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List of works by Daniel T. Ksepka

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Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations

scientific article (publication date: March 2012)

Fossil evidence for evolution of the shape and color of penguin feathers

scientific article

Paleogene equatorial penguins challenge the proposed relationship between biogeography, diversity, and Cenozoic climate change

scientific article

Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Reveals the Recent Crown Radiation of Penguins.

scientific article

The phylogeny of the living and fossil Sphenisciformes (penguins)

scholarly article by Daniel T. Ksepka et al published October 2006 in Cladistics

Earth history and the passerine superradiation

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

New fossil penguins (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Oligocene of New Zealand reveal the skeletal plan of stem penguins

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Best practices for digitally constructing endocranial casts: examples from birds and their dinosaurian relatives.

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Early Paleocene landbird supports rapid phylogenetic and morphological diversification of crown birds after the K-Pg mass extinction

scientific article

Podargiform affinities of the enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the early diversification of Strisores ("Caprimulgiformes" + Apodiformes)

scientific article published in 2011

Osteology and taxonomic revision of Hyphalosaurus (Diapsida: Choristodera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning, China

scientific article (publication date: June 2008)

The Fossil Calibration Database-A New Resource for Divergence Dating

scientific article

Flying rocks and flying clocks: disparity in fossil and molecular dates for birds

scientific article

Osteology of Icadyptes salasi, a giant penguin from the Eocene of Peru

scientific article (publication date: August 2008)

Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2011)

Flight performance of the largest volant bird

scientific article published on July 7, 2014

Multiple cenozoic invasions of Africa by penguins (Aves, Sphenisciformes)

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2012)

Erketu ellisoni, a Long-necked Sauropod from Bor Guvé (Dornogov Aimag, Mongolia)

scientific article (publication date: 2006)

Stem Parrots (Aves, Halcyornithidae) from the Green River Formation and a Combined Phylogeny of Pan-Psittaciformes

scholarly article by Daniel T. Ksepka et al published September 2011 in Journal of Paleontology

Primobucco mcgrewi(Aves: Coracii) from the Eocene Green River Formation: new anatomical data from the earliest constrained record of stem rollers

article by Daniel T. Ksepka & Julia A. Clarke published 29 January 2010 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Implications of flexible-shelled eggs in a Cretaceous choristoderan reptile

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2010)

New pelomedusoid turtles from the late Palaeocene Cerrejón Formation of Colombia and their implications for phylogeny and body size evolution

scholarly article by Edwin A. Cadena et al published 17 May 2012 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

The Illusory Evidence for Asian Brachiosauridae: New Material ofErketu ellisoniand a Phylogenetic Reappraisal of Basal Titanosauriformes

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Quantifying historical trends in the completeness of the fossil record and the contributing factors: an example using Aves

Fossil evidence of wing shape in a stem relative of swifts and hummingbirds (Aves, Pan-Apodiformes)

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2013)

A new stem parrot from the Green River Formation and the complex evolution of the grasping foot in Pan-Psittaciformes

article by Daniel T. Ksepka et al published March 2012 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Redescription and Phylogenetic Position of the Early Miocene Penguin Paraptenodytes Antarcticus from Patagonia

scholarly article by Sara Bertelli et al published 2006 in American Museum Novitates

Penguin heat-retention structures evolved in a greenhouse Earth

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2011)

Bone histology in extant and fossil penguins (Aves: Sphenisciformes).

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

The Basal Penguin (Aves: Sphenisciformes) Perudyptes devriesi and a Phylogenetic Evaluation of the Penguin Fossil Record

scientific article published on 3 June 2010

Late Cretaceous neornithine from Europe illuminates the origins of crown birds

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

An avian tarsometatarsus from near the K-T Boundary of New Zealand

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Evolution: A Rapid Flight towards Birds

scientific article published on November 3, 2014

Endocranial anatomy of Antarctic Eocene stem penguins: implications for sensory system evolution in Sphenisciformes (Aves)

New material ofMongolemys elegansKhosatzky and Mlynarski, 1971 (Testudines: Lindholmemydidae), from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia with Comments on Bone Histology and Phylogeny

scientific article published in 2013

Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Ancient crested penguin constrains timing of recruitment into seabird hotspot

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Oldest Finch-Beaked Birds Reveal Parallel Ecological Radiations in the Earliest Evolution of Passerines

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

A giant Oligocene fossil penguin from the North Island of New Zealand

scientific article published in September 2021

A history of shifting fortunes for African penguins

scientific article published in 2013

Redescription of the oldest crown clade penguin: cranial osteology, jaw myology, neuroanatomy, and phylogenetic affinities of Madrynornis mirandus

scholarly article by Federico J. Degrange et al published 4 March 2018 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Giants of the Sky

scientific article published on April 1, 2016

The Strangest Bird

Feathered dinosaurs

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Correction to: High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

scientific article published on 1 March 2020

Emperor penguin’s fossil relatives inhabited subtropical waters

scientific article published on 18 September 2025

CorrigendumCombined phylogenetic analysis of a new North American fossil species confirms widespread Eocene distribution for stem rollers (Aves, Coracii)

scholarly article by Julia A. Clarke et al published 28 August 2014 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Symposium on 'Evolving approaches for studying the anatomy of the avian brain': introduction.

scientific article published in August 2016

Osteology and neuroanatomy of a phasianid (Aves: Galliformes) from the Miocene of Nebraska

scientific article published in 2023 in the Journal of Paleontology