Publications

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals or Books:

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Semprebon, G.M., Tao, D., Solounias, N., 2017. Dietary reconstruction of Hezhengia bohlini (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from the late Miocene Linxia Basin of China using enamel microwear. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 481:57-63.

Semprebon, G.M., Rivals, F., Fahlke J.M., Sanders, W.J., Lister, A.M., Göhlich, U.B., 2016. Dietary reconstruction of pygmy mammoths from Santa Rosa Island of California. Quaternary International, 406:123-136.

Semprebon, G.M., Rivals, F., Solounias, N., Hulbert, R. Jr., 2016. Paleodietary reconstruction of fossil horses from the Eocene through Pleistocene of North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology: 442, 110-127.

Rivals, F. and Semprebon, G.M., 2016. Latitude matters: an examination of behavioural plasticity in Dietary traits amongst extant and Pleistocene Rangifer tarandus. Boreas 1-10.

Rivals, F., Prignano, L., Semprebon, G.M., Lozano, S., 2015. A tool for determining duration of mortality events in archaeological assemblages using extant ungulate microwear. Scientific Reports 5: doi:10.1038/srep17330.

Semprebon, G., Rivals, F., Fahlke, J., Sanders, W., Lister, A, and Göhlich, U., 2014. The effect of insular dwarfism on dietary niche occupation in mammoths: what were the pygmy mammoths from Santa Rosa Island of California eating? Scientific Annals, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 102: 182-183.

Rivals, F., Mol, Dick, Lacombat, F., Lister, A., and Semprebon, G., 2014. Dietary traits and resource partitioning in mammoth (Mammuthus rumanus and Mammuthusmeridionalis) and mastodon (Anancus arvernensis) in the Early Pleistocene of Europe. Scientific Annals, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 102: 168-169.

Bernor, R. L., Semprebon, G.M., and Damuth, J., 2014. Maragheh ungulate mesowear: Interpreting paleodiet and paleoecology from a diverse fauna with restricted sample sizes. Ann. Zool. Fennici 51:201-208

Bernor. R.L., Gilbert, H., Semprebon. G.M., Simpson, S., 2013. Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli sp. nov. (Perissodactyla: Mammalia) from the Middle Pliocene of Aramis, Ethiopia (4.4 Ma). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6): 1472-1485.

Fahlke, J.M, Bastl, K., and Semprebon, G.M. 2013. Paleoecology of archaeocete whales throughout the Eocene: dietary adaptations revealed by microwear analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 690–701.

Fahlke, J.M, Coombs, M.C, and Semprebon, G.M. 2013. Anisodon sp. (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae) from the Turolian of Dorn-Dürkheim 1 (Rheinhessen, Germany): morphology, phylogeny, and palaeoecology of the latest chalicothere in Central Europe. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 3:1-20.

Bastl, K., Semprebon, G.M., and Nagel, D. 2012. Low magnification microwear in Carnivora and dietary diversity in Hyaenodon (Mammalia: Hyaenodontidae) with additional information on its enamel microstructure. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 348–349:13–20.

Holt, G., Aggott, Z., Vicino, G, and Semprebon, G.M. 2012. A human tooth from the Mousterian site of Arma Delle Manie ((Liguria, Italy). Bull. Mus. Anthropol. préhist. Monaco 52: 43-46.

Rivals, F. and Semprebon, G.M., 2012. Paleoindian subsistence strategies and late Pleistocene paleoenvironments in the northeastern and southwestern United States: a tooth wear analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 39:1608-1617.

Solounias, N., Semprebon, G., Mihlbachler, M., and Rivals, F., Paleodietary comparisons of ungulates between the Late Miocene of China, Pikermi and Samos. Contribution to a book to be published by Columbia University Press, 2012 (edited by Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius).

Rivals, F. Semprebon, G. M., and Lister, Adrian. 2012. An examination of dietary diversity patterns in Pleistocene proboscideans (Mammuthus, Palaeoloxodon, and Mammut) from Europe and North America as revealed by dental microwear. Quaternary International 255:188-195.

Wolf, D., Semprebon, G. M. and Bernor, R. L. 2012. New observations on the paleodiet of the late Miocene Höwenegg (Hegau, Germany) Hippotherium primigenium (Mammalia, Equidae). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 51(3): 185-191 Modena.

Rivals, F. and Semprebon, G.M. 2011. Dietary plasticity in ungulates: Insight from tooth microwear analysis.Quaternary International 245: 279-284.

Semprebon, G.M., Sise, P.J., and Coombs, M.C., 2011. Potential Bark and Fruit Browsing as Revealed by Stereomicrowear Analysis of the Peculiar Clawed Herbivores. J Mammal Evol 18:33–55.

Mihlbachler, M.C., Rivals, F., Solounias, N. and Semprebon, G.M. 2011. Dietary Change and Evolution of Horses in North America. Science 331, 1178.

Semprebon, G. M., and Rivals F., 2010. Trends in the paleodietary habits of fossil camels from the Tertiary and Quaternary of North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 332–347.

Rivals F., and Semprebon, G. 2010. Environmental implications of dietary diversity patterns in Pleistocene mammoths and their relatives from North America and Europe. Quaternaire HS3:111-113.

Rivals, F. and Semprebon, G. M., 2010. What can incisor microwear reveal about the diet of ungulates? Mammalia 74: 401–406.

Solounias, N., Rivals, F., and Semprebon G.M., 2010. Dietary interpretation and paleoecology of herbivores from Pikermi and Samos (late Miocene of Greece). Paleobiology 36 (1): 113-136.

Rivals, F., Mihlbachler, M.C., Solounias, N., Mol, D., Semprebon, G. M., de Vos, J., Kalthoff, D.C., 2010. Palaeoecology of the Mammoth Steppe fauna from the late Pleistocene of the North Sea and Alaska: Separating species preferences from geographic influence in paleoecological dental wear analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 286: 42-54.

Wolf, D., Nelson, S. V., Schwartz, H.L., Semprebon, G. M., Kaiser, T.M., and Bernor, R.L., 2010. Taxonomy and paleoecology of the Pleistocene Equidae from Makuyuni, Northern Tanzania Palaeodiversity 3: 249–269.

Koenigswald, W, von, Kalthoff, D. C., Semprebon, G.M. 2010. The microstructure of enamel, dentine and cementum in advanced Taeniodonta (Mammalia) with comments on their dietary adaptations Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30: 6, 1797-1804.

Kaiser, T.M., Seiffert, C., Hertler, C, Fieldler, L, Schwartz, H.L., Frost, S.R., Giemsch, L., Bernor, R.L., Wolf, D., Semprebon, G., Nelson, S.V., Schrenk, F., Harvati, K. Bromage, T.G., and Saanane, C. 2010. Makuyuni, a new Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site in Tanzania Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst. Band 106 S: 69-110.

White,T.D., Ambrose, S. H., Suwa, G., Su, D. F., DeGusta, D, Bernor, R. L., Boisserie, J-R., Brunet, M., Delson, E., Frost, S., Garcia, N., Giaourtsakis, L. X., Haile-Selassie, Y., Howell, F. C., Lehmann, T., Likius, A., Pehlevan, C., Saegusa, H., Semprebon, G., Teaford, M., Vrba, E., 2009. Macrovertebrate paleontology and the Pliocene habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus, Science, 326: pp. 50-56.

Semprebon, G. M., and Rivals F., 2007. Was grass more prevalent in the pronghorn past? An assessment of the dietary adaptations of Miocene to Recent Antilocapridae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 332–347.

Rivals, F. and Semprebon, G. M., 2006. A Comparison of the dietary habits of a large sample of the Pleistocene pronghorn Stockoceros onusrosagris from the Papago Springs Cave in Arizona to the modern Antilocapra americana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26 (2): 495-500.

King, S. J., Arrigo-Nelson, S. J., Pochron, S.T., Semprebon, G. M., Godfrey, L. R., Wright, P.C., and Jernvall, J., 2005. Dental senescence in a long-lived primate links infant survival to rainfall. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102 (46): 16579-16583.

Godfrey, L. R., Semprebon, G. M., Schwartz, G. T., Burney, D. A., Jungers, W. L., Flanagan E., K., Cuozzo, F. P. and King, S. J., 2005. New insights into old lemurs: the trophic adaptations of the Archaeolemuridae. International Journal of Primatology, 26 (4):825-854.

Green, J., Semprebon, G. M., and Solounias, N., 2005. Reconstructing the dietary habits of Florida mastodons via low-magnification stereomicroscopy, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatography, Paleoecology, 223, pp. 35-48.

Semprebon, G. M., Janis, C. M., and Solounias, N., 2004. The diets of the Dromomerycidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) and their response to Miocene vegetational change. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24 (2): 427-444.

Semprebon, G. M., Godfrey, L. R., Jungers, W., Solounias, N., 2004. Can low-magnification stereomicroscopy be used to diagnose diet? Journal of Human Evolution, 47: 115-144.

Godfrey, L R., Semprebon, G. M., and Sutherland, M., and Solounias, N., 2004. Dental use wear in extinct lemurs: evidence of diet and niche differentiation. Journal of Human Evolution, 47: 145-169.

Semprebon, G. M. 2002. Advances in the reconstruction of extant ungulate ecomorphology with applications to fossil ungulates. University of Massachusetts. 461 pp.

Solounias, N. and Semprebon, G. M. 2002. Advances in the reconstruction of ungulate ecomorphology with application to fossil equids. American Museum Novitates 3366:1-80.

Godfrey, L.R., Atkinson, M., and Semprebon, G.M. 2001. Paul Methuen’s sleeping treasure: subfossil lemurs in the zoological collections of the University Museum, Oxford American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 32: 70-71.

Published Abstracts:

Semprebon, G. M. Bernor, R. L., Gohlich, U.B., Harzhauser, M., 2017. Dental Morphology and Diet of the First Occurring Old World Hipparions from the Basal Vallesian of the Vienna Basin (MN9, 11.4-11.0 MA), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstract Volume: 193.

Semprebon, G. M., Rivals, F., Prignano, L., Lozano, S., 2016. A New Approach for Estimating the Rrelative Duration of Mortality Events of Large Hunted Game at Archaeological Sites Using Enamel Microwear, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstract Volume: 221.

Gusky, S., Semprebon, G.M. Jack, T., Holmberg, T., Boily P., Nicholson, B., Vale-Cruz, D., 2015. Answering the Call for Life Science Transformation. National Association of Biology Teachers Abstract Booklet: 761.

Semprebon, G. M., Sanders, W., Lister, A. M., Morgan, M. E., Cerling, T. E., Rivals, F., Göhlich, U., Fahlke, J. M., 2015. Dietary Reconstruction of Fossil Proboscideans from the Siwalik Series of Pakistan using Enamel Microwear and Carbon Isotopes, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstract Volume: 42.

Semprebon, G., Gusky S., Jack, T., 2014. A Call to Action: A report on the New National Initiative for Galvanizing Change in Undergraduate Life Science Educational Practices in the United States, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 227A.

Semprebon, G., Rivals, G., Fahlke, J., Sanders, W., Lister, A., Gohlich, U., 2014. The Effect of Insular Dwarfism on Dietary Niche occupation in Pygmy Mammoths from the Channel Islands of California, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 227A.

Bastl, K., Nagel, D., Semprebon, G., Morlo, M., 2014. Morphological and Ecological Diversity within the Hyaenodontidan Genus Hyaenodon with Remarks as to its Origin, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 86A.

Bernor, R., Mittmann, H-W., Munk, W., Semprebon, G., Wolf, D., 2013. New Insights from the Excavations of the Howenegg Lagerstaette, Hegau, Germany (MN9, 10.3 MA) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology suppl.1: 33.

Kelloway, T., Croft, D., Prybyla, A., Semprebon, G.M., Townsend, K., 2013. Diets of late early Miocene litopterns from Santa Cruz, Argentina, based on mesowear and enamel microwear. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology suppl.1: 33.

Rivals, F., Sánchez-Hernández, C., and Semprebon, G.M. 2013. Combined analysis of tooth mesowear and microwear: two-scale proxies of Pleistocene ungulate diets. European Association of Archeologists Annual Meeting Abstracts.

Semprebon, G. M., and Rivals, F., 2013. Gross Dental Wear and Dietary Evolution of North American Miocene to Pleistocene Ungulates. Anatomical Record, 296:231.

Wolf, D., Bernor, R.L., and Semprebon, G.M., 2013. The anatomy and paleoecology of the oselaphine Miotragocerus pannoniae from the late Miocene Höwenegg locality (Hegau, Germany) Zitteliana: An International Journal of Palaeontology and Geobiology 31: 34.

Semprebon, G.M., Solounias, N., Rivals, F., and Hulbert, R., 2012. Elucidating Paleodietary Trends in North American Horses from Hyracotherium to Equus using Tooth Wear Analyses. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32, suppl.1: 170.

Kalthoff, D.C., Semprebon, G.M. and Rivals, F. 2011. Can dentine microwear reveal diet? A low-magnification study of enamel and dentine in extant rhinoceros. 15th International Symposium on Dental Morphology.

Semprebon, G.M., Tao, D., Solounias, N., Hasjanova, J. 2011. Dietary Reconstruction of Chinese Shovel-Tusked Gomphotheres (Mammalia: Proboscidea): Evidence from Dental Microwear of Molar Teeth and Tusks. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 192A.

Bastl, K., Semprebon, G.M., and Nagel, D., 2011. The dietary preference of Hyaenodon (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) using stereomicrowear with new insights regarding its ecomorphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 67A.

Fahlke, J. M., Bastl, K., and Semprebon, G.M., 2011. Dietary adaptations in Eocene archaeocete whales revealed by microwear and macrowear analysis and stomach contents. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 107A.

Drewniak, P.A., and Semprebon, G.M., 2011. A living laboratory approach to teaching students about the scientific method and evolution: crafting a curriculum that allows students to generate their own evidence and formulate their own conclusions about evolutionary processes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 100A.

Rivals, F., and G.M. Semprebon, 2012. How long did you stay? Using tooth microwear to estimate the duration of hominid occupations at archaeological sites. Hugo Obermaier Society for Quaternary Research and Archaeology of the Stone Age Annual Meeting.

Rivals, F, Semprebon G., and Solounias, N. 2010. Advances in ungulate dental wear techniques reveal new patterns of niche breadth and expansion throughout the Cenozoic. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 130(3): 151-152A.

Wolf, D., Bernor, R., Kaiser, T., Nelson, S., Semprebon, G. 2009. Systematics and paleoecology of hipparionine and modern horses from the Pleistocene Makuyuni Locality, Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29(3): 203A.

Semprebon, G. M., Fahlke, J., M. Coombs, M.C., 2009. What does mesowear analysis of North American Chalicotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) reveal about differences in feeding behavior among chalicotheres from two continents? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29:179A.

Semprebon, G. M. and Drewniak, P. A., 2008. A Paleodietary analysis of late Eocene to middle Miocene Merycoidodontidae using three techniques of molar analysis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28:141A.

Solounias, N., Rivals, F. and Semprebon, G.2008. Herbivore dietary interpretation and paleoecology of the Pikermian biome (Late Miocene). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28: 146A.

Semprebon, G.M. and Rivals, F. 2007. Hypsodont browsing: camel and pronghorn dietary dietary reconstruction through deep time. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27: 144A.

Grossman, A. and Semprebon, G.M. 2007. Low magnification dental microwear of Early and Middle Miocene catarrhines from Africa: implications for dietary diversity. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27: 84A.

Semprebon, G. M. and Drewniak P. A. 2006. Dietary reconstruction of Paleocene and Eocene uintatheres (Order Dinocerata) from North America and Asia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26: 123A.

Coombs, M.C. and Semprebon, G.M. 2005. The diet of the chalicotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla), as indicated by low magnification stereoscopic microwear analysis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25: 47A.

Rivals F., and Semprebon G. M. 2005. Dental wear and dietary evolution of Antilocapridae during the Miocene- Pleistocene climatic transformation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25: 105A.

Semprebon, G. M. 2005. Miocene savannas and the Great Transformation: testing dietary shifts within the Equidae using low-magnification stereomicroscopy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25: 114A.

Rivals F., and Semprebon G. M. 2005. Dental Wear and Dietary Evolution of Antilocapridae during the Miocene-Pleistocene Climatic Transformation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3) suppl.: 105A.

Semprebon, G .M., Godfrey, L. R., Jungers, W. L., Sutherland, M. R., Solounias, N., 2004. Ecospace reconstruction of the extinct lemurs of Madagascar: evidence of diet and niche differentiation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24:(3) 112A.

Godfrey, L.R. Semprebon, G.M. Solounias, N, Sutherland, M.R., and Jungers, W.L., 2004. Can low-magnification stereomicroscopy reveal diet. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 38: 101.

Semprebon, G.M., Solounias, N., Godfrey, L. R., and Sutherland, M. R. 2003. The efficacy of low magnification stereomicroscopy in diagnosing diet across orders of mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23: 96A.

Godfrey, L.R., Semprebon, G.M., Schwartz, G.T., Burney, D.A., Jungers, W.L., Flanagan, E., King, S.J. 2003. What were the “monkey lemurs” of Madagascar up to? Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.Suppl.36: 101.

Green, J. L. and Semprebon, G.M. 2003. Reconstructing the dietary habits of a large sample of Florida mastodons via low-magnification stereomicroscopy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2: 57A.

Semprebon, G.M. 2001. A new method of reconstructing ungulate dietary behavior with applications to fossil equids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21: 100A.

Semprebon, G.M. 1999. Dietary reconstruction of the Dromomerycidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1999. 21: 100A.