Thesis Research

Danny is studying the Irvingtonian machairodont felids of North America, in part undertaking a taxonomic review of middle Pleistocene Smilodon and Homotherium in light of recently available specimens. He presented a poster at the 2008 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Cleveland, Ohio on Scimitar cat (Homotherium) specimens from the Fairmead Landfill and Irvington localities in California.

 

Publications

Tovar, Danny H. and Robert G. Dundas.  2009.  California State University, Fresno and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans): Collaboration in Paleontological Resource Assessment and Impact Mitigation.  Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Fossil Resources, St. George, Utah, pp.79-80.

Tovar, Danny H. and Robert G. Dundas.  2008.  Irvingtonian occurrences of Homotherium from Irvington and Fairmead Landfill in California.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v.28, n.3 supplement, pp.152A-153A (abstract).  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2008 annual meeting, Cleveland, Ohio.

Tovar, Danny H., Joe A. Canchola and Robert G. Dundas.  2008.  Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) from the late Irvingtonian Fairmead Landfill locality, Madera County, California.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.40, n.1, p.44.