Publications & CV
Grossnickle CV 2023.pdfPublications
Most files are available on my ResearchGate page, or email me to request a copy (david.grossnickle@oit.edu).
Brannick AL, Fulghum HZ*, Grossnickle DM, Wilson Mantilla GP. 2023. Dental ecomorphology and macroevolutionary patterns of North American Late Cretaceous metatherians. Palaeontologica Electronica. 26.3.a49.
*undergraduate student mentee
Hellert SM*, Grossnickle DM*, Lloyd GT, Kammerer CF, Angielczyk KD. Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
*co-first authors
Santana SE, Grossnickle DM, Sadier A, Patterson E*, Sears KE. (2022). Bat dentitions: a model system for studies at the interface of development, biomechanics, and evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icac42.
Weaver LN, Fulghum HZ, Grossnickle DM, Brightly WH, Kulik ZT, Wilson Mantilla GP, Whitney MR. (2022). Multituberculate mammals show evidence of a life history strategy similar to that of placentals, not marsupials. American Naturalist, 200, 383–400.
Pevsner SK*, Grossnickle DM, Luo Z-X. (2022). The functional diversity of marsupial limbs is influenced by both ecology and developmental constraint. In press at Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
*undergraduate student mentee
Grossnickle DM, Weaver LN, Jäger KRK, Schultz JA. (2021). The evolution of anteriorly directed molar occlusion in mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlab039.
Weaver LN*, Grossnickle DM*. (2020). Functional diversity of small-mammal postcrania is linked to both substrate preference and body size. Current Zoology, 66, 539–553.
*co-first authors & co-corresponding authors
Grossnickle DM*, Chen M, Wauer JGA**, Pevsner SK**, Weaver LN, Meng Q-J, Liu D, Zhang Y-G, Luo Z-X*. (2020). Incomplete convergence of gliding-mammal skeletons. Evolution, 74, 2662–2680.
* co-corresponding authors, **undergraduate student mentees
Grossnickle DM. (2020). Jaw roll and jaw yaw in early mammals. Nature, 582, E6-E8.
Grossnickle DM. (2020). Feeding ecology has a stronger evolutionary influence on functional morphology than on body mass in mammals. Evolution, 74, 610–628.
Grossnickle DM, Smith SM, Wilson GP. (2019). Untangling the multiple ecological radiations of early mammals. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34, 936–949.
Huttenlocker AK, Grossnickle DM, Kirkland J, Schultz JA, Luo Z-X. (2018). Exceptionally preserved mammaliaform cranium with Gondwanan affinities in the Lower Cretaceous of North America. Nature, 558, 108–112.
Grossnickle DM. (2017). The evolutionary origin of jaw yaw in mammals. Scientific Reports, 7, 45094.
Meng Q-J, Grossnickle DM, Liu D, Zhang Y-G, Neander AI, Ji Q, Luo Z-X. (2017). New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic. Nature, 548, 291–296.
Luo Z-X, Meng Q-J, Grossnickle DM, Liu D, Neander AI, Zhang Y-G, Ji Q. (2017). A Jurassic mammaliaform offers new evidence on the earliest evolution of mammalian teeth and middle ears. Nature, 548, 326–329.
Grossnickle DM, Newham E. (2016). Therian mammals experience an ecomorphological radiation during the Late Cretaceous and selective extinction at the K-Pg boundary. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283, 20160256.
Meng Q-J, Ji Q, Zhang Y-G, Liu D, Grossnickle DM, Luo Z-X. (2015). An arboreal docodont from the Jurassic and mammaliaform ecological diversification.
Grossnickle DM, Polly PD. (2013). Mammal disparity decreases during the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280, 20132110.
Select media coverage
Grossnickle et al. (2019): U. Washington News
Grossnickle (2017): U. Chicago Science Life Blog, The Scientist
Grossnickle & Newham (2016): Forbes, Guardian, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor
Grossnickle & Polly (2013): ScienceDaily
Banner image is from central Utah, summer 2015. I took the photo while assisting paleontologists from the Field Museum of Natural History with work in the Cedar Mountain Formation (led by Peter Makovicky). Jonathan Mitchell sits in the middle, watching a lone rain cloud pass overhead.