Publications
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Knight JA, Ledesma DT, Kemp ME (2022) Allometric patterns in phrynosomatid lizards and the implications for reconstructing body size for fossils. Evolutionary Ecology.
Scarpetta SG, Ledesma DT (2022) A strikingly ornamented fossil alligator lizard (Squamata: Abronia) from the Miocene of California. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society zlac024.
Ledesma DT, Ayala A, Kemp ME (2022) Morphometric analyses of the vertebrae of Ambystoma (Tschudi, 1838) and the implications for identification of fossil salamanders. Journal of Morphology 283: 653–676.
Scarpetta SG, Ledesma DT, Bell CJ (2021) A new extinct species of alligator lizard (Squamata: Elgaria) and an expanded perspective on the osteology and phylogeny of Gerrhonotinae. BMC Ecology and Evolution 21:184.
Ledesma DT, Scarpetta SG, Bell CJ (2021) Variation in the skulls of Elgaria and Gerrhonotus (Anguidae, Gerrhonotinae) and implications for phylogenetics and fossil identification. PeerJ 9:e11602.
Ledesma DT (2020) Potomotyphlus: Potomotyphlus kaupii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (CAAR). 23 pp.
Scarpetta SG, Ledesma DT, Llauger FO, White BA (2020) Evolution of North American lizards. eLS 1: 705–717.
Ledesma DT, Scarpetta SG (2018) The skull of the gerrhonotine lizard Elgaria panamintina (Squamata: Anguidae) PLoS ONE 13(6): e0199584.