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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

John J. Flynn is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Paleontology. Flynn's work spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geometry and Topology, and Anthropology.

Their publications cover a range of topics, notably Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Morphological Variations and Asymmetry, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

Frequent publication venues for Flynn include:

  • Journal of Paleontology
  • American Museum Novitates
  • Scientific Reports
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Communications Biology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction," 2022, published in Science
  • "A tiny ornithodiran archosaur from the Triassic of Madagascar and the role of miniaturization in dinosaur and pterosaur ancestry," 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Comparative isotope ecology of western Amazonian rainforest mammals," 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Isotope data from amino acids indicate Darwin's ground sloth was not an herbivore," 2021, published in Scientific Reports
  • "A switch in jaw form-function coupling during the evolution of mammals," 2023, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Flynn has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, among whom are:

  • André R. Wyss
  • Z. Jack Tseng
  • Darin A. Croft
  • Richard K. Bambach
  • A. J. Boucot

Recognition received by Flynn includes fellowships from noteworthy organizations:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001

Best Publications

  • Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

    Robert W. Meredith;Jan E. Janečka;John Gatesy;Oliver A. Ryder

  • Jurassic to Paleogene: Part 2 Paleogene geochronology and chronostratigraphy

    William A. Berggren;William A. Berggren;Dennis V. Kent;John J. Flynn

  • Evidence for Cenozoic extensional basin development and tectonic inversion south of the flat-slab segment, southern Central Andes, Chile (33°–36°S.L.)

    R Charrier;O Baeza;S Elgueta;J.J Flynn

  • Molecular phylogeny of the carnivora (mammalia): assessing the impact of increased sampling on resolving enigmatic relationships.

    John J. Flynn;John A. Finarelli;Sarah Zehr;Johnny Hsu

  • Ancestral State Reconstruction of Body Size in the Caniformia (Carnivora, Mammalia): The Effects of Incorporating Data from the Fossil Record

    John A. Finarelli;John J. Flynn

  • The Tinguiririca Fauna, Chile: Biochronology, paleoecology, biogeography, and a new earliest Oligocene South American Land Mammal 'Age'

    John J Flynn;André R Wyss;Darin A Croft;Reynaldo Charrier

  • Phylogeny of the Carnivora (Mammalia): Congruence vs Incompatibility among Multiple Data Sets

    John J. Flynn;Michael A. Nedbal

  • Recent advances in South American mammalian paleontology.

    John J Flynn;André R Wyss

  • The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution

    Xijun(倪喜军) Ni;Xijun(倪喜军) Ni;Daniel L. Gebo;Marian Dagosto;Jin(孟津) Meng

  • Brain-size evolution and sociality in Carnivora

    John A. Finarelli;John J. Flynn

  • South America's earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution

    André R. Wyss;John J. Flynn;Mark A. Norell;Carl C. Swisher

  • Phylogeny of the carnivora: Basal relationships among the carnivoramorphans, and assessment of the position of ‘miacoidea’ relative to carnivora

    Gina D. Wesley‐Hunt;John J. Flynn

  • Paleogene geochronology: An integrated approach

    Marie-Pierre Aubry;William A. Berggren;Dennis V. Kent;John J. Flynn

  • Phylogeny of early Tertiary Carnivora : with a description of a new species of Protictis from the Middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming.

    John J Flynn;Henry Galiano

  • New evidence for late mesozoic-early Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean Andes in the upper Tinguiririca valley (35 °S), central Chile

    Reynaldo Charrier;Andre R. Wyss;John J. Flynn;Carl C. Swisher

  • Phylogeny of the Carnivora

    J.J Flynn;N.A Neff;R.H Tedfoprd

  • A Miocene hyperdiverse crocodylian community reveals peculiar trophic dynamics in proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands.

    Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi;John J. Flynn;Patrice Baby;Julia V. Tejada-Lara;Julia V. Tejada-Lara

  • Body mass predicts isotope enrichment in herbivorous mammals

    Julia Victoria Tejada-Lara;Bruce J. MacFadden;Lizette Bermudez;Gianmarco Rojas

  • Whence the red panda

    John J. Flynn;Michael A. Nedbal;Jerry W. Dragoo;Rodney L. Honeycutt

  • A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics

    John J. Flynn;Michael J. Novacek;Holly E. Dodson;Daniel Frassinetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Reynaldo Charrier
Reynaldo Charrier University of Chile
Anjali Goswami
Anjali Goswami Natural History Museum
Malcolm C. McKenna
Malcolm C. McKenna American Museum of Natural History
Patrice Baby
Patrice Baby Paul Sabatier University
Michael J. Novacek
Michael J. Novacek American Museum of Natural History
Carl C. Swisher
Carl C. Swisher Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Marcelo Reguero
Marcelo Reguero National University of La Plata
Gérard Hérail
Gérard Hérail Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mark A. Norell
Mark A. Norell American Museum of Natural History

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