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Erik Seiffert
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
1,040 Points

Contributions by role

Author 705
Reviewer 35
Editor 300

Contributions by subject area

Paleontology
Evolutionary Studies
Genetics
Taxonomy
Zoology
Biogeography
Marine Biology
Biodiversity
Anthropology
Histology
Ecology

Erik R Seiffert

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Erik Seiffert's research is focused on the phylogenetic relationships, adaptations, and historical biogeography of mammals, with an emphasis on the endemic placental mammals of Africa and Arabia. He has a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (1995), an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (1998), and a Ph.D. from Duke University (2003). He was previously Lecturer in Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironments at University of Oxford and Curator of Geological Collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (2004-2007), Assistant and Associate Professor of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University (2007-2016), and is now a Professor of Integrative Anatomical Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (2016-Present). He is also a Research Associate at the Duke Lemur Center's Division of Fossil Primates and in the Department of Mammalogy, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Anatomy & Physiology Anthropology Biodiversity Biogeography Biosphere Interactions Climate Change Biology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Duke University
University of Southern California

Work details

Professor of Clinical Integrative Anatomical Sciences

University of Southern California
July 2016
Integrative Anatomical Sciences
I am broadly interested in the phylogenetic relationships, adaptations, and historical biogeography of mammals. My research is now focused largely on fossil mammals from the Eocene and Oligocene of Africa. In particular, late Eocene faunas from Egypt have provided important insights into the early evolution of anthropoid strepsirrhine primates, and also document primitive relatives of living hyraxes, elephants, sengis, tenrecs, various bat and rodent clades, and entirely extinct clades such as Hyaenodonta and Ptolemaiida. Much of this work has been undertaken in collaboration with my current and former doctoral students, and has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and The Leakey Foundation.

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 6
  • Edited 3
  • Reviewed 1
August 25, 2022
Total evidence time-scaled phylogenetic and biogeographic models for the evolution of sea cows (Sirenia, Afrotheria)
Steven Heritage, Erik R. Seiffert
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13886 PubMed 36042864
October 19, 2021
New phiocricetomyine rodents (Hystricognathi) from the Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt
Shorouq F. Al-Ashqar, Erik R. Seiffert, Dorien de Vries, Sanaa El-Sayed, Mohamed S. Antar, Hesham M. Sallam
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12074 PubMed 34721955
November 10, 2016
Hyainailourine and teratodontine cranial material from the late Eocene of Egypt and the application of parsimony and Bayesian methods to the phylogeny and biogeography of Hyaenodonta (Placentalia, Mammalia)
Matthew R. Borths, Patricia A. Holroyd, Erik R. Seiffert
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2639 PubMed 27867761
August 16, 2016
Ancient phylogenetic divergence of the enigmatic African rodent Zenkerella and the origin of anomalurid gliding
Steven Heritage, David Fernández, Hesham M. Sallam, Drew T. Cronin, José Manuel Esara Echube, Erik R. Seiffert
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2320 PubMed 27602286
March 1, 2016
New phiomorph rodents from the latest Eocene of Egypt, and the impact of Bayesian “clock”-based phylogenetic methods on estimates of basal hystricognath relationships and biochronology
Hesham M. Sallam, Erik R. Seiffert
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1717 PubMed 26966657
June 23, 2015
Primate tarsal bones from Egerkingen, Switzerland, attributable to the middle Eocene adapiform Caenopithecus lemuroides
Erik R. Seiffert, Loïc Costeur, Doug M. Boyer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1036 PubMed 26131376

Academic Editor on

January 4, 2019
Phylogeny of Paleozoic limbed vertebrates reassessed through revision and expansion of the largest published relevant data matrix
David Marjanović, Michel Laurin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5565 PubMed 30631641
June 27, 2018
Osteohistology of Late Triassic prozostrodontian cynodonts from Brazil
Jennifer Botha-Brink, Marina Bento Soares, Agustín G. Martinelli
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5029 PubMed 29967724
December 11, 2017
Cranial osteology of the pampathere Holmesina floridanus (Xenarthra: Cingulata; Blancan NALMA), including a description of an isolated petrosal bone
Timothy J. Gaudin, Lauren M. Lyon
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4022 PubMed 29250462

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April 27, 2017
Agerinia marandati sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula, sheds new light on the evolution of the genus Agerinia
Joan Femenias-Gual, Raef Minwer-Barakat, Judit Marigó, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Salvador Moyà-Solà
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3239 PubMed 28462042