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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Robert Emry

Curator of Cenozoic Mammals (Emeritus)
Department / Division
Paleobiology
Education
  • Ph.D. Columbia University
  • B.S. Colorado State University
Research Interests

Evolution, Relationships, Biochronology and Paleogeography of Cenozoic Mammals

Publications
Journal Article
  • Wang, Xiaoming, Emry, Robert J., Boyd, Clint A., Person, Jeff J., White, Stuart C., and Tedford, Richard H. 2022. "An exquisitely preserved skeleton of Eoarctos vorax (nov. gen. et sp.) from Fitterer Ranch, North Dakota (early Oligocene) and systematics and phylogeny of North American early arctoids (Carnivora, Caniformia)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 42 1–123. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2022.2145900.
  • Korth, William W., Boyd, Clint A., Emry, Robert J., and Person, Jeff J. 2021. "Marsupials (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the Brule Formation (Whitneyan, Oligocene) North Dakota." Journal of Paleontology, 95, (1) 193–204. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.41.
  • Rankin, Aime H., Emry, Robert J., and Asher, Robert J. 2020. "Anatomical sciuromorphy in "protrogomorph" rodents." Palaeontologia Electronica, 23, (2) a25–a25. https://doi.org/10.26879/1049.
  • Asher, Robert J., Smith, Martin R., Rankine, Aime, and Emry, Robert J. 2019. "Congruence, fossils and the evolutionary tree of rodents and lagomorphs." Royal Society Open Science, 6, (7). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190387.
  • Czaplewski, Nicholas, Person, Jeff, Boyd, Clint, and Emry, Robert. 2019. "A new species of bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the early Oligocene global cooling period, Brule Formation, North Dakota, USA." Palaeovertebrata, 42, (2) e2. https://doi.org/10.18563/pv.42.2.e2.
  • Gaudin, Timothy J., Wible, John R., Rose, Kenneth D., Emry, Robert J., and Spaulding, Michelle. 2019. "Skeletal anatomy of the basicranium and auditory region in the metacheiromyid palaeanodont Metacheiromys (Mammalia, Pholidotamorpha) based on high-resolution CT scans." Fossil Imprint, 75, (3-4) 484–503. https://doi.org/10.2478/if-2019-0029.
  • Perry, Jonathan M. G., Gunnell, Gregg F., and Emry, Robert J. 2017. "New cranial material of Notharctus (Mammalia, Primates, Notharctidae) from the Sheep Pass Formation, Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, with implications for incisor morphology and paleogeography of notharctine primates." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 37, (4). https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2017.1331914.
  • Korth, William W., Emry, Robert J., and Musso, Marissa R. 2015. "Systematics, cranial morphology, and taphonomy of the eomyid rodent Adjidaumo minimus (Matthew, 1903) from the Chadronian (late Eocene), Flagstaff Rim area, Wyoming." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 0, (0). https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.1001854.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Korth, William W. 2013. "The eomyid rodent Paradjidaumo Burke from the late Eocene White River Formation, Flagstaff Rim area, Wyoming." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 126, (2) 178–186. https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324X-126.2.178.
  • Korth, William W. and Emry, Robert J. 2013. "Pipestoneomyidae, a New Family of Fossil Rodents (Mammalia) from the Duchesnean (Late Middle Eocene, Bartonian) to Orellan (Early Oligocene, Priabonian) of North America." Journal of Paleontology, 87, (2) 289–296. https://doi.org/10.1666/12-054R.1.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Korth, William W. 2012. "Early Chadronian (late Eocene) rodents from the Flagstaff Rim area, central Wyoming." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32, (2) 419–432. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.649329.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Spielmann, Justin A., Hunt, Adrian P., and Emry, Robert J. 2012. "Crocodylian coprolites from the Eocene of the Zaysan Basin, Kasakstan." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Vertebrate Coprolites, 57 319–324.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Bray, Emily S., Emry, Robert J., and Hirsch, Karl F. 2012. "Dinosaur eggshell and the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in the Zaysan Basin, Eastern Kazakstan." Journal of stratigraphy, 36, (2) 417.
  • Gaudin, Timothy J., Emry, Robert J., and Wible, John R. 2009. "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis." Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 16, (4) 235–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Korth, William W. 2007. "A new genus of squirrel (Rodentia, Sciuridae) from the mid-Cenozoic of North America." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, (3) 693–698. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[693:ANGOSR]2.0.CO;2.
  • Gaudin, T. J., Emry, Robert J., and Pogue, B. 2006. "A new genus and species of Pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the late Eocene of Inner Mongolia, China." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26, (1) 146–159. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[146:ANGASO]2.0.CO;2.
  • Asher, R. J., Emry, Robert J., and McKenna, M. C. 2005. "New material of Centetodon (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) and the importance of (missing) DNA sequences in systematic Paleontology." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25, (4) 911–923.
  • Emry, Robert J., Korth, William W., and Bell, Michael A. 2005. "A Tree Squirrel (Rodentia, Sciuridae, Sciurini) from the Late Miocene (Clarendonian) of Nevada." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25, (1) 228–235.
  • Emry, Robert J. 2004. "The Edentulous Skull of the North American Pangolin, Patriomanis americanus." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 285 130–138.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., Bayshashov, Bolat U., and Tyutkova, Lyubov A. 2004. "Cenozoic mammalian biostratigraphy in the Ily Basin, Eastern Kazahstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24, (Suppl. 3) 54A.
  • Holbrook, L. T., Lucas, Spencer G., and Emry, Robert J. 2004. "Skulls of the Eocene Perissodactyls (Mammalia) Homogalax and Isectolophus." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24, (4) 951–956.
  • Lucas, Spencer G. and Emry, Robert J. 2004. "Eocene Pantolesta from the Zaysan Basin, Kazakstan." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 26 227–229.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., and Mihlbachler, Matthew C. 2004. "Late Eocene Brontotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Beaver Divide, Wyoming, and their Biochronological Significance." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 26 113–118.
  • Mihlbachler, Matthew C., Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., and Bayshashov, Bolat. 2004. "A New Brontothere (Brontotheriidae, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Eocene of the Ily Basin of Kazakstan and a Phylogeny of Asian Horned Brontotheres." American Museum Novitates, 3439 1–43.
  • Mihlbachler, Matthew C., Spencer, G. Lucas, and Emry, Robert J. 2004. "The Holotype Specimen of Menodus giganteus, and the Insoluble Problem of Chadronian Brontothere Taxonomy." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 26 129–135.
  • Spencer, Lucas and Emry, Robert J. 2004. "The Entelodont Brachyhyops from the Upper Eocene of Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 26 97–100.
  • Bashashov, Bolat U., Lucas, Spencer G., and Emry, Robert J. 2003. "The Giant Rhinoceros Paraceratherium in Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32A.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Lucas, Spencer G. 2003. "New Ceratomorphs (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Eocene of the Ily Basin, Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 48A.
  • Holec, Peter and Emry, Robert J. 2003. "Another Molar of the Miocene Hominid Griphopithecus suessi from the Type Locality at Sandberg, Slovakia." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 279 156–168.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Holbrook, Luke T., and Emry, Robert J. 2003. "Isectolophus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Eocene of the Zaysan Basin, Kazakstan, and its biochronological significance." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23, (1) 238–243.
  • Asher, R. J., McKenna, M. C., Emry, Robert J., Tabrum, A. R., and Kron, D. G. 2002. "Morphology and relationships of Apternodus and other extinct, zalambdodont, placental mammals." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (273) 1–117.
  • Bayshashov, Bolat U., Tyutkova, Lyubov A., Lucas, Spencer G., and Emry, Robert J. 2002. "New mammal finds and the Early Miocene Age of the Askazansor Locality, Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, (Suppl. 3) 34A.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Lucas, Spencer G. 2002. "Brontothere (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) Footprints from the Eocene of the Ily Basin, Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, (Suppl. 3) 51A.
  • Gaudin, Timothy A. and Emry, Robert J. 2002. "The Late Eocene Pangolin Patriomanis from North America, and a new genus of Pangolin from the Late Eocene of Nei Mongol, China (Mammalia, Pholidota)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, (Suppl. 3) 57A.
  • McKenna, Malcolm C., Asher, Robert, Emry, Robert J., Tabrum, Alan, and Kron, Donald. 2002. "The search for extinct relatives of modern mammals: The case of Soricids and Apternodus." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, (Suppl. 3) 86A.
  • Miyata, Kazunori and Emry, Robert J. 2002. "New Information on the dental morphology of Trogosus material from the Bridger Formation, Uinta County, Wyoming, and its implication to the evolutionary history of Tillodonts." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, (Suppl. 3) 89A.
  • Storch, Gerhard D., Emry, Robert J., Gaudin, T. J., and Rose, K. D. 2002. "Origin and relationships of Xenarthra and Pholidota." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, (Suppl. 3) 111A.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Korth, W. W. 2001. "Douglassciurus, new name for Douglassia Emry and Korth, 1996, not Douglassia Bartsch, 1934 (vol 16, pg 775, 1996)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21, (2) 400–400.
  • Holbrook, L. T., Lucas, Spencer G., and Emry, Robert J. 2001. "Skulls of the Eocene Perissodactyls (Mammalia) Homogalax and Isectolophus." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21, (Suppl. 3) 62A.
  • Holec, Peter and Emry, Robert J. 2001. "Cenozoic Primates of Slovakia." Scripta Geology, 30 109–113.
  • Lucas, Spencer G. and Emry, Robert J. 2001. "Sharamynodon (Mammalia : Perissodactyla) from the Eocene of the Ily basin, Kazakstan and the antiquity of Asian amynodonts." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 114, (2) 517–525.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Holbrook, L. T., and Emry, Robert J. 2001. "The lophialetid ceratomorph Eoletes (Mammalia) from the Eocene of the Zaysan Basin, Kazakstan." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 114, (4) 988–992.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., and Bayshashov, Bolat U. 2000. "Sharamynodon (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Eocene of the Ily Basin, Kazakstan, and the antiquity of Asian Amynodontidae." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20, (Suppl. 3) 39A.
  • Lucas, Spencer G. and Emry, Robert J. 2000. "Eocene pantolestids from the Zaysan basin, Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20, (Suppl.3) 54A–55A.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Lucas, Spencer G. 1999. "The Tapirimorph Iscetolophus from the Eocene of the Zaysan Basin, Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19, (Suppl. 3) 43A.
  • Lucas, Spencer G. and Emry, Robert J. 1999. "Taxonomy and biochronological significance of Paraentelodon, a giant entelodont (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Oligocene of Eurasia." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19, (1) 160–168.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., Tyutkova, Lyubov A., and Bayshashov, Bolat B. 1999. "Fossil Mammals and the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary in the Zaysan Basin, Kazakhstan." Selevinia (The Zoological Journal of Kazakstan), 1996-1997 64–70.
  • Nasirov, R. N., Tleuberdina, P. A., and Emry, Robert J. 1999. "Research of dinosaurs egg shell by Electron Spin Resonance Method." Reports, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Kazakhstan., 4 87–94.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Lucas, Spencer G. 1998. "Middle Miocene mammals from Aktau Mountain, Eastern Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18, (Suppl. 3) 39A–40A.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., Tyutkova, Lyubov, and Wang, Banyue. 1998. "The Ergilian-Shandgolian (Eocene-Oligocene) Transition in the Zaysan Basin, Kazakstan." Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 34 298–312.
  • Emry, Robert J., Tyutkova, L. A., Lucas, Spencer G., and Wang, B. Y. 1998. "Rodents of the middle Eocene Shinzhaly fauna of Eastern Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18, (1) 218–227.
  • Lavrov, A. V. and Emry, Robert J. 1998. "Hyaenodon venturae (Hyaenodontidae, Creodonta, Mammalia) from the early Chadronian (latest Eocene) of Wyoming." Journal of Paleontology, 72, (4) 752–757.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., and Foss, S. E. 1998. "Taxonomy and distribution of Daeodon, an Oligocene-Miocene entelodont (Mammalia : Artiodactyla) from North America." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 111, (2) 425–435.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., and Tleuberdina, P. A. 1998. "Franconictis (Mammalia : Carnivora) from the late Oligocene of eastern Kazakstan." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 111, (3) 504–510.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Kordikova, E. G., and Emry, Robert J. 1998. "Oligocene Stratigraphy, Sequence Stratigraphy and Mammalian Biochronology North of the Aral Sea, Central Kazakstan." Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 34 313–348.
  • Domning, D. P., Emry, Robert J., Portell, R. W., Donovan, S. K., and Schindler, K. S. 1997. "Oldest West Indian land mammal: Rhinocerotoid ungulate from the Eocene of Jamaica." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, (4) 638–641.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., and Bayshashov, Bolat U. 1997. "Brontothere bone bed in the Eocene of Eastern Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, (Suppl. 3) 44A.
  • Emry, Robert J., Wang, B. Y., Tjutkova, L. A., and Lucas, Spencer G. 1997. "A late Eocene eomyid rodent from the Zaysan basin of Kazakhstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, (1) 229–234.
  • Korth, W. W. and Emry, Robert J. 1997. "The skull of Anchitheriomys and a new subfamily of beavers (Castoridae, Rodentia)." Journal of Paleontology, 71, (2) 343–347.
  • Korth, W. W. and Emry, Robert J. 1997. "A New Species of Aulolithomys (Rodentia, Eomyidae) from the Chadronian (late Eocene) of Wyoming." Paludicola, 1, (3) 112–116.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., and Bayshashov, B. U. 1997. "Eocene Perissodactyla from the Shinzhaly river, eastern Kazakhstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, (1) 235–246.
  • Shoshani, J., McKenna, M. C., Rose, K. D., and Emry, Robert J. 1997. "Eurotamandua is a Pholidotan not a Xenarthran." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, (Suppl. 3) 76A.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Korth, W. W. 1996. "The Chadronian squirrel ''Sciurus'' jeffersoni Douglass, 1901: A new generic name, new material, and its bearing on the early evolution of Sciuridae (Rodentia)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, (4) 775–780.
  • Lucas, Spencer G. and Emry, Robert J. 1996. "Late Eocene entelodonts (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from inner Mongolia, China." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 109, (2) 397–405.
  • Lucas, Spencer G. and Emry, Robert J. 1996. "Biochronological significance of Amynodontidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Paleogene of Kazakhstan." Journal of Paleontology, 70, (4) 691–696.
  • Lucas, Spencer G. and Emry, Robert J. 1996. "Early record of indricothere (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Hyracodontidae) from the Aral sea region of western Kazakhstan." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 109, (2) 391–396.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., and Bayshashov, B. U. 1996. "Zaisanamynodon, a late Eocene Amynodontid (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Kazakhstan and China." Tertiary Research, 17, (1) 51–58.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., and Purdy, R. W. 1996. "Marine fossil shark (Chondrichthyes) from nonmarine Eocene sediments, northeastern Kazakhstan." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 109, (2) 349–352.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., and Bayshashov, Bolat U. 1995. "Early Oligocene entelodont from the Zaysan Basin east Kazakhstan." Selevinia, 3, (2) 3–5.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., and Bayshashov, Bolat U. 1995. "Middle Eocene Perissodactyls from the Shinzhaly River, Eastern Kazakhstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15, (Suppl. 3) 27A.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., Bayshashov, Bolat U., Tjutkova, L. A., and Wang, Banyue. 1995. "Early Oligocene entelodont from the Zaysan Basin east Kazakhstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, (2) 3; 27A.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., Szalay, F. S., and Tleuberdina, P. A. 1995. "A new herpetotheriine didelphid (marsupialia) from the Oligocene of central Asia." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15, (4) 850–854.
  • Emry, Robert J., Tjutkova, L. A., Wang, Banyue, and Lucas, Spencer G. 1995. "The Ergilian-Shandgolian (Eocene-Oligocene) Transition in the Zaysan Basin of Kazakhstan." Journal of vertebrate paleontology, 15, (Suppl. 3) 27A.
  • Lucas, Spencer G. and Emry, Robert J. 1995. "Oligocene sequence stratigraphy and mammalian biochronology north of the Aral Sea, Western Kazakhstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15, (Suppl. 3) 41A.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Kordikova, E. G., and Emry, Robert J. 1995. "Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology in the Zaysan Basin, Kazakhstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15, (Suppl. 3) 41A.
  • Tjutkova, L. A., Emry, Robert J., Wang, B. -y, and Lucas, S. G. 1995. "Lagomorphs and rodents of the Middle Eocene Shinzhaly fauna, Eastern Kazakstan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15, (Suppl. 3) 56A.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Korth, W. W. 1993. "Evolution in Yoderimyinae (Eomyidae, Rodentia), with New Material from the White River Formation (Chadronian) at Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming." Journal of Paleontology, 67, (6) 1047–1057.
  • Rose, Kenneth D., Emry, Robert J., and Gingerich, Philip D. 1992. "Skeleton of Alocodontulum Atopum, an early Eocene epoicotheriid (Mammalia, Palaeanodonta) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, the Univeristy of Michigan, 28, (10) 221–245.
  • Korth, W. W. and Emry, Robert J. 1991. "The Skull of Cedromus and a Review of the Cedromurinae (Rodentia, Sciuridae)." Journal of Paleontology, 65, (6) 984–994.
  • Korth, William W., Wahlert, John H., and Emry, Robert J. 1991. "A new species of Heliscomys and recognition of the family Heliscomyidae (Geomyoidea: Rodentia)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11, (2) 247–256.
  • Wang, Banyue and Emry, Robert J. 1991. "Eomyidae (Rodentia: Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Nei Mongol, China." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11, (3) 370–377.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1990. "Obituary of Morris F. Skinner, 1906-1989." News bulletin - Society of Vertebrate Paleontology., (149) 93–95.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1989. "A Tiny New Eocene Ceratomorph and Comments on Tapiroid Systematics." Journal of Mammalogy, 70, (4) 794–804.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1987. "The Course of Evolutionary History." The Scientist, 1, (12) 22.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1987. "Bridgerian (Middle Eocene) mammals of Nevada." Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America., 19, (5) 273–274.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Gawne, C. E. 1986. "A Primitive, Early Oligocene Species of Palaeolagus (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) from the Flagstaff Rim Area of Wyoming." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 6, (3) 271–280.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Schultze, H. P. 1986. "Vertebrate Paleontology." GeoTimes, 31, (2) 57–59.
  • Westgate, J. W. and Emry, Robert J. 1985. "Land Mammals of the Crow Creek Local Fauna, Late Eocene, Jackson Group, St-Francis County, Arkansas." Journal of Paleontology, 59, (1) 242–248.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1984. "[Review] "Mammalian Paleofaunas of the World." By D. E. Savage and D. E. Russell." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 3, (3) 183–185.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Purdy, R. W. 1984. "The Holotype and Would-be Holotypes of Hyracodon nebraskensis." Notulae Naturae, (460) 1–18.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Rose, K. D. 1983. "Extraordinary Fossorial Adaptations in the Oligocene Palaeonodonts Epoicotherium and Xenocranium (Mammalia)." Journal of Morphology, 175, (1) 33–56.
  • Krishtalka, L., Emry, Robert J., Storer, J. E., and Sutton, J. F. 1982. "Oligocene Multi-Tuberculates (Mammalia - Allotheria) - Youngest Known Record." Journal of Paleontology, 56, (3) 791–794.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1981. "Review of Mesozoic Mammals. The First Two Thirds of Mammalian History." Journal of Paleontology, 55, (4) 908–910.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1981. "Additions to the Mammalian Fauna of the Type Duchesnean, with Comments on the Status of the Duchesnean Age." Journal of Paleontology, 55, (3) 563–570.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1981. "New Material of the Oligocene Muroid Rodent Nonomys, and Its Bearing on Muroid Origins." American Museum Novitates, (2712) 1–14.
  • Emry, Robert J., Archibald, J. D., and Smith, C. C. 1981. "A Mammalian Molar from the Late Cretaceous of Northern Mississippi." Journal of Paleontology, 55, (5) 953–956.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Storer, J. E. 1981. "The Hornless Protoceratid Pseudoprotoceras (Tylopoda: Artiodactyla) in the Early Oligocene of Saskatchewan and Wyoming." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1, (1) 101–110.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Hunt, R. M. 1980. "Maxillary Dentition and New Records of Daphoenictis, an Oligocene Amphicyonid Carnivore." Journal of mammalogy, 61, (4) 720–723.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1979. "Review of Toxotherium (Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotoidea) with New Material from the Early Oligocene of Wyoming." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 92, (1) 28–41.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1978. "New Hypertragulid (Mammalia, Ruminantia) from Early Chadronian of Wyoming and Texas." Journal of Paleontology, 52, (5) 1004–1014.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Dawson, Mary R. 1973. "Nonomys, New Name for the Cricetid (Rodentia, Mammalia) Genus Nanomys Emry and Dawson." Journal of Paleontology, 47 1003.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1972. "A new heteromyid rodent from the early Oligocene of Natrona County, Wyoming." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 85 179–190.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1972. "A New Species of Agnotocastor (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the Early Oligocene of Wyoming." American Museum Novitates, (2485) 1–7.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Dawson, Mary R. 1972. "A unique cricetid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the early Oligocene of Natrona county, Wyoming." American Museum novitates, (505) 1–14.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1970. "A North American Oligocene pangolin and other additions to the Pholidota." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 142, (6) 455–510.
Book
Book Chapter
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., Krainer, Karl, Hunt, Adrian P., and Spielmann, Justin A. 2012. "Strigilites (fossilized owl pellets) from the Oligocene of Wyoming." In Vertebrate Coprolites. Hunt, Adrian P., editor. 325–335. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. In New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 57.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., Bayshashov, Bolat U., and Tyutkova, Lyubov A. 2009. "Cenozoic mammalian biostratigraphy and biochronology in the Zaysan Basin, Kazakhstan." In Papers on Geology, Vertebrate Paleontology, and Biostratigraphy in Honor of Michael O. Woodburne.. Albright, I. I., editor. 621–634. Museum of Northern Arizona. In Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 65.
  • Emry, Robert J. 2007. "The Middle Eocene North American Myomorph Rodent Elymys, her Asian Sister Aksyiromys, and other Eocene Myomorphs." In Mammalian Paleontology on a Global Stage: Papers in Honor of Mary R. Dawson. Beard, K. C. and Luo, Zhe-Xi, editors. 141–150. In Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History; no. 39.
  • Korth, W. A. and Emry, Robert J. 2007. "A new Genus of Paramyine (Ischyromyidae, Rodentia) from the Eocene (Uintan to Chadronian) of Wyoming and Utah." In Mammalian Paleontology on a Global Stage: Papers in Honor of Mary R. Dawson. Beard, K. C. and Luo, Zhe-Xi, editors. 151–155. In Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History; no. 39.
  • Rose, Kenneth D., Emry, Robert J., Gaudin, Timothy J., and Storch, Gerhard. 2005. "Xenarthra and Pholidota." In The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades. Rose, Kenneth D. and Archibald, J. David, editors. 106–126. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Prothero, Donald R. and Emry, Robert J. 2004. "The Chadronian, Orellan, and Whitneyan North American Land Mammal Ages." In Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Biostatigraphy and Geochronology. Michael, O. Woodburne, editor. 156–168. Columbia University Press.
  • Bayshashov, Bolat U., Lucas, Spencer G., and Emry, Robert J. 2002. "Novye danniye k paleontologicheskim issledovaniyat v mestonakhozhdeniyakh Aktau (Dzungarskii Alatau) [New data on the paleontological investigations of the Aktau Locality (Dzhungarian Alatau)]." In Zoologicheskiye Issledovaniya v Kazakhstanye: Sovremennoye Sostoyaniye i Perspektivyi, Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Nauchnoi Konferentsii, 19-21 Marta 2002 g. Almaty Zoological Investigations in Kazakhstan: State of Art and Perspectives. Materials of the International Scientific Conference, 19021 March, 2002, Almaty]. 14–15.
  • Emry, Robert J. 2002. "Preface." In Cenozoic Mammals of Land and Sea: Tributes to the Career of Clayton E. Ray. v. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 93.
  • Erbayeva, M. A., Emry, Robert J., and Tyutkova, Lyubov A. 2002. "Lagomorphs." In Zoologicheskiye Issledovaniya v Kazakhstanye: Sovremennoye Sostoyaniye i Perspektivyi, Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Nauchnoi Konferentsii, 19-21 Marta 2002 g. Almaty Zoological Investigations in Kazakhstan: State of Art and Perspectives. Materials of the International Scientific Conference, 19021 March, 2002, Almaty].. 20–22.
  • Eshelman, Ralph E., Emry, Robert J., Domning, Daryl P., and Bohaska, David J. 2002. "Biography and Bibliography of Clayton Edward Ray." In Cenozoic Mammals of Land and Sea: Tributes to the Career of Clayton E. Ray. Emry, Robert J., editor. 1–13. Smithsonian Institution. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 93.
  • Tyutkova, Lyubov A., Emry, Robert J., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2002. "Drevniye khomyakobrazniye Zaysana [Ancient hamsters of Zaysan]." In Zoologicheskiye Issledovaniya v Kazakhstanye: Sovremennoye Sostoyaniye i Perspektivyi, Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Nauchnoi Konferentsii, 19-21 Marta 2002 g. Almaty Zoological Investigations in Kazakhstan: State of Art and Perspectives. Materials of the International Scientific Conference, 19021 March, 2002, Almaty]. 39–40.
  • Tyutkova, Lyubov A., Erbayeva, M. A., Emry, Robert J., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2002. "Miotsenovaya mikroteriofauna Zaysana I yeyo biostratigraficheskoye znacheniye [Miocene microtheriofauna of Zaysan and its biostratigraphic significance]." In Zoologicheskiye Issledovaniya v Kazakhstanye: Sovremennoye Sostoyaniye i Perspektivyi, Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Nauchnoi Konferentsii, 19-21 Marta 2002 g. Almaty Zoological Investigations in Kazakhstan: State of Art and Perspectives. Materials of the International Scientific Conference, 19021 March, 2002, Almaty].. 37–38.
  • Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., Chkhikvadze, V., Bayshashov, Bolat U., Tjutkova, Lyubov A., Tleuberdina, P. A., and Zhamangara, A. 2000. "Upper Cretaceous-Cenozoic lacustrine deposits of the Zaysan Basin, eastern Kazakhstan." In Lake Basins Through Space and Time. Gierlowski-Kordesch, E. H. and Kelts, K. R., editors. 335–340. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 46 in AAPG Studies in Geology ; no. 46.. https://doi.org/10.1306/St46706.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Eshelman, Ralph E. 1998. "The Early Hemingfordian (Early Miocene) Pollack Farm local fauna: First Tertiary land mammals described from Delaware." In Geology and paleontology of the lower Miocene Pollack Farm Fossil site, Delaware. Benson, R. N., editor. 153–173. Newark, Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware. In Delaware Geological Survey Special Publication ; No. 21.
  • Tleuberdina, P. A., Nasyrov, R. N., and Emry, Robert J. 1998. "Research of dinosaurs egg shell and mollusc shell with Electron Spin Resonance Method [ERS]." In Abstracts of Third Asian Herpetological Meeting, Almaty, Kazakstan, 1-5 Sept. 1998.. 39–40.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Korth, William W. 1996. "Cylindrodontidae." In Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America.. Prothero, Donald R. and Emry, Robert J., editors. 399–416. Cambridge University Press.
  • Heaton, T. H. and Emry, Robert J. 1996. "Leptomerycidae." In The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America. Prothero, D. R. and Emry, Robert J., editors. 581–608. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Prothero, Donald R. and Emry, Robert J. 1996. "Summary." In Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America.. Prothero, Donald R. and Emry, Robert J., editors. 664–683. Cambridge University Press.
  • Emry, Robert J., Lucas, Spencer G., and Tleuberdina, P. A. 1994. "Fossil mammals and the Oligocene-Miocene boundary in the Zaissan Basin (Eastern Kazakhstan)." In Abstracts of Conference Oligocene-Miocene Transition in the Northern hemisphere, International Geological Correlation Programme, Project No. 326, held in Aktyubinsk, Kazakstan, August 16-28, 1994.. 9–10. Konjik Publishing House.
  • Rose, K. D. and Emry, Robert J. 1993. "Relationships of Xenarthra, Pholidota, and Fossil 'Edentates': the Morphological Evidence." In Mammal Phylogeny; Placentals. Szalay, F. S., McKenna, M. C., and Novacek, M. J., editors. 81–102. New York: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1992. "Mammalian Range Zones in the Chadronian White River Formation at Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming." In Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution. Prothero, D. R. and Berggren, William A., editors. 106–115. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1992. "Introduction - A biographic sketch of Morris F. Skinner." In Species, genera, and tribes of the living and extinct horses of the world, 1758-1966; From the work of Morris F. Skinner. Dakoterra, Volume 4.. Macdonald, J. R., Macdonald, M. L., and Toohey, L. M., editors. v–vii. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1990. "Mammals of the Bridgerian (Middle Eocene) Elderberry Canyon Local Fauna of Eastern Nevada." In Dawn of the Age of Mammals in the Northern Part of the Rocky Mountains Interior. North America: Geological Society of America Special Paper. Bown, T. M. and Rose, K. D., editors. 187–210. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America.
  • Emry, Robert J., Bjork, P. R., and Russell, L. S. 1987. "The Chadronian, Orellan, and Whitneyan North American Land Mammal Ages." In Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy. Woodburne, M. O., editor. 118–152. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Thorington, Richard W., Jr. 1984. "The tree squirrel Sciurus (Sciuridae, Rodentia) as a living fossil." In Living Fossils. Eldredge, N. and Stanley, S. M., editors. 23–31. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Abstract
  • Tleuberdina, P. A., Emry, Robert J., and Semenov, Y. A. 2002. "Carnivores." , 33–34.
Book Review
  • Emry, Robert J. 1987. [Book review] "Mammal fossil record incompletely drawn: A review of Mammal evolution: An illustrated guide, by R.J.G. Savage and M.R. Long." Naturalist review, 3.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1987. [Book review] "Life Pulse - Episodes from the Story of the Fossil Record - Eldredge,n." Scientist, 1, (12), 22–22.
  • Emry, Robert J. and Schultze, H. P. 1984. [Book review] "Worldwide Vertebrate Paleontology Reviewed." GeoTimes, 29, (2), 14–16.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1980. [Book review] ""Evolution of African Mammals,"." Journal of Paleontology, 54, (1), 267–270.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1974. [Book review] "Review of vertebrate history: Problems in evolution, by Barbara J. Stahl." GeoTimes, 19, (6), 34–35.
  • Emry, Robert J. 1973. [Book review] "The Age of Mammals by Björn Kurten." Journal of mammalogy, 54, (4), 1024–1026. https://doi.org/10.2307/1379113.
Dissertation/Thesis
  • Emry, Robert J. 1970. "Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Flagstaff Rim Area, Natrona County Wyoming." PhD., Columbia Univeristy.