Stephanie A. Maiolino, PhD
My Publications
Peer reviewed journal articles
Boyer DM, Maiolino SA, Holroyd PA, Morse PE, Block JI. 2018. Oldest evidence for grooming claws in euprimates. Journal of Human Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.03.010.
Gilbert CC, Maiolino SA. 2015. Comment to “Primates in the Eocene” by Gingerich (2012). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. doi: 10.1007/s12549-015-0184-1.
Maiolino SA, Boyer DM, Bloch JI, Gilbert CC, Groenke J. 2012. Evidence for a grooming claw in a North American adapiform primate: implications for anthropoid origins. PLoS ONE 7:e29135. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029135.
Maiolino SA, Boyer DM, Rosenberger A. 2011. Morphological correlates of the grooming claw in distal phalanges of platyrrhines and other primates: a preliminary study. Anatomical Record, 294:1975-1990.
Peer reviewed book chapters
Maiolino SA, Kingston AK, Lemelin P. 2016. Comparative and functional morphology of the primate hand integument. In: Kivell TL, Lemelin P, Richmond BG, and Schmitt D., editors. The Evolution of the Primate Hand: Perspectives from Anatomical, Developmental, Functional and Paleontological Evidence. New York: Springer.
Patel BA, Maiolino SA. 2016. Morphological diversity in the digital rays of primate hands. In: Kivell TL, Lemelin P, Richmond BG, and Schmitt D., editors. The Evolution of the Primate Hand: Perspectives from Anatomical, Developmental, Functional and Paleontological Evidence. New York: Springer.
News & Reviews
Maiolino SA, Pain E, Perlman R, Nesbitt A, Thompson NE. 2013. Chasing monkeys and finding fossils under the Sunsphere. Evolutionary Anthropology, 22:161-163.
Baden AL, Maiolino SA, Holowka N, Jacobs RL. 2011. Eightieth annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Evolutionary Anthropology, 20: 123-125.
Abstracts
Maiolino SA. 2017. Middle phalanx morphology reflects postural differences of primate grooming and nail-bearing digits. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162(S64):273.
Boyer DM, Maiolino SA, Holroyd PA, Morse PE, Bloch JI. 2017. Evidence for grooming claws in the earliest omomyids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162(S64):127-128.
Maiolino SA. 2016. Anthropoid grooming ungues and ancestral state estimations of second pedal unguis form. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159(S62):217.
Maiolino SA, Huang S, Boyer DM. 2015. Nail-like distal phalanges on postaxial digits are related to the use of a terminal branch niche in non-primate mammals. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156(S60):211.
Maiolino SA. 2014. Identifying homologies among claws and nails: Implications for primate evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 153(S58):175.
Maiolino SA, Boyer DM. 2013. Distal phalangeal evolution in early euprimates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33 (S):169.
Maiolino SA. 2013. Morphological variation in adapiform and omomyoid distal phalanges. American Journal of Physical Anthropologists, 150(S56):187.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Maiolino SA, Bolortsetseg M. 2012. New data for evaluating functional morphology in Ptilodontidae (Allotheria, Multituberculata) using digital preparation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32(S2):198.
Maiolino SA, Boyer DM, Lemelin P, Bloch JI, Groenke J. 2011. Semi-articulated foot of Eocene Notharctus: new evidence for a grooming claw in an adapiform primate from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31(S2):150.
Maiolino SA. 2011. Grooming claws: what are they and who has them? American Journal of Physical Anthropologists, 144(S52):204.
Maiolino SA, Boyer DM, Bloch JI. 2010. Grasping, clasping, and claw climbing: locomotor specializations of non-hallucal distal phalanges in plesiadapiform primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropologists, 141(S50):161-162.
Maiolino SA, Boyer DM. 2007. Evidence from claw morphology for a diversity of positional behaviors in plesiadapid “plesiadapiforms.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27(S3):111A.
