John D. Orcutt
Morphology & Ecology Across
Time
at Gonzaga University
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Publications
2021 Orcutt, J.D. & Calede, J.J.M. Quantitative analyses of felid humeri reveal the existence of a very large cat in North America during the Miocene. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 28: 729-751.
2021 Famoso, N.A. & Orcutt, J.D. First occurence of Palaeogale von Meyer, 1846 in the Pacific Northwest, United States. Geodiversitas 44: 427-436.
2018 Calede, J.J.M., J.D. Orcutt, W. A. Kehl, & B.D. Richards. The first tetrapod from the mid-Miocene Clarkia lagerstätte (Idaho, USA). PeerJ 6:e4880.
2016 Orcutt, J.D. & S.S.B. Hopkins. Latitudinal body mass trends in Oligo-Miocene mammals. Paleobiology 42: 643-658.
2014 Davis, E.B., J.L. McGuire & J.D. Orcutt. Niche reconstructions of glacial refugia show consistent bias. Ecography 37: 1133-1138.
2013 Orcutt, J.D. & S.S.B. Hopkins. Oligo-miocene climate change and mammal body size evolution in the northwest United States. Paleobiology 39: 648-661.
2012 McHorse, B., J.D. Orcutt & E.B. Davis. The carnivore fauna of Rancho La Brea: average of aberrant? Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 329-330: 118-123.
2011 The canid fauna of the Juntura Formation (Late Clarendonian, Oregon). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31: 700-706.
Book Reviews
2014 Codifying the chronology of the largest continent. Quarterly Review of Biology 89: 258.
2013 Emerging from the shadow of Smilodon. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 20: 275-276.
Theses & Dissertation
2007 Tetrapod alpha-diversity across the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. MSc Thesis, University of Bristol (M.J. Benton, S. Sahney & G.T. Lloyd, advisors)
2003 Cursoriality in basal dinosaurs. BA Thesis, University of Chicago (P.C. Sereno, advisor)