John Joseph Flynn

John Joseph Flynn (1955–), U.S. palaeontologist.

Frick Curator of Fossil Mammals, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States

Taxon names authored

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Wyss, A.R. & Flynn, J.J. 1993. A phylogenetic analysis and definition of the Carnivora. Pp. 32–52. In: Szalay, F.S., Novacek, M.J. & McKenna, M.C. (eds.) Mammal Phylogeny: Placentals. New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-97853-6 Reference page.

Kay, R.F., Madden, R.H., Cifelli, R.L. & Flynn, J.J. (eds.) 1997. Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, D.C.. xv + 592 pp. ISBN 1-56098-418-X Reference page.

Flynn, J.J., Finarelli, J.A., Zehr, S., Hsu, J. & Nedbal, M.A. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of the Carnivora (Mammalia): Assessing the impact of increased sampling on resolving enigmatic relationships. Systematic Biology 54(2): 317–37. DOI: 10.1080/10635150590923326 Reference page.
Wesley‐Hunt, G.D. & Flynn, J.J. 2005. Phylogeny of the Carnivora: basal relationships among the carnivoramorphans, and assessment of the position of ‘Miacoidea’ relative to Carnivora. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 3(1): 1–28. DOI: 10.1017/S1477201904001518 Reference page.

Flynn, J.J., Finarelli, J.A. & Spaulding, M. 2010. Phylogeny of the Carnivora and Carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations. Pp. 25–63. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139193436.003 In: Goswami, A. & Friscia, A. (eds.) Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form, and Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-73586-5. Reference page.

Underwood, C.J., Goswami, A., Prasad, G.V.R., Verma, O & Flynn, J.J. 2011. Marine vertebrates from the 'middle' Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) of South India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3): 539–552. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2011.574518 Reference page.

Bertrand, O.C., Flynn, J.J., Croft, D.A., & Wyss, A.R. 2012. Two new taxa (Caviomorpha, Rodentia) from the Early Oligocene Tinguiririca fauna (Chile). American Museum Novitates 3750: p. 8. hdl: 2246/6319 Reference page.

Ni, X., Gebo, D.L., Dagosto, M., Meng, J., Tafforeau, P., Flynn, J.J. & Beard, K.C. 2013. The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution. Nature 498(7452): 60–64. DOI: 10.1038/nature12200 Reference page.

Perrichot, V., Antoine, P.-O., Salas-Gismondi, R., Flynn, J.J. & Engel, M.S. 2014. The genus Macroteleia Westwood in Middle Miocene amber from Peru (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l., Scelioninae). ZooKeys 426: 119–127. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.426.7822 Reference page.

Flynn, J.J., Wyss, A.R. & Wolsan, M. 2020. Pan-Carnivora J. J. Flynn, A. R. Wyss, and M. Wolsan, new clade name. Pp. 979–982. DOI: 10.1201/9780429446276-234 Preview In: de Queiroz, K., Cantino, P.D. & Gauthier, J.A. (edd.) Phylonyms. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-429-44627-6 Reference page.
Engelman, R.K., Flynn, J.J., Wyss, A.R. & Croft, D.A. 2020. Eomakhaira molossus, A New Saber-Toothed Sparassodont (Metatheria: Thylacosmilinae) from the Early Oligocene (?Tinguirirican) Cachapoal Locality, Andean Main Range, Chile. American Museum Novitates 3957: 1–75. DOI: 10.1206/3957.1 hdl: 2246/7235 ResearchGate Reference page.

Nesbitt, S.J., Patellos, E., Kammerer, C.F., Ranivoharimanana, L., Wyss, A.R. & Flynn, J.J. 2023. The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: a new osteoderm-bearing taxon from the Triassic (?Earliest Late Triassic) of Madagascar and the composition of avemetatarsalian assemblages prior to the radiation of dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199(2): 327–353. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad038 . Reference page.