Amanda Peng

@amandawpeng.bsky.social

Assistant professor and curator at Fort Hays State University and Sternberg Museum / Mammal paleontologist / all thoughts are my own

New paper out from the John Day Fossil Beds Special Volume of Journal of Paleontology. I started this work as a second-year Ph.D. student in 2020 as a Scientist-in-the-Park at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument with Nick Famoso. How things have changed! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Diversity and disparity in mammalian fossil assemblages of the John Day Formation, Oregon, USA | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

Diversity and disparity in mammalian fossil assemblages of the John Day Formation, Oregon, USA

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I've been having a wonderful couple of weeks in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua in Italy collaborating with my friend and former office-mate, Elena Ghezzo, on Italian fossil rodents. This visit has been equal parts pasta, pizza, and fossils!

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Another chapter of my dissertation is out in @palaeo-electronica.bsky.social! We assembled a large ecomorphological dataset of Cenozoic rodents from Asia and compared diversity before and after major tectonic/climate events. Check it out! palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026...

Asian Rodentia ecological diversity

Multivariate analysis of ecological diversity in Asian Rodentia in the context of tectonism and environmental change

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