Malcolm McKenna
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Malcolm McKenna's Degrees
- PhD Geology Columbia University
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Malcolm Carnegie McKenna was an American paleontologist and author on the subject. Paleontologist McKenna began his paleontology career at the Webb School of California in Claremont, California, under noted paleontologist and teacher, Raymond Alf. He attended the California Institute of Technology and Pomona College, then graduated in paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also earned his Ph.D.
Malcolm McKenna's Published Works
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- Classification of mammals : above the species level (1997) (1939)
- Toward a Phylogenetic Classification of the Mammalia (1975) (665)
- Faunal turnovers of Palaeogene mammals from the Mongolian Plateau (1998) (271)
- Higher taxonomic relationships among extant mammals based on morphology, with selected comparisons of results from molecular data. (1998) (225)
- A Theropod Dinosaur Embryo and the Affinities of the Flaming Cliffs Dinosaur Eggs (1994) (199)
- Stem Lagomorpha and the Antiquity of Glires (2005) (190)
- Cenozoic Paleogeography of North Atlantic Land Bridges (1983) (172)
- South America's earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution (1993) (160)
- Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming : with definitions of late Cretaceous North American land-mammal "ages". (1986) (153)
- Eocene paleolatitude, climate, and mammals of Ellesmere island (1980) (152)
- Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic (2004) (150)
- Fossil Mammals and Early Eocene North Atlantic Land Continuity (1975) (150)
- Holarctic Landmass Rearrangement, Cosmic Events, and Cenozoic Terrestrial Organisms (1983) (136)
- Paleontology and the origin of the primates. (1966) (121)
- Epipubic bones in eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia (1997) (117)
- Fossil mammalia from the early wasatchian four mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado (1960) (117)
- Mesozoic differentiation, multituberculates, monotremes, early therians, and marsupials (1993) (104)
- Earliest Eutherian Ear Region: A Petrosal Referred to Prokennalestes from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia (2001) (103)
- Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleogeographic and paleoclimatic history of the Arctic Ocean Basin, based on shallow-water marine faunas and terrestrial vertebrates (1990) (102)
- Two new Oligocene desmostylians and a discussion of tethytherian systematics (1986) (101)
- A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics (2002) (98)
- Edentates: the evolution and ecology of armadillos, sloths, and vermilinguas. (1986) (97)
- 4. Wasatchian Through Duchesnean Biochronology (2004) (94)
- Mammals in the age of dinosaurs. (1980) (91)
- New evidence for late mesozoic-early Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean Andes in the upper Tinguiririca valley (35 °S), central Chile (1996) (89)
- Extraordinary preservation in a new vertebrate assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia (1995) (88)
- Revised Paleogene Polarity Time Scale (1978) (79)
- Amino acid sequence versus morphological data and the interordinal relationships of mammals. (1987) (76)
- Paleogene Pseudoglyptodont Xenarthrans from Central Chile and Argentine Patagonia (2006) (75)
- Beginning of the age of mammals in Asia : the late Paleocene Gashato fauna, Mongolia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 144, article 4 (1971) (67)
- MORPHOLOGY AND RELATIONSHIPS OF APTERNODUS AND OTHER EXTINCT, ZALAMBDODONT, PLACENTAL MAMMALS (2002) (65)
- Amphicticeps and Amphicynodon (Arctoidea, Carnivora) from Hsanda Gol Formation, Central Mongolia and Phylogeny of Basal Arctoids with Comments on Zoogeography (2005) (64)
- Paleogene mammals from the Andes of central Chile : a preliminary taxonomic, biostratigraphic, and geochronologic assessment. American Museum novitates ; no. 3098 (1994) (64)
- A mammalian petrosal from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia : implications for the evolution of the ear region and mammaliamorph interrelationships. American Museum novitates ; no.3149 (1995) (61)
- Early History and Biogeography of South America’s Extinct Land Mammals (1980) (56)
- Gobiconodonts from the Early Cretaceous of Oshih (Ashile), Mongolia (2001) (55)
- Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic position of Tsaganomys altaicus (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Hsanda Gol Formation (Oligocene), Mongolia. American Museum novitates ; no.3156 (1995) (54)
- Collecting Small Fossils by Washing and Screening (1962) (53)
- Land-Mammal Ages, Faunal Heterochrony, and Temporal Resolution in Cenozoic Terrestrial Sequences (1984) (51)
- Earliest eutherian mammal skull, from the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) of Uzbekistan (2000) (51)
- Classification of Mammals (1997) (51)
- Cretaceous multituberculate skeleton and the early evolution of the mammalian shoulder girdle (1995) (47)
- Paleobiogeography of Indo-Pakistan: A Response to Briggs, Patterson, and Owen (1992) (43)
- Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China (2003) (43)
- TARSIOID PRIMATE FROM THE EARLY TERTIARY OF THE MONGOLIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC (1977) (42)
- Was Europe Connected Directly to North America Prior to the Middle Eocene (1972) (40)
- A new early Tertiary mammal fauna from central Chile: implications for Andean stratigraphy and tectonics (1990) (40)
- The relationships of the Arctostylopidae (Mammalia): new data and interpretation (1989) (37)
- Affinities and palaeobiogeographic significanceof the Mongolian Paleogene genus Phenacolophus (1977) (37)
- Fossils of the Flaming Cliffs (1994) (36)
- Estesia mongoliensis , a New Fossil Varanoid from the Late Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia 1 (2004) (36)
- Early Eocene Leptictida, Pantolesta, Creodonta, Carnivora, and Mesonychidae (Mammalia) from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut (2002) (34)
- Estesia mongoliensis : a new fossil varanoid from the late Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. American Museum novitates ; no.3045 (1992) (30)
- Tectonic and paleogeographic implications of late Laramide geologic history in the northeastern corner of Wyoming's Hanna Basin (2002) (28)
- Eupetaurus and the living petauristine sciurids. American Museum novitates ; no. 2104 (1962) (26)
- Plagiomenids (Mammalia: ?Dermoptera) from the Oligocene of Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota, and middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming (1990) (26)
- Arctic biostratigraphic heterochroneity. (1984) (25)
- High-level strata containing early Miocene mammals on the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. American Museum novitates ; no. 2490 (1972) (25)
- Survival of primitive notoungulates and condylarths into the Miocene of Colombia (1956) (25)
- NEW MATERIAL OF CENTETODON (MAMMALIA, LIPOTYPHLA) AND THE IMPORTANCE OF (MISSING) DNA SEQUENCES IN SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY (2005) (23)
- The Geolabidinae : a new subfamily of early Cenozoic Erinaceoid insectivores (1960) (23)
- The Osteology of Matutinia (Simplicidentata, Mammalia) and Its Relationship to Rhombomylus (2002) (20)
- A late Permian captorhinid from Rhodesia. American Museum novitates ; no. 2688 (1979) (20)
- A primitive relative of rodents from the Chinese Paleocene (2001) (19)
- Leptacodon, an American Paleocene nyctithere (Mammalia, Insectivora). American Museum novitates ; no. 2317 (1968) (19)
- The Mobile Indian Raft: A Reply to Rage and Jaeger (1995) (19)
- New evidence against tupaioid affinities of the mammalian family Anagalidae. American Museum novitates ; no. 2158 (1963) (17)
- Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene rocks and vertebrate fossils at the Emerald Lake locality, 3 miles south of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (1976) (17)
- Stratigraphic nomenclature of the Miocene Hemingford Group, Nebraska. American Museum novitates ; no. 2228 (1965) (16)
- Runningwater Formation, Middle Miocene of Nebraska. American Museum novitates ; no. 2227 (1965) (16)
- Relationships of the Cretaceous mammal Deltatheridium (1971) (16)
- Paleocene Vertebrates and Nonmarine Mollusca from the Goler Formation, California (1987) (16)
- Notes on Eocene Mammalia and Mollusca from Tabernacle Butte, Wyoming. American Museum novitates ; no. 2102 (1962) (15)
- A new species of mesonychian mammal from the lower Eocene of Mongolia and its phylogenetic relationships (2007) (14)
- Skeletal integrity of Mimolagus rodens (Lagomorpha, Mammalia. American Museum novitates ; no. 2806 (1985) (14)
- Possible Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics (1972) (14)
- Primitive Paleocene and Eocene Apatemyidae (Mammalia, Insectivora) and the primate-insectivore boundary. American Museum novitates ; no. 2160 (1963) (12)
- A note on the origin of rodents. American Museum novitates ; no. 2037 (1961) (11)
- Prosarcodon lonanensis, a new Paleocene micropternodontid palaeoryctoid insectivore from Asia. American Museum novitates ; no. 2780 (1984) (11)
- A new insectivore from the Middle Eocene of Tabernacle Butte, Wyoming. American Museum novitates ; no. 1952 (1959) (11)
- A leptictid mammal from the Hsanda Gol Formation (Oligocene), Central Mongolia, with comments on some Palaeoryctidae. American Museum novitates ; no.3168 (1996) (10)
- Evidence from earliest known erinaceomorph basicranium that insectivorans and primates are not closely related (1983) (10)
- On the shoulder girdle of the mammalian subclass Allotheria. American Museum novitates ; no. 2066 (1961) (10)
- New Records of Eutherian Mammals from the Goler Formation (Tiffanian, Paleocene) of California and Their Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications (2014) (10)
- Problems with Paleocene Palynozones in the Rockies: Hell's Half Acre Revisited (2005) (10)
- Arcticanodon dawsonae, a primitive new palaeanodont from the lower Eocene of Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic (2004) (9)
- The skull of Rapamys (Ischyromyidae, Rodentia) and description of a new species from the Duchesnean (late Middle Eocene) of Montana (2006) (8)
- Vertebrate fossils and their context : contributions in honor of Richard H. Tedford. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 279 (2003) (8)
- Skeletal Integrity ofMimolagus rodens (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) (1985) (8)
- How Earth's Ice is Changing (2000) (8)
- A New Insectivore from the Middle Eocene of Tabernacle Butte , Wyoming BY (2004) (8)
- A new species of mylagaulid from the Chalk Cliffs local fauna, Montana (1955) (8)
- Paleocene Mammal, Goler Formation, Mojave Desert, California: GEOLOGICAL NOTES (1955) (7)
- New Evidence Against Tupaioid Affinities of the Mammalian Famnily Anagalidael (7)
- Fireball passes and nothing burns--The role of thermal radiation in the Cretaceous-Tertiary event: Evidence from the charcoal record of North America: Comment and Reply: COMMENT (2004) (6)
- A Continental Paleocene Vertebrate Fauna from California BY (6)
- Ochotona princeps (pika) myoglobin: an appraisal of lagomorph phylogeny. (1982) (5)
- A new Middle Eocene edentate from Wyoming. American Museum novitates ; no. 1950 (1959) (5)
- A Route to Late Cenozoic Temperature History (1971) (5)
- A continental Paleocene vertebrate fauna from California. American Museum novitates ; no. 2024 (1960) (5)
- The vertebrates updated: vertebrate paleontology and evolution. (1988) (5)
- Marsholestes, a new name for the Eocene insectivoran Myolestes Matthew, 1909, not Myolestes Brèthes, 1904 (1992) (4)
- Primate evolution: An introduction to man's place in nature. By Elwyn L. Simons. xii + 322 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. Macmillan, New York. 1972 $6.50 (paper) (1973) (4)
- A new insectivore from the Oligocene of Mongolia and a new subfamily of hedgehogs. American Museum novitates ; no. 2311 (1967) (4)
- Esthonyx in the upper faunal assemblage, Huerfano Formation, Eocene of Colorado (1976) (4)
- Glirology: Evolutionary Relationships among Rodents. (1986) (3)
- Linked Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous–Tertiary Boundary Events (2007) (3)
- Re-evaluating Palynomorph-Based Biozones in Paleogene Strata of Rocky Mountain Basins (2008) (3)
- Biostratigraphic deception by the Devil, salting fossil kollinbrains into the Poobahcene section of central Myroaming (2006) (2)
- Order in mammals (1984) (2)
- The Indefatigable Mary R. Dawson: Arctic Pioneer (2007) (2)
- Gray Bull Mammals from the Knight Formation in Moffat County, Colorado (1954) (2)
- Euboromys, a new name for the Eocene rodent Boromys Dashzeveg, 1990, not Boromys Miller, 1916 (1991) (2)
- The Fossil Mammal Collections of The American Museum of Natural History (1975) (2)
- Late cretaceous and tertiary history and the dynamic crushing of cobbles, black butte area, southwestern Montana (1989) (2)
- Symposium: Vertebrate Paleontology as a Discipline in Geochronology: I, II, III (1974) (2)
- Paleocene and Early Eocene of the Bighorn and Clark's Fork Basins, Wyoming (2013) (1)
- The great American terrestrial interchange and reorganized oceanic circulation in the latest Tertiary (1985) (1)
- Bygone beasts: Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution by David Rains Wallace. University of California Press, 2004. US$24.95, £16.95 hbk (327 pages) ISBN 0 520 23731 5 (2004) (1)
- Princeton's Intellectual Trust. (1985) (1)
- Two new records from the Bridger middle Eocene of Tabernacle Butte, Wyoming. American Museum novitates ; no. 1966 (1959) (1)
- Chapter 25 (2003) (1)
- Live issues: the classification of North American mammals (1981) (1)
- Tapochoerus, a Uintan Dichobunid Artiodactyl from the Sespe Formation of California (1959) (1)
- Protomomys Teilhard de Chardinc 1927 lMammaliarc proposed suppression under the plenary powersp ZpNp lSpr 1847 (1969) (1)
- Synopsis of Whitneyan and Arikareean camelid phylogeny. American Museum novitates ; no. 2253 (1966) (1)
- The horse tree. (1993) (1)
- More of dinosaur extinction, and more (1982) (1)
- I 96 I A Note on the Origin of Rodents BY (0)
- Earliest Eocene Vertebrates from the Sand Wash Basin, Northwest Colorado (1955) (0)
- Age of the Four Mile Local Fauna, Northeast Sand Wash Basin, Colorado (1955) (0)
- Multituberculate phylogeny (1996) (0)
- Odontology: Dental Morphology and Evolution . A symposium, Englefield Green, England, Sept. 1968. Albert A. Dahlberg, Ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1971. x, 350 pp., illus. $18.50. (1972) (0)
- Mesozoic/Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Classic Localities, Contemporary Approaches. Salt Lake City, Utah to Billings, Montana, July 19–27, 1989 (1989) (0)
- Putting flesh onto the bones (1986) (0)
- Amino Acid Sequence versus Morphological Data and the Interordinal Relationships of Mammals 1 (1998) (0)
- Amino Acid Sequence versus Morphological Data and the Interordinal Relationships of Mammals1 (1998) (0)
- Response by Malcolm C. McKenna: For the Award of the Paleontological Society Medal 27 October 1992 (1993) (0)
- Marsupials right side up: possums and opossums. (1989) (0)
- RELATIONSHIPS OF THE CRETACEOUS (1971) (0)
- Majority verdict (1981) (0)
- Chinese puzzles (1982) (0)
- Thermopolis, Wyoming to Cody, Wyoming (2013) (0)
- Fossil Mammals: Mammalian Paleofaunas of the World . Donald E. Savage and Donald E. Russell. Addison-Wesley Advanced Book Program, Reading, Mass., 1983. xx, 432 pp., illus. $79.95. (1983) (0)
- Salt Lake City, Utah to Vernal, Utah (2013) (0)
- More museums (1981) (0)
- A Route to Late Cenozoic Temperature History? (1971) (0)
- Books Received (2008) (0)
- Cody, Wyoming to Jordan, Montana (2013) (0)
- Princeton's Intellectual Trust (1985) (0)
- Eupetaurus and the Living (0)
- Comparative biology and evolutionary relationships of tree shrews (1981) (0)
- Cimolestidae Marsh, 1889 (Mammalia): proposed suppression under the plenary powers (1964) (0)
- IGC Field Trip T322: Roadlog (2013) (0)
- Book Review:A Review of the North American Tertiary Sciuridae. Craig C. Black (1965) (0)
- Kemmerer, Wyoming to Thermopolis, Wyoming (2013) (0)
- A Leptictid MammalfromtheHsandaGol Formation (Oligocene),Central Mongolia, with Comments on SomePalaeoryctidael (1996) (0)
- Vernal, Utah to Kemmerer, Wyoming (2013) (0)
- Fossil mammals: Mammalian paleofaunas of the world. (1983) (0)
- Mesozoic/Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Classic Localities, Contemporary Approaches (2013) (0)
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