Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

*Undergraduate Mentee

*Meltesen, K.M., E.T. Whiting, J.N. Pinto-Ledezma, T.S. Cicak, and D.L. Fox. 2023. Deconstructing the latitudinal diversity gradient of North American mammals by nominal order. Editor's Choice Article, Journal of Mammalogy 104(4):707-722.

Whiting, E.T. and D.L. Fox. 2021. Latitudinal and environmental patterns of species richness in lizards and snakes across continental North America. Journal of Biogeography 48(2):291-304.

Whiting, E.T. and J.J. Head. 2020. Neogene crocodylians from the Central Great Plains: spatiotemporal histories and relationships with regional climatic and environmental changes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(1):e1764007.

Whiting, E.T., D.W. Steadman, and J. Krigbaum. 2016. Paleoecology of Miocene crocodylians in Florida: insights from stable isotope analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 451:23-34.

Whiting, E.T., D.W. Steadman, and K.A. Vliet. 2016. Cranial polymorphism and systematics of Miocene and living Alligator in North America. Journal of Herpetology 50(2):306-315.

Whiting, E.T. and A.K. Hastings. 2015. First fossil Alligator from the late Eocene of Nebraska and the Late Paleogene record of alligators in the Great Plains. Journal of Herpetology 49(4):560-569.

Natural History Notes

Whiting, E.T. and K.L. Krysko. 2017. Osteopilus septentrionalis (Cuban Treefrog) and Lithobates grylio (Pig Frog). Interspecific Amplexus. Herpetological Review 48(1):167.

Science Communication Articles

Whiting, E.T. 2022. A helpful fungus among us: mine wastewater bioremediation on Minnesota's Iron Range. UMN BTI Gateway Blog.

Whiting, E.T. 2013. Alligator mississippiensis. Fossil Vertebrate Species of Florida. Florida Museum of Natural History.

Whiting, E.T. 2012. Alligator olseni. Fossil Vertebrate Species of Florida. Florida Museum of Natural History.

Scientific Conference Presentations

*Undergraduate Mentee

Whiting, E.T., D.L. Fox, A.K. Hastings, and J.I. Bloch. 2021. Dietary reconstructions of Paleogene fossil lizards from the Western Interior of North America using three-dimensional dental topography analysis and a modern comparative dataset of extant pleurodont squamates. 81st Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. (virtual)

Whiting, E.T. and A.K. Hastings. 2020. First cranial fossil of a neonate Champsosaurus from the Paleocene of North America. 2020 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America. (virtual)

*Meltesen, K.M., E.T. Whiting, and D.L. Fox. 2020. The latitudinal diversity gradient of modern North American mammals masks multiple ordinal level patterns: implications for the origin of the mammalian diversity gradient in the late Cenozoic fossil record. 80th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. (virtual)

Whiting, E.T. and D.L. Fox. 2020. Lizard bytes: three-dimensional dental topography analysis of extant pleurodont squamates, with implications for reconstructing the diets of extinct fossil squamates. 80th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. (virtual)

Whiting, E.T. and A.K. Hastings. 2020. Systematics and paleoecology of fossil lizards from the middle-late Paleocene Wannagan Creek fossil site in western North Dakota. 54th Annual Meeting, North-Central Section, Geological Society of America. (virtual)

Hastings, A.K., J.W. Moreno-Bernal, E.T. Whiting, A.F. Rincón, C. Jaramillo, and J.I. Bloch. 2019. New fossils of Anthracosuchus (Crocodylomorpha) from the Paleocene of South America and the geographic origin of Dyrosauridae. 79th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. (poster)

Whiting, E.T. and D.L. Fox. 2018. Ecological biogeography of extant North American lizards in relation to climate and physiography: a modern comparative dataset for paleobiology and conservation. 78th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. (talk)

Whiting, E.T. and J.J. Head. 2015. Paleoclimate reconstruction using the vertebrate fossil record: constraining temperature and precipitation histories of the Neogene Central Great Plains based on the fossil record of Alligator. 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. (poster)

Jacisin III, J.J., E.T. Whiting, A.C. Ricker, J. Wallace, and J.J. Head. 2015. Neogene herpetofaunas from the Central Great Plains: diversity, modernization, and relationships to climate change. 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. (poster)

Henderek, R.L., J.W. Moreno-Bernal, W. von Dassow, A.R. Wood, A.J.W. Hendy, E.T. Whiting, M.M. Barboza, and B.J. MacFadden. 2014. Geological reconnaissance of the middle-late Miocene Alhajuela Formation (Panama): implications for shoaling of the Central American Seaway. 2014 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America. (poster)

Whiting, E.T., K.A. Vliet, and D.W. Steadman. 2014. Evolution and polymorphism in the genus Alligator. 37th Annual Herpetology Conference, University of Florida. (talk)

Whiting, E.T. and A.K. Hastings. 2013. Late Eocene fossil alligators from Nebraska and their implications for the biogeographic origin of Alligator. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. (poster)