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Amugongo, Sarah

Rizk, O.T., S. Amugongo, M.C. Mahaney, and L.J. Hlusko. 2008. The quantitative genetic analysis of primate dental variation: History of the approach and prospects for the future. In: Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology (J.D. Irish and G.C. Nelson, eds). Cambridge University Press.



Barnosky, Tony

Barnosky, A. D., F. Bibi, S. S. B. Hopkins, and R. Nichols. 2007. Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the mid-Miocene Railroad Canyon sequence, Montana and Idaho, and age of the Mid-Tertiary unconformity west of the continental divide. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27:204-224.  Read it



Brakora, Katie

Brakora, K., and K. Padian. 2007. Quantification and phylogenetic correlation of sexual morphotypes in Bovidae (Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (3, suppl.): 52A.



Bush, Stephanie

Bush, S. L., and B. H. Robison. 2007. Ink utilization by mesopelagic squid. Marine Biology. 152(3):485-494



Caldwell, Roy

Chiou, T. H, R. L. Caldwell, R. T. Hanlon and T. W. Cronin. 2008. Fine structure and optical properties of biological polarizers in crustaceans and cephalopods. Proceedings of SPIE, 6972: 1-10.


Chiou, T. H, S. Kleinlogel, T. Cronin, R. Caldwell, B. Loeffler, A. Siddiqui, A. Goldizen and J. Marshall. 2008. Circular polarisation vision in a stomatopod crustacean. Current Biology 18: 429-434.


Huffard, C. L., R. L. Caldwell and F. Boneka. 2008. Mating behavior of Abdopus aculeatus (d'Orbigny 1834) (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the wild. Marine Biology 154:353-362.


Meunier, F.J., M. V. Erdmann, Y. F. and R. L. Caldwell. 2008 Can the comparative study of the morphology and histology of the scales of Latimeria menadoensis and L. chalumnae (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia, Coelacanthidae) bring new insight on the taxonomy and the biogeography of recent coelacanthids? Geological Society, London, Special Publications; v. 295; p. 351-360 doi:10.1144/SP295.17


Patek, S.N., B. N. Nowroozi, J. E. Baio, R. L. Caldwell, and A. P. Summers. 2007. Linkage mechanics and power amplification of the mantis shrimp's raptorial strike. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 3677-3688  Read it



Casazza, Lorraine

Lipps, J. H., L. R. Casazza, S. A. Fay, M. Weber. 2008. Evolutionary History of Photosymbiosis and Its Implications for the Future of Reefs. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 40 (6), xx



Clemens, William

Clemens, W.A. 2008. Review of Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles. Edited by M.T. Carrano, T.J.Gaudin, R.W. Blob and J.R. Wible. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 15:281-283.


Goodwin, M.B. and W.A. Clemens. Mesozoic continental vertebrates from the Northwestern Plateau, Ethiopia. International conference on paleoanthropology, paleontology, and archaeology in Ethiopia. Jan. 12-14, 2008. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Program with abstracts, pp. 18.


Clemens, W.A. 2007. Early Jurassic allotherians from South Wales (United Kingdom). Fossil Record 10:50-59.


Clemens, W.A. 2007. Eutriconodonta (Triconodonta), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition, p. 728-729. Online McGraw-Hill AccessScience.  Read it


Clemens, W.A., M.B. Goodwin, J.H. Hutchison, C.R. Schaff, C.B. Wood, and M.W. Colbert. 2007. First record of a Jurassic mammal (?"Peramura") from Ethiopia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(3):433-439.  Read it



Erwin, Diane M.

Erwin, D.M. 2008. Late Eocene pond weeds from the Bull Run Basin, NV, USA. Botany 2008, Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting, University of British Columbia, Canada, July 26-30, Paper No. 652.  Read it


Hren, M.T., M. Pagani, M. Brandon, and D.M. Erwin. 2008. Paleoelevation reconstruction of the Sierra Nevada from compound-specific stable isotopes of fossil leaves. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, Paper No. 126-6 (on CD-ROM).  Read it


Simpson, A.G. and D.M. Erwin. 2008. A Western Interior origin for the chaparral shrub genus Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae) in California? Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, Paper No. 277-10 (on CD-ROM.)  Read it


Erwin, D.M. and H.E. Schorn. 2007. Tufa-encrusted plants from Late Pleistocene Searles Lake, California, USA. Botany and Plant Biology Joint Congress, Chicago, IL, July 7-12, Poster Abstracts volume p. 280.  Read it


Erwin, D.M. and K.N. Schick. 2007. New Miocene oak galls (Cynipini) and their bearing on the history of cynipid wasps in western North America. Journal of Paleontology 81(3):568-580.  Read it


Schorn, H.E., J.A. Myers, and D.M. Erwin. 2007. Navigating the Neogene: An updated chronology of Neogene paleofloras from the western United States. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 258: 139-146.



Fay, Scott

Fay, S., J. H. Lipps and M. Weber. 2008. Evolutionary Potential of Photosymbiosis on Other Planets: Astrobiology 8 (2): 469.


Fay, S., M. Weber, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. The cell ecology of Symbiodinium in soritid foraminifera. Reefs for the Future, 11th Internat. Coral Reef Symposium 2008 – Abstracts, p. 286


Lipps, J. H., L. R. Casazza, S. A. Fay, M. Weber. 2008. Evolutionary History of Photosymbiosis and Its Implications for the Future of Reefs. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 40 (6), xx


Weber, M., S. Fay, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. The biogeography of Symbiodinium from Tridacna maxima across the Indo-Pacific. Reefs for the Future, 11th Internat. Coral Reef Symposium 2008 – Abstracts, p. 255.



Finger, Ken

Encinas, A., K.L. Finger, S.N. Nielsen, A. Lavenu, L.A. Buatois, D.E. Peterson and J.P. Le Roux. 2008. Rapid and major coastal subsidence during the late Miocene in south-central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 25:157-175.


Encinas, A., L.A. Buatois, and K.L. Finger. 2008. Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental implications of a high-density Chondrites association in slope depositis of the Neogene Santo Domingo Formation, Valdivia, south-central Chile. Ameghiniana 45(1):225-231.


Finger, K. L., M. M. Flenniken, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. Foraminifera used in the construction of Miocene Polychaete Tubes, Monterey Formation, California, USA. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 40 (6), xx


Finger, K. L., M. M. Flenniken, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. Foraminifera used in the construction of Miocene Polychaete Tubes, Monterey Formation, California, USA. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 38 (4): 277-291.


Encinas, A., and K.L. Finger. 2007. Sedimentologic, paleontologic and ichnologic evidence for deep-marine Miocene deposition in the present Intermediate Depression and Coastal Cordillera of south-central Chile (38°30'-41°30'S). Geosur 2007 - International Geological Congress on the Southern Hemisphere), Santiago de Chile, 19/20 November.


Encinas, A., K.L. Finger, A. and Buatois. 2007. Evidence of deep-marine sedimentation in the present longitudinal depression of south-central Chile (38°30'-41°30'S) during the Neogene. Tectonic implications. 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America (EMPSLA), 12-14 Sept., Tres Cantos - Madrid, Spain.


Finger, K.L., C.S. Hickman, M.J. James, , J.H, Lipps, D.E. Peterson, L.J. Pitt, and W.D. Pitt. 2007. Pleistocene marine paleoenvironments on the Galapagos Islands. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs 39, Paper No. 144-14 (on CD-ROM).  Read it


Finger, K.L., S.N. Nielsen, T.J. DeVries, A.E. Encinas, and D.E. Peterson. 2007. Paleontologic evidence for sedimentary displacement in Neogene forearc basins of central Chile. Palaios 22(1):3-16.


Shriner, C.M., G.E. Christidis, J.G. Brophy, K.L. Finger, and H.H. Murray, 2007. Clay mineralogical studies for Aeginetan ware, Aegina, Greece. Enchanted Clays - 44th Annual Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society, Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA, June 2-7, 2007. Technical Program:150.  Read it



Goodwin, Mark

Andersen, D.W., M.B. Goodwin, N.C. Shostak, C.M. Wentworth, and J.C. Tinsley. 2008. A newly discovered mammoth in San Jose, California, poses a stratigraphic puzzle. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 40(1):59.


Goodwin, M. B. and P. A. Holroyd. 2008. Fractionation in fossil bioapatite: phylogeny as a confounding factor. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):85A


Goodwin, M.B. and W.A. Clemens. Mesozoic continental vertebrates from the Northwestern Plateau, Ethiopia. International conference on paleoanthropology, paleontology, and archaeology in Ethiopia. Jan. 12-14, 2008. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Program with abstracts, pp. 18.


Horner, J.R. and M.B.Goodwin. 2008. Ontogeny of cranial epi-ossifications in Triceratops. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1):134-144.


Schott, R., D. Evans, T. Williamson, T. Carr, and M. B. Goodwin. 2008. Anatomy and systematics of Colepiocephale lambei (Ornithischia Pachycephalosauridae) revised. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):138A.


Schweitzer, M.H., R. Avci, T. Collier, and M.B. Goodwin. 2008. Microscopic, chemical and molecular methods for examining fossil preservation. Comptes Rendu. 7:159-184.


Clemens, W.A., M.B. Goodwin, J.H. Hutchison, C.R. Schaff, C.B. Wood, and M.W. Colbert. 2007. First record of a Jurassic mammal (?"Peramura") from Ethiopia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(3):433-439.  Read it


Goodwin, M.B., P.G. Grant, G. Bench, and P. Holroyd. 2007. Elemental composition and diagenetic alteration of dinosaur bone: Distinguishing micron-scale spatial and compositional heterogeneity using PIXE. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253:458-476. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.06.017.  Read it


Hall, L. and M. Goodwin. 2007. A preliminary analysis of dinosaur teeth from the Mugher Mudstone of Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):86A.


Horner, J., M.B. Goodwin, and H. Woodward. 2007. Synonomy consequences of dinosaur cranial ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):92A.



Hickman, Carole

Hickman, C.S. 2008. New techniques yield new insights on the basic biology of living microgastropods. Pp. 1-13 in D.L. Geiger and B. Ruthensteiner (eds.), Micromolluscs: Methodological Challenges - Exciting Results. Zoosymposia 1. Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand. 308 pp


Nehm, R.H., and Hickman, C.S. 2008. Assessing the effects of taphonomic processes on paleobiological patterns using turninid gastropod shells and opercula. Pp. 63-84 in R.H. Nehm, R.H. and and A.F. Budd (eds). Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene. Springer.


Finger, K.L., C.S. Hickman, M.J. James, , J.H, Lipps, D.E. Peterson, L.J. Pitt, and W.D. Pitt. 2007. Pleistocene marine paleoenvironments on the Galapagos Islands. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs 39, Paper No. 144-14 (on CD-ROM).  Read it


Hickman, C.S. and S.S. Porter. 2007. Nocturnal swimming, aggregaton at light traps, and mass spawning of scissurellid gastropods (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda). Invertebrate Biology 126(1):10-17.  Read it



Hlusko, Leslea

Hlusko, LJ. 2008. Book Review. The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul by A. Walker and P. Shipman. Current Anthropology 49(2):337-338.


Rizk, O.T., S. Amugongo, M.C. Mahaney, and L.J. Hlusko. 2008. The quantitative genetic analysis of primate dental variation: History of the approach and prospects for the future. In: Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology (J.D. Irish and G.C. Nelson, eds). Cambridge University Press.


Ambrose, S.H., C.J. Bell, R.L. Bernor, J.R. Boisserie, C.M. Darwent, D. DeGusta, A. Deino, N. Garcia, Y. Haile-Selassie, J.J. Head, F.C. Howell, M.D. Kyule, F.K. Manthi, E.M. Mathu, C.M. Nyamai, M. Pickford, H. Saegusa, T.A. Stidham, M.A.J. Williams, and L.J. Hlusko. 2007. The Paleoecology and Paleogeographic Context of Lemudong'o Locality 1, a Late Miocene Terrestrial Fossil Site in Southern Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 38-52.


Ambrose, S.H., M.D. Kyule, and L.J. Hlusko. 2007. History of paleontological research in the Narok District of Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 1-37.


Hlusko L.J. and M.C. Mahaney. 2007. A multivariate comparison of dental variation in wild and captive populations of baboons (Papio hamadryas). Archives of Oral Biology 52:195-200.


Hlusko, L.J. 2007. A new late Miocene species of Paracolobus and other Cercopithecoid (Mammalia: Primates) fossils from Lemudong'o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 72-85.


Hlusko, L.J. 2007. Earliest evidence for Atherurus and Xenohystrix (Hystricidae, Rodentia) in Africa, from the late Miocene site of Lemudong'o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 86-91.


Hlusko, L.J. and M.C. Mahaney. 2007. Of mice and monkeys: Quantitative genetic analyses of size variation along the dental arcade. In: Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology (S. Bailey and J-J. Hublin, eds.). Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 237-245.


Hlusko, L.J. and Y. Haile-Selassie. 2007. Nyanzochoerus syrticus (Artiodactyla: Suidae) from the late Miocene of Lemudong'o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 152-157.


Hlusko, L.J., N. Do, and M.C. Mahaney. 2007. Genetic correlations between mandibular molar cusp areas in baboons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132:445-454.


Hlusko, L.J., Y. Haile-Selassie, and D. DeGusta. 2007. Late Miocene Bovidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lemudong'o, Narok District, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 163-172.


Pickford M. and L.J. Hlusko. 2007. Late Miocene procaviid hyracoids from Lemudong'o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 106-111.


Saegusa H. and L.J. Hlusko. 2007. New late Miocene elephantoid (Mammalia: Proboscidea) fossils from Lemudong'o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 140-147.



Holroyd, Pat

Bourque, J., J. Hutchison, P.A. Holroyd, and J. Bloch. 2008. A new kinosternoid (Testudines: Dermatemydidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene boundary of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and its paleoclimatological implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3 Suppl.):55A.


Clementz, M. A., P. A. Holroyd, and P. L. Koch. 2008. Identifying aquatic habits of herbivorous mammals through stable isotope analysis. Palaios 23(9):574-585.  Read it


Clementz, M. T. and P. A. Holroyd. 2008. From river horses to sea cows: using stable isotopes in tooth enamel to identify semiaquatic mammals in the fossil record. The 6th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies. Honolulu, HI August 25-29.


Clementz, M. T., and P. A. Holroyd. 2008. Isotopic modeling of the hippo ecomorph: identifying aquatic habits of herbivorous mammals through stable isotope analysis. The 6th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies. Honolulu, HI August 25-29.


Clementz, M. T., P. A. Holroyd, and P. L. Koch. 2008. Identifying aquatic habits of herbivorous mammals through stable isotope analysis. Palaios 23(9): 547-585


Dirks, W., R. L. Anemone, P. A. Holroyd, D. J. Reid, and P. Walton. 2008. Phylogeny, life history and the timing of crown formation in two archaic ungulates, Meniscotherium and Phenacodus (Mammalia, “Condylarthra”), 14th International Symposium on Dental Morphology, Greifswald, Germany, August 27-30, Abstracts with Programs, p.O8


Goodwin, M. B. and P. A. Holroyd. 2008. Fractionation in fossil bioapatite: phylogeny as a confounding factor. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):85A


Head, J.J., and P.A. Holroyd. 2008. Assembly and biogeography of North American Paleogene snake faunas based on an expanded fossil record. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3 Suppl.):90A.


Holroyd, P.A. & Strait, S.G. 2008. New data on Loveina (Primates: Omomyidae) from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation and implications for washakiin relationships, pp. 243-257, in J.G. Fleagle and C.C. Gilbert, Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins. Springer.


Holroyd, P.A. 2008. New data on dental eruption patterns in condylarths and afrotheres. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3 Suppl.):93A


Smith, K. T., B.-A. S. Bhullar, and P. A. Holroyd. 2008. Earliest African record of the Varanus stem-clade (Squamata: Varanidae) from the earliest Oligocene of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3): 909-913.


Clementz, M., and P. Holroyd. 2007. Using stable isotope analysis ot test inferred semi-aquatic habits in fossil herbivores from the early Oligocene of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):59A.


Goodwin, M.B., P.G. Grant, G. Bench, and P. Holroyd. 2007. Elemental composition and diagenetic alteration of dinosaur bone: Distinguishing micron-scale spatial and compositional heterogeneity using PIXE. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253:458-476. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.06.017.  Read it


Holroyd, P., and G. Gunnell. 2007. New data on Anthracotheriidae (Artiodactyla) from the Paleogene of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):90A.



Huffard, Christine

Huffard, C. L., R. L. Caldwell and F. Boneka. 2008. Mating behavior of Abdopus aculeatus (d'Orbigny 1834) (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the wild. Marine Biology 154:353-362.



Irmis, Randy

Irmis, R.B., and F. Knoll. 2008. New ornithischian dinosaur material from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 247:117-128  Read it


Parham, J.F., and R.B. Irmis. 2008. Caveats on the use of fossil calibrations for molecular dating. American Naturalist. 171(1):132-136.  Read it


Parker, W.G., M.R. Stocker, and R.B. Irmis. 2008. A new desmatosuchine aetosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic Tecovas Formation (Dockum Group) of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28(3):692-701.  Read it


Irmis, R. B., N. D. Pyenson, and J. H. Lipps. 2007. Formation of marine bonbeds: insights from the Middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill bonebed of California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3 Suppl.): 94A.


Irmis, R.B. 2007. Axial skeleton ontogeny in the Parasuchia (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its implications for ontogenetic determination in archosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):350-361.


Irmis, R.B. 2007. The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27(3):776.  Read it


Irmis, R.B., Nesbitt, S.J., Padian, K., Smith, N.D., Turner, A.H., Woody, D., and Downs, A. 2007. A Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage from New Mexico and the Rise of Dinosaurs. Science 317:358-361. (DOI: 10.1126/science.1143325)  Read it


Irmis, R.B., W.G. Parker, S.J. Nesbitt, and J. Liu. 2007. Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology 19(1):3-22.  Read it


Nesbitt, S.J., R.B. Irmis, and W.G. Parker. 2007. A critical reevaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(2):209-243.  Read it


Pyenson, N. D., R. B. Irmis, and J. H. Lipps. 2007. Formation and taphonomy of the sharktooth hill bonebed, a unique accumulation from the Mid-Miocene of California. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39(6): 398.



Lipps, Jere

Fay, S., J. H. Lipps and M. Weber. 2008. Evolutionary Potential of Photosymbiosis on Other Planets: Astrobiology 8 (2): 469.


Fay, S., M. Weber, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. The cell ecology of Symbiodinium in soritid foraminifera. Reefs for the Future, 11th Internat. Coral Reef Symposium 2008 – Abstracts, p. 286


Finger, K. L., M. M. Flenniken, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. Foraminifera used in the construction of Miocene Polychaete Tubes, Monterey Formation, California, USA. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 40 (6), xx


Finger, K. L., M. M. Flenniken, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. Foraminifera used in the construction of Miocene Polychaete Tubes, Monterey Formation, California, USA. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 38 (4): 277-291.


Lipps, J. H. 2008. Evolution: Learning from geology and the fossil record.  Read it


Lipps, J. H. 2008. Darwin's Day. Palaeontologica Electronica 11(1)  Read it


Lipps, J. H. 2008. Paleontology and the public--The last 100 years. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 40 (6), xx


Lipps, J. H. 2008. Reef restoration: The good and the bad. Proc. 11th Internat. Coral Reef Symposium. 5 pp


Lipps, J. H. 2008. Reef restoration: The good and the bad. Reefs for the Future, 11th Internat. Coral Reef Symposium 2008 – Abstracts, p. 222.


Lipps, J. H. 2008. Taphonomy of Oil. Paleontologica Electronica. 11 (2)  Read it


Lipps, J. H. and M. Race. 2008. Protecting Europa: Considerations from Icy Earth Environments. Astrobiology 8 (2): 438


Lipps, J. H. and Schultze-Makuch. 2008. Origin of Life in Ice: Prospects for the Solar System and Beyond. Astrobiology 8 (2): 345.


Lipps, J. H., L. R. Casazza, S. A. Fay, M. Weber. 2008. Evolutionary History of Photosymbiosis and Its Implications for the Future of Reefs. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 40 (6), xx


Scott, D. B., and J. H. Lipps. 2008. Paleo-Hazard recognition in coastal settings—microfossil determinations of the history and precursors of major catastrophic events. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 40 (6), xx


Weber, M., S. Fay, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. The biogeography of Symbiodinium from Tridacna maxima across the Indo-Pacific. Reefs for the Future, 11th Internat. Coral Reef Symposium 2008 – Abstracts, p. 255.


Finger, K.L., C.S. Hickman, M.J. James, , J.H, Lipps, D.E. Peterson, L.J. Pitt, and W.D. Pitt. 2007. Pleistocene marine paleoenvironments on the Galapagos Islands. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs 39, Paper No. 144-14 (on CD-ROM).  Read it


Irmis, R. B., N. D. Pyenson, and J. H. Lipps. 2007. Formation of marine bonbeds: insights from the Middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill bonebed of California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3 Suppl.): 94A.


Li, C. W., J.Y. Chen, J. H. Lipps, F. Gao, H. M. Chi, H. J. Wu. 2007. Ciliated protozoans from the Precambrian Doushantuo Formation, Wengan, south China. Geological Society Special Publications, 286: 151-156


Lipps, J. H. 2007. The future of paleontology; the next 10 years. Palaeontologia Electronica, 10 (1)  Read it


Lipps, J. H. 2007. Is there life on Jupiter's ice moon Europa? AAAS Annual Meeting, 173, A46.


Lipps, J. H. 2007. Museums and Their Exhibits. Palaeontologica Electronica 10.2.3E  Read it


Lipps, J. H. 2007. News stories we’d hate to see. Paleontologica Electronica. Vol. 10, Issue 3; 6E:7p  Read it


Lipps, J. H. 2007. The future of paleontology; the next 10 years. Palaeontologia Electronica, 10 (1) 6 pp.


Lipps, J. H., Y. Ujiie. 2007. Diversification of cryptic genetic types in planktonic Foraminifera: relationship to global climate changes of the past 15 ma. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 39 (6) 447.


Pyenson, N. D., R. B. Irmis, and J. H. Lipps. 2007. Formation and taphonomy of the sharktooth hill bonebed, a unique accumulation from the Mid-Miocene of California. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39(6): 398.



Meyer, Erin

Meyer, E., B. Nilkerd, E.A. Glover, and J.D. Taylor. 2008. Ecological importance of chemoautotrophic lucinid bivalves in a peri-mangrove community in Eastern Thailand. Raffles Bulletin S18: 41-55.  Read it



Moustakas, Jacqueline

Moustakas, J.E. 2008. Development of the carapacial ridge: implications for the evolution of genetic networks in turtle shell development. Evolution & Development. 10(1): 29-36



Osborn, Karen

Osborn, K.J., G.R. Rouse, S.K. Goffredi, & B.H. Robison. 2007. Description and relationships of an unusual pelagic polychaete Chaetopterus pugaporcinus (Annelida, Chaetopteridae). The Biological Bulletin 212: 40-54.  Read it



Padian, Kevin

Padian, K. 2008. Darwin's enduring legacy. Nature 451: 632-634.


Padian, K. 2008. How to get coverage of major evolutionary adaptive changes into textbooks and curricula. Final Program and Abstracts, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2005 Annual Meeting.


Padian, K. 2008. Improving evolution education. Geotimes 53: 59.


Padian, K. 2008. Review of Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time by Andrew Radford. The Hardy Review 10: 84-86.


Padian, K. 2008. Trickle-down evolution: an approach to getting major evolutionary adaptive changes into textbooks and curricula. Integrative and Comparative Biology 48: 175-188.


Ricqlès, A. de., K. Padian, F. Knoll, and J.R. Horner. 2008. On the origin of rapid growth rates in archosaurs and their ancient relatives: complementary histological studies on Triassic archosauriforms and the problem of a "phylogenetic signal" in bone histology. Annales de Paleontologie 94: 57-76.


Brakora, K., and K. Padian. 2007. Quantification and phylogenetic correlation of sexual morphotypes in Bovidae (Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (3, suppl.): 52A.


Faux, C.M., and K. Padian. 2007. The opisthotonic posture of vertebrate skeletons: post-mortem contraction or death throes? Paleobiology 33: 201-226.


Irmis, R.B., Nesbitt, S.J., Padian, K., Smith, N.D., Turner, A.H., Woody, D., and Downs, A. 2007. A Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage from New Mexico and the Rise of Dinosaurs. Science 317:358-361. (DOI: 10.1126/science.1143325)  Read it


Knoll, F., K. Padian, and A. de Ricqlès. 2007. The growth trajectory and adult size of Lesothosaurus diagnosticus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): taxonomic implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3, suppl.).


Padian, K. 2007. Dinosaurs digging deeper. Proceedings, Royal Society of London. B274 : 1359-1360.


Padian, K. 2007. How vertebrate palentologists can change the public understanding of evolution. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3, suppl.): 127A.


Padian, K. 2007. Lessons Learned from the "Intelligent Design" Trial. Final Program and Abstracts, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2005 Annual Meeting.


Padian, K. 2007. Review of After the Dinosaurs, by D.R. Prothero. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26 (6): 37.


Padian, K. 2007. Review of Dawn of the Dinosaurs, by Nicholas Fraser. Palaeontologia Electronica, Vol 10, No 1.


Padian, K. 2007. Review of Lecointre and Le Guyader: The Tree of Life. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26 (6): 39-40.


Padian, K. 2007. Richard Owen's Quadrophenia: The pull of opposing forces in Victorian cosmogony. Pp. 53-91, Introductory essay in R. Amundson (ed.), The Nature of Limbs, by Richard Owen. University of Chicago Press.


Padian, K. 2007. The case of creation. [Review of three books about the "intelligent design" trial in Dover, PA.] Nature 448: 253-254.


Padian, K., and K. Angielczyk. 2007. "Transitional forms" versus transitional features. Pp. 197-230 In Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism (ed. A.J. Petto and L. R. Godfrey). W.W. Norton & Co., New York.



Parham, Jim

Parham, J.F., and R.B. Irmis. 2008. Caveats on the use of fossil calibrations for molecular dating. American Naturalist. 171(1):132-136.  Read it



Patek, Sheila

Spagna, J.C., A. I. Vakis, C. A. Schmidt, S. N. Patek, X. Zhang, N. D. Tsutsui, and A. V. Suarez. 2008. Phylogeny, scaling, and the generation of extreme forces in trap-jaw ants. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 2358-2368.   Read it


Patek, S.N. and J.E. Baio. 2007. The acoustic mechanics of stick-slip friction in the California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus). Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 3538-3546  Read it


Patek, S.N., B. N. Nowroozi, J. E. Baio, R. L. Caldwell, and A. P. Summers. 2007. Linkage mechanics and power amplification of the mantis shrimp's raptorial strike. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 3677-3688  Read it



Pyenson, Nick

Domning, D. P., and N. D. Pyenson. 2008. "Snagging" Teeth and premolar homologies in Paleoparadoxiidae (Mammalia: Desmostylia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):923-927.


Pyenson, N. D., J. A. Goldbogen, and R. E. Shadwick. 2008. Understanding the evolution of lunge-feeding in Balaenopteridae by integrating biomechanics and phylogenetic comparative methods with the fossil record. Fifth Conference on Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water, Kohno, N. (ed.); National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan. Pp. 65-66


Davis, E. B., N. D. Pyenson. 2007. Diversity biases in terrestrial mammalian assemblages and quantifying the differences between museum collections and published accounts: a case study from the Miocene of Nevada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeocology 250: 139-149.  Read it


Irmis, R. B., N. D. Pyenson, and J. H. Lipps. 2007. Formation of marine bonbeds: insights from the Middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill bonebed of California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3 Suppl.): 94A.


Pyenson, N. D. 2007. Metropolitan mammoth. Berkeley Science Review 12: 52-57.  Read it


Pyenson, N. D. and E. Hoch. 2007. Tortonian pontoporiid odontocetes from the eastern North Sea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):757-762.


Pyenson, N. D., and K. R. Brudvik. 2007. Rare fossil baleen from the Purisima Formation of California: Implications for soft tissue preservation in shallow marine environments. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3 Suppl.): 132A.


Pyenson, N. D., and S. Sponberg. 2007. Reconstruction body size in extinct crown Cetacea using allometric scaling, phylogenetic comparative methods, and tests from the fossil record. In Warren, A. (ed), Conference on Australiasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics 2007, Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 85:51-52.


Pyenson, N. D., R. B. Irmis, and J. H. Lipps. 2007. Formation and taphonomy of the sharktooth hill bonebed, a unique accumulation from the Mid-Miocene of California. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39(6): 398.


Uhen, M. D. and N. D. Pyenson. 2007. Diversity estimates, biases, and historiographic effects: resolving cetacean diversity in the Tertiary. Palaeontologia Electronica 10(2):11A:22p.  Read it


Werth, A. J., B. L. Beatty, N. D. Pyenson. 2007. Do odontocetes masticate? Investigating evidence from tooth wear, homodonty and enamel microstructure. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3 Suppl.): 165A.



Rivera II, Alexei

Rivera, A.A. 2008. An Analysis of the Paleozoic Radiation of Marine Animals. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No. 6, p. 139.  Read it


Rivera, A.A. 2007. How real was the Cambrian explosion of marine life? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 564.   Read it



Rizk, Oliver

Rizk, O.T., S. Amugongo, M.C. Mahaney, and L.J. Hlusko. 2008. The quantitative genetic analysis of primate dental variation: History of the approach and prospects for the future. In: Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology (J.D. Irish and G.C. Nelson, eds). Cambridge University Press.



Scotchmoor, Judy

Scotchmoor, J. and A. Thanukos. 2007. Building an understanding of evolution: An online resource for teaching and learning. McGill Journal of Education. 42(2):225-244.  Read it



Thanukos, Anna

Lombrozo, T., A. Thanukos, and M. Weisberg. 2008. The importance of understanding the nature of science for accepting evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1(3): 290-298.  Read it


Thanukos, A. 2008. Views from Understanding Evolution: A look at linguistic evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1(3):281-286.  Read it


Thanukos, A. T. 2008. Views from Understanding Evolution: Parsimonious explanations for punctuated patterns. Evolution: Education and Outreach 1(2):138-146.   Read it


Scotchmoor, J. and A. Thanukos. 2007. Building an understanding of evolution: An online resource for teaching and learning. McGill Journal of Education. 42(2):225-244.  Read it


Thanukos, A. 2007. Views from Understanding Evolution: Parasites and pathogens take the leap. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1(1):25-28.  Read it



Valentine, James

Krug, A.Z., D. Jablonski, and J. W. Valentine. 2008. Global scale patterns in species/genus ratios of marine bivalves. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B 275: 1117-1123.


Krug, A.Z., D. Jablonski, and J. W. Valentine. 2008. Global scale patterns in species/genus ratios of marine bivalves. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B 275: 1117-1123.


Valentine, J. W. 2008. Tropics: latitudinal biodiversity gradient. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2008: 346-348


Valentine, J. W., D. Jablonski, A. Z. Krug, and K. Roy. 2008. Incumbency, diversity, and latitudinal gradients. Paleobiology 34: 169-178.


Valentine, J. W. 2007. Seeing ghosts: Neoproterozoic bilaterian bodyplans. Pp. 369-375 in P. Vickers-Rich, and P. Kamarower (eds.), The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. Geol. Soc. London Special Publications 286: 369-375.


Jablonski, D., A. Z. Krug, K. Roy, and J. W. Valentine. 2007. Dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient: fossil record of "normal" and contrarian bivalve clades. Ecologocal Society of America 92nd Annual Meeting, Abstract SYMP 7-9.


Krug, A. Z., D. Jablonski, and J. W. Valentine. 2007. Geographic range, taxonomic structure, and global diversity patterns in marine bivalves. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 39 (6): 90-91.


Krug, A. Z., D. Jablonski, D., and J. W. Valentine 2007. Contrarian clade confirms the ubiquity of spatial origination patterns in the production of latitudinal diversity gradients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 18129-18134.


Krug, A. Z., D. Jablonski, D., and J. W. Valentine. 2007. Contrarian clade confirms the ubiquity of spatial origination patterns in the production of latitudinal diversity gradients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 18129-18134.


Valentine, J. W., D. Jablonski, A. Z. Krug, and K. Roy. 2007. Incumbency and latitudinal diversity gradients. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 39 (6): 91.



Weber, Michele

Fay, S., J. H. Lipps and M. Weber. 2008. Evolutionary Potential of Photosymbiosis on Other Planets: Astrobiology 8 (2): 469.


Fay, S., M. Weber, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. The cell ecology of Symbiodinium in soritid foraminifera. Reefs for the Future, 11th Internat. Coral Reef Symposium 2008 – Abstracts, p. 286


Lipps, J. H., L. R. Casazza, S. A. Fay, M. Weber. 2008. Evolutionary History of Photosymbiosis and Its Implications for the Future of Reefs. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 40 (6), xx


Weber, M., S. Fay, and J. H. Lipps. 2008. The biogeography of Symbiodinium from Tridacna maxima across the Indo-Pacific. Reefs for the Future, 11th Internat. Coral Reef Symposium 2008 – Abstracts, p. 255.



Wedel, Matthew

Wedel, M. J. 2007. Aligerando a los gigantes (Lightening the giants). ¡Fundamental! 12:1-84. [in Spanish, with English translation]  Read it


Wedel, M.J. 2007. What pneumaticity tells us about prosauropods, and vice versa. Special Papers in Palaeontology 77:207-222.



Werning, Sarah

Lee, A.H. and S. Werning. 2008. Sexual maturity in growing dinosaurs does not fit reptilian growth models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(2): 582-587.  Read it