I am a vertebrate paleontologist and my principal research is the study of fossil rodents and carnivores. My papers have stressed systematics, but also involve biostratigraphy, biogeography and paleoecology. My current research includes the study of the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Quaternary deposits of the Nueces River valley and the systematics of fossil procyonids. I am also interested in the effects of temperature and salinity on the morphology of the foraminiferan Ammonia parkinsoniana.

I teach a variety of courses (I have taught 27 total at TAMUK), including Vertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy, Paleontology, and Evolution.. The five graduate student theses I have directed deal with micropaleontology, paleoecology, stratigraphy, and sedimentology.

Refereed journal articles and book chapters: 31, including the following SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Baskin, J. A. 2005. Carnivora from the Late Miocene Love Bone Bed Local Fauna of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 45:413-434.

Baskin, J. A. 2004. Bassariscus and Probassariscus (Mammalia, Carnivora, Procyonidae) from the early Barstovian (middle Miocene). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24:709-720.

Baskin, J. A. 2003. New procyonines from the Hemingfordian and Barstovian of the Gulf Coast and Nevada, including the first fossil record of the Potosini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 279:125-146.

Baskin, J. A. 1998. Evolutionary trends in the late Miocene hyena-like dog Epicyon (Carnivora, Canidae). in Tomida, Y., Flynn, L. J., and Jacobs, L. L. (eds.), Advances in vertebrate paleontology and geochronology. National Science Museum, Tokyo, Monographs, 14:191-214.

Baskin, J. A. 1998. Mustelidae; pp. 152-173, in Janis, C., K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Cambridge University Press.

Dalquest, W. W., J. A. Baskin, and G. E. Schultz. 1996. Fossil mammals from a late Miocene (Clarendonian) site in Beaver County, Oklahoma. pp. 107-137, in H. H. Genoways and R. J. Baker (eds.), Contributions in Mammalogy: A Memorial Volume Honoring Dr. J. Knox Jones, Jr. Museum of Texas Tech University.

Baskin, J. A. and R. H. Tedford. 1996. Small arctoid and feliform carnivorans; pp. 486-497, in Prothero, D. R. and R. J. Emry (eds.), The terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene transition in North America. Cambridge University Press.

Baskin, J. A. 1996. Systematic revision of Ctenodactylidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Miocene of Pakistan. Palaeovertebrata, 25 (1):1-49, 1 pl.

Baskin, J. A. 1986. The late Miocene radiation of Neotropical sigmodontine rodents in North America. in Flanagan, K. M. and Lillegraven, J. A. (eds.), Vertebrates, phylogeny, and philosophy. University of Wyoming Contributions to Geology. Special Paper, 3:287-303.

Baskin, J. A. 1981. Barbourofelis (Nimravidae) and Nimravides (Felidae), with a description of two new species from the Late Miocene of Florida. Journal of Mammalogy, 62:122-139.

Baskin, J. A. 1978. Bensonomys, Calomys, and the origin of the phyllotine group of Neotropical cricetines (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 59:125-135.

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