Publications
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Ledesma DT, Scarpetta SG, Jacisin III JJ, Meza A, Kemp ME (2023) Identification of Late Pleistocene and Holocene fossil lizards from Hall’s Cave and a primer on morphological variation in North American lizard skulls. bioRxiv: 2023.07.25.549934.
Kemp ME, Boville AE=, Carneiro CM=, Jacisin JJ=, Law CJ=, Ledesma DT=, Meza A=, Shields-Estrada A=, Xu T= (2023) Looking Back for the Future: The Ecology of Terrestrial Communities Through the Lens of Conservation Paleobiology. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 54: 259–282.
Knight JA, Ledesma DT, Kemp ME (2022) Allometric patterns in phrynosomatid lizards and the implications for reconstructing body size for fossils. Evolutionary Ecology 36:561–590
Scarpetta SG, Ledesma DT (2022) A strikingly ornamented fossil alligator lizard (Squamata: Abronia) from the Miocene of California. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197: 752–767 .
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.