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Paleoecology readings, 2007

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.

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

Bakker, Robert T. and Bir, Gary, (year uncertain): Dinosaur crime scene investigations. In: Currie, P. J., Koppelhus, E. B., Shugar, M. A. and Wright, J. L., eds. Feather Dragons, Indiana University Press, Bloomingon, IN.

Baumiller, T. Z., (1990): Physical modeling of the batocrinoid anal tube: functional analysis and multiple hypotheses testing. Lethaia, 23:399-408.

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

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

Berg, Carl L., Jr. and Nishenko, Stuart (1975): Stereotypy of predatory boring behavior of Pleistocene naticid gastropods. Paleobiology, 1:258-260.

Burnham, Robyn J., Wing, Scott L. and Parker, Geoffrey G., (1992): The reflection of deciduous forest communities in leaf litter: implicationsfor autochthonous litter assemblages from the fossil record. Paleobiology 18:30-49.

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

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

Chin, K., and Gill, B. D., (1996): Dinosaurs, dung beetles, and conifers: Participants in a Cretaceous food web. Palaios 11: 280-285.

Clifton, H. E., (1971): Orientation of empty pelecypod shells and shell fragments in quiet water. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 41:671-682.

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

Eldridge, N. and Gould, S. J., (1972): Puntuated 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.

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

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.

Jackson, J. B. C. and Hughes, T. P., (1985): Adaptive strategies of coral-reef invertebrates. Amerivcan Scientist 73:265-274.

Jeram, A. J., Seldon, P. A., and Edwards, D., (1990): Land animals in the Silurian: Arachnids and Myriapods from the Shropshire, England. Science ??:658-661.

Harper, E. M., (2006): Dissecting Post-Palaeozoic arms races. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 232:322-343.

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.

Hunt, A. P., Chin, K., and Lockley, M. G., (1994): The paleobiology of vertebrate coprolites. In:, Donovan, S. K., The Palaeobiology of Trace Fossils. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 221-280.

Lane, N. G. (1984): Predation and survival among inadunate crinoids. 10:453-458.

Lescinsky, H. L., (1993): Taphonomy and paleoecology of epibionts on the scallops Chlamys hastata (Sowerby 1843) and Chlamys rubida (Hinds 1845). Palaios 8:267-277.

Lescinsky, H. L., (1995): The life orientation of concavoconvex brachiopods: overturning the paradigm. Paleobiology 21:520-551.

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.

McCartney, K. and Wise, S. W., Jr. (1990): Silicoflagellates and ebridians from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 113: Biostratigraphy and notes on morphologic variability, Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Reports, 113:729-760.

Meyer, D.L. and Lane, N. G. (1976): Feeding Behavior of Paleozoic crinoids

Moore, Theodore, C., (1969): Radiolaria: Change in skeletal weight and resistence to solution. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 80:2103-2108.

Plotnick, R. E. (1986): Taphonomy of a modern shrimp: Implications for the arthropod fossil record. Palaios 1:286-293.

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

Raup, D. M., (1966): Geometric analysis of shell coiling: general problems. Journal of Paleontology 40:1178-1190.

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

Rust, J., Stumpner, A., Gottwald, J., (1999): Snging and hearing in a Tertiary bushcricket. Nature 399:650.

Sarjeant, W. A. S., Lucalli, T., and Gaines, G., (1987): The cysts and skeletal elements of dinoflagellates: speculations on the ecological causes for their morphology and development. Micropaleontology 33:1-36.

Savazzi, E., (1986): Burrowing sculptures and life habits in Paleozoic lingulacean brachiopods. Paleobiology 12:46-63.

Seilacher, Adolf, (1968): Swimming habits of belemnites - recorded by boring barnacles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 4:279-285.

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

Seilacher, A., (1979): Constructional morphology or sand dollars. Paleoecology, 5:191-221.

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

Senter, P. (2006): Necks for sex: sexual selection as an explanation for sauropod dinosaur neck elongation. Journal of Zoology 271:45-53.

Shear, W. A., (1997): The fossil record and evolution of the Myriapoda. In: Fortey, R. A., and Thomas, R. H., Arthropod relationships, Systematics Association 55:211-219.

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.

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

Stearn, C. W., (1982): The shapes of Paleozoic and modern reef-builders: a critical review. Paleobiology 8: 228-241.

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

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.

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

Thurow, Juergen and Anderson, O. Roger, (1986): An interpretation of skeletal growth patterns of some Middle Cretaceous and modern radiolarians. Micropaleontology, 32:289-302.

Varricchio, David J., 1995, Taphonomy of Jack’s Birthday Site, a Diverse Dinosaur Bonebed from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana. Palaeoecology, 114:297-323.

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

Wedmann, S., Bradler, S., and Rust, J., 2007): The first fossil leaf insect: 47 million years of specialized cryptic morphology and behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:565-569.

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

Wolfe, Jack A., 1978, A paleobotanical interpretation of Tertiary climates in the Northern Hemisphere. American Scientist, 66:694-703.