UCMP Publications

This is a list of recent publications by UCMP curators, staff and students. All UCMP authors are linked back to their individual profile pages.

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2011. Tomiya, S., Swartz, B.A., Batavia, M. Educational values of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. University Museums and Collections Journal 3/2010: 61-66.

Atterholt, J. 2011. Phylogenetic mapping of the avian altricial-precocial spectrum and its implications for inferring early avialan life history. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3, suppl.):64-65A.  

Barnosky, A. D., M. A. Carrasco, and R. W. Graham. 2011. Collateral mammal diversity loss associated with late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions and implications for the future. In, McGowan, A. & Smith, A. B. (eds) Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications for Biodiversity Studies. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 358, 179-189.

Barnosky, A. D., Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guin Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago Quental, Charles Marshall, Jenny L. McGuire, Emily L. Lindsey, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Ben Mersey, Elizabeth A. Ferrer. 2011. Has the Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived? Nature 471:51-57  

Begovic, E. and D. R. Lindberg. Genetic population structure of Tectura paleacea: implications for the mechanisms regulating population structure in patchy coastal habitats. PLoS ONE 6(4):e18408, 1-10.  

Boatman, E., S. Fakra, M. Matthew, M. Schweitzer, M. Goodwin. 2011. Composition of Tyrannosaurus and Brachylophosaurus soft tissues at high spatial resolution: New insights into protein diagenesis. Program and Abstracts 71st Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, p. 73.

Burge, D.O., D.M. Erwin, M.B. Islam, J. Kellermann, S.W. Kembel, D.H. Wilken, P.S. Manos. 2011. Diversification of Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae) in the California Floristic Province. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 172:1137-1164.  

Carrasco, M. 2011. Comparing extant mammalian species diversity to paleospecies richness: Problems and solutions. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3, suppl.):85A.  

Clemens, W.A. 2011. Eoconodon ("Triisodontidae," Mammalia) from the Early Paleocene (Puercan) of northeastern Montana, USA  

Clemens, W.A., New morganucodontans from an Early Jurassic fissure filling in Wales (United Kingdom). Palaeontology, 54:1139-1156.

Davis, E.B., K.A. Brakora, and A.H. Lee. 2011. Evolution of ruminant headgear: a review. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278(1720):2857-2865.  

Finger, K.L. 2011. Recent New Zealand Deep-water Benthic Foraminifera: Taxonomy, Ecologic Distribution, Biogeography, and Use in Paleoenvironmental Assessment, by B.W. Hayward, H.R. Grenfell, A.T. Sabaa, H.L. Neil, and M.A. Buzas. 2010. GNS Science Monographs 26 (New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 77), 363 pp. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 41(2):199.  

Goodwin, M. 2011. Oxygen isotopic variability and preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex, modern ratites and crocodylians: Revisiting the thermophysiology of T. rex using Δ¹⁸O. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3, suppl.):117-118A.  

Hall, L. and M. Goodwin. 2011. A diverse dinosaur tooth assemblage from the Upper Jurassic of Ethiopia: Implications for Gondwanan dinosaur biogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Program and Abstracts 71st Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, p. 121.

Hallinan, N. and D. R. Lindberg. 2011. Comparative analysis of chromosome counts infers three paleopolyploidies in the Mollusca. Genome Biology and Evolution. 3:1150-1163.  

Hartman, J.H., R.D.Butler, W.A. Clemens, and M. Burton-Kelly. 2011. What's in a name? Barnum Brown's Hell Creek Location and Hell Creek Formation Observations. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. 43(5):601-602.

Horner, J. R., M. B. Goodwin, N. Myhrvold. 2011. Dinosaur census reveals abundant Tyrannosaurus and rare ontogenetic stages in the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16574. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016574  

Lesen, A., and Lipps, Jere H. What Have Natural and Human Changes Wrought on the Foraminifera of San Francisco Bay Late Quaternary Estuaries? Quaternary Research. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.005.

Lipps, Jere H. Reef restoration: the good and the bad. A paleontological perspective. Paleontological Society Special Papers 17: 139-150.

Lipps, Jere H., and Susan Goldstein. Dispersal and life histories in foraminifera. Geol. Soc America, Abstracts with Program.

Lipps, Jere H., K.L. Finger, and S.E. Walker. 2011 What should we call the Foraminifera? Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 41(4):309-313.  

Matzke, N., and K. Maguire. 2011. Inclusion of fossil species range data in dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis (DEC) analyses aorrects low estimates of extinction rate and improves estimates of historical biogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3, suppl.):154A.  

Nagalingum, N.S., C.R. Marshall, T.B. Quental, H.S. Rai, D.P. Little and S. Mathews. 2011. Recent Synchronous Radiation of a Living Fossil. Science 334: 796-799.

Padian, K. 2011. Phylogenetic distribution of ecological traits in the origin of bats. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3, suppl.):170A.  

Padian, K. and J.R. Horner. 2011. The evolution of "bizarre structures" in dinosaurs: function, sexual selection, social selection, or species recognition? Journal of Zoology 283: 3-17.

Padian, K., and J.R. Horner. 2011. The definition of sexual selection and its implications for dinosaurian biology. Journal of Zoology 283: 23-27.  

Peterson, D.E., K.L. Finger, S. Iepure, S. Mariani, A. Montanari, and T. Namiotko. 2011. Reconnaissance of ostracode assemblages in the Frasassi caves, the adjacent sulfidic spring, and the Sentino River in the northeastern Apennines (Marche region, Italy). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 43(5): Abstract No.191713.

Pyenson, N. D. and D. R. Lindberg. 2011. What happened to gray whales during the Pleistocene? The ecological impact of sea-level change on benthic feeding areas in the North Pacific Ocean. PLoS ONE 6(7):e21295, 1-14.  

Quental, T.B. and C.R. Marshall. 2011. The molecular phylogenetic signature of clades in decline. PLoS ONE 6(10): e25780. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025780.

Schott RK, Evans DC, Goodwin MB, Horner JR, Brown CM, et al. (2011) Cranial Ontogeny in Stegoceras validum (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauria): A Quantitative Model of Pachycephalosaur Dome Growth and Variation. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21092. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021092  

Stanley, George D., Jr., and Lipps, Jere H. Photosymbiosis: a driving force for reef success and failure. Paleontological Society Special Papers 17: 33-60.

Stegner, A., and M. Holmes. 2011. Using paleontological databases to assess spatial and temporal conservation of mammalian community structure as an aid to conservation planning. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3, suppl.):199A.  

Tomiya, S. 2011. A new basal Caniform (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the middle Eocene of North America and remarks on the phylogeny of early carnivorans. PLoS ONE. 6(9):e24146.   

Tomiya, S., J.L. McGuire, R.W. Dedon, S.D. Lerner, R. Setsuda, A.N. Lipps, J.F. Bailey, K.R. Hale, A.B. Shabel, and A.D. Barnosky. 2011. A report on late Quaternary vertebrate fossil assemblages from the eastern San Francisco Bay region, California. PaleoBios. 30:50-71.

Vila, R., C.D. Bell, R. Macniven, B. Goldman-Huertas, R.H. Ree, C.R. Marshall, S. Balint, K. Johnson, D. Benyamini, and N. Pierce. 2011. Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 278 doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2213.

Wägele, H., A. Klussmann-Kolb, M. Kuhlmann, G. Haszprunar, D. R. Lindberg, A. Koch, and W. Wägele. The taxonomist - an endangered race. A practical proposal for its survival. Frontiers in Zoology 8:(25) 1-7.