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McMenamin, M. 2022. First record of color and countershading in a Permian vertebrate. Academia Letters, Article 5128,


McMenamin, M. (2021). . Academia Letters, Article 3658.


McMenamin, M. (2021). . Academia Letters, Article 3591.


McMenamin, M. A. S. (2020, March 27). Bradoriids (Arthropoda) and the Cambrian Diversification. Geosciences, 10(4).


McMenamin, M. A. S. (2019). Cambrian chordates and vetulicolians. Geosciences, 9(8), 354.


McMenamin, M. A. S. (2019). The Hypertopia Option. Environment and Ecology Research, 7(5), 265-270. DOI: 10.13189/eer.2019.070501



Forced by the pandemic to conduct his geological fieldwork closer to campus, Mark McMenamin discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur (Amherst) and a new pterosaur (South Hadley).