Publications

K.R. Selig, M.S. Ramsay, R. Lahosky, L. Schroeder, M.T. Silcox. 2024. Variation in dental morphology as a signal for dietary breadth in primates and their kin. Journal of Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae015

K.R. Selig, S. López-Torres, A.M. Burrows, M.T. Silcox. 2024. Dental topographic analysis of living and fossil lorisoids: investigations into markers of exudate feeding in lorises and galagos. International Journal of Primatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-024-00433-7

K.R. Selig, S. López-Torres, A.M. Burrows, M.T. Silcox, J. Meng. 2024. Dental caries in living and extinct strepsirrhines with insight into diet and health. The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25420

K. R. Selig. 2024. Hypoconulid loss in cercopithecins: Functional and developmental considerations. Journal of Human Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103479

K.R. Selig. 2023. Form, function, and tissue proportions of the mustelid carnassial molar. Mammal Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-023-00705-2 .

K.R. Selig, M.T. Silcox. 2022. Measuring Molarization: Change through time in premolar function in an extinct stem primate lineage. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09623-7.

R.K. Sehgal, A.P. Singh, C.C. Gilbert, B. A. Patel, C.J. Campisano, K.R. Selig, R. Patnaik, N. P. Singh. 2022. A new treeshrew and other micromammals from the middle Miocene hominoid locality of Ramnagar, Udhampur Ddistrict, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Journal of Paleontology. 1-18. doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.41.

K. R. Selig & M. T. Silcox. 2021. The Largest and Earliest known Sample of Dental Caries in an Extinct Mammal (Mammalia, Euarchonta, Microsyops latidens) and its Ecological Implications. Scientific Reports. 11:15920.

K.R. Selig, L. Schroeder, M.T. Silcox. 2021. Intraspecific variation of the molar topography of the Early Eocene stem primate Microsyops latidens (Mammalia, ?Primates). Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology. e1995738.

 K. R. Selig, A. E. Chew, M. T. Silcox. 2021. Dietary Shifts in a Group of Early Eocene Euarchontans (Microsyopidae) in Association with Climatic Change. Palaeontology. 1-20.

K. R. Selig, K. Kupczik, M. T. Silcox. 2021. Brief Communication: The effect of high wear diets on the relative pulp volume of the lower molars. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174:804–811.

K. R. Selig, W. Khalid, M. T. Silcox. 2021. Mammalian molar complexity follows simple, predictable patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (1) e2008850118.

M. T. Silcox, K. R. Selig, A. E. Chew, K. D. Rose. 2021. Cladogenesis and replacement in the fossil record of Microsyopidae (?Primates) from the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Biology Letters 17: 20200824.

K. R. Selig, E. J. Sargis, S. G. B. Chester, and M. T. Silcox. 2020. Using three-dimensional geometric morphometric and dental topographic analyses to reconstruct the systematics and paleoecology of fossil treeshrews (Scandentia). Journal of Paleontology 94: 1202 - 1212.

S. López-Torres, K.R. Selig, A.M. Burrows, M.T. Silcox. 2020. The toothcomb of Karanisia clarki – Was this species an exudate-feeder? In: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos (K.A.I. Nekaris and A.M. Burrows, Eds.) pp 67—75 Cambridge University Press.

A. M Burrows, L. T. Nash, A. Hartstone-Rose, K. R. Selig, M. T. Silcox, S. López-Torres. 2020. Gum-feeding in the evolution of the lorises. In: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos (K.A.I. Nekaris and A.M. Burrows, Eds.) pp. 153—161 Cambridge University Press.

K. R. Selig, E. J. Sargis, M. T. Silcox. 2019. The frugivorous insectivores? Functional morphological analysis of molar topography for inferring diet in extant treeshrews (Scandentia). Journal of Mammalogy 100(6):1901–1917.

K. R. Selig, S. López-Torres, A. Hartstone-Rose, L. T. Nash, A. M. Burrows, M. T. Silcox. 2019. A novel method for assessing enamel thickness distribution in the anterior dentition as a signal for gouging and other extractive foraging behaviors in gummivorous mammals. Folia Primatologica 91:365–384.

K. R. Selig, E. J. Sargis, M. T. Silcox. 2019. Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of treeshrew (Scandentia) lower molars: Insight into dental variation and systematics. The Anatomical Record 302: 1154–1168.

A. M. Burrows, L. T. Nash, A. Hartstone-Rose, M. T. Silcox, S. López-Torres, K. R. Selig. 2019. Dental signatures for exudativory in living Primates, with comparisons to other gouging mammals. The Anatomical Record 303:265–281.

K.R. Selig, S. López-Torres, E.J. Sargis, M.T. Silcox. 2019. First 3D dental topographic analysis of the enamel-dentine junction in non-primate euarchontans: Contribution of the enamel-dentine junction to molar morphology. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 26: 587–598.

S. López-Torres, K.R. Selig, K.A. Prufrock, M.T. Silcox. 2018. Dental topographic analysis of paromomyid (Plesiadapiformes, Primates) cheek teeth: More than 15 million years of changing surfaces and shifting ecologies. Historical Biology 30:76–88.