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Paleoecology readings, 2003

Adegoke and Tevesv (1974): Gastropod predation patterns in the Eocene in Nigeria. Lethaia, 7:17-24.

Alexander, Richard R., 1981, Predation scars preserved in Chesterian brachiopods: probable culprits and evolutionary consequences for the articulates. Journal of Paleontology, 55(1):192-203.

Arnold, A. J., d'Escrivan, Felicita, and Parker, W.C., 1985, Predation and avoidance responses in the foraminifera of the Galapagos Hydrothermal mounds. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 15:38-42.

Babcock, L. E., 1993, Trilobite malformations and the fossil record of behavioral asymmetry: Journal of Paleontology 67:217-229.

Baumiller, Tomasz K., (1992): Importance of Hydrodynamic Lift to Crinoid Autecology, or, Could Crinoids Function as Kites? J. Paleontology, 66 (4):658-665.

Baumiller, Tomasz K., (1993): Boreholes in Devonian blastoids and their implications for boring by platyceratids. Lethaia 26:41-47 Baumiller, Tomasz K., (1996): Implications for gastropod drilling in Devonian blastoids. Palaeo, 123:41-47.

Baumiller and Ausich (1996): Crinoid stalk flexibility: theoretical predictions and fossil stalk postures. Lathaia 29:47-59

Baumiller and Plotnick (1989): Rotational stability in stalked crinoids and the function of wing plates in Pterocrinus depressus. Lethaia 22:317-326.

Cowen, Richard, (1981): Crinoid arms and banana plantations: an economic harvesting analogy. Paleobiology, 7(3):332-343.

Cowen, Richard, (1975): Flapping valves in brachiopods. Lethaia, 8:23-29.

Donovan, Stephen K. and Gale, Andrew S., 1990, Predatory asteroids and the decline of articulate brachiopods. Lethaia, 23:77-86.

Driscoll (1970): Bivalve shell destruction (formal reference still needed)

Dudley, Elizabeth C., and Vermeij, Geerat J., (1978): Predation in time and space: drilling in the gastropod Turritella. Paleobiology 4:436-441.

Ebel, Klaus, Mode of life and soft body shape of heteromorph ammonites. Lethaia, 25:179-193.

Eldridge, N. and Gould, S. J., (1972): Puctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. In: Models in Paleobiology, edited by Schopf, T.J.M., Freeman, Cooper and Co., San Francisco, pp. 82-115.

Elias, Scott A., 1990, Observations on the Taphonomy of Late Quaternary Insect Fossil Remains in Packrat Middens of the Chihuahuan Desert. Palaios, 5:356-363.

Farlow, James O., Smith, Matt B., and Robinson, John M., 1995, Body Mass, Bone "Strength indicator," and cursorial potential of Tyranosaurus rex. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15(4):713-725.

Fischer, Alfred G., 1960, Latitudinal Variations in Organic Diversity. Evolution, 14:64-81.

Fisher, D. C., 1977, Functional significance of spines in the Pennsylvanian horseshoe crab Euproops danae: Paleobiology 3:175-195.

Galton, Peter, M., 1973, The cheeks of Ornithichian dinosaurs. Lethaia, 6:67-89.

Gould, Stephen Jay, (1979): Variation and evolution of land snails (formal reference still needed)

Gould, Stephen Jay, (1984): Morphological channeling by structural constraint: convergence in styles of dwarfing and gigantism in Cerion, with a description of two new fossil species and a report on the discovery of the largest Cerion. Paleobiology: 10(2) 172-194.

Harper, E. M., (1991): The role of predation in the evolution of cementation in bivalves. Palaeontology, 34: 455-460.

Holloway, J.D. (1973): Problems with small islands. In: Organisms and continents through time, edited by N. F. Hughes, Special Papers in Paleontology 12:107-112.

Harper, Elizabeth M., 1991, The role of predation in the evolution of cementation in bivalves. Palaeontology, 34:455-460.

Hoffman, Antoni, and Martinell, Jordi, (1984): Prey selection by naticid gastropods in the Pliocene of Emporda (Northeast Spain). N. Jb. Geol. Palaeont. Mh. 7:393-399.

Howard & Dorjes (1972): Animal-sediment relationships in two beach-related tidal flats; Sapelo Island, Georgia. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 42:608-623.

Jacobs, D. K., (1996): Chambered cephalopod shells, buoyancy, structure and decoupling: History and red herrings. Palaios, 11:610-614.

Kanie, Yasumitsu and others (1980): Implosion of living Nautilus under increasing pressure. Paleobiology 6:44-47.

Lively, Curtis M., (1985): Predatory-induced shell dimorphism in the acorn barnacle Chthamalus anisopoma. Evolution 40(2) 232-242.

Massare, Judy A., (1988): Swimming capabilities of Mesozoic marine reptiles: Implications for method of predation. Paleobiology, 14(2):187-205.

Massare, Judy A., and Callaway, Jack M., (1990): The affinities and ecology of Triassic ichthyosaurs. Geological Society of America, Bulletin, 102:409-416.

Mead, Alfred J., (2000): Sexual dimorphism and paleoecology in Teleoceras, a North American Miocene rhinoceros. Palebiology, 29:412-428.

Meyer (1991): Burial experiments with marine turtle carcasses and their paleoecological significance. Palaios, 6:89-96.

Meyer and Lane (1976): Feeding Behavior of Paleozoic crinoids

Plotnick and Baumiller (1988): The pterygotid telson as a biological rudder. Lethaia 21:13-27.

Rudwick, M.J.S., (1961): The feeding mechanism of the Permian brachiopod Prorichthofenia. Palaeontology 3:450-471.

Rudwick, M.J.S., (1964): The function of zigzag deflections in the commissures of fossil brachiopods. Paleontology, 7(1):135-171.

Saunders, W. B. and Wehman, D. A. (1977). Shell strength of Nautilus as a depth limiting factor. Paleobiology 3:83-89.

Seilacher, Adolf, (1968): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 4:279-285.

Seilacher, Adolf, (1969): Paleoecology of boring barnacles. American Zoology 9:705-719.

Seilacher, Adolf, and Labarbera, Michael, (1995): Ammonites as cartesian divers. Palaios, 10:493-506.

Smayda (1970): The suspension and sinking of phytoplankton in te sea. Oceanographic Marine Bilogy Annual Review 8:353-414.

Smith, Andrew B. and Ghiold, Joe, 1982, Roles for holes in sand dollars: a review of lunule function and evolution. Paleobiology, 8(3):242-253.

Sohl, Norman F., 1969, The Fossil Record of Shell Boring by Snails. American Zoologist, 9:725-734.

Stanley, Steven M., (1970): Relation of shell form to life habitsof the Bivalvia. Geological Society of America Memoir 125:296 pp.

Stanley, Steven M., (1975): Why clams have the shape they have: an experimental analysis of burrowing. Paleobiology, 1:48-58

Stein, Ross S., (1975): Dynamic Analysis of Pteradon ingens: a reptilian adaptation to flight. Journal of Paleontology, 49:534-548.

Thayer, C.W. and Steele-Petrovic, H.M., 1975, Burrowing of the lingulid brachiopod Glottidia pyramidata: its ecologic and paleoecologic significance. Lethaia, 8:209-221.

Thomas, R.D.K., (1976): Gastropod predation on sympatric neogene species of Glycymeris (Bivalvia) from the eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 50:488-499.

Thomas, R.D.K., 1978, Shell form and ecological range of Arcoida, living and extinct. Paleobiology, 4(2):181-194.

Thulborn, Richard A., 1991, Morphology, preservation and palaeobiological significance of dinosaur coprolites. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 83:341-366.

Walker & Carlton (1995): Taphonomy losses and gains, Tegula (complete reference still needed)

Ward, Peter, 1981, Shell sculpture as a defensive adaptation in ammonoids. Paleobiology, 7(1):96-100.

Welch, J. R., 1978, Flume study of simulated feeding and hydrodymanics of a Paleozoic stalked crinoid. Paleobiology 4:89-95.

Yates, George T., 1986, How Microorganisms move through water: The hydrodynamics of ciliary and flagellar propulsion reveal how microorganisms overcome the extreme effect of the viscosity of water. American Scientist, 74:358-365.

 
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