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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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.  

Anthony D. Barnosky, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Jordi Bascompte, Eric L. Berlow, James H. Brown, Mikael Fortelius, Wayne M. Getz, John Harte, Alan Hastings, Pablo A. Marquet, Neo D. Martinez, Arne Mooers, Peter Roopnarine, Geerat Vermeij, John W. Williams, Rosemary Gillespie, Justin Kitzes, Charles Marshall, Nicholas Matzke, David P. Mindell, Eloy Revilla, Adam B. Smith. 2012. Approaching a state-shift in the biosphere. Nature 486:52-56.

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., 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  

Brook B. W. and A. D. Barnosky. 2012. Quaternary extinctions and their link to climate change. Pp. 179-198, in Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change, ed. L. Hannah, Island Press, Washington, D. C.

Susumu Tomiya, Jenny L. Mcguire, Russell W. Dedon, Seth D. Lerner, Rika Setsuda, Ashley N. Lipps, Jeannie F. Bailey, Kelly R. Hale, Alan B. Shabel, and Anthony D. Barnosky. 2011. A report on late Quaternary vertebrate fossil assemblages from the eastern San Francisco Bay region, California. PaleoBios 30(2):50-71.

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.

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.

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.  

Campos, E. O., D. Vihena, and R. L. Caldwell. 2012. Pleopod Rowing is used to Achieve High Forward Swimming Speeds during the Escape Response of Odontodactylus havanensis (Stomatopoda). J. Crustacean Biol. 32: 171-179.

Chiou, Tsyr-Huei, A. R. Place, R. L. Caldwell, J. Marshall and T. W. Cronin. 2012. A novel function for a carotenoid: astaxanthin used as a polarizer for visual signalling in a mantis shrimp. J. Exp. Biol 215:584-589.

Williams, B.L., M. Stark and R.L. Caldwell. 2012. Microdistribution of tetrodotoxin in two species of Blue-ringed Octopuses (Hapalochlaena lunulata and Hapalochlaena fasciata) detected by fluorescent immunolabeling. Toxicon, 60: 1307 - 1313.

Chiou, T.-H., N.J. Marshall, R.L. Caldwell, and T.W. Cronin. 2011. Changes in light reflecting properties of signalling appendages alter mate choice behaviour in a stomatopod crustacean Haptosquilla trispinosa. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 44(1):1-11. doi: 10.1080/10236244.2010.546064

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., 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.

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.

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.

deVries, M.S., E.A.K. Murphy, and S.N. Patek. 2012. Ambushing prey with a long spear: morphology and kinematics of "spearing" mantis shrimp. Journal of Experimental Biology 215:4374-4384.

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.  

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  

Encinas, A. K.L. Finger, L.A. Buatois, and D.E. Peterson. 2012. Major forearc subsidence and deep-marine Miocene sedimentation in the present Coastal Cordillera and Longitudinal Depression of south-central Chile (38°30′S-41°45′S). Geological Society of America Bulletin 124:1262-1277. doi:10.1130/B30567.1

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.  

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.  

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.

Finnegan, S., Heim N.A., Peters S.E., and Fischer W.W. 2012. Climate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(18): 6829-6834

Finnegan, S., C.R. McClain, M.A. Kosnik, and J.L. Payne. 2011. Escargots through time: comparative energetics of marine gastropod assemblages before and after the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Paleobiology 37(2): 252-269

Finnegan, S., K. Bergmann, J.M. Eiler, D.S. Jones, D.A. Fike, I. Eisenman, N.C. Hughes, A.K. Tripati and W.W. Fischer. 2011. The magnitude and duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation. Science 331(6019):903-906

Finnegan, S., Peters, S., and Fischer, W.W. 2011. Late Ordovician-Early Silurian selective extinction patterns in Laurentia and their relationship to climate change, In: J.C. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano, D. García-Bellido (editors), Ordovician of the World, Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14, Instituto Geologico y Minero de España, Madrid, 155-159

Jones, D.S., D.A. Fike, S. Finnegan, W.W. Fischer, D.P. Schrag and D. McCay. 2011. Terminal Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy and glacioeustatic sea-level change across Anticosti Island (Québec, Canada). Geological Society of America Bulletin 123(7-8): 1645-1664

Payne, J.L., C.R. McClain, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, S. Finnegan, M. Kowalewski, R.A. Krause Jr., S.K. Lyons, D.W. McShea, P.M. Novack-Gottshall, F.A. Smith, P. Spaeth, J.A. Stempien and S.C. Wang. 2011. The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective. Photosynthesis Research 107(1):37-57

E. Boatman, R. Gronsky, M. Goodwin. 2012. Microscopy and analytical X-ray characterization of preserved hierarchical structure in dinosaur bone. Microscopy and Microanalysis Vol. 18, Suppl 2:45.

Fowler, D. W., J. B. Scannella, M. B. Goodwin, and J. R. Horner. 2012. How to eat a Triceratops: Large samples of toothmarks provides new insight into the feeding behavior of Tyrannosaurus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts 72nd Annual Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina, p. 96.

Goodwin, M. 2012. The University as a Portal to Collection-based Research, Outreach, and Education. Proceedings of APRU Research Symposium on University Museums: Forming a University Museum Collection Network as the Core of Frontier Research. Kyoto, Japan. Sept. 11-14, 2012. pp. 27-30.

Renne, P.R. and M.B. Goodwin. 2012. Direct U-Pb dating of Cretaceous and Paleocene dinosaur bones, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: COMMENT. Geology 2012;40;e259. doi: 10.1130/G32521C.1  

Scannella, J. B., D. W. Fowler, M. B. Goodwin, and J. R. Horner. 2012. Transitional Triceratops: Details of an ontogenetic sequence from the upper middle unit of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts 72nd Annual Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina, p. 166.

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.

Goodwin, M., K. Stanton, J. Horner, S. Carlson. 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.

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  

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  

Wheatley, P.V., Hofman, A.E., Holroyd, P.A., Goodwin, M.B., and Brown, S.T. 2011. Calcium isotope fractionations in vertebrates from modern and fossil ecosystems. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN  

Hickman, C.S. 2012. A new genus and two new species of deep-sea gastropods (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Gazidae). The Nautilus. 126(2):57-67.

Hickman, C.S. 2012. Grades are as important as clades for understanding hyperdiversity of skeneiform microgastropods. Program and Abstracts, American Malacological Society 78th Annual Meeting, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. p. 33.

Hickman, C.S. 2012. Malacological contributions of Howard A. Bern (1020-2012). Program and Abstracts, American Malacological Society 78th Annual Meeting, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. p. 33.

Stegner, M.A., Holmes, M. 2012. Using palaeontological data to assess mammalian community structure: Potential aid in conservation planning, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.019  

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.  

Parham, J.F., P.C.J. Donoghue, C.J. Bell, T.D. Calway, J.J. Head, P.A. Holroyd, J.G. Inoue, R.B. Irmis, W.G. Joyce, D.T. Ksepka, J.S.L. Patané, N.D. Smith, J.E. Tarver, M. Van Tuinen, Z. Yang, K.D. Angielczyk, J. Greenwood, C.A. Hipsley, L. Jacobs, P.J. Makovicky, J. Müller, K.T. Smith, J.M. Theodor, R.C.M. Warnock, and M.J. Benton. 2012. Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations. Systematic Biology 61(2):346-359.   

Wheatley, P.V., Hofman, A.E., Holroyd, P.A., Goodwin, M.B., and Brown, S.T. 2011. Calcium isotope fractionations in vertebrates from modern and fossil ecosystems. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN  

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.  

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.  

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.  

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.  

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  

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.  

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

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  

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.  

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  

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.

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.

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.

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.  

Parham, J.F., P.C.J. Donoghue, C.J. Bell, T.D. Calway, J.J. Head, P.A. Holroyd, J.G. Inoue, R.B. Irmis, W.G. Joyce, D.T. Ksepka, J.S.L. Patané, N.D. Smith, J.E. Tarver, M. Van Tuinen, Z. Yang, K.D. Angielczyk, J. Greenwood, C.A. Hipsley, L. Jacobs, P.J. Makovicky, J. Müller, K.T. Smith, J.M. Theodor, R.C.M. Warnock, and M.J. Benton. 2012. Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations. Systematic Biology 61(2):346-359.   

Thanukos, A. and J. Scotchmoor. 2012. Making connections: evolution and the nature and process of science. Pp. 410-427 in K.S. Rosengren, S.K. Brem, E.M. Evans, and G.M. Sinatra (eds.), Evolution Challenges: Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution. Oxford University Press, New York.

Martins, L., C. Souto, and C. Menegola. 2012. A new genus and new species of Sclerodactylidae (Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida) from the south-western Atlantic coast. Zootaxa (Online). 3506:54-62.  

Martins, L., C. Souto, and C. Menegola. 2012. First record of Holothuria (Theelothuria) princeps and Thyone pawsoni [Echinodermata: Holothuroidea] in the South Atlantic Ocean. Marine Biodiversity Records. 5:e98.  

Souto, C.A., C.L.C. Manso, and L.R. Martins. 2011. Rediscovery and redescription of Cassidulus infidus (Echinoidea: Cassidulidae) from Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa (Online). 3095:39-48.  

Stegner, M.A., Holmes, M. 2012. Using palaeontological data to assess mammalian community structure: Potential aid in conservation planning, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.019  

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.  

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.

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  

Andrews, T. M., R. M. Price, L. S. Mead, T. L. McElhinny, A. Thanukos, K. E. Perez, C. F. Herreid, D. R. Terry, and P. P. Lemmons. 2012. Biology undergraduates' misconceptions about genetic drift. CBE-Life Sciences Education. 11: 248-259.  

Thanukos, A. and J. Scotchmoor. 2012. Making connections: evolution and the nature and process of science. Pp. 410-427 in K.S. Rosengren, S.K. Brem, E.M. Evans, and G.M. Sinatra (eds.), Evolution Challenges: Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution. Oxford University Press, New York.

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.

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  

Susumu Tomiya, Jenny L. Mcguire, Russell W. Dedon, Seth D. Lerner, Rika Setsuda, Ashley N. Lipps, Jeannie F. Bailey, Kelly R. Hale, Alan B. Shabel, and Anthony D. Barnosky. 2011. A report on late Quaternary vertebrate fossil assemblages from the eastern San Francisco Bay region, California. PaleoBios 30(2):50-71.

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.

Werning. S. 2012. The ontogenetic osteohistology of Tenontosaurus tilletti. PLoS ONE 7(3): e33539. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033539  

White, L.D. and Burrell, S., 2011. The METALS Partnership, NABBG Annual Technology Conference, September 2011. NABGG Conference Abstracts.