​Dissertations from lab members can be found here and more publications can be found here. 
In Press
  • Wilson-Deibel, P.K., G.P. Wilson Mantilla, and C.A.E. Strömberg. Plant taxonomic turnover and diversity across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana. Paleobiology.
2024
  • Hovatter, B.T., S.G.B. Chester, and G.P. Wilson Mantilla. New records of early Paleocene (earliest Torrejonian) plesiadapiforms from northeastern Montana, U.S.A., provide window into the diversification of stem primates. Journal of Human Evolution 192:103500.  
  • Bajpai, S., A. Rautela, R. Yadav, and G.P. Wilson Mantilla. The first eutriconodontan mammal from the Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 43(4):e2312234. doi:10.1080/02724634.2024.2312234
  • Ashbaugh, A., C. Scott, G.P. Wilson Mantilla, and J. Theodor. Species discrimination in the multituberculate genus Mesodma (Mammalia, Allotheria): Considerations in size, shape, and form. Journal of Paleontology 97(6):1282–1292.
​2023
  • Brannick, A.L., H.Z. Fulghum, D.M. Grossnickle, and G.P. Wilson Mantilla. Dental ecomorphology and macroevolutionary patterns of North American Late Cretaceous metatherians. Palaeontologia Electronica 26(3):a48. doi:10.26879/1177
  • Claytor, J.R., L.N. Weaver, T.S. Tobin, and G.P. Wilson Mantilla. New mammalian local faunas from the first ca. 80 ka of the Paleocene in northeastern Montana and a revised model of biotic recovery from the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(6):e2222777.
2022
  • García-Girón, Jorge, A.A. Chiarenza, J. Alahuhta, D.G. DeMar Jr., J. Heino, P.D. Mannion, T.E. Williamson, G.P. Wilson Mantilla, and S.L. Brusatte. Shifts in food webs and niche stability shaped survivorship and extinction at the end-Cretaceous. Science Advances 8 (49):eadd5040.
  • Anantharaman, S., D.G. DeMar, Jr., R. Sivakumar, D.C. Dassarma, G.P. Wilson Mantilla, and J.A. Wilson Mantilla. First rhynchocephalian (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) from the Cretaceous-Paleogene of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(1):e2118059.
  • Weaver, L.N., H.Z. Fulghum, D.M. Grossnickle, W.H. Brightly, Z.T. Kulik, G.P. Wilson Mantilla, and M.R. Whitney. Multituberculate mammals show evidence of a life history strategy similar to that of placentals, not marsupials. The American Naturalist 200(3):383–400.
  • Weaver, L.N., T.S. Tobin, J.R. Claytor, P.K. Wilson, W.A. Clemens, and G.P. Wilson Mantilla. 2022. Revised stratigraphic relationships within the lower Fort Union Formation (Tullock Member; Garfield County, Montana, U.S.A.) provide a new framework for examining post K-Pg mammalian recovery dynamics. Palaois 37(4):104–127. doi:10.2110/palo.2021.011 
  • Wilson Mantilla, G.P., P.R. Renne, B. Samant, D.M. Mohabey, A. Dhobale, A.J. Tholt, T.S. Tobin, M. Widdowson, S. Anantharaman, D.C. Dassarma, and J.A. Wilson Mantilla. New mammals from the Naskal intertrappean site and the age of India’s earliest eutherians. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 591:1–28. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110857
2021
  • Brown, C.M., N.E. Campione, G.P. Wilson Mantilla, and D.C. Evans. Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America. Paleobiology 48(2):1–29. doi:10.1017/pab.2021.35
  • Freimuth, W.J., D.J. Varricchio, A.L. Brannick, L.N. Weaver, G.P. Wilson Mantilla. 2021. Mammal-bearing gastric pellets potentially attributable to Troodon formosus at the Cretaceous Egg Mountain locality, Two Medicine Formation, Montana, U.S.A. Palaeontology 64(5):699–725. doi:10.1111/pala.12546 
  • Brinkman, D.B., J. Divay, D. DeMar Jr., and G.P. Wilson Mantilla. A systematic reappraisal and quantitative study of the non-marine teleost fishes from the late Maastrichtian of the Western Interior of North America: evidence from vertebrate microfossil localities. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 58(9):936–967. doi:10.1139/cjes-2020-0168
  • Tobin, T.S., J.W. Honeck, I.M. Fendley, L.N. Weaver, C.J. Sprain, M.L. Tuite, D.T. Flannery, W. Mans, G.P. Wilson Mantilla. Analyzing sources of uncertainty in terrestrial organic carbon isotope data: a case study across the K-Pg boundary in Montana, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 574:110451. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110451
  • Wilson Mantilla, G.P., S.G.B. Chester, W.A. Clemens, J.R. Moore, C.J. Sprain, B.T. Hovatter, W.S. Mitchell, W.W. Mans, R. Mundil, and P.R. Renne. Earliest Palaeocene purgatoriids and the initial radiation of stem primates. Royal Society Open Science 8:210050. doi:10.1098/rsos.210050 [Featured in national and international news outlets (UW News, National Geographic, Science News, New Atlas, LiveScience, Salon); Altmetric score of 528]
  • Wilson, P.K., G.P. Wilson Mantilla, and C.A.E. Strömberg. Seafood Salad: A Diverse Latest Cretaceous Flora from Eastern Montana. Cretaceous Research 121:104734. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104734 
  • Weaver, L.N., D.J. Varricchio, E.J. Sargis, M. Chen, W.J. Freimuth, and G.P. Wilson Mantilla. Early mammalian social behaviour revealed by Late Cretaceous multituberculates from a dinosaur nesting site. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5(1):32–37. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01325-8
  • Weaver, L.N. and G.P. Wilson. Patterns of shape disparity in the blade-like p4s of multituberculate mammals reveal functional constraints that influenced the evolution of herbivory. Journal of Mammalogy 102(4):967–985. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyaa029 [Editor’s Choice for Special Feature Volume]
2020
  • Murray, A., D. Brinkman, D. DeMar Jr., and G.P. Wilson. Paddlefish and sturgeon (Chondrostei: Acipenseriformes: Polyodontidae and Acipenseridae) from lower Paleocene deposits of Montana, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(2):e1775091. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1775091
  • Wynd, B.M., D.G. DeMar, Jr., and G.P. Wilson. Euselachian diversity through the uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of Garfield County, Montana, U.S.A., with implications for the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction in freshwater environments. Cretaceous Research 113(2020):104483. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104483
  • Fastovsky, D., M. Montellano-Ballesteros, H. Fricke, J. Ramezani, K. Tsukui, G.P. Wilson, P. Hall, R. Hernandez-Rivera, and G. Alvarez. Paleoenvironments, taphonomy, and stable isotopic content of the terrestrial, fossil vertebrate-bearing sequence of the El Disecado Member, El Gallo Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Baja California, México. Geosphere 16(4):991–1011. doi:10.1130/GES02207.1
  • ​​Brannick A.L. and G.P. Wilson. New specimens of the Late Cretaceous metatherian Eodelphis and the evolution of hard-object feeding in the Stagodontidae. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 27(1):1–16.
2019
  • Lyson T.R., I.M. Miller, A.D. Bercovici, K. Weissenburger, A.J. Fuentes, W.C. Clyde, J.W. Hagadorn, M.J. Butrim, K.R. Johnson, R.F. Fleming, R.S. Barclay, S.A. Maccracken, B. Lloyd, G.P. Wilson, D.W. Krause, S.G.B. Chester. Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. Science 366(6468):977–983.​
  • ​Grossnickle D.M., S.M. Smith, and G.P. Wilson. Untangling the multiple ecological radiations of early mammals. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34 (10):936–949.
  • ​​Chen, M., CAE Strömberg, and G.P. Wilson. Assembly of modern mammal community structure driven by Late Cretaceous dental evolution, rise of flowering plants, and dinosaur demise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 116(20):9931–9940.
  • ​Weaver, L.N., G.P. Wilson, L.J. Krumenacker, K. Mclaughlin, J.R. Moore, D.J.  Varricchio. New multituberculate mammals from the mid-Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian) Wayan Formation of southeastern Idaho and implications for the early evolution of Cimolodonta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(2):e1604532. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1604532
2018
  • Sprain, C.S., P.R. Renne, W.A. Clemens, and G.P. Wilson. Calibration of Chron 29r: New high-precision geochronologic and paleomagnetic constraints from the Hell Creek region, Montana and their implications for the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary mass extinction. Geological Society of America Bulletin 130(9-10):1615–1644.
  • Smith, S.M., C.S. Sprain, W.A. Clemens, D.L. Lofgren, P.R. Renne, and G.P. Wilson. Mammalian recovery following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek, Montana, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin 130(11-12):2000–2014.
2017
  • DeBey, L.B. and G.P. Wilson. Fossil humeri from eastern Montana reveal locomotor diversity and function of latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene mammals. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.3.49A:1–92.
  • Chen, M., Z.-X. Luo, and G.P. Wilson. The postcranial skeleton of Yanoconodon allini from the Early Cretaceous of Hebei, China and its implications for locomotor adaptation in eutriconodontan mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(3):e1315425. 
  • DeMar, D.G., J.L. Conrad, J.J. Head, D.J. Varricchio, and G.P. Wilson. A new Late Cretaceous iguanomorph from North America and the origin of the New World Pleurodonta (Squamata, Iguania). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20161902.
         *Featured in national and international news outlets (RedOrbit, Eureka Alerts, Phys.org, UW Today) and blogs. 
  • Smith, S.M. and G.P. Wilson. Species discrimination of co-occuring small fossil mammal: A case study of the Cretaceous-Paleogene multituberculate genus Mesodma. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24(2):147–157.
2016
  • Wilson, G.P., E.G. Ekdale, J.W. Hoganson, J.J. Calede, and A. Vander Linden. A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials. Nature Communications 7(1):13734. doi:10.1038/ncomms13734.
2015
  • Chen, M. and G.P. Wilson. A multivariate approach to infer locomotor modes in Mesozoic mammals. Paleobiology 41(2):280–312.
  • Sprain, C.J., P.R. Renne, G.P. Wilson, and W.A. Clemens. High-resolution chronostratigraphy of the terrestrial Cretaceous-Paleogene transition and recovery interval in the Hell Creek region, Montana. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 127(3/4):393–409.
2014
  • Williamson, T.E., S.L. Brusatte, and G.P. Wilson. The origin and early evolution of metatherian mammals: The Cretaceous record. ZooKeys. 465:1–76.
  • DeBey, L.B. and G.P. Wilson. Mammalian femora across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in eastern Montana. Cretaceous Research 51:361–385. *Featured in National Geographic blog Phenomena.
  • Tobin, T.S., G.P. Wilson, J.M. Eiler, and J.H. Hartman. Environmental change across a terrestrial Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary section in eastern Montana, U.S.A., constrained by carbonate clumped isotope paleothermometry. Geology 42(4):351–354.
  • Peecook, B.R., J.A. Wilson, R. Hernández-Rivera, M. Montellano-Ballesteros, and G.P. Wilson. First tyrannosaurid remains from the Upper Cretaceous ‘El Gallo’ Formation of Baja California, México. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(1):71–80.[pdf]
  • Wilson, G.P. Mammalian extinction, survival, and recovery dynamics across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana, USA, in Wilson G.P., Clemens, W.A., Horner, J.H. and Hartman, J.H., eds., Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas: Geological Society of America Special Paper 503, p. 365–392, doi:10.1130/2014.2503(15).
  • Holroyd, P. A., G.P. Wilson, and J.H. Hutchison. Temporal changes within the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene turtle faunas of northeastern Montana, in Wilson G.P., Clemens, W.A., Horner, J.H. and Hartman, J.H., eds., Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas: Geological Society of America Special Paper 503, p. 299–312, doi:10.1130/2014.2503(11).
  • Wilson, G.P., D.G. DeMar Jr., and G. Carter. Extinction and survival of salamander and salamander-like amphibians across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana, USA, in Wilson G.P., Clemens, W.A., Horner, J.H. and Hartman, J.H., eds., Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas: Geological Society of America Special Paper 503, p. 271–297, doi:10.1130/2014.2503(10).
  • LeCain, R., W. Clyde, G.P. Wilson, and J. Riedel. Magnetostratigraphy of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in northeastern Montana, in Wilson G.P., Clemens, W.A., Horner, J.H. and Hartman, J.H., eds., Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas: Geological Society of America Special Paper 503, p. 137–147, doi:10.1130/2014.2503(04).
  • Moore, J., G.P. Wilson, M. Sharma, H.R. Hallock, D.R. Braman, P.R. Renne. Assessing the relationships of the Hell Creek-Fort Union contact, Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, and Chicxulub impact ejecta at the Hell Creek Formation lectostratotype, Montana, USA, in Wilson G.P., Clemens, W.A., Horner, J.H. and Hartman, J.H., eds., Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas: Geological Society of America Special Paper 503, p. 123–135, doi:10.1130/2014.2503(03).
2013
  • Wilson, G.P. Mammals across the K/Pg boundary in northeastern Montana, U.S.A.: Dental morphology and body size patterns reveal extinction selectivity and immigrant-fueled ecospace filling. Paleobiology 39(3):429–469. [pdf]
  • Vilhena, D., E.B. Harris, C.T. Bergstrom, M.E. Maliska, C.A. Sidor, C.A.E. Stromberg, and G.P. Wilson. Bivalve network reveals latitudinal selectivity gradient at the end-Cretaceous extinction. Scientific Reports 3:1790. doi:10.1038/srep01790. [pdf]
  • Donohue, S.L., G.P. Wilson, and B.H. Breithaupt. Latest Cretaceous multituberculates of the Black Butte Station local fauna from the eastern flank of the Rock Springs uplift (Lance Formation, southwestern Wyoming) with implications for compositional differences among mammalian local faunas of the Western Interior. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):677–695. [pdf]
2012
  • Wilson, G.P., A.R. Evans, I.J. Corfe, P.D. Smits, M. Fortelius, and J. Jernvall. Adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of dinosaurs. Nature 483:457–460. [pdf]
2010
  • Archibald, J.D., W.A. Clemens, K. Padian, T. Rowe, N. MacLeod, P.M. Barrett, A. Gale, P. Holroyd, H. Sues, N.C. Arens, J.R. Horner, G.P. Wilson, M.B. Goodwin, C.A. Brochu, D.L. Lofgren, S.H. Hurlbert, J.H. Hartman, D.A. Eberth, P.B. Wignall, P.J. Currie, A. Weil, G.V.R. Prasad, L. Dingus, V. Courtillot, A. Milner, A. Milner, S. Bajpai, D.J. Ward, A. Sahni. Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes. Comment. Science 328:973. [pdf]
  • Wilson, G.P. and J.A. Riedel. New specimen reveals deltatheroidan affinities of the North American Late Cretaceous mammal Nanocuris. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):872–884. [pdf]
  • Wilson, G.P., M. Dechesne, and I. Anderson. New latest Cretaceous mammals from northeastern Colorado with biochronologic and biogeographic implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2):499–520. [pdf]
  • Gao, Chun-ling, G.P. Wilson, Z.-X. Luo, A.M. Maga, Q. Meng, and X. Wang. A new mammal skull from the Lower Cretaceous of China with implications for the evolution of obtuse-angled molars and amphilestid eutriconodonts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277(1679):237–246. [pdf].
2009
  • Clemens, W.A. and G.P. Wilson. Early Torrejonian mammalian local faunas from northeastern Montana, U.S.A. Papers on Geology, Vertebrate Paleontology and Biostratigraphy in Honor of Michael O. Woodburne. Albright, L.B. III (ed). Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 65:111–158. [pdf]
2007
  • Wilson, G.P., D.C. Das Sarma, and S. Anantharaman. Late Cretaceous sudamericid gondwanatherians from India with paleobiogeographic considerations of gondwanan mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):521–531. [pdf]
  • Evans, A.R., G.P. Wilson, M. Fortelius, and J. Jernvall. High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents. Nature 445:78–81. [pdf]
2006
  • Anantharaman, S., G.P. Wilson, D.C. Das Sarma, and W.A. Clemens. A possible Late Cretaceous “haramiyidan” from India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(2):488-490. [pdf]
2005
  • Wilson, G.P. Mammalian faunal dynamics during the last 1.8 million years of the Cretaceous in Garfield County, Montana. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12(1/2):53–76. [pdf]
2003
  • Rana, R.S. and G.P. Wilson. New Late Cretaceous mammals from the Intertrappean beds of Rangapur, India and paleobiogeographic framework. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(3):331–348. [pdf]
  • Clemens, W.A., G.P. Wilson, and R.E. Molnar. An enigmatic (synapsid?) tooth from the Early Cretaceous of New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):232–237. [pdf]
  • Wilson, G.P., R.P. Hilton, and E.S. Goehre. The first Mesozoic mammal from California. Paleobios 23(1):20–23. [pdf]
  • Khosla, A., V.V. Kapur, P.C. Sereno, J.A. Wilson, G.P. Wilson, D. Dutheil, A. Sahni, M.P. Singh, S. Kumar, and R.S. Rana. First dinosaur remains from the Cenomanian-Turonian Nimar Sandstone (Bagh Beds), District Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 48:115–127. [pdf]
2001
  • Wilson, G.P. and N.C. Arens. The evolutionary impact of an epeiric seaway on Late Cretaceous and Paleocene South American palynofloras. Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina. Publicacion Especial 7. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems:185–189. [pdf]
1999
  • Sereno, P.C., A.L. Beck, D.B. Dutheil, H.C.E. Larsson, G.H. Lyon, B. Moussa, R.W. Sadleir, C.A. Sidor, D.J. Varricchio, G.P. Wilson, and J.A. Wilson. Cretaceous sauropods from the Sahara and the uneven rate of skeletal change among dinosaurs. Science 286:1342–1347. [pdf]
1998
  • Sereno, P.C., D.J. Varricchio, A.L. Beck, D.B. Dutheil, H.C.E. Larsson, J.D. Marcot, O.W.M. Rauhut, R.W. Sadleir, C.A. Sidor, G.P. Wilson and J.A. Wilson. A long-snouted predatory dinosaur from Africa and the evolution of spinosaurids. Science 282:1298–1302. [pdf]
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