Publications
Lee, J., N. A. Famoso, & A. Lin. 2024. Microtomography of an enigmatic fossil egg clutch from the Oligocene John Day Formation, Oregon, USA, reveals an exquisitely preserved 29-million-year-old fossil grasshopper ootheca. Parks Stewardship Forum 40(1):139-179. DOI: 10.5070/P540162928
Famoso N. A. & Orcutt J. D. 2022. First occurrences of Palaeogale von Meyer, 1846 in the Pacific Northwest, United States. Geodiversitas 44 (14): 427-436. DOI:10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a14
Short, R. A., L. G. Emmert, N. A. Famoso, J. M. Martin, J. I. Meade, S. L. Swift, & A. Baezg. 2021. Paleobiology of a large mammal community from the late Pleistocene of Sonora, Mexico. Quaternary Research 102:1-13. DOI: 10.1017/qua.2020.125
Kort, A.E. & N.A. Famoso. 2020. Novel analysis of locality data can inform better inventory and monitoring practices for paleontological resources at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Palaeontologia Electronica 23(1):1-17. DOI:10.26879/1053
Famoso, N.A. 2020. Mammalian Community Response to Historic Volcanic Eruptions. Mammalian Biology 100(2):219-230. DOI: 10.1007/s42991-020-00022-0
Robson, S.V., N. A. Famoso , E. B. Davis, & S. S. B. Hopkins. 2019. First mesonychid from the Clarno Formation (Eocene) of Oregon. Palaeontologia Electronica. 22(2.35):1-13. DOI: 10.26879/856
Liggett, G. A., T. Childs, N. A. Famoso, H. G. McDonald, A. L. Titus, E. Varner, & C.L. Liggett. 2018. An overview of the contributions of federal land to paleontology, and a discussion of the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum Program. In Rosenberg, G. D., and Clary, R. M., eds., Museums at the Forefront of the History of Philosophy of Geology, History Made, History in the Making: Geological Society of America Special Paper 535: p. 311-334. DOI: 10.1130/2018.2535(21)
Famoso, N. A., S. S. B. Hopkins, & E. B. Davis. 2018. How do diet and body mass drive reproductive strategies in mammals? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124(2):151-156. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly038
2017. Statistical analysis of dental variation in the Oligocene equid Miohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) of Oregon. Journal of Paleontology. 91(5):1060-1068 DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2017.42
2016. On the relationship between enamel band complexity and occlusal surface area in Equids (Mammalia, Perissodactyla). PeerJ. 4:e2181 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2181
Famoso, N. A., E. B. Davis, R. S. Feranec, S. S. B. Hopkins, & S. A. Price. 2016. Are Hypsodonty and Occlusal Enamel Complexity Evolutionarily Correlated in Ungulates? Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 23(1): 43-47. DOI: 10.1007/s10914-015-9296-7#
Famoso, N.A. & S.S.B. Hopkins. 2014. Correction to the holotype (AMNH FM 9394) of Merychippus proparvulus Osborn, 1918 (Perissodactyla, Equidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34(5): 1249-1250. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2014.853073
Famoso, N.A. & E.B. Davis. 2014. Occlusal enamel complexity in middle Miocene to Holocene Equids (Equidae: Perissodactyla) of North America. PLoS One. 9(2): e90184. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090184
Famoso N.A., R.S. Feranec, & E. B. Davis. 2013. Occlusal enamel complexity and its implications for lophodonty, hypsodonty, body mass and diet in extinct and extant ungulates. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 387: 211-216. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.006
Famoso, N.A. & D.C. Pagnac. 2011. A Comparison of the Clarendonian Equid Assemblages from the Mission Pit, South Dakota and Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies. 32: 98-107. Website: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tnas/9/