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2021
2021.Foley, E.K.,Roberts, E.M., Knutsen, E.M., Hannaford. C. Cryptic Middle to Late Jurassic marine incursions into northeastern Gondwana: an integrated sedimentological, ichnological and geochronological approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 569, 110330.
2021. Titus, A.L., Knoll, K., Sertich, J.J.W., Yamamura, D., Suarez, C.A., Glasspool, I.J., Ginouves, J.E., Lukacic, A.K., Roberts, E.M., Geology and taphonomy of a unique tyrannosaurid bonebed from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: implications for tyrannosaurid gregariousness. PeerJ 9:e11013.
2021. Robbins, J., Dirks, P.G.H.M.,Roberts, E.M., Kramers, J.D., Makhubela, T.V., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Elliot, M., Wiersma, J., Berger, L. Providing context to the Homo naledi fossils: Constraints on the age of sediment deposits in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. Chemical Geology.
2021. McCartney, J.A., Bouchard, S.N., Reinhardt, J.A., Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, E.M., Mtelela, C., Stevens, N.J. The oldest lamprophiid (Serpentes, Caenophidia) from the late Oligocene Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania and the origins of African snake diversity. Geobios. Doi.org/10.1016/2020.07.005. in press.
2021. Claeson, K.M., Ngasala, S., Gottfried, M.D., Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, E.M., Mtelela, C.., Stevens, N.J. A new assemblage of Cenozoic lungfishes (Dipoi:Lepidosirenidae) from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania. Geobios. Doi.org/10.1016/2020.09.004.
2021.Lawrence, L.., Spandler, C., Roberts, E.M., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L. Mineralogy and origin of the alkaline Nsungwe tuffs of the Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania. Lithos 105885.
2020. Wiersma, J.P., Roberts, E.M., Dirks, P.H.G.M. Formation of mud clast breccias and the process of sedimentary autobrecciation in the hominin-bearing (Homo naledi) Rising Star Cave system, South Africa. Sedimentology, doi:10.1111/sed.126662020
2020.Foley, E.K., Baty, M., Knutsen, E.M., Lignum., S., Roberts, E.M. Jurassic-Early Cretaceous paleogeography and paleoenvironments of the north-eastern margin of Gondwana: Insights from the Carpentaria Basin, Australia. Gondwana Research 88, p. 126-149.
2020.Beveridge, T.L., Roberts, E.M. Titus, A.L. Volcaniclastic member of the richly fossiliferous Kaiparowits Formation reveals new insights for regional correlation and tectonics in southern Utah during the latest Campanian. Cretaceous Research 114, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104527
2020.Tobin, T., Roberts, E.M., Slotznick, S.P., Biasi, J.A., Clarke, J.A., O’Connor, P.M., Skinner, S.M., West, A.R., Snyderman, L.S., Kirschvink, J.,L., and Lamanna, M.C. New evidence of a Campanian age for the Cretaceous fossil-bearing strata of Cape Marsh, Robertson Island, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research 108:104313.
2020. Cheng, Y., Todd, C.N., Henderson, R.A., Danisik, M., Sahlstrom, F., Change, Z., Corral, I. Jurassic uplift and erosion of the northeast Queensland continental margin: evidence from (U-Th)/He thermochronology combined with U-Pb detrital zircon age spectra. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 67, pp. 591-604.
2020. Miller, C.V., O’Gorman, J., Salisbury, S.W., Coria, R.A., Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, P.M., Reguero, M., Lamanna, M.C. A new plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) specimen from the Upper Cretaceous of West Antarctica, with comments on the ontogeny and morphological diversity of the elasmosaurid pelvic girdle. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 86:93-106.
2019
2019. Todd, C.N., Roberts, E.M., Knutsen, E.M., Rozefelds, A.C., Huang, H., Spandler, C. Refined age and geological context of two of Australia's most important Jurassic vertebrate taxa (Rhoetosaurus brownei and Siderops kehli), Queensland. Gondwana Research 76, pp. 19-25. 2019. Lamanna, M.A., Case, J., Roberts, E.M., Arbour, V., Ely, R., Salisbury, S., Clark, J., Malinzak, D., West, A., O’Connor, P.M. Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica: description of new material, updated synthesis, biostratigraphy, and paleobiology. Advances in Polar Sciences 30: 228-250.
2019. Blackburn, D.C., Paluh, D.J., Krone, I., Roberts, E.M., Stevens, N.J., The earliest fossil of the African Clawed Frog (Genus Xenopus) from Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Herpetology 53:125-130.
2019. O’Connor, P.M., Krause, D.A., Stevens, N.J., Groenke, J., Roberts, E.M., A new mammal from the Turonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64:65-84.
2019. O’Leary, M.A., Bouare, M., Claeson, K., Heilbronn, K. Hill, R., McCartney, J., Sessa, J., Sissiko, F., Tapanila, L., Wheeler, E. and Roberts, E.M. The Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali: Stratigraphy and paleobiology of Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 436: 177p.
2019.Owusu Agyemang, P.C., Roberts, E.M., Downie, B. Detrital zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf constraints on depositional age and provenance of the Lapur and Muruanachok sanstones (Turkana Grits), Turkana Basin, Kenya. Geological Magazine.
2019. Owusu Agyemang, P.C., Roberts, E.M., Bussert, R., Evans, D., Müller, J. Combined U-Pb, Lu-Hf and trace element analysis of detrital zircons from the Wadi Milk and Shendi formations of Sudan provide new insights into basin development, provenance and vertebrate evolution during the Late Cretaceous of Central Africa. Cretaceous Research 97: 52-72
2018
2018. Owusu Agyemang, P.C., Roberts, E.M., Downie, B., Sertich, J.J.W. Sedimentary provenance and maximum depositional age analysis of the Cretaceous? Lapur and Muruanachok sandstones (Turkana Grits), Turkana Basin, Kenya. Geological Magazine, DOI:10.1017/S0016756818000663
2018. Wiersma, J.P., Irmis, R.B. A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et ep. nov., from the upper Campanian Kapairowits Formation of southern Utah, USA. PeerJ, 6:e5016, https:??doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5016
2018. Widlansky, S.J., Clyde, W.C., O’Connor, P.M., Roberts, E.M., Stevens, N.J., Paleomagnetism of the Cretaceous Galula Formation and implications for vertebrate evolution: Journal of African Earth Sciences 139, 403-420.
2018. Müller, J., Roberts, E.M., Naylor, E., Stevens, N.J. A fossil Gekkotan (Squamata) from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania: Journal of Herpetology 52(2): 223-227.
2018. McCartney, J.A., Roberts, E.M., Tapanila, L., O’Leary, M.A., Large palaeophiid and nigerophiid snakes from Paleogene Trans-Saharan seaway deposits, Mali: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63:207-220.
2018. Hagen, C.J., Roberts, E.M., Sullivan, C., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Owusu Agyemang, P.C., Xu, X. Taphonomy, geological age and paleobiogeography of Lotosaurus adentus (Archosauria: Poposauroidea) from the Middle-Upper Triassic Badong Formation, Hunan, China: Palaios 33, 106-124.
2018. Epa, Y.R., Stigall, A., Roberts, E.M., O’Brien, H., and Stevens, N.J., Morphological diversification of ampullariid gastropods (Nsungwe Formation, late Oligocene, Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanania) is coincident with onset of East African rifting: Papers in Palaeontology. DOI:10.1002/spp2.1108, p. 1-22.
2018. Jadoon, Q., Roberts, E.M.,Henderson, R.A., Blenkinsop, T., Wust, R. Mineralogical variability of the Permian Roseneath and Murteree shales from the Cooper Basin, Australia: implications for shale properties and hydrocarbon extraction. Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering 165:850-872.
2017
2017. Gorscak, E., O’Connor, P.M., Roberts, E.M., Stevens, N.J. The second titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania with remarks on African titanosaurian diversity: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e13443250 (22 pages).
2017. Tucker, R.T., Roberts, E.M.,Darlington, V., Salisbury, S.W., 2017. Stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of mid-Cretaceous vertebrate-bearing deposits of Eastern Australia: a reappraisal of the Winton Formation, central Queensland: Sedimentary Geology (in press; j.sedgeo.2017.05.004).
2017. Makhubela, T.V, Kramers, J.D., Belyanin, G.A., Dirks P.H.G.M. and Roberts E.M. Proterozoic 40Ar/39Ar ages from cave deposits of the Malapa, Sterkfontein 1 and Dinaledi fossil sites, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology 120.1, 733-756.
2017. Paul HGM Dirks, Eric M Roberts, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Jan D Kramers, John Hawks, Anthony Dosseto, Mathieu Duval, Marina Elliott, Mary Evans, Rainer Grun, John Hellstrom, Andy IR Herries, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Tebogo V Makhubela, Christa J Placzek, Jessie Robbins, Carl Spandler, Jelle Wiersma Wiersma, Jon Woodhead, Lee R Berger. The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.24231
2017. John Hawks, Marina Elliott, Peter Schmid, Steven E Churchill, Darryl J de Ruiter, Eric M Roberts, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Heather M Garvin, Scott A Williams, Lucas K Delezene, Elen M Feuerriege, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Tracy L Kivell, Myra F Laird, Gaokgatlhe Tawane, Jeremy M DeSilva, Shara E Bailey, Juliet K Brophy, Marc R Meyer, Matthew M Skinner, Matthew W Tocheri, Caroline VanSickle, Christopher S Walker, Timothy L Campbell, Brian Kuhn, Ashley Kruger, Steven Tucker, Alia Gurtov, Nompumelelo Hlophe, Rick Hunter, Hannah Morris, Becca Peixotto, Maropeng Ramalepa, Dirk van Rooyen, Mathabela Tsikoane, Pedro Boshoff, Paul HGM Dirks, Lee R Berger. New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa. eLife, DOI: 10.7554/eLife.24232
2017. Berger, L.R., Hawks, J., Dirks, P.H.G.M., Elliott, M., Roberts, E.M.Homo naledi and Pleistocene hominin evolution in subequatorial Africa. eLife, DOI: 10.755/eLife.24234
2017. Carr, T.D., Varricchio, D.J., Sedlmayr, J.C., Roberts, E.M., Moore, J.R. A new tyrannosaur with evidence for anagenesis and crocodile-like facial sensory system. Scientific Reports, 7, doi:10.1038/srep44942
2017. Mtelela, C., Roberts, E.M., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Downie, R., Hendrix, M.S., O'Connor, P.M., Stevens, N.J. Sedimentology and paleoenvironments of a new fossiliferous late Miocene-Pliocene sedimentary succession in the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. African Journal of Earth Sciences, 129, pp. 260-281.
2017. Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Roberts, E.M., Downie, R., Mtelela, C., Stevens, N.J., O'Connor, P. Application of U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology to drill cuttings for age control in hydrocarbon exploration wells: a case study from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. AAPG Bulletin, 101 (2), pp. 143-159.
2017.Jadoon, Q., Roberts, E.M., Blenkinsop, T., Wust, R. Henderson. B., Mtelela, C. Lithological and facies analysis of the Roseneath and Murteree shales, Cooper Basin, Australia. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 37(2017) 138-168.
2016
2016. Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Roberts, E.M., Simpson, E.L. New sedimentary structures in seismites from SW Tanzania: Evaluation gas- vs water-escape mechanisms of soft-sediment deformation. Sedimentary Geology, DOI:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.03.011
2016. Dirks, P.H.G.M., Berger, L., Hawks, J., Randolph-Quinney, P., Backwell, L., Roberts, E.M. Reply to A. Val’s “Deliberate body disposal by hominins in the Dinaledi Chamber, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa?”: Journal of Human Evolution 96:149-153. 2016. Mtelela, C., Roberts, E.M., Downie, R., and Hendrix, M.A. Interplay between structural, climatic and volcanic controls on Quaternary lacustrine-deltaic sedimentation patterns in the Western Branch of the East African Rift System, Rukwa Rift, Tanzania: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86, 1179-1207. 2016. Randolph-Quinney, P., Backwell, L., Berger, L., Hawks, J., Dirks, P.H.G.M.,Roberts, E.M., Nhauro, G., Kramers, J. Response to Thackeray (2016)-Possibility of lichen growth on bones of Homo naledi: Were they exposed to light? South African Journal of Science, 112 (9): DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2016/a0177. 2016. Xing, L., Parkinson, A.H.*, Ran, H., Pirrone, C., Roberts, E.M., Jianping, J., Zhang, J., Burns, M.E., Wang, T., Choiniere, J., The earliest fossil evidence of osteophagia by terrestrial invertebrates, examples from China and South Africa: Historical Biology 28, 1108-1117
2016. Syme, C.E., Welsh, K.J., Roberts, E.M., Salisbury, S.W. Depositional environment of the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Albian) Winton Formation at Isisford, central-western Queensland, inferred from sandstone concretions. Sedimentary Research, 86, pp. 1067-1082
2016. Wizevich, M.C., Simpson, E.L., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Tindall, S.E. (2016) Development of large-scale seismites in Upper Cretaceous fluvial sandstones in a fault-proximal setting, Sedimentology, doi:10.0000/sed.12283
2016. Owusu Agyemang, P.C., Roberts, E. M., & Jelsma, H. A. (2016). Late Jurassic-Cretaceous fluvial evolution of central Africa: Insights from the Kasai-Congo Basin, Democratic Republic Congo. Cretaceous Research, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.06.013
2016. Jadoon, Q., Roberts, E.M., Blenkinsop, T., Wust, R. Petrophysical evaluation and uncertainty analysis of the Roseneath and Murteree shale reservoirs in the Cooper Basin, Australia: a Case Study. Petroleum Science and Engineering, 147, pp. 330-345.
2016. Roberts, E.M., Todd, C.N., Aanen, D.K., Nobre, T., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., O'Connor, P.M., Tapanila, L., Mtelela, C., Stevens, N.J. Oligocene termite nests with in situ fungus gardens from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania, support a Paleogene African origin for insect agriculture. PlosOne, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0156847
2016. Dirks, P.H.G.M., Placzek, C., Fink, E., Dosseto, A., Roberts, E.M., Using 10Be cosmogenic isotopes to estimate erosion rates and landscape changes during the Plio-Pleistocene in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 96, pp. 19-34.
2016. Tucker, R.T., Roberts, E.M., Kemp, A.A., Henderson, R.A. Large igneous province or long-lived magmatic arc along the eastern margin of Australia during the Cretaceous? Insights from the sedimentary record. GSA Bulletin. DOI: 10.1130/B31337.1
2016. Jadoon, Q., Roberts, E.M., Blenkinsop, T., Wust, R. Mineralogical modelling and petrophysical parameters in Permian gas shales from the Roseneath and Murteree formations, Cooper Basin, Australia PETROL EXPLOR. DEVELOP., 2016, 43(2);277-284.
2016. Jadoon, Q., Roberts, E.M., Blenkinsop, T., Wust, R. Organic petrography and thermal maturity of the Permian Roseneath and Murtree shales in the Cooper Basin, Australia. International Journal of Coal Geology, 154-155, pp. 240-256.
2016. Spandler, C., Hammerli, J., Sha, P., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Hu, Y., Roberts, E.M., Schmitz, M. MKED1: A new titanite standard for in situ analysis of Sm-Nd isotopes and U-Pb geochronology. Chemical Geology, 425, pp. 110-126.
2015
2015. Dirks, P.H.G.M., Berger, L.R., Roberts, E.M., et al. Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. eLife, DOI: 10:7554/eLife.09561.001
2015. Blackburn, D., Roberts, E.M., and Stevens, N.J., The earliest record of the endemic African frog Family Ptychadenidae from the Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (2), DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2014.907174.
2015. Roberts, E.M., Jelsma, H., and Hegna, T. Mesozoic sedimentary cover sequences of the Congo Basin in the Kasai Region, Democratic Republic of Congo. In M. DeWit and F. Guilliocheau (eds.), Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin—Dedicated to L. Cahen and H. Kampunzu. Springer-Verlag, London, p. 163-191.
2015. Irmis, R.B., Chure, D.J., Engelmann, G.F., Wiersma, J.P.and Lindström, S. The Alluvial to eolian transition of the Chinle and Nugget Formations in the southern uinta mountains, northeastern Utah. Utah Geological Association Publication 44: 13-48.
2015. Hilbert-Wolf, H.L. and Roberts, E.M., Giant seismites and megablock uplift in the East African Rift: Evidence for Late Pleistocene large magnitude earthquakes. PLoS One, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0129051
2014
2014. Gorscak, E., O’Connor, P.M., Stevens, N.J., and Roberts, E.M. The basal titanosaurian Rukwatitan bisepultus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34, 1133-1154.
2014. Heness, E.A., Simpson, E.L., Bumby, A.J., Eriksson, P.G., Eriksson, K.A., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Okafor, O.J., Linnevelt, S., Malenda, H.F., Modungwa, T. Evidence for climate shifts in the ~2.0 Ga upper Makgabeng Formation erg, South Africa: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 409, p. 265-279.
2014. Roberts, E.M., Lamanna, M.C., Clarke, J.A., Gorscak, E., Meng, J., Sertich, J.J.W., O’Connor, P.M., Claeson, K., and MacPhee, R.E.E. Stratigraphy and taphonomy of Latest Cretaceous vertebrates from Vega Island, James Ross Basin, Antarctica: implications for high-latitude terrestrial ecosystems. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 402, 55-72.
2014. Simpson, E.L., Kock, R., Heness, E.A., Wizevich, M.C., Tindall, S.E., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Golder, K., Steullet, A.K. Sedimentology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation sag ponds adjacent to syndepositional normal faults, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah: Cretaceous Research, v. 50, p. 332-343.
2013
2013. Roberts, E.M., Sampson, S.D., Deino, A.D., Buchwaldt, R. and Bowring, S.A., The Kaiparowits Formation: a remarkable record of Upper Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, Evolution and Tectonics in Western North America. In A. Titus and M. A. Loewen (eds.), Advances in Late Cretaceous Western Interior Paleontology and Geology. Indiana Press, Bloomington, pgs. 85-106.
2013. Reisz, R., Huang, T.D., Roberts, E.M., Peng, S., Sullivan, C., Stein, K., LeBlanc, A., Shieh, D., Chang, R., Chiang, C., Yang, C., and Zong, S. Dinosaur embryology: inside the bones of an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph from China.Nature 496, 210-214. (*featured on cover of Nature)
2013. Sampson, S. D., Loewen, M. A., Roberts, E. M., and Getty, M. A. A new macrovertebrate assemblage from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of southern Utah.In A. Titus and M. A. Loewen (eds.), Advances in Late Cretaceous Western Interior Paleontology and Geology. Indiana Press, Bloomington, pgs. 599-622.
2013. Kirkland, J.I., Alcalá, L., Loewen, M., Espílez, E., Mampel, L., Wiersma, J.P. The Basal Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of Northeastern Spain. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80405. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080405
2013. Wiersma, J.P., Loewen, M.A. Taphonomy of a Subadult Tyrannosaur Teratophoneus curriei from the Upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of Utah. In: Titus A.L., Loewen, M.A. (eds.). At the top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
2013. Simpson, E.L., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Wizevich, M.C., and Tindall, S.E. Implications of the Internal Plumbing of A Late Cretaceous Sand Volcano: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. In: Titus, A. and Loewen, M.A., Eds., At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah, p. 74-84.
2013. Simpson, E.L., Heness, E., Bumby, A., Eriksson, P.G., Eriksson, K.A., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Linnevelt, S., Malenda, H.F., Modungwa, T., Okafor, O.J. Evidence for 2.0 Ga continental microbial mats in a paleodesert setting: Precambrian Research, v. 237, p. 36-50.
2013. Stevens, N.J., Seiffert, E., O’Connor, P.M., Roberts, E.M., Schmitz, M., Krause, D. Gorscak, E., Ngasala, S., Hieronymus, T., Temu, J. Paleontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World Monkeys and Apes.Nature 497, 611-614.
2013. Sullivan, C., Liu, J., Roberts, E.M., Huang, T.D., Yang, C., and Zhong, S. Pelvic morphology of a tritylodontid (Synapsida: Eucynodontia) specimen from the Lower Jurassic of China, and some functional and phylogenetic implications.Comptes Rendus Palevol 12, 505-518.
2013. Tapanila, L., and Roberts, E.M., Facies associations of continental mollusks in the Kaiparowits Formation in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. In A. Titus and M. A. Loewen (eds.), Advances in Late Cretaceous Western Interior Paleontology and Geology. Indiana Press, Bloomington, pgs. 132-152.
2013. Titus, A., Roberts, E.M., and Albright, B. Geologic Overview of the Kaiparowits Plateau, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. In A. Titus and M. A. Loewen (eds.), Advances in Late Cretaceous Western Interior Paleontology and Geology. Indiana Press, Bloomington, pgs. 13-41.
2013. Tucker, R.T., Roberts, E.M., Hu, Y., Kemp, A.I.S., and Salisbury, S.W. Detrital zircon age constraints for the Winton Formation, Queensland: Contextualizing Australia’s Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas.Gondwana Research24, 767-779.
2013. Xing, L., Roberts, E.M., Harris, J.D., Gingras, M.K., Ran, H., Zhang., J., Xu, X., Burns, M., Dong, Z. Novel insect traces on a dinosaur skeleton from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology388, 58-68.
2012
2012. Backwell, L., Parkinson, A.*, Roberts, E.M., d’Errico, and Huchet, J-B. Criteria for identifying bone modifications by termites in the fossil record:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 337-338: 72-87.
2012. Reisz, R., Evans, D., Roberts, E.M., Sues, H.D., and Yates, A.M. Oldest known nesting site and the reproductive biology of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph Massospondylus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 109(4): doi: 10.1073/pnas.1109385109.
2012. Roberts, E.M., Stevens, N.J., O’Connor, P.M., Dirks, P.H.G.M., Gottfried, M.D., Clyde, W.C., Armstrong, R.A., Kemp, A.I.S., and Hemming, S. Initiation of the western branch of the East African rift coeval with the eastern branch.Nature Geoscience5(4):289-294
2012. Tapanila, L., and Roberts, E.M., The earliest evidence of Holometabolan insect pupation in conifer wood. PLoS ONE7(2): e31668. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031668.
2011. Simpson, E.L., Malenda, H.F., Needle, M., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Steullet, A., Boling, K., Wizevich, M.C., and Tindall, S.E. Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracks from the Upper and Capping Sandstone Members of the Wahweap Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA: In, Sullivan, R., et al., eds., Fossil Record 3: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53, p. 380-385.
2010
2010. Claeson, K.M., O’Leary, M.A., Roberts, E.M., Sissoko, F., Bouare, M., Tapanila, L., Goodwin, D., and Gottfried, M.D. First Mesozoic record of the stingray Myliobatis wurnoensis from Mali and a phylogenetic analysis of Myliobatidae incorporating dental characters: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55, 214-223.
2010. Gates, T.A., Sampson, S.D., Zanno, L.E., Roberts, E.M., Eaton, J.G., Nydam, R.L., Hutchison, J.H., Smith, J.A., Loewen, M.A., Getty, M.A. Biogeography of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Western Interior of North America: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 291, 371-387.
2010. Larsen, J.S.,Link, P.K., Roberts, E.M., Tapanila, L., and Fanning, C.M., Cyclic stratigraphy of the Paleocene Pine Hollow and detrital zircon provenance of Campanian to Eocene sandstones of the Kaiparowits and Table Cliffs basins, south-central Utah. In: S. M. Carney, D.E. Tabet and C. L. Johnson (eds.), Geology of South-Central Utah, Publication 39 of the Utah Geological Association, pgs. 194-224.
2010. O’Connor, P.M., Sertich, J.J.W., Stevens, N.J., Roberts, E.M., Gottfried, M.D., Hieronymus, T.L.,Jinnah, Z.A.,Ridgely, R., Ngasala, S.E., and Temba, J. The evolution of Mammal-like Crocodyliforms in the Cretaceous of Gondwana. Nature 466, 748-751.
2010. Roberts, E.M., and Chan, M.A., Variations in iron oxide, iron sulfide and carbonate concretions and their distributions in fluvio-deltaic and neashore sandstones: sandstones: Cretaceous examples from the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah and San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In: S. M. Carney, D.E. Tabet and C. L. Johnson (eds.), Geology of South-Central Utah, Publication 39 of the Utah Geological Association, pgs. 151-177.
2010. Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, P.M., Stevens, N.J., Gottfried, M.D., Jinnah, Z.A.,Ngasala, S.,Choh, A.,M., and Armstrong, R.A. Sedimentology and depositional environments of the Red Sandstone Group, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania: New insight into Cretaceous and Paleogene terrestrial ecosystems and tectonics in sub-equatorial Africa: Journal of African Earth Sciences 57 (Presidential Review Paper 15), 179-212.
2010. Sampson, S.D., Loewen, M.A., Farke, A., Roberts, E.M., Forster, C., Smith, J.A., and Titus, A.D. New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism: PLoS ONE 5(9): e12292. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012292
2010. Getty, M.A., Loewen, M.A., Roberts, E.M., Titus, A.L., and Sampson, S.D. Taphonomy of horned dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the late Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. InRyan, M.J., Chinnery-Allgeier, B.J., Eberth, D.A. (Eds.). New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium, Indiana University Press, pgs. 478-494.
2010. Moran, K., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Golder, K., Malenda, H.F., Smith, C.J., Storm, L.P., Simpson, E.L., Wizevich, M.C., and Tindall, S. E. Attributes of the wood-boring trace fossil Asthenopodichnium in the Late Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Utah, USA: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 297, p. 662-669.
2010. Simpson, E.L., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Wizevich, M.C., Lucas, S.G., Tester, E., Tindall, S.E., and Bernard, J.J. A Crocodylomorph trace in the Late Cretaceous capping sandstone member of the Wahweap Formation in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, In, Milán, J., Lucas, S.G., Lockley, M.G., and Spielmann, J.A. Eds., Crocodile tracks and traces: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 51, 165-169.
2010. Simpson, E.L., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Wizevich, M.C., Tindall, S.E., Fasinski, B. R., Storm, L.P., and Needle, M.D. Predatory Digging Behavior by Dinosaurs: Geology 38, 699-702.
2010. Simpson, W.S., Simpson, E.L., Wizevich, M.C., Malenda, H.F., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., and Tindall, S.E. A preserved Late Cretaceous biological soil crust in the capping sandstone member, Wahweap Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, Palaeoclimatic implications: Sedimentary Geology 230, 139-145.
2009
2009. Gottfried, M.D., Stevens, N.J., Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, P.M., and Chami, R. A new Cretaceous lungfish (Dipnoi: Ceratodontidae) from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania: African Natural History 5, 1-11.
2009. Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Simpson, E.L., Simpson, W.S., Tindall, S.E., and Wizevich, M.C. Insights into syndepositional fault movement in a foreland basin; trends in seismites of Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Kaiparowits Basin, Utah, U.S.A.: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 856-871.
2009. Jinnah, J. A., Roberts, E.M., Deino, A.D. Larsen, J.S., Link, P.K., & Fanning, C.M., New 40Ar/39Ar and detrital zircon U-Pb ages for the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap and Kaiparowits formations on the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah: implications for regional correlation, provenance, and biostratigraphy:Cretaceous Research30, 287-299. 2009. Simpson, E.L., Wizevich, M.C., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Tindall, S.E., Bernard, J.J., and Simpson, W.S., 2009, An Upper Cretaceous sag pond deposit: Implications for the recognition of local seismicity and surface rupture along the Kaibab Monocline, Utah: Geology, v. 37, p. 967-970.
2009. Stevens, N.J., Holroyd, P.A., Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, P.M., Gottfried, M.D. Kahawamys mbeyaensis (n. gen., n. sp.) (Rodentia: Thryonomyoidea) from the late Oligocene Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29, 631-634.
2009. Stevens, N.J., Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, P.M., Gottfried, M.J. Rukwalorax kitanajino (n. gen., n. sp.) (Mammalia: Hyracoidea) from the late Oligocene Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29, 972-975.
2008
2008. Hill, R.V., McCartney, J.A., Roberts, E.M., Bouare, M., Sissoko, F., & O’Leary, M.A. Dyrosaurid (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) Fossils from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene of Mali: Implications for phylogeny and survivorship across the K-T Boundary. American Museum Novitates3631, 1-19.
2008. Roberts, E.M., Tapanila, L., and Mijal, B. Taphonomy and sedimentology of storm-generated continental shell beds: A case example from the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin: Journal of Geology 116, 462-479.
2008. Stevens, N.J., Gottfried, M.D., Roberts, E.M., Ngasala, S., Kapilima, S., & O’Connor, P.M. Paleontological exploration of Africa: A view from the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania: in Fleagle, J.G. and Gilbert, C.C. (eds.), Elwyn Simmons: A Search for Origins. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, Springer, pgs. 159-180.
2008. Tapanila, L., Roberts, E.M., Bouare, M.L., Sissoko, F., & O’Leary, M.A. Phosphate taphonomy and paleoecology of bone and coprolite conglomerates: A case study from the Eocene of Mali, NW Africa: Palaios 23, 139-152.
2008. Simpson. E.L., Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Simpson, W.S., Tindall, S.E., Bernard, J.J., Jenesky, T.A., and Wizevich, W.C. The interaction of aeolian and fluvial processes during deposition of the Upper Cretaceous capping sandstone member, Wahweap Formation, Kaiparowits Basin, Utah, U.S.A.: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 270, 19-28.
2007
2007. Feldmann, R. M., O'Connor, P.M., Stevens, N.J., Gottfried, M.D., Roberts, E.M., Ngasala, S., Rasmusson, E.L., & Kapilima, S. A new freshwater crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) from the Paleogene of Tanzania, Africa. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie 244, 71-78.
2007. Gaffney, E.S., Roberts, E.M., Sissoko, F., Bouare, M.L., Tapanila, L., & O’Leary, M.A. Acleistochelys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Paleocene of Mali: American Museum Novitates 3549, 1-24.
2007. Roberts, E.M. Facies architecture and depositional environments of the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation, southern Utah: Sedimentary Geology 197, 207-233.
2007. Roberts, E.M., Rogers, R.R., & Foreman, B.Z. Continental insect borings in dinosaur bone: examples from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar and Utah: Journal of Paleontology 81, 201-208.
2006
2006. O’Leary, M.A, Roberts, E.M., Bouare, M.L., Sissoko, F. and Tapanila, L. Malian Paenungulata (Mammalia: Placentalia): New African Afrotheres from the early Eocene: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, 981-988.
2006. O’Connor, P. M., Gottfried, M.D., Stevens, N.J., Roberts, E.M., Ngasala, S., Kapilima, S., & Chami, R. Dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the Cretaceous Red Sandstone Group, Rukwa Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania: Journal of African Earth Sciences 44, 277-288.
2006. Roberts, E.M. & Tapanila, L. A new social insect nest trace from the Late Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: Journal of Paleontology 80, 768-774.
2006. Stevens, N.J., O’Connor, P.M., Gottfried, M.D., Roberts, E.M., Ngasala, S. and Dawson, M. Metaphiomys from the Paleogene of Southwestern Tanzania: Journal of Paleontology 80, 407-410.
2005
2005. Roberts, E.M., Deino, A.D., & Chan, M.A. 40Ar/39Ar age of the Kaiparowits Formation, southern Utah, and correlation of coeval strata and faunas along the margin of the Western Interior Basin: Cretaceous Research 26, 307-318.
2005. Stevens, N.J., O’Connor, P.M., Gottfried, M.D., Roberts, E.M., & Ngasala, S. An anthropoid primate from the Paleogene of Southwestern Tanzania: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25, 986-989.
2005. Titus, A.L., Powell, J.D., Roberts, E.M., Sampson, S.D., Pollock, S.L., Kirkland, J.I., & Albright, L.B. Late Cretaceous stratigraphy, depositional environments, and macrovertebrate paleontology of the Kaiparowits Plateau, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah: in Pederson, J., and Dehler, C.M. (eds.), Interior Western United States: Geological Society of America Field Guide 6, p. 101-128.
2005. Zanno, L.E. Wiersma, J.P., Loewen, M.A., Sampson, S.D., Getty, M.A. A Preliminary Report on the Theropod Dinosaur Fauna of the Late Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Geology and Paleontology Learning from the Land.
2004
2004. Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, P.M., Gottfried, M.D., Stevens, N.A., Kapilima, S., & Ngasala, S. Revised stratigraphy and age of the Red Sandstone Group in the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania: Cretaceous Research 25, 749-759.
2004. Gottfried, M.D., O’Connor, P.M., Jackson, F.D., Roberts, E.M., & Chami, R. Dinosaur eggshell from the Red Sandstone Group of Tanzania: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24, 497-500.
2004. O’Leary, M., Roberts, E.M., Head, J.J., Sissoko, F., & Bouare, M. Titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) remains from the “Continental Intercalaire” of Mali: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24, 923-930.
2004. Tapanila, L., Roberts, E.M., Bouare, M.L., Sissoko, F., & O’Leary, M.A. Bivalve borings in phosphatic coprolites and bone, Cretaceous-Paleogene, northeastern Mali: Palaios 19, 572-580.
2003
2003. Krause, D.W., Gottfried, M.D., O’Connor, P.M., & Roberts, E.M. A Cretaceous Mammal from Africa: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48, 321-330.
2002
2002. Bamford, M.K., Roberts, E.M., Sissoko, F., Bouare, M., & O’Leary, M.A. An extensive deposit of fossil conifer wood from the Mesozoic of Mali, southern Sahara: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 186, 115-126.
2002. Brochu, C.A., Bouare, M.L., Sissoko, F., Roberts, E.M., & O’Leary, M.A. A Dyrosaurid crocodyliform braincase from Mali: Journal of Paleontology 76, 1060-1071.
2000
2000. Roberts, E.M. & Hendrix, M.S. Taphonomy of a petrified forest in the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian) northwest Montana: Implications for Palinspastic restoration of the Boulder batholith and Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics: Palaios 15, 476-482.
2000. Sears, J.W., Hendrix, M.S, Wadell, A., Webb, B., Nixon, B., King, T., Roberts, E., & Lerman, R. Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Rocky Mountain foreland basin in central-western Montana. in: Roberts, S. and Winston, D.W. (eds.); Field Trip Guidebook for 2000 Rocky Mountain Geologic Society of America Meeting, p. 131-155.