Amelia Villaseñor

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Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas

Faculty Researcher

13 h-index 33 pubs 793 cited

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Amelia Villaseñor's research focuses on paleontology and paleoanthropology, with an emphasis on fossil mammals, ancient ecosystems, and human evolution. Her work investigates the ecological impacts of extinction events, such as the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction, and how these events have shaped mammalian communities in North America. Villaseñor also studies the environmental contexts of early hominin behavior, examining evidence from sites like the Turkana Basin in Kenya. Her publications address topics including biotic homogenization, the development of early tool technologies, and the challenges of integrating specimen-level trait data for interdisciplinary research. She has published 33 papers, with an h-index of 13 and 784 citations. Villaseñor collaborates with Lucas K. Delezene, with whom she shares two publications.

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h-index: 13
Publications: 33
Citations: 793

Selected Publications

Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya (2025)

Nature Communications 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time (2025)

Trends in Ecology & Evolution 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin (2024)

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Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation (2024)

Journal of Human Evolution 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Zambia Rift Valley research project: Exploring human evolution at the crossroads of Africa (2023)

L Anthropologie 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin (2023)

Journal of Human Evolution 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community (2022)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 74 citations DOI OpenAlex
A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data (2022)

iScience 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas (2022)

Nature Communications 30 citations DOI OpenAlex
Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time (2020)

Trends in Ecology & Evolution 61 citations DOI OpenAlex
Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America (2020)

Ecography 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
Middle Pliocene hominin distribution patterns in Eastern Africa (2020)

Journal of Human Evolution 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction (2019)

Science 77 citations DOI OpenAlex
THE MISSING PIECE I: CONSEQUENCES OF TERMINAL PLEISTOCENE MEGAFAUNAL EXTINCTION ON THE ISOTOPIC AND BODY SIZE NICHE OF LARGE HERBIVORE COMMUNITIES IN TEXAS (2019)

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America DOI OpenAlex