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Joshua Samuels
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
445 Points

Contributions by role

Author 270
Reviewer 175

Contributions by subject area

Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Zoology
Animal Behavior
Ecology
Taxonomy
Anthropology

Joshua X Samuels

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Joshua Samuels received his bachelors (B.S.) in biology from the College of Idaho and a doctorate (PhD) in biology from UCLA. From 2010 to 2016 Josh was Museum Curator / Chief of Paleontology at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon. In 2016 he started a new position at East Tennessee State University and is now Associate Professor of Geosciences and Research Curator at the Gray Fossil Site & Museum. His research has mainly focused on the paleoecology and evolution of mammals, primarily rodents and carnivorans, as well as systematics and biostratigraphy.

Anatomy & Physiology Ecology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

East Tennessee State University

Work details

Associate Professor

East Tennessee State University
August 2016
Department of Geosciences

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Reviewed 4
March 8, 2023
The earliest dipodomyine heteromyid in North America and the phylogenetic relationships of geomorph rodents
Joshua X. Samuels, Jonathan J.-M. Calede, Jr., Robert M. Hunt
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14693 PubMed 36915658
April 18, 2018
A new species of Gulo from the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site (Eastern United States); rethinking the evolution of wolverines
Joshua X. Samuels, Keila E. Bredehoeft, Steven C. Wallace
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4648 PubMed 29682423

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

September 8, 2020
Hypercarnivorous teeth and healed injuries to Canis chihliensis from Early Pleistocene Nihewan beds, China, support social hunting for ancestral wolves
Haowen Tong, Xi Chen, Bei Zhang, Bruce Rothschild, Stuart White, Mairin Balisi, Xiaoming Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9858 PubMed 33194358
June 1, 2020
New insights into the giant mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene)
Alberto Valenciano, Romala Govender
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9221 PubMed 32547866
February 20, 2020
The effects of phylogeny, body size, and locomotor behavior on the three-dimensional shape of the pelvis in extant carnivorans
Kristi L. Lewton, Ryan Brankovic, William A. Byrd, Daniela Cruz, Jocelyn Morales, Serin Shin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8574 PubMed 32117630
June 8, 2018
The first tetrapod from the mid-Miocene Clarkia lagerstätte (Idaho, USA)
Jonathan J. M. Calede, John D. Orcutt, Winifred A. Kehl, Bill D. Richards
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4880 PubMed 29900070