (Kansan) herpetofauna of Cumberland Cave, Maryland (1977) (11)
- A New Thaumastosaurus (Anura: Familia Incertae Sedis) from the Late Eocene of England, with Remarks on the Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Relationships of the Genus (2002) (11)
- A puzzling new snake (Reptilia: Serpentes) from the Late Paleocene of Mississippi (1992) (10)
- Recent Discoveries of Fossil Vertebrates in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan (2002) (10)
- A New Hylid Genus from the Lower Miocene of Florida (1961) (10)
- A New Peltosaurus (Reptilia, Sauria, Anguidae) from the Upper Miocene of Nebraska (1976) (10)
- A New Rhinophrynid Frog from the Early Oligocene of Canada (1963) (10)
- Population structure, genetics, and taxonomy of aphids and thysanoptera : proceedings of international symposia, held at Smolenice, Czechoslovakia, September 9-14, 1985 (1987) (9)
- A Mid-Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) Herpetofauna From a Cave in South Central Texas (1987) (9)
- Upper Pliocene Snakes from Idaho (1968) (9)
- Paleoclimatic Implications of Pleistocene Herpetofaunas of Eastern and Central North America (1980) (7)
- New Herpetological Species and Recordsfrom the Norden Bridge Fauna (Miocene: Late Barstovian) of Nebraska (1982) (7)
- Herpetofauna of the Sandahl Local Fauna (Pleistocene: Illinoian) of Kansas (1971) (7)
- A 25,000-year-old Duck, More Evidence for a Michigan Wisconsinan Interstadial (1976) (7)
- America's Northernmost Pleistocene Herpetofauna (Java, Northcentral South Dakota) (1977) (7)
- Late Eocene snakes from the Headon Hill Formation, southern England (2005) (7)
- Paleoecology of Amphibians and Reptiles from Pratt Cave, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas (1974) (6)
- A New Pliocene Snake, Genus Elaphe, from Oklahoma (1973) (6)
- Fossil Frogs from the Clarendonian (Late Miocene) of Oklahoma, U.S.A. (2010) (6)
- A Fossil Snake ( Elaphe vulpina )From A Pliocene Ash Bed In Nebraska (1982) (6)
- 06. Amphibians of the Whitemoor Channel early Flandrian site near Bosley, East Cheshire; with remarks on the fossil distribution of Bufo calamita in Brita (1991) (6)
- Notes on Aphis species from the Soviet Far East, with descriptions of eight new species (Homoptera Aphididae) (1987) (6)
- Late Pleistocene Occurrence in Southern Indiana of the Smooth Green Snake, Opheodrys vernalis (1981) (6)
- A Mass Unidirectional Movement of Natrix sipedon pictiventris (1961) (6)
- In Quest of Great Lakes Ice Age Vertebrates (2001) (6)
- Additional Specimens of the Miocene Turtle Emydoidea hutchisoni Holman 1995—New Temporal Occurrences, Taxonomic Characters, and Phylogenetic Inferences (2002) (6)
- cf. Trimeresurus LACÉPÈDE (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from the late Early Miocene of Japan (2004) (5)
- Herpetofauna of the Mission local fauna (lower Pliocene) of South Dakota (1973) (5)
- Turtles from the Late Wisconsinan of West-Central Ohio (1986) (5)
- Early Oligocene [Whitneyan] snakes from Florida [USA], the second oldest colubrid snakes in the North America (1999) (5)
- Taxonomic revision of the genus Megoura Buckton (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from the Korean Peninsula with the description of a new species and a key to the world species (2002) (5)
- Butler Spring herpetofauna of Kansas (Pleistocène: Illinoian) and its climatic significance (1986) (5)
- A new genus of snake [Serpentes: Boidae] from the Upper Eocene of Hordle Cliff, Hampshire, England (1998) (5)
- The genus Uroleucon (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from the Korean Peninsula. Part I. The Nominotypical subgenus Uroleucon with descriptions of three new species (2002) (5)
- Ancient Life of the Great Lakes Basin: Precambrian to Pleistocene (1973) (5)
- A new specimen of giant land tortoise (Geochelone sp.) from the Wood Mountain Formation (Middle Miocene) of Saskatchewan (1987) (5)
- HERPETOFAUNA OF THE PLEISTOCENE SLATON LOCAL FAUNA OF TEXAS (1969) (5)
- Texasophis (Reptilia: Serpentes), an Addition to the Miocene (Clarendonian) of North America (1984) (5)
- Species of the genus Aphis (Sternorrhyncha: Aphidoidea) living on Hieracium (Asteraceae: Cichorieae) (2013) (5)
- Pleistocene herpetofaunal remains from the East Milford mastodon site (ca. 70 000–80 000 BP), Halifax County, Nova Scotia (1995) (4)
- Glad Tidings, a Late Middle Miocene Herpetofauna from Northeastern Nebraska (1996) (4)
- The Boxgrove, England, middle Pleistocene herpetofauna: Paleogeographic, evolutionary, stratigraphic, and paleoecological relationships (1992) (4)
- Skeleton of a leopard frog (Rana pipiens) from Champlain Sea deposits (ca. 10 000 BP) near Eardley, Quebec (1997) (4)
- Rana (Amphibia : Ranidae) from the upper Eocene (MP17a) Hordle cliff locality, Hampshire, England (1999) (4)
- Description of Macrosiphum knautiae sp. n., with notes on the taxonomy of the Macrosiphum rosae group (Homoptera, Aphididae) (1972) (4)
- First report of an Eocene reptile fauna from Florida, USA (2001) (4)
- On some new and little known Mongolian aphids (Homoptera, Aphidodea) (1974) (4)
- Snakes of the Monroe Creek Formation (Lower Miocene: Arikareean) of Wyoming (1977) (4)
- Reproduction in a Pair of Corn Snakes, Elaphe guttata guttata (1960) (3)
- A late Tertiary stream channel fauna from South Bijou Hill, South Dakota (1977) (3)
- A Late Pleistocene Herpetofauna from Southwestern Missouri (1974) (3)
- Possible sound producing structures present in some Macrosiphini (Homoptera: Aphididae) (2013) (3)
- A new genus of small boid snake from Upper Eocene of Hordle Cliff, Hampshire, England (1998) (3)
- A palaeobatrachid anuran ilium from the British Isles (1996) (3)
- 03. Herpetofauna of the late Devensianearly Flandrian Cow Cave site, Chudleigh, Devon (1988) (3)
- Fossil Vertebrates Associated With Paleoindian Artifact: Little Salt Springs (1987) (3)
- Bullfrog Predation on the Eastern Spadefoot, Scaphiopus holbrooki (1957) (3)
- Reflections on Two Procoelous Rana catesbiana Shaw (1963) (3)
- A Pleistocene herpetofauna from Kendall County, Texas (1969) (3)
- Predation and the origin of tetrapods. (1969) (3)
- Fall and Winter Food of Plethodon dorsalis in Johnson County, Indiana (1955) (3)
- Herpetofauna of the Nash Local Fauna (Pleistocene: Aftonian) of Kansas (1979) (3)
- Fossil Dunes and Soils near Saginaw Bay, A Unique Herpetological Habitat (2001) (3)
- A huge Pleistocene box turtle from Texas (1966) (3)
- Fossil Herpetofauna of the Lisco C Quarries (Pliocene: Early Blancan) of Nebraska (1991) (3)
- Symydobius nanae sp.n. (Sternorrhyncha: Aphidoidea: Aphididae) and other aphids living on Betula nana in the Šumava National Park, Czech Republic. (1996) (3)
- Cultural and Paleontological Effects of Siting a Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Facility in Michigan (1990) (2)
- Siren (Caudata: Sirenidae) from the Barstovian Miocene of Nebraska (1985) (2)
- The Middle Pleistocene Herpetofaunas from Kärlich (Neuwied Basin, Germany) (2011) (2)
- Early Oligocene [Whitneyan] snakes from Florida [USA]: remaining boids, indeterminate colubroids, summary and discussion of the I-75 Local Fauna snakes (2001) (2)
- The Pleistocene (Kansan) herpetofauna of Trout Cave, West Virginia (1982) (2)
- New vertebrate fossils from the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Latest Hemphillian, Grant County, Indiana (2004) (2)
- Descriptions of three new Mongolian aphids (Homoptera, Aphidoidea) (1980) (2)
- Pleistocene Herpetofauna of Westbury-Sub-Mendip Cave, England (1993) (2)
- Physiographic Provinces and Distribution of Some Reptiles and Amphibians in Johnson County, Indiana (1960) (2)
- Snakes of the Berends local fauna (Pleistocene: early Illinoian) of Oklahoma (1986) (2)
- Note: The Status of Emydoidea Hutchisoni Holman, 1995 (Testudines:Emydidae) (2002) (2)
- Paleocene Turtles and Crocodilians Directly above the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) Boundary in Pulaski County, Illinois (2002) (2)
- Late Pleistocene fishes from Sheriden Pit, northwestern Ohio (1996) (2)
- Uroleucon iranicum sp.n. (Homoptera, Aphididae) from Iran. (1980) (2)
- Erycine Boids from the Early Oligocene of the South Dakota Badlands (2009) (1)
- Pleistocene Snakes from the Seymour Formation of Texas (1965) (1)
- Macrosiphum atragenae sp. n. on Clematis (Atragene) alpina from the Carpathians (Homoptera, Aphididae) (1980) (1)
- Tail-Vibration of the Lizard Xenosaurus grandis (1966) (1)
- A new glass lizard from Veracruz, Mexico (1965) (1)
- A Polymorphic Deme of Hyla eximia Baird from Durango, Mexico (1965) (1)
- A Huge New Xenosaurid Lizard From The Upper Miocene Of Nebraska (1973) (1)
- A second specimen of Ophisaurus ceroni (1966) (1)
- Early Hemingfordian (Early Miocene) Squamate Reptiles from the Quarry A Local Fauna, Logan County, Colorado. (Note) (2003) (1)
- The Status of Emydoidea Hutchisoni Holman, 1995 (Testudines: Emydidae). (Note) (2003) (1)
- Large Pleistocene Box Turtle from Southwest Arkansas (2000) (1)
- Late Holocene (Little Ice Age Interval) Microvertebrates from Mackinac County, Michigan (2003) (1)
- A New Species of Helagras (Serpentes) from the Middle Oligocene of Nebraska (1983) (1)
- Amphibians and reptiles from Late Pleistocene Glacial and Interglacial age deposits near Shropham, Norfolk, England (1996) (1)
- Snakes from the Robert Local Fauna (Late Wisconsinan) of Meade County, Kansas (1987) (1)
- Revision of the Aphid Genus Acaudinum (Homoptera: Aphidinea: Aphididae). (1991) (1)
- Fossil snakes from the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (late Hemphillian, Grant County, Indiana) (2006) (1)
- Issues and innovations in Pleistocene vertebrate paleontology in Michigan ― the last fifty-five years (1995) (0)
- Extinction Patterns in the Herpetofauna of the Pleistocene of Britain and Europe (1998) (0)
- Snake fauna associated with the “Earliest Recent” mammalian fauna in northeastern North America (2000) (0)
- Early Oligocene [Whitneyan] snakes from Florida [USA], a unique booid (2000) (0)
- Mummification following winterkill of adult green frogs (Ranidae: Rana clamitans) (1998) (0)
- Glyphina betulae(Hemiptera, Aphididae, Thelaxinae) New to the Far Eastern Asia from Mt. Baekdusan, North Korea (2001) (0)
- The European Herpetofauna: Paleocene Through Pliocene (1998) (0)
- Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Megoura Buckton (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Korean Peninsula with a New Species and a Key to the World Species (2001) (0)
- Book Review: Catalogue of the World's Aphididae (Homoptera, Aphidoidea). (2013) (0)
- A “lower Eocene colubrid-like” snake (Reptilia: Serpentes) from New Jersey is Holocene (1994) (0)
- 07. Herpetofauna of Pleistocene (lpswichian) deposits at Selsey, West Sussex the earliest British record of Bufo calamita (1992) (0)
- An Unusually Complete Mammoth Skull, Mammuthus columbi (Falconer), from Trego County, Kansas (1971) (0)
- A revision of the genus Macrosiphoniella del guercio (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from the korean peninsula, Part II Subgenus Macrosiphoniella (Sensu Stricto) (2006) (0)
- Herpetological Assemblages of the Michigan Regional Landscape Ecosystems (2004) (0)
- The natural enemies of San Jose scale (Quadraspidiotus perniciosus Comstock) from the order Hymenoptera in the Czech Republic. (2002) (0)
- New Records of Michigan Pleistocene Vertebrates with Comments on the Mason-Quimby Line (2002) (0)
- Three new aphid species (Homoptera, Aphididae) from Mongolia (1975) (0)
- Notes on some Mongolian aphids (Homoptera, Aphidoidea) (1982) (0)
- Two Species of the Subgenus Macrosiphum (Unisitobion) (Aphididae, Homoptera), New to the Korean Peninsula (2000) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Lampel G. & Meier W.: Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha - Aphidina. Vol. 1: Non-Aphididae. Fauna Helvetica 8. (2004) (0)
- The Pleistocene in Britain and Europe (1998) (0)
- A revision of the genus Macrosiphoniella del guercio (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from the Korean Peninsula, Part I: Subgenera Asterobium, chosoniella, papillomyzus, phalangomyzus, sinosiphoniella (2006) (0)
- Caudal Vertebrae of the Veracruz Glass Lizard, Ophisaurus ceroni (1966) (0)
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