2024
Chiappe, L.M., Navalón, G., Martinelli, A.G., de Sousa Carvalho, I., Santucci, R.M., Wu, Y-H., Field, D.J. Cretaceous bird fills key gap in the evolution of the avian skull and brain. 2024. Nature 635: 376–381. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08114-4.
Field, D.J., Burton, M.G.P., Benito, J., Plateau, O.J.C., Navalón, G. Whence the birds: 200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents. Biology Letters, in press.
Rico-Guevara, A., Sustaita, D., Hurme, K.J., Hanna, J.E., Jung, S., Field, D.J. Upper beak bending as an adaptation for nectar feeding in hummingbirds. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, in press.
Chen, A., van Tuinen, M., Field, D.J. 2024. Birds, Diversification of. Reference Module in Life Sciences. Elsevier. ISBN 9780128096338. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15750-9.00054-9.
du Toit, C.J., Bond, A.L., Cunningham, S.J., Field, D.J., Portugal, S.J. 2024. Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggest conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy. Biology Letters 20: 20240259. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2024.0259
Berv, J.S., Sonal, S., Field, D.J., et al. 2024. Molecular early burst associated with the diversification of birds at the K–Pg boundary. Science Advances 10: eadp0114. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adp0114
Burton, M.G.P., Benito, J., Mellor, K., Smith, E., Martin-Silverstone, E., O'Connor, P.M., Field, D.J. 2024. The influence of soft tissue volume on estimates of skeletal pneumaticity: implications for fossil archosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, in press.
Pimiento, C., Kacáková, K., Mathes, G.H., Argyriou, T., Cadena, E.-A., Cooper, J.A., Cortés, D., Field, D.J., Klug, C., Scheyer, T.M., Valenzuela-Toro, A.M., Hatt, P., Holdener, G., Jacober, G., Kobelt, S., Masseraz, S., Mehli, I., Reiff, S., Rigendinger, E., Ruckstuhl, M., Schneider, S., Seige, C., Senn, N., Staccoli, V., Baumann, J., Flüeler, L., Guevara, L.J., Ickin, E., Kissling, K.C., Rogenmoser, J., Spitznagel, D., Villafaña, J.A., Zanatta, C. 2024. The extinct marine megafauna of the Phanerozoic. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 2: e7. doi:10.1017/ext.2024.12.
Crane, A., Benito, J., Chen, A., Musser, G., Torres, C., Clarke, J.A., Lautenschlager, S., Ksepka, D.T., Field, D.J. 2024. Taphonomic damage obfuscates interpretation of the retroarticular region of the Asteriornis mandible. GeoBios.
Widrig, K.E., Navalón, G., Field, D.J. 2024. Palaeoneurology of stem palaeognaths clarifies the plesiomorphic condition of the crown bird central nervous system. Journal of Morphology 285: e21710. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21710
Field, D.J., Benito, J., Werning, S., Chen, A., Kuo, P.-C., Crane, A., Widrig, K.E., Ksepka, D.T., Jagt, J.M.W. 2024. Remarkable insights into modern bird origins from the Maastrichtian type area (north-east Belgium, south-east Netherlands). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 103: e15. https://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2024.11
Kuo, P-C.K., Navalón, G., Benson, R.B.J., Field, D.J. 2024. Macroevolutionary drivers of morphological disparity in the avian quadrate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20232250. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2250
Brocklehurst, N. & Field, D.J. 2024. Tip dating and Bayes factors provide insight into the radiation of crown birds across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20232618. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2618
2023
Gayford, J.H., Whitehead, D.A., Ketchum, J.T., Field, D.J. 2023. The selective drivers of allometry in sharks (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society zlac110. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac110
Burton, M.G.P., Benson, R.B.J., Field, D.J. 2023. Direct quantification of skeletal
pneumaticity illuminates ecological drivers of a key avian trait. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20230160. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0160.
Lowi-Merri, T.M., Demuth, O.E., Benito, J., Field, D.J., Benson, R.B.J., Claramunt, S., Evans, D.C. 2023. Reconstructing locomotor ecology of extinct avialans: a case study of Ichthyornis comparing sternum morphology and skeletal proportions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20222020. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2020.
2022 and earlier
Chiappe, L.M., Navalón, G., Martinelli, A.G., Nava, W., Field, D.J. 2022. Fossil basicranium clarifies the origin of the avian central nervous system and inner ear. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20221398.
Benito, J., Kuo, P-C., Widrig, K.E., Jagt, J.W.M., Field, D.J. 2022. Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous crown bird ancestor. Nature 612: 100–105. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05445-y
Benito, J., Chen, A., Wilson, L.E., Bhullar, B-A.S., Burnham, D., Field, D.J. 2022. Forty new specimens of Ichthyornis provide unprecedented insight into the postcranial morphology of crownward stem group birds. PeerJ 10:e13919. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13919
Demuth, O.E., Benito, J., Tschopp, E., Lautenschlager, S., Mallison, H., Heeb, N., Field, D.J. 2022. Topology-based three-dimensional reconstruction of delicate skeletal fossil remains and the quantification of their taphonomic deformation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:828006. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.828006
Widrig, K. & Field, D.J. 2022. The evolution and fossil record of palaeognathous birds (Neornithes: Palaeognathae). Diversity 14(2), 105. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14020105
Ducatez, S. & Field, D.J. 2021. Disentangling the avian altricial-precocial spectrum: Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality. Evolution 75(11): 2717-2735. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14365.
Hughes, J.J., Berv, J.S., Chester, S.J.B., Sargis, E.J., Field, D.J. 2021. Ecological selectivity and the evolution of mammalian substrate preference across the K–Pg boundary. Ecology and Evolution 00, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8114
Louchart, A., Bhullar, B.A-S., Riamon, S., Field, D.J. 2021. The true identity of putative tooth alveoli in a Cenozoic crown bird, the gastornithid Omorhamphus. Frontiers in Earth Science 9:661699. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.661699.
Klein, C.G., Pisani, D., Field, D.J., Lakin, R., Wills, M.A., Longrich, N.R. 2021. Evolution and dispersal of snakes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Nature Communications 12:5335. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25136-y.
Field, D.J. 2020. Preliminary paleoecological insights from the Pliocene avifauna of Kanapoi, Kenya: implications for the ecology of Australopithecus anamensis. Journal of Human Evolution 140 102384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.08.007
Field, D.J. 2020. The changing face of birds from the age of dinosaurs (Commentary). Nature. doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03260-x
Ksepka, D.T., Balanoff, A.M., Smith, N.A., Bever, G.S., Bhullar, B.A-S., Bourdon, E., Braun, E.L., Burleigh, J.G., Clarke, J.A., Colbert, M.W., Corfield, J.R., Degrange, F.J., De Pietri, V.L., Early, C.M., Field, D.J., Gignac, P.M., Gold, M.E.L., Kimball, R.T., Kawaba, S., Lefebvre, L., Marugán-Lobón, J., Mongle, C.S., Morhardt, A., Norell, M.A., Ridgely, R.C., Rothman, R.S., Scofield, R.P., Tambussi, C.P., Torres, C.R., van Tuinen, M., Walsh, S.A., Watanabe, A., Witmer, L.M., Wright, A.K., Zanno, L.E., Jarvis, E.D., Smaers, J.B.et al. 2020. Tempo and pattern of avian brain size evolution. Current Biology 30: 1-10. doi.org/10.1016//j.cub.2020.03.060
Chen, A. & Field, D.J. Phylogenetic definitions for Caprimulgiformes (Aves) and major constituent clades under the International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature. Zoology 74(4): 571-585. https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/03_vertebrate_zoology_70_4_2020_Chen.pdf
Ding, A., Pittman, M., Upchurch, P., O’Connor, J.K., Field, D.J., Xing, X. 2020. The biogeography of coelurosaurian dinosaurs and its impact on their evolutionary history. In Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs: Past progress and new frontiers (Pittman, M. & Xing, X. Eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 440: 117-157.
Field, D.J., Berv, J.S., Hsiang, A.Y., Lanfear, R., Landis, M.J., Dornburg, A. 2020. Timing the extant avian radiation: The rise of modern birds, and the importance of modeling molecular rate variation. In Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs: Past progress and new frontiers (Pittman, M. & Xing, X. Eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 440: 159-181.
Pittman, M., O’Connor, J.K., Field, D.J., Turner, A.H., Ma, W., Xing, X. Pennaraptoran systematics. 2020. In Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs: Past progress and new frontiers (Pittman, M. & Xing, X. Eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 440: 7-36.
Pittman, M., O’Connor, J.K., Tse, E., Makovicky, P., Field, D.J., Ma, W., Turner, A.H., Xing, X. 2020. The fossil record of Mesozoic and Paleocene pennaraptorans. In Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs: Past progress and new frontiers (Pittman, M. & Xing, X. Eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 440: 37-95.
Pittman, M., Heers, A.M., Serrano, F.J., Field, D.J., Habib, M.B., Dececchi, T.A., Kaye, T.G., Larsson, H.C.E. 2020. Methods of studying early theropod flight. In Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs: Past progress and new frontiers (Pittman, M. & Xing, X. Eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History: 440: 277-294.
Saupe, E.E., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D.J., Sagoo, N., Pham, K.V., Field, D.J. 2019. Climatic shifts drove major contractions in avian latitudinal distributions throughout the Cenozoic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:26 12895-12900. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1903866116
Oliveros, C., Field, D.J., Ksepka, D.T., Barker, F.K., Aleixo, A., Anderson, M.J., Alström, P., Benz, B.W., Braun, E.L., Braun, M.J., Bravo, G.A., Brumfield, R.T., Chesser, R.T., Claramunt, S., Cracraft, J., Cuervo, A.M., Derryberry, E.P., Glenn, T.C., Harvey, M.G., Hosner, P.A., Joseph, L., Kimball, R., Mack, A.L., Miskelly, C.M., Peterson, A.T., Robbins, M.B., Sheldon, F.H., Silveira, L.F., Smith, B.T., White, N.D., Moyle, R.G., Faircloth,B.C. 2019. Earth history and the passerine supperradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:16 7915-7925. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813206116
Chen, A., White, N.D., Benson, R.B.J., Braun, M.J., Field, D.J. 2019. Total-evidence framework reveals complex morphological evolution in nightbirds (Strisores). Diversity 11(9),143. https://doi.org/10.3390/d11090143
Field, D.J. 2019. Evolution: Convergence fits the bill (Commentary). Current Biology 29: R132-R134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.018
Field, D.J. & Hsiang, A.Y. 2018. A North American stem turaco, and the complex biogeographic history of modern birds. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18:102. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1212-3
Field, D.J., Bercovici, A., Berv, J.S., Dunn, R., Fastovsky, D.E., Lyson, T.R., Vajda, V., Gauthier, J.A. 2018. Early evolution of modern birds structured by global forest collapse at the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Current Biology 28: 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.062
Field, D.J., Hanson, M., Burnham, D., Wilson, L., Super, K., Ehret, D., Ebersole, J., Bhullar, B.A-S. 2018. Complete skull of Ichthyornis illuminates mosaic assembly of the avian head. Nature 556(7703): 96-100. http://doi.org/10.1038/s415860018-0053-y
Field, D.J. 2018. Endless Skulls Most Beautiful (Commentary). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(30): 7750-7752. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721208115
Field, D.J. 2017. Big-time insights from a tiny bird fossil (Commentary). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(30): 7750-7752.
Fabbri, M., Koch, N.M., Pritchard, A.C., Hanson, M., Hoffman, E., Bever, G.S., Balanoff, A.M., Morris, Z.S., Field, D.J., Camacho, J., Rowe, T.B., Norell, M.A., Smith, R.M., Abzhanov, A., Bhullar, B-A.S.B. 2017. The skull roof tracks the brain during the evolution and development of reptiles including birds. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0288-2
Field, D.J., Boessenecker, R., Racicot, R., Ásbjörnsdóttir, L., Jónasson, K., Hsiang, A., Behlke, A., Vinther, J. 2017. The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: A partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation. Palaeontology. doi:10/1111/pala.12275.
Bever, G.S., Lyson, T.R., Field, D.J., Bhullar, B.A.S. 2016. The amniote temporal roof and the diapsid origin of the turtle skull. Zoology. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.04.005.
Hsiang, A.Y., Field, D.J., Webster, T.H., Belker, A.D., Davis, M., Racicot, R.A., Gauthier, J.A. 2015. The origin of snakes: Revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:87. doi:10.1186/a12862-015-0358-5.
[Winner of the 2016 G.G. Simpson Prize]
Snow, S.S, Field, D.J., Musser, J.M. 2015. Competitive interactions in Grallaria antpittas: observations at a feeder. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(1): 89-93.
Field, D.J., Lynner, C., Brown, C., Darroch, S.A.F. 2013. Skeletal correlates for body mass estimation in modern and fossil flying birds. PLoS ONE 8(11): e82000.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082000.
Mcnamara, M.E., Briggs, D.E.G., Orr, P.J., Field, D.J., Wang, Z. 2013. Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for reconstructions of fossil feather colour. Biology Letters 9: 20130184.
Field, D.J., D’Alba L., Vinther, J., Webb, S.M., Gearty, W., Shawkey, M.D. 2013. Melanin concentration gradients in modern and fossil feathers. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59451. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059451.
[Winner of the 2013 G.G. Simpson Prize]