publications
Peer reviewed articles
2023
Benites-Palomino, A., J. Vélez-Juarbe, C. De Gracia, and C. Jaramillo. 2023. Bridging two oceans: small toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti) from the late Miocene Chagres Fm., eastern Caribbean (Colon, Panama). Biology Letters 19:20230124.
Da Cuhna, L., L. W. Viñola-López, R. D. E. MacPhee, L. Kerber, J. Vélez-Juarbe, P.-O. Antoine, M. Boivin, L. Hautier, R. Lebrun, L. Marivaux, and P.-H. Fabre. 2023. The inner ear of caviomorph rodents: phylogenetic implication to extinct West Indian taxa. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 30:1155–1176.
Da Cuhna, L., L. W. Viñola-López, R. D. E. MacPhee, L. Kerber, J. Vélez-Juarbe, P.-O. Antoine, M. Boivin, L. Hautier, R. Lebrun, L. Marivaux, and P.-H. Fabre. 2023. 3D models related to the publication: The inner ear of caviomorph rodents: phylogenetic implication to extinct West Indian taxa. MorphoMuseuM e196. DOI: 10.18563/journal.m3.196
Formoso, K. K., M. B. Habib, and J. Vélez-Juarbe. 2023. The role of locomotory ancestry on secondarily aquatic transitions. Integrative and Comparative Biology 63(6):1140–1153. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad112
Vélez-Juarbe, J. 2023. New heterodont odontocetes from the Oligocene Pysht Formation in Washington State, U.S.A., and a reevaluation of Simocetidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti). PeerJ 11:e15576.
Viglino, M., A. M. Valenzuela-Toro, A. Benites-Palomino, A. E. Hernández-Cisneros, C. S. Gutstein, G. Aguirre-Fernández, J. Vélez-Juarbe, M. A. Cozzuol, M. R. Buono, and C. Loch. 2023. Aquatic mammal fossil in Latin America — a review of records, advances and challenges in research in the last 30 years. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 18:50–65.
2022
Benites-Palomino, A., J. Velez-Juarbe, A. Altamirano-Sierra, A. Collareta, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, and M. Urbina. 2022. Sperm whales (Physeteroidea) from the Pisco Formation, Peru, and their trophic role as fat sources for late Miocene sharks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20220774. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0774
Benites-Palomino, A., J. Velez-Juarbe, A. Altamirano-Sierra, A. Collareta, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, and M. Urbina. 2022. 3D model related to the publication: Sperm whales (Physeteroidea) from the Pisco Formation, Peru, and their trophic role as fat sources for late Miocene sharks. MorphoMuseuM 8(2):e171. DOI: 10.18563/journal.m3.171
De Gracia, C., A. Correa-Metrio, M. Carvalho, J. Velez-Juarbe, T. Přikryl, C. Jaramillo, and J. Kriwet. 2022. Towards a unifying systematic scheme of fossil and living billfishes (Teleostei, Istiophoridae). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 20:2091959. DIO: 10.1080/14772019.2022.2091959
Marivaux, L., L. W. Viñola-López, M. Boivin, L. Da Cunha, P.-H. Fabre, R. Joannes-Boyau, G. Maincent, P. Münch, N. S. Stutz, J. Vélez-Juarbe, and P.-O. Antoine. 2022. Incisor enamel microstructure of West Indian caviomorph hystricognathous rodents (Octodontoidea and Chinchilloidea). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. DOI: 10.1007/s10914-022-09631-7
Parham, J. F., J. A. Barron, and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2022. Middle and late Miocene marine mammal assemblages from the Monterey Formation of Orange County, California. Geological Society of America Special Paper 556:229–242. DOI: 10.1130/2021.2556(10)
Viñola-López, L. W., E. E. Core Suárez, J. Velez-Juarbe, J. N. Almonte Milan, and J. I. Bloch. 2022. The oldest known record of a ground sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Folivora) from Hispaniola: evolutionary and paleobiogeographical implications. Journal of Paleontology 96:684–.691. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2021.109
2021
Benites-Palomino, A., J. Velez-Juarbe, A. Collareta, D. Ochoa, A. Altamirano, M. Carré, M. J. Laime, M. Urbina, and R. Salas-Gismondi. 2021. Nasal compartmentalization in Kogiidae (Cetacea, Physeteroidea): insights from a new late Miocene Dwarf sperm whale from the Pisco Formation. Papers in Palaeontology 7(3):1507–1524. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1351
Hernández Cisneros, A. E., and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2021. Paleobiogeography of the North Pacific toothed mysticetes (Cetacea, Aetiocetidae): a key to Oligocene cetacean distributional patterns. Palaeontology 64:51–61. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12507
Marivaux, L., J. Velez-Juarbe, and P.-O. Antoine. 2021. 3D models related to the publication: An unpredicted ancient colonization of the West Indies by North American rodents: dental evidence of a geomorph from the early Oligocene of Puerto Rico. MorphoMuseuM 7(3):e128. DOI: 10.18563/journal.m3.128
Marivaux, L., J. Velez-Juarbe, L. W. Viñola López, P.-H. Fabre, F. Pujos, H. Santos-Mercado, E. J. Cruz, A. M. Grajales Pérez, J. Padilla, M. Philippon, P. Münch, and P.-O. Antoine. 2021. An unpredicted ancient colonization of the West Indies by North American rodents: dental evidence of a geomorph from the early Oligocene of Puerto Rico. Papers in Palaeontology 7(4):2021–2039. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1388
Sander, P. M., E. M. Griebeler, N. Klein, J. Velez-Juarbe, T. Wintrich, L. J. Revell, and L. Schmitz. 2021. Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans. Science 374:eabf5787. DOI: 10.1126/science.abf5787
Suarez, C., J. N. Gelfo, J. W. Moreno-Bernal, and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2021. An early Miocene manatee from Colombia and the initial sirenian invasion of freshwater ecosystems. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 109:103277. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103277
2020
Benites-Palomino, A., J. Velez-Juarbe, R. Salas-Gismondi, and M. Urbina. 2020. Scaphokogia totajpe, sp. nov., a new bulky-faced pygmy sperm whale (Kogiidae) from the late Miocene of Peru. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(6):e1728538. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2019.1728538
Biewer, J. N., J. Velez-Juarbe, and J. F. Parham. 2020. Insights on the dental evolution of walruses based on new fossil specimens from California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40:e1833896. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1833896
Blackburn, D. C., R. M. Keeffe, M. C. Vallejo-Pareja, and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2020. The earliest record of Caribbean frogs: a fossil coqui from Puerto Rico. Biology Letters 16:20190947. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0947
Marivaux, L., J. Velez-Juarbe, and P.-O. Antoine. 2020. 3D models related to the publication: Early Oligocene chinchilloid caviomorphs from Puerto Rico and the initial rodent colonization of the West indies: 3D models of Oligocene Puerto Rican chinchilloids. MorphoMuseum, Association Palaeovertebrata 6(4):e127. DOI: 10.18563/journal.m3.127
Marivaux, L., J. Velez-Juarbe, G. Merzeraud, F. Pujos, L. W. Viñola López, M. Boivin, H. Santos-Mercado, E. J. Cruz, A. Grajales, J. Padilla, K. I. Vélez-Rosado, M. Philippon, J.-L. Léticée, P. Münch, and P.-O. Antoine. 2020. Early Oligocene chinchilloid caviomorphs from Puerto Rico and the initial colonization of the West Indies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287:20192806. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2019.2806
2019
Donovan, S. K., S. N. Nielsen, J. Velez-Juarbe, R. W. Portell. 2019. The isocrinine crinoid Isselicrinus Rovereto from the Paleogene of the Americas. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 138:317-324. DOI: 10.1007/s13358-019-00195-3
Velez-Juarbe, J., and A. M. Valenzuela-Toro. 2019. Oldest record of monk seals from the North Pacific and biogeographic implications. Biology Letters 15:20190108. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0108
2018
Magallanes, I., J. F. Parham, G.-P. Santos, and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2018. A new tuskless walrus from the Miocene of Orange County, California, with comments on the diversity and taxonomy of odobenids. PeerJ 6:e5708. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5708
Velez-Juarbe, J. 2018. New data on the early odobenid Neotherium mirum Kellogg, 1931, and other pinniped remains from the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38:e1481080. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2018.1481080
Velez-Juarbe, J., and F. M. Salinas-Márquez. 2018. A dwarf walrus from the Miocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Royal Society Open Science 5:180423. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180423
Velez-Juarbe, J., and A. R. Wood. 2018. An early Miocene dugongine (Sirenia; Dugongidae) from Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38:e1511799. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2018.1511799
2017
Barboza, M. M., J. F. Parham, G. P. Santos, B. N. Kussman, and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2017. The age of the Oso Member, Capistrano Formation, and a review of fossil crocodylians from California. PaleoBios 34:1-16. DOI: 10.5070/P9341033797
Velez-Juarbe, J. 2017. Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the "Topanga" Formation of Southern California. PeerJ 5:e3022. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3022
Velez-Juarbe, J. 2017. A new stem odontocete from the late Oligocene Pysht Formation in Washington State, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(5):e1366916. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1366916
2016
Antoine, P.-O., M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. Altamirano Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, F. Corfu, D. A. Croft, M. Ganerød, C. Jaramillo, S. Klaus, L. Marivaux, R. E. Navarrete, M. J. Orliac, F. Parra, M. E. Pérez, F. Pujos, J.-C. Rage, A. Ravel, C. Robinet, M. Roddaz, J. V. Tejada-Lara, J. Velez-Juarbe, F. P. Wesselingh, and R. Salas-Gismondi. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2015.11.001
Pimiento, C., B. J. MacFadden, C. F. Clements, S. Varela, C. Jaramillo, J. Velez-Juarbe, and B. R. Silliman. 2016. Geographical distribution patterns of Carcharocles megalodon over time reveal clues about extinction mechanisms. Journal of Biogeography 43:1645–.1655 DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12754
Pyenson, N. D., J. F. Parham, and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2016. The dilemma of trade samples and the importance of museum vouchers: caveats from a study on the extinction of Steller's sea cow: a comment on Crerar et al. (2014). Biology Letters 12:20150149. DOI: 10.1098.rsbl.2015.0149
Velez-Juarbe, J., A. R. Wood, and C. Pimiento. 2016. Pygmy sperm whales (Odontoceti, Kogiidae) from the Pliocene of Florida and North Carolina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36:e1135806. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1135806
2015
Pyenson, N. D., J. Velez-Juarbe, C. S. Gutstein, H. Little, D. Vigil, and A. O’Dea. 2015. Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of ‘river dolphins’ in the Americas. PeerJ 3:e1227. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1227
Springer, M. S., A. V. Signore, J. L. A. Paijmans, J. Velez-Juarbe, D. P. Domning, C. E. Bauer, K. He, L. Crerar, P. F. Campos, W. J. Murphy, R. W. Meredith, J. Gatesy, E. Willerslev, R. D. E. MacPhee, M. Hofreiter, and K. L. Campbell. 2015. Interordinal gene capture, the phylogenetic position of Steller’s sea cow based on molecular and morphological data, and the macroevolutionary history of Sirenia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91:178–193. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.022
Velez-Juarbe, J., and D. P. Domning. 2015. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. XI. Callistosiren boriquensis, gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(1):e885034. DOI: 10.1080.02724634.2014.885034
Velez-Juarbe, J., A. R. Wood, C. De Gracia, and A. J. W. Hendy. 2015. Evolutionary patterns among living and fossil kogiid sperm whales: evidence from the Neogene of Central America. PLoS ONE 10(4):e0123909. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123909
2014
Herrera, F., S. R. Manchester, J. Velez-Juarbe, and C. Jaramillo. 2014. Phytogeographic history of the Humiriaceae (Part 2). International Journal of Plant Science 175:828-840. DOI: 10.1086/676818
Pyenson, N. D., C. S. Gutstein, J. F. Parham, J. P. Le Roux, C. Carreño Chavarría, A. Metallo, V. Rossi, H. Little, A. M. Valenzuela-Toro, J. Velez-Juarbe, C. M. Santelli, D. Rubilar Rogers, M. A. Cozzuol, and M. E. Suárez. 2014. Repeated mass stranding of Miocene marine mammals from the Atacama of Chile point to sudden death at sea. Proceeding of the Royal Society B 281:20133316. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3316 http://cerroballena.si.edu
Vélez-Juarbe, J. 2014. Ghost of seagrasses past: using sirenians as a proxy for historical distribution of seagrasses. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 400:41-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.05.012
Vélez-Juarbe, J., and D. P. Domning. 2014. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. IX. Metaxytherium albifontanum, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):444-464. DOI: 10.1080.02724634.2013.799072
Vélez-Juarbe, J., and D. P. Domning. 2014. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. X. Priscosiren atlantica, gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(4):951-964. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.815192
Vélez-Juarbe, J., T. Martin, R. D. E. MacPhee, and D. Ortega-Ariza. 2014. The earliest Caribbean rodents: Oligocene caviomorphs from Puerto Rico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):157-163. DO: 10.1080/02724634.2013.789039
2013
Fitzgerald, E. M. G., J. Velez-Juarbe, and R. T. Wells. 2013. Miocene sea cow (Dugongidae) from Papua New Guinea sheds light on sirenian evolution in the Indo-Pacific. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(4):956-963. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.753081
Vélez-Juarbe, J. 2013. Return to the Sea: the Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals, by Annalisa Berta, 2012. The University of California Press, Berkeley, U.S.A., 224 pp. $44.95 hardback. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1253.
2012
Vélez-Juarbe, J., and N. D. Pyenson. Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(2):476-484. (Free download here)
Vélez-Juarbe, J., D. P. Domning, and N. D. Pyenson. Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years. PLoS ONE 7(2):e31294. (Open access article)
Vélez-Juarbe, J., J. I. Noriega, and B. S. Ferraro. 2012. Fossil Dugongidae (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the Parana Formation (late Miocene) of Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana 49(4):585-593. DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.27.6.2012.568
2010
Bajpai, S., D. P. Domning, D. P. Das, J. Vélez-Juarbe, and V. P. Mishra. 2010. A new fossil sirenian (Mammalia, Dugonginae) from the Miocene of India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 258(1):39-50. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0082
Uhen, M. D., A. G. Coates, C. A. Jaramillo, C. Montes, C. Pimiento, A. Rincón, N. Strong, and J. Vélez-Juarbe. 2010. Marine mammals from the Miocene of Panama. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 30(3-4):167-175. DOI: 10.1016/j.james.2010.08.002
2008
Schweitzer, C. E., J. Vélez-Juarbe, M. Martinez, A. Collmar Hull, R. M. Feldmann, and H. Santos. 2008. New Cretaceous and Cenozoic Decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34:1-15. (Open access article)
2007
Brochu, C. A., A. M. Nieves-Rivera, J. Vélez-Juarbe, J. D. Daza, and H. Santos. 2007. Tertiary crocodylians from Puerto Rico: evidence for late Tertiary endemic crocodylians in the West Indies? Geobios 40:51-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2005.10.008
Vélez-Juarbe, J., and T. E. Miller. 2007. First report of a Quaternary crocodylian from a cave deposit in northern Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 43(2):273-277. DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v43i2.a13
Vélez-Juarbe, J., C. A. Brochu, and H. Santos. 2007. A gharial from the Oligocene of Puerto Rico: transoceanic dispersal in the history of a nonmarine reptile. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:1245-1254. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0455
2006
Carrano, M. T., and J. Vélez-Juarbe. 2006. Paleoecology of the Quarry 9 vertebrate assemblage from Como Bluff, Wyoming (Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 237(3-4):147-159. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.018
Schweitzer, C. E., M. A. Iturralde-Vinent, J. L. Hetler, and J. Vélez-Juarbe. 2006. Oligocene and Miocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from the Caribbean. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 75(2):111-136. DOI: 10.2992/0097-4463(2006)75[111:OAMDTA]2.0.CO;2
Book chapters
In Press
Vélez-Juarbe, J., and C. A. Brochu. In Press. Eocene crocodyliform remains from Seven Rivers, Jamaica: Implications for Neotropical crocodyliform biogeography and the status of Charactosuchus Langston, 1965; in Portell, R. W. & D. P. Domning (eds.), The Eocene Fossil Site of Seven Rivers, Jamaica: Paleontology, and Evolutionary and Biogeographic Implications. Springer, Berlin.
2008
Vélez-Juarbe, J., and H. Santos. 2008. Fossil Echinodermata from Puerto Rico; pp. 369-395 in Ausich, W. I. and G. D. Webster (eds.), Echinoderm Paleobiology. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.