Planet Hunters forum Talk members have assembled an evolving Kepler "Data Mining" list of unlisted and known Gamma Doradus (GDOR) variable stars like KIC 8364249 above. You can check out the 26 page and counting, collection here.
This is a pattern recognition list and many of the entries may fail as GDOR stars after further analysis. The list may also provide some exotic stars not currently classified. Consider this thread to be a working list of eligible stars that visually look like GDORs. Members, with the expertise, can later pull interesting stars from the list for further investigation.
From our good friend wikipedia: "Gamma Doradus variables are stars which display variations in luminosity due to non-radial pulsations of their surface. The stars are typically young, early spectral F or A type main sequence stars, and typical brightness fluctuations are 0.1 magnitudes with periods on the order of one day. This is a relatively new class of variable stars, having been first characterized in the second half of the 1990s, and details on the underlying physical cause of the variations remains under investigation. The prototype is Gamma Doradus."
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