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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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.  

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

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

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., 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.  

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.  

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.  

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.

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.

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).  

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.  

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 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.

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.  

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.  

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.

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).  

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.  

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.

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.  

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, 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  

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

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.  

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)  

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.  

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.  

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).  

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, 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.  

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)  

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

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.  

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

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

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.  

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.   

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.  

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

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.  

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

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

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.