Some of my publications

Proboscideans

Dooley, A. C. Jr., Scott, E., Green, J., Springer, K. B., Dooley, B. S., and Smith, G. J., 2019. Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America. PeerJ 7:e6614 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6614

Dooley, A. C. Jr., Widga C., Stoneburg B. E., Jass C., Bravo-Cuevas V. M., Boehm A., Scott E., McDonald A. T., and Volmut M., 2025. Re-evaluation of mastodon material from Oregon and Washington, USA, Alberta, Canada, and Hidalgo and Jalisco, Mexico. PeerJ 13:e18848 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18848

McDonald, A. T., Atwater, A. L., Dooley, A. C. Jr., and Hohman, C. J. H., 2020. The easternmost occurrence of Mammut pacificus (Proboscidea: Mammutidae), based on a partial skull from eastern Montana, USA. PeerJ 8:e10030 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10030

Dooley, A. C. Jr., White, C. D., Stoneburg, B. E., and Dooley, B. S., 2025. Chapter 16 - Mammalia: Proboscidea. In Ting, S. Smith, L. E., White, C. D., and Gil, I. M., eds. Vertebrate Fossils of Louisiana. Special Publications of the Museum of Natural Science 5:353-374.

Beatty, B. L. and Dooley, A. C. Jr., 2013. The first terrestrial mammal from the Late Miocene Eastover Formation of Virginia. Jeffersoniana 29, 6 p.

Whales

Dooley, A. C. Jr., Fraser, N. C., and Luo, Z.-X., 2004. The earliest known member of the rorqual-gray whale clade (Mammalia, Cetacea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24:453-463.

Beatty, B. L. and Dooley, A. C. Jr., 2009. Injuries in a mysticete skeleton from the Miocene of Virginia, with a discussion of buoyancy and the primitive feeding mode in the Chaeomysticeti. Jeffersoniana 20, 28 p.

Dooley, A. C. Jr., 2003. A Review of the Eastern North American Squalodontidae. Jeffersoniana 11, 26 p.

Dinosaurs

McDonald, A. T., Wolfe, D. G., and Dooley, A. C. Jr., 2018. A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico. PeerJ 6:e5749 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5749

Wedel, M., Atterholt, J., Dooley, A. C. Jr., Farooq, S., Macalino, J., Nalley, T. K., Wisser, G., and Yasser, J., 2021. Expanded neural canals in the caudal vertebrae of a specimen of Haplocanthosaurus. Academia Letters, Article 911. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL911

Rodents

Dooley, A. C. Jr. and Moncrief, N. D., 2012. Fluorescence provides evidence of congenital erythropoietic porphyria in 7,000-year-old specimens of the eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) from the Devil's Den. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:495-497.

Moncrief, N. D. and Dooley, A. C. Jr., 2013. Using fluorescence of bones and teeth to detect remains of the eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) in archaeological deposits. Southeastern Archaeology 32:46-53.

Various other vertebrates

Dooley, A. C. Jr., 2007. Barstovian (middle Miocene) land mammals from the Carmel Church Quarry, Caroline County, Virginia. Jeffersoniana 18, 17 p.

Stoneburg, B. E, McDonald, A. T., Dooley, A. C. Jr., Scott, E., and Hohman, C. J. H., 2021. New remains of middle Miocene equids from the Cajon Valley Formation, San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino County, California, USA. PaleoBios 38. rcmp_paleobois_52265. https://doi.org/10.5070/P9381052265

Fraser, N. C., Olsen, P. E., Dooley, A. C. Jr., and Ryan, T. R. 2007 A new gliding tetrapod (Diapsida: ?Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of Virginia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27:261-265.

Stromatolites, diatoms, and plants

Trochim, A. R. and Dooley, A. C. Jr., 2010. Diatom biostratigraphy and paleoecology of vertebrate-bearing Miocene localities in Virginia. Jeffersoniana 23, 18 p.

Dooley, A. C. Jr., 2009. Unusual Cambrian thrombolites from the Boxley Blue Ridge Quarry, Bedford County, Virginia. Jeffersoniana 19, 14 p.

Vogel, S. I., Piatkowski, B. T., Dooley, A. C. Jr., and Poli, D., 2011. The effects of fire on Lycopodium digitatum strobili. Jeffersoniana 27, 9 p.