Publications
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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Peppe, D. J., Cote, S. M., Deino, A. L., Fox, D. L., Kingston, J. D., Kinyanjui, R. N., Lukens, W. E., MacLatchy, L. M., Novello, A., Strömberg, C. A. E., Driese, S. G., Garrett, N. D., Hillis, K. R., Jacobs, B. F., Jenkins, K. E. H., Kityo, R. M., Lehmann, T., Manthi, F. K., Mbua, E. N., … McNulty, K. P. (2023). Oldest evidence of abundant C4 grasses and habitat heterogeneity in eastern Africa. Science, 380(6641), 173–177. View paper.
MacLatchy, L. M., Cote, S. M., Deino, A. L., Kityo, R. M., Mugume, A. A. T., Rossie, J. B., Sanders, W. J., Cosman, M. N., Driese, S. G., Fox, D. L., Freeman, A. J., Jansma, R. J. W., Jenkins, K. E. H., Kinyanjui, R. N., Lukens, W. E., McNulty, K. P., Novello, A., Peppe, D. J., Strömberg, C. A. E., … Kingston, J. D. (2023). The evolution of hominoid locomotor versatility: Evidence from Moroto, a 21 Ma site in Uganda. Science, 380(6641), eabq2835. View paper.
King, A. G., Edwards, P. D., Cote, S., Palme, R., Boonstra, R., & Sicotte, P. (2023). Assessing stress in wild black-and-white colobus monkeys non-invasively. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 334, 114212. View paper.
Green, D. R., Ávila, J. N., Cote, S., Dirks, W., Lee, D., Poulsen, C. J., Williams, I. S., & Smith, T. M. (2022). Fine-scaled climate variation in equatorial Africa revealed by modern and fossil primate teeth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(35), e2123366119. View paper.
Rossie, J. B., & Cote, S. M. (2022). Additional hominoid fossils from the early Miocene of the Lothidok Formation, Kenya. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179( 2), 261– 275. View paper.
Flink, T., Cote, S., Rossie, J.B., Kibii, J.M. and Werdelin, L. 2021. The neurocranium of Ekweeconfractus amorui gen. et sp. nov.(Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) and the evolution of the brain in some hyaenodontan carnivores. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, p.e1927748. View paper.
Hall, A., and Cote, S. 2021. Ruminant mesowear and hypsodonty reveal consistently browse-dominated diets throughout the early and middle Miocene of eastern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 567:110253. View paper.
Robinson, C., Campbell, T., Cote, S., and de Ruiter, D. 2018. Temporal ranges and ancestry in the hominin fossil record: the case of Australopithecus sediba. South African Journal of Science. 114(3/4): #2017-0327. View paper.
Cote, S., Kingston, J., Deino, A., Winkler, A., Kityo, R., and MacLatchy, L. 2018. Evidence for rapid faunal change in the early Miocene of East Africa based on revised biostratigraphic and radiometric dating of Bukwa, Uganda. Journal of Human Evolution 116:95-107. View paper.
Murray, A., Argyriou, T., Cote, S., and MacLatchy, L. 2017. The fishes of Bukwa, Uganda, a lower Miocene (Burdigalian) locality of East Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(3): e1324460. View paper.
Cote, S., McNulty, K., Stevens, N., and Nengo, I. 2016. A detailed assessment of the maxillary morphology of Limnopithecus evansi with implications for the taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Human Evolution 94:83-91.View paper.
Cote, S., Nengo, I., and Malit, N. 2014. Additional mandibles of the Miocene catarrhine Rangwapithecus gordoni from the Tinderet localities of Western Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153: 341-352. View paper.
Peppe, D., McNulty, K., Cote, S., Harcourt-Smith, W., Dunsworth, H., and Van Couvering, J.A.H. 2009. Stratigraphic interpretation of the Kulu Formation (Early Miocene, Rusinga Island, Kenya) and its implications for primate evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 56:447-61. View paper.
Cote, S., Werdelin, L., Seiffert, E., and Barry, J.C. 2007. Additional material of the enigmatic Early Miocene mammal Kelba and its relationship to the order Ptolemaiida. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:5510-5515. View paper.
Barry, J. C., Cote, S., MacLatchy, L., Lindsay, E., Kityo, R., and Rajpar, A.R. 2005. Oligo-Miocene Ruminants from Pakistan and Uganda, Paleontologia Electronica 8(1): 22A. View paper.
Cote, S. 2004. Origin of the African hominoids: An assessment of the palaeobiogeographical evidence. Comptes Rendus Palévol 3(4): 323-340. View paper.
Cote, S., Carroll, R., Cloutier, R., and Bar-Sagi. L. 2002. Vertebral development in the Devonian Sarcopterygian fish Eusthenopteron foordi and the polarity of vertebral evolution in non-amniote tetrapods. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3): 487-502. View paper.
Book Chapters
Cote, S. 2010. Pecora incertae sedis; in Werdelin, L. & Sanders, W. (eds.). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley; p. 731-739. View book.
Coombs, M.C. and Cote, S. 2010. Chalicotheriidae; in Werdelin, L. & Sanders, W. (eds.). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley; p. 659-667. View book.
Werdelin, L. and Cote, S. 2010. Prionogalidae (Mammalia incertae sedis); in Werdelin, L. & Sanders, W. (eds.). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley; p. 561-562. View book.
Other Publications
Cote, S. 2018. News and View: Savannah savvy. Invited commentary for Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 210-211. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0450-x. View essay.