McCarroll SM, Tomiya S, Dunn RH, Zack SP, Wood MC, Bai B, Turnbull WD, Flynn JJ (2025) An early to middle Uintan (Ui1b–Ui2) mammalian fauna from the upper unit of the middle Eocene Adobe Town Member, Washakie Formation (Wyoming, U.S.A.), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology:e2570730. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2570730
Poust, A.W., Barrett, P.Z., Tomiya, S. 2022. An early nimravid from California and the rise of hypercarnivorous mammals after the middle Eocene climatic optimum. Biology Letters 18(10):20220291. [link to article; authors' accepted manuscript in KURENAI reporitory]
Redman, C.M., Tomiya, S., Bitterman, K., Cain, K., and J.A. Meachen. 2021. Utilizing inquiry-driven science outreach to curate Natural Trap Cave fossils and inspire the pursuit of STEM careers. Evolution: Education and Outreach 14(13):1–10. [freely available online]
Tomiya, S., S.P. Zack, M. Spaulding, and J.J. Flynn. 2021. Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world. Paleontological Society Memoir 82 (Supplement to Journal of Paleontology 95):1–115. [freely available online]
Tomiya, S., and L.K. Miller. 2021. Why aren't rabbits and hares larger? Evolution 75(4):847–860. [freely available online]
Tomiya, S., and Z.S. Morris. 2020. Reidentification of late middle Eocene "Uintacyon" from the Galisteo Formation (New Mexico, U.S.A.) as an early beardog (Mammalia, Carnivora, Amphicyonidae). Breviora 567(1):1–12. [freely available online]
Tomiya, S., and J.A. Meachen. 2018. Postcranial diversity and recent ecomorphic impoverishment of North American gray wolves. Biology Letters 14(20170613):1-6. [freely available online; see here for corrected Figure 1]
Tomiya, S., and Z.J. Tseng. 2016. Whence the beardogs?: reappraisal of Middle to Late Eocene “Miacis” from Texas, USA, and the origin of Amphicyonidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). Royal Society Open Science 3(160518):1-25. [freely available online; news articles in Christian Science Monitor, Forbes, Science, The Guardian, WTTW Chicago Tonight, and elsewhere]
Tomiya, S. 2013a. Body size and extinction risk in terrestrial mammals above the species level. American Naturalist 182:E196-E214. [freely available online]
Tomiya, S. 2013b. New carnivoraforms (Mammalia) from the middle Eocene of California, USA, and comments on the taxonomic status of ‘Miacis’ gracilis. Palaeontologia Electronica 16(2; 14A):1-29. [freely available online]
Tomiya, S. 2011. A new caniform (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the middle Eocene of North America and remarks on the phylogeny of early carnivorans. PLoS ONE 6:e24146. [freely available online]
Tomiya, S., J.L. McGuire, R.W. Dedon, S.D. Lerner, R. Setsuda, A.N. Lipps, J.F. Bailey, K.R. Hale, A.B. Shabel, and A.D. Barnosky. 2011. A report on late Quaternary vertebrate fossil assemblages from the eastern San Francisco Bay region, California. PaleoBios 30:50-71. [freely available online]
Barnosky, A.D., N. Matzke, S. Tomiya, G.O.U. Wogan, B. Swartz, T. Quental, C. Marshall, J.L. McGuire, E.L. Lindsey, K.C. Maguire, B. Mersey, and E.A. Ferrer. 2011. Has the Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived? Nature 471:51-57. [link to abstract]
Tomiya, S., B.A. Swartz, and M. Batavia. 2011. The educational values of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. University Museums and Collections Journal 3:61-66. [freely available online]
Tomiya, S., S.P. Zack, M. Spaulding, and J.J. Flynn. 2021. Data from: Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world. Dryad Digital Repository.
Tomiya, S., and L.K. Miller. 2021. Data from: Why aren't rabbits and hares larger? Dryad Digital Repository.
Tomiya, S., and J.A.M. Meachen. 2018. Data from: Postcranial diversity and recent ecomorphic impoverishment of North American gray wolves. Dryad Digital Repository.
Tomiya, S., and Z.J. Tseng. 2016. Data from: Whence the beardogs? Reappraisal of the Middle to Late Eocene ‘Miacis’ from Texas, USA, and the origin of Amphicyonidae (Mammalia, Carnivora). Dryad Digital Repository.
Tomiya, S. 2013. Data from: Body size and extinction risk in terrestrial mammals above the species level. Dryad Digital Repository.
University of California Museum of Paleontology web logs
Cataloging the archives: unearthing a type. (03/09/2012).
Cataloging the archives: geology camp 100 years ago. (04/17/2012).
Cataloging the archives: paleontology specimen exchange. (09/04/2013).