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Recent Publications by Staff, Students, Faculty, and Research Associates (1994 through 2000)

Books | CD-ROMs | Research Articles | Theses and Dissertations | Published Abstracts


Books

Dingus, L., and T. Rowe. 1997.   The Mistaken Extinction - Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds.  New York, W. H. Freeman & Co., 322 pp.  ISBN 0-7167-2944-X, ISBN 0-7167-3227-0 (academic version, includes CD-ROM).

Kalb, Jon, 2000.  ADVENTURES IN THE BONE TRADE: The Race to Discover Fossil Hominids in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Copernicus Books, imprint of Springer-Verlag of New York. 389 pages.  With 8 maps, figures, and photos.

Kalb, Jon, 2000.  BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH SCIENCES FOR THE HORN OF AFRICA: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti--1620-1993. American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia. 470 pages; with CD ROM. Contains 10,250 entries, 1183 on vertebrate fossils; an historical introduction.

CD-ROMs

Colbert, M.W. 1999.  Patterns of Evolution and Variation in the Tapiroidea (Mammalia: Perissodactyla).  Doctoral Dissertation (T. B. Rowe and E. L. Lundelius, Jr., co-supervisors), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 464 pp., with CD-ROM supplement.

Kalb, Jon E., 2000.  BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH SCIENCES FOR THE HORN OF AFRICA: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti--1620-1993. American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia. 470 pages; with CD ROM. Contains 10,250 entries, 1183 on vertebrate fossils; an historical introduction.

Kishi, K. 1995.  Computer Multimedia Software for Education in Geology.  Masters Thesis (T. B. Rowe, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 98 pp., with CD-ROM supplement.

Macrini, Thomas E. 2000.  High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) of the skull of an Extant Opossum (Monodelphis domestica) and a comparison of its Ontogeny to Synapsid Phylogeny.  Masters Thesis (T. B. Rowe, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 157 pp., with CD-ROM supplement.

Owen, Pamela R. 2000.  Phylogenetic Relationships Among American Badgers (Taxidiinae) and the Evolution of the Badger Ecomorph.  Doctoral Dissertation (T. Rowe and E. L. Lundelius, co-supervisors), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 322 pp., with CD-ROM supplement.

Rowe, T., C. A. Brochu, K. Kishi, M. Colbert, J. W. Merck, Jr., E. Saglamer, and S. Warren.  1999.  Alligator: Digital Altas of the Skull.  Interactive Multimedia on CD-ROM for Macintosh and PC computers.  in: T. Rowe, C. A. Brochu, and K. Kishi (eds.).  Cranial morphology of Alligator and phylogeny of Alligatoroidae.  Memoir 6, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Rowe, T., K. Kishi, J. Merck, Jr., and M. Colbert.  1998.  The Age of Dinosaurs.  Educational Interactive Multimedia on CD-ROM for Macintosh and PC computers.   Third Edition.  W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-3378-1, and packaged in ISBN 0-7167-3227-0.

Rowe, T., K. Kishi, and J. Merck, Jr., 1995.  The Age of Dinosaurs.  Educational Interactive Multimedia on CD-ROM for Macintosh and PC computers. Second Edition Beta Test 2.0, September 1995.

Rowe, T., W. Carlson, and W. Bottorff. 1995.  Thrinaxodon: Digital Atlas of the SkullCD-ROM (Second Edition, for Windows and Macintosh platforms), University of Texas Press, 547 megabytes.

Rowe, T., K. Kishi, and J. Merck, Jr., 1994.  The Age of Dinosaurs.  Educational Interactive Multimedia on CD-ROM for Macintosh and PC computers. First Edition, Beta Test 1.0, October 1994.

Rowe, T., W. Carlson, and W. Bottorff. 1993.  Thrinaxodon: Digital Atlas of the SkullCD-ROM (First edition, for MS-DOS platform), University of Texas Press, 623 megabytes.

Research Articles

Alcober O. A.  2000.  Redescription of the skull of Saurosuchus galilei (Arcosauria - Rauisuchidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20(2): 302-316.

Bell, C. J., and A. D. Barnosky.  In press The microtine rodents from the Pit locality in Porcupine Cave, Park County, Colorado.  Annals of Carnegie Museum.

Bell, C. J.  2000.  Synopsis of terrestrial and non-marine aquatic faunal groups.  Pp. 407-411 in: Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and Applications (J. S. Noller, J. M. Sowers, and W. R. Lettis, eds.).  American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.

Bell, C. J.  2000.  Biochronology of North American microtine rodents.  Pp. 379-406 in: Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and Applications (J. S. Noller, J. M. Sowers, and W. R. Lettis, eds.).  American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.

Bell, C. J., and C. A. Repenning.  1999.  Observations on dental variation in Microtus from the Cudahy Ash Pit fauna, Meade County, Kansas and implications for Irvingtonian microtine rodent biochronology.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(4):757-766.

Bell, C. J.  1998.   North American Quaternary land mammal ages and the biochronology of North American microtine rodentsin: Dating and Earthquakes: review of Quaternary geochronology and its application  to paleoseismology (J. M. Sowers, J. S. Noller, and W. R. Lettis, eds.). U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR-5562:2-605 - 2-645. [Reprinted 2000 by American Geophysical Union ].

Bell, C. J.  1998.  Synopsis of Quaternary terrestrial and non-marine aquatic faunal groups of North America. in: Dating and Earthquakes: Review of Quaternary Geochronology and its Application  to Paleoseismology (J. M. Sowers, J. S. Noller, and W. R. Lettis, eds.). U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR-5562:2-597 - 2-604. [Reprinted 2000 by American Geophysical Union].

Bell, C. J. and J. I. Mead.  1998.  Late Pleistocene microtine rodents from Snake Creek Burial Cave, White Pine County, Nevada.  Great Basin Naturalist 58(1): 82-86.

Blake, J.A., C.J. Bult, M.J. Donoghue, J.M. Humphries and C. Fields.  1994. Interoperability of Biological Data Bases: A Meeting Report.  Systematic Biology 43:585-589. 

Brochu, C.A., 2000.  Fossil crocodylians from the Eocene Devil’s Graveyard and Canoe Formations, Brewster County, Texas.  Texas Journal of Science, 52:3 -12.

Brochu, C.A.  2000.  Crocodyliain: Encyclopedia of Paleontology, (R. Singer, ed.), Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, New York.

Brochu, C.A.  2000.  Crocodylomorphain: Encyclopedia of Paleontology, (R. Singer, ed.), Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, New York.

Brochu, C.A., 2000.  Borealosuchus (Crocodylia) from the Paleocene of Big Bend National Park, Texas.  Journal of Paleontology, 74:181–187.

Brochu, C.A., 1999. Taxon sampling and reverse successive weighting.  Systematic Biology, 48: 808-813.

Brochu, C.A., 1999.  Phylogeny, systematics, and historical biogeography of Alligatoroidea.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 6: 9-100.

Brochu, C.A., 1997.  A review of "Leidyosuchus" (Crocodyliformes, Eusuchia) from the Cretaceous through Eocene of North America.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(4): 679-697.

Brochu, C.A., 1997.  Fossils, morphology, divergence timing, and the phylogenetic relationships of Gavialis. Systematic Biology, 46(3): 479-522.

Brochu, C.A., 1997.  Synonymy, redundancy, and the name of the crocodile stem-group.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(2): 448-449.

Brochu, C.A., 1996.  Closure of neurocentral sutures during crocodylian ontogeny: implications for maturity assessment in fossil archosaurs implications for maturity assessment in fossil archosaurs.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(1): 49-62.

Brochu, C.A., 1995.  Heterochrony in the crocodylian scapulocoracoid.  Journal of Herpetology, 29(3): 464-468.

Buckley, G.A., and C.A. Brochu, 1999.  An enigmatic new crocodile from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar.  pp. 149-175 in: D.M. Unwin (ed.), Special Papers in Palaeontology 60:  Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates, Palaeontological Association, London.

Cifelli, R. L., T. R. Lipka, C. R. Schaff, and T. B. Rowe.  1999.  First Early Cretaceous Mammal from the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(2): 199-203.

Cifelli, R. L., Rowe, T., Luckett, W. P., Banta, J., Reyes, R., and Howes, R. I.  1996.  Fossil evidence for the origin of the marsupial pattern of tooth replacement. Nature, 379: 715-718.

Colbert, M. W., and R. M. Schoch. 1998. The Tapiroidea and other moropomorphs. In: Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. C. Janis & L. Jacobs, eds. Cambridge University Press, pp. 569-582.

Czaplewski, N. J., R. L. Cifelli, and W. Langston, Jr., 1994.  Catalog of type and figured fossil vertebrates, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.  Oklahoma Geological Survey Special Publication 94: 1-35.

Czaplewski, N. J., J. I. Mead, C. J. Bell, W. D. Peachey and T.-L. Ku.  1999.  Papago Springs Cave revisited, part II: vertebrate paleofauna.  Occasional Papers of the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 5: 1-41.

Czaplewski, N. J., W. D. Peachey, J. I. Mead, T.-L. Ku and C. J. Bell.  1999.  Papago Springs Cave revisited part I; geologic setting, cave deposits, and radiometric dates.  Occasional Papers of the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 3: 1-25.

Erickson, G.M., and C.A. Brochu, 1999.  How the “terror crocodile” grew so big. Nature, 398: 205-206.

FAUNMAP Working Group: Graham, R. W., Lundelius, E. L., Jr., and others, 1996.  Spatial response of mammals to late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. Science 272: 1601-1606.

Froehlich, D. J. 1999. The phylogenetic systematics of the basal perissodactyls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:140-159.

Froehlich, D. J. and J. E. Kalb. 1995. Internal reconstruction of elephantid molars: applications for functional anatomy and systematics.  Paleobiology 21: 379-392.

Gans, C., and C. J. Bell.  In press.  Vertebrates- overview.  Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (S. Levin, ed.).  Academic Press.

Gillette, D.D., C. J. Bell and M. C. Hayden. 1999.  Preliminary Report on the Little Dell Dam fauna, Salt Lake County, Utah (middle Pleistocene, Irvingtonian land mammal age).  Pp. 495-500 in: Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah (D.D. Gillette, ed.).  Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1.

Graham, R, W., Lundelius, E. L.,Jr. and Faunmap Working Group. 1994.  FAUNMAP… A Database Documenting Late Quaternary Distributions of Mammal Species in the United States. Illinois State Museum, Scientific Papers, v. XXV, No. 1 & 2.

Graham, R. W., Lundelius, E. L.,Jr., Graham, M. A., and Schroeder, E. K.  1994.  FAUNMAP: A data base documenting late Quaternary distributions of mammal Species in the United States. (Abst): Neogene and Quaternary Mammals of the Palaearctic: Conference in Honour of Prof. Kazimierz Kowalski. May 17-21, 1994, Krakow, Poland.

Humphries, J. M. and R.C. Cashner. 1994.  Notropis suttkusi, a new cyprinid from the Ouachita Uplands of Oklahoma and Arkansas, with comments on the status of Ozarkian populations of N. rubellus.  Copeia  1994(1):   82-90. 

Humphries, J. M. 1996.  MUSE, a tutorial and reference manual.

Irschick, D. J., T. E. Macrini, S. Koruba, and J Forman. 2000. Ontogenetic differences in morphology, habitat use, behavior, and sprinting capacity in two West Indian Anolis lizards. Journal of Herpetology 34:444-451.

Janis, C. M., M. W. Colbert, M C. Coombs, W. D. Lambert, B. J. MacFadden, B. J. Mader, D. R. Prothero, R. M. Schoch, J. Shoshani, and W. P. Wall. 1998. Perissodactyla and Proboscidea.  Pp. 511-524 in: Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America (C. Janis & L. Jacobs, eds.).  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Kalb, J. E., 1995.  Fossil elephantoids, Awash paleolake basins, and the Afar triple junction, Ethiopia.  Palaeogeogrphy, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 114: 357-368.

Kalb, J. E., and D. J. Froehlich. 1995. Origins of Late Neogene Elephantoids: new evidence from the Middle Awash Valley, Afar, Ethiopia. Geobios 28(6): 727-736.

Kalb, J. E., D. J. Froehlich, and G. L. Bell. 1996.  Phylogeny of late Neogene African and Eurasian Elephantoidea.  Pp. 117-123 in: The Proboscidea: Evolution and Paleoecology of Elephants and their relatives (J. Shoshani and P. Tassy eds.). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Kalb, J. E., D. J. Froehlich, and G. L. Bell. 1996.  Palaeobiogeography of late Neogene African and Eurasian Elephantoidea.  Pp. 124-135 in: The Proboscidea: Evolution and Paleoecology of Elephants and their relatives (J. Shoshani and P. Tassy eds.). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Kellner, A. W. A., and W. Langston, Jr., 1996.  Cranial remains of Quetzalcoatlus (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from Late cretaceous sediments of Big Bend National Park, Texas.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(2): 222-231.

Langston, W. Jr., and W. A. S. Sarjeant, 1994.  Vertebrate footprints and invertebrate traces from the Chadronian (late Eocene) of Trans-Pecos Texas.  Texas Memorial Musuem Bulletin 36, i-v + 86 pp.

Langston, W. Jr., 1995.  Dyrosaurs (Crocodylia, Mesosuchia) from the Paleocene Umm Himar Formation, Kingdon of Saudia Arabia.   United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2093-F: F1-111 + 36 pp.

Langston, W. Jr., and Z. Gasparini,  1997.  Crocodilians, Gryposuchus, and the South American gavials.  Pp 113-154 in: Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics – the Miocene fauna of La Venta, Columbia.  Richard F. Kay et al., (eds.), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

Lundelius, E. L. Jr. 1994. Book Review:  Scaphitid ammonites of the upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills formation in South Dakota and Wyoming, by Neil H. Landman and Karl M. Waage.   Quarterly Review Biology, 69:91-92.

Lundelius, E. L., Jr. 1994.   Book Review: Vegetation Cover and Environment of the "Mammoth Epoch" in Siberia, edited by Valentina V. Ukraintseva, Larry Agenbroad, Jim I. Mead, and Richard Hevly  Quarterly Review of Biology, 69: 548.

Lundelius, E. L., Jr. 1997.   Book Review: Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America, by J. Alan Holman.  Quarterly Review of Biology, 72:193-194.

Lundelius, Ernest L., Jr. 1998. Development of Quaternary vertebrate paleontology in North America.  Pp. 235-248 in: Quaternary Paleozoology in the Northern Hemisphere (J. Saunders, B.W. Styles and Baryshnikoveds), Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers VXXII.

Lundelius, E. L. in press.  Pleistocene Paleontological of the caves on the Edwards Plateau, Central Texas. Illinois State Museum, Special Symposium Volume.

Macrini, T. E., and D. J. Irschick. 1998.  An intraspecific analysis of trade-offs in sprinting performance in a West Indian lizard (Anolis lineatopus).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 63: 579-591.

Owen, P. R., C. J. Bell, and E. M. Mead.  2000.  Fossils, diet, and conservation of black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes).  Journal of Mammalogy 81:422-433.

Poteet, M. F. and C. J. Bell.  1999.  Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus: diet.  Herpetological Review 30(3):170-171.

Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., C. J. Bell and H. W. Greene.  1999.  Gape size and evolution of diet in snakes: feeding ecology of erycine boas.  Journal of Zoology (London) 248: 49-58.

Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., C. J. Bell and H. W. Greene.  1999.  Food habits of the glossy snake, Arizona elegans, with comparisons to the diet of sympatric long-nosed snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei.  Journal of Herpetology 33(1): 87-92.

Rowe, T., and E. L. Lundelius.  1994.  At the beginning: computer technology and the early history of mammals.  Discover, The University of Texas at Austin, vol. 13(4): 22-28.

Rowe, T.  1996.  Coevolution of the Mammalian Middle Ear and Neocortex.  Science 273: 651-654.

Rowe, T.  1996.  Brain heterochrony and evolution of the mammalian middle ear.   Pp. 71-96  In: New Perspectives on the History of Life (M. Ghiselin and G. Pinna, eds.), California Academy of Sciences, Memoir 20.

Rowe, T.  1997.  Comparative rates of development in Monodelphis and Didelphis.  Science 275: 684.

Rowe, T., R. Tykoski, and J. Hutchinson, 1997.  Ceratorauria.   Pp. 106-110 in: K. Padian and P. E. Currie (eds.) Encylopedia of Dinosaurs.  New York, Acadedmic Press.

Rowe, T., J. Kappelman, W. D. Carlson, R. A. Ketcham, and C. Denison  1997.   High-Resolution Computed Tomography: a breakthrough technology for Earth scientists.  Geotimes, 42: 23-27.

Rowe, T. 1999.  At the roots of the mammalian tree.  Nature 398:283-284.

Rowe, T., C. A. Brochu, and K. Kishi (eds.).  1999.  Cranial morphology of Alligator and phylogeny of Alligatoroidae.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 6, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19, supplement to number 2.

Rowe, T., C. A. Brochu, K. Kishi, M. Colbert, and J. W. Merck.  1999  Introduction to Alligator: Digital Altas of the Skull.  Pp. 1-8 In: T. Rowe, C. A. Brochu, and K. Kishi (eds.).  Cranial morphology of Alligator and phylogeny of Alligatoroidae.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 6, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19, supplement to number 2.

Ruez, Dennis R. 1999.  Latest Pliocene (Early Irvingtonian) Mammals from a Sinkhole near Inglis, Citrus County, Florida, and their Chronologic, Evolutionary, andPaleoecological Implications.  Masters Thesis, University of Florida, Gainseville.

Tykoski, R. S. and Rowe, T.  In press.   Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.  49 pp. 11 figures.

Wilson, J.A, R. N. Martínez, and O. A. Alcober. 1999.  Distal tail segment of a titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3).

Theses and Dissertations

Balinsky, R. L. 1997.  Revision of the Pleistocene to Holocene Wilson-Leonard Micrivertebrate Fauna and its Paleoenvironmental Significance. Masters Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences,  195 pp.

Brochu, C. A. 1997.  Phylogenetic Systematics and Taxonomy of Crocodylia.  Doctoral Dissertation (T. B. Rowe, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 467 pp.

Colbert, M.W. 1999.  Patterns of Evolution and Variation in the Tapiroidea (Mammalia: Perissodactyla).  Doctoral Dissertation (T. B. Rowe and E. L. Lundelius, Jr., co-supervisors), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 464 pp., with CD-ROM supplement.

Feseha, Mulugeta Yebyo, 1996.  Magnetostratigraphy of the Fossil Bearing Igbek Section of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey.  Masters Thesis (E. L. Lundelius  and J. Kappelman, co supervisors), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences.

Froehlich, D. J.  1996. The Systematics of Basal Perissodactyls and the Status of North American Equids.  Doctoral Dissertation (E. L. Lundelius, Jr., supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 485 pp.

Kishi, K. 1995.  Computer Multimedia Software for Education in Geology.  Masters Thesis (T. B. Rowe, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 98 pp., with CD-ROM supplement.

Macrini, Thomas E. 2000.  High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) of the skull of an Extant Opossum (Monodelphis domestica) and a comparison of its Ontogeny to Synapsid Phylogeny.  Masters Thesis (T. B. Rowe, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 157 pp., with CD-ROM supplement.

Merck, J. W. Jr. Ph.D. 1997.  A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Euryapsid Reptlies.  Doctoral Dissertation (T. B. Rowe, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 785 pp.

Miller, M. S. 1997. Squamates of the Terlingua Local Fauna, Brewster County, Texas.  Masters Thesis (T. B. Rowe, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 98 pp.

Owen, Pamela R. 2000.  Phylogenetic Relationships Among American Badgers (Taxidiinae) and the Evolution of the Badger Ecomorph.  Doctoral Dissertation (T. Rowe and E. L. Lundelius, co-supervisors), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 322 pp., with CD-ROM supplement.

Sagebiel, C.  1998. Late Pleistocene Fauna and Environment at Zesch Cave, Mason County, Texas.  Masters Thesis (E. L. Lundelius, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 147 pp.

Tykoski, R. S. 1998. Osteology of Syntarsus kayentakatae and its Implications for Ceratosaurid Phylogeny.  Masters Thesis (T. B. Rowe, supervisor), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 217 pp.

Published Abstracts

Alcober, O. A., P. C. Sereno, H. C Larsson, R. N. Martínez, R. N. and  D. J. Varriccio, 1998 A late Cretaceus Carcharodontosaurid (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) from Argentina.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology suppl. to 18 (3):23a.

Bell, C. J., and A. D. Barnosky.  1998.  Re-evaluation of the age of the Pit locality, Porcupine Cave, Colorado. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(Supplement to 3):27A.

Brochu, C.A.  1995.  Phylogenetic relationships of basal eusuchians and the origin of Crocodylus.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Pittsburgh.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15:20A.

Brochu, C.A.  1996.  Fossils as pruning shears:  Branch length and the phylogenetic systematics of Crocodylia.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, New York.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(3):24A.

Brochu, C.A.  1996.  Phylogenetic systematics and origin of Gavialoidea:  The contribution from fossils.  Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence. SSAR Program Notes and Abstracts, p. 65.

Brochu, C.A.  1996. Phylogenetic systematics and taxonomy of Crocodylia: A morphological perspective.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, New Orleans.   ASIH Abstracts with Programs, p. 93.

Brochu, C.A.  1996. New eusuchian crocodyliforms from the Paleocene of West Texas: Biogeographic and phylogenetic implications. Geological Society of America South-Central Regional Meeting, Austin.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 28(1):6.

Brochu, C.A.  1997.  Phylogeny, systematics, and historical biogeography of Alligatoroidea.   Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Chicago.   Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(3):34A.

Brochu, C.A.  1997.  The divergence timing and historical biogeography of Crocodylus:  Preliminary insights from phylogenetics and the fossil record.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Seattle.  ASIH Abstracts with Programs, p. 81.

Brochu, C.A., and M.A. Norell.  1998.  There is no temporal paradox in bird origins.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Snowbird.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18(3):29A.

Brochu, C.A.  1999.  High-resolution CT analysis of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(3):34A.

Brochu, C.A., C.D. Sumrall, and J.W. Merck, Jr.  1999.  Majority-rule consensus and bootstrap bias - global lability and regional resolution.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 31(7):A-138.

Buckley, G.A., C.A. Brochu, L.L Randriamiaramanana, and D.W. Krause.  1999.  A bizarre crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar:  Systematics, biogeography, and paleoecology.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(3):34A.

Brochu, C.A., and G.W. Storrs.  1995.  The giant dwarf crocodile:  A reappraisal of "Crocodylus" robustus from the Quaternary of Madagascar. 18th Annual Field Museum Spring Systematics Symposium:  Environmental Change in Madagascar, Chicago.  Environmental Change in Madagascar, ed. by B.D. Patterson, S.M. Goodman, and J.L. Sedlock, Field Museum, Chicago, p. 6.

Brochu, C. A. 1998:  The Visible Alligator:  A digital atlas of alligator craniology based on high-resolution CT imagery.  Three-Dimensional Scanning and Computer Modelling of Vertebrate Fossils, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Symposium, Snowbird. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18(3):29A.  (With T. Rowe, J.W. Merck, M.W. Colbert, and K. Kishi.)

Brochu, C. A. 1998:  Concordance among physiology, phylogenetics, and the fossil record on crocodylian biogeography.  Crocodilian Biology and Evolution, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Brochu, C. A. 1998:  Differing temporal expectations for crocodylian phylogeny:  molecules versus stratigraphy.  A. Watson  Armour III Spring Symposium: Combining Molecular and Paleontological Data - A Twofold Approach for Documenting Major Evolutionary Patterns, Field Museum, Chicago.

Czaplewski, N. J., J. I. Mead, W. D. Peachey, R. Ku, and C. J. Bell.  1997.  Papago Springs Cave revisited: radiometric dates and fauna.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(Supplement to 3):41A.

Buckley, G., C. Brochu, and D. Krause.  1997.  Hyperdiversity and the paleobiogeographic implications of Late Cretaceous crocodyliforms of Madagascar.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Chicago.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(3):35A.

Buckley, G., and C.A. Brochu.  1996.  Campanian crocodyliforms from Madagascar and their biogeographical implications.  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, New York.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(3):24A.

Cifelli, R.L., T. Rowe, J. Banta, and R. I. Howes, 1995.  Evidence of tooth replacement in Alphadon based on CT scans.  [abstract] Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, supplement to volume 15(3): 24A.

Dufeau, D. L.  (1997):  Virtual Reality and Multimedia in Evolutionary Biology National Conference of Undergraduate Research, Abstracts of Papers.

Erickson, G., and C.A. Brochu.  1998.  Heterochronic evolution of gigantism in the Cretaceous alligatoroid Deinosuchus. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Snowbird. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18(3):40A.

Froehlich, D. J.  1999. Taxonomy and phylogeny of early Eocene equids. J. Vert. Paleo., 19 (supplement to #3):45A. abs.

Froehlich, D. J. and B. H. Breithaupt. 1997. A Lambdotherium specimen from the Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation, with comments on its biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental importance and the phylogenetic significance of the postcrania.  J. Vert. Paleo., 17 (supplement to #3):47A. abs.

Graham, R. W., Lundelius, E. L. Jr., Graham, M. A., and Schroeder, E. K. 1994. FAUNMAP: A database documenting late Quaternary distributions of mammal species in the United States. (abstract). Neogene and Quaternary Mammals of the Palaearctic; Conference in honour of Professor Kazimierz Kowalski, May 17-21, 1994, Krakow, Poland.

Lehman, T. M., and W. Langston, Jr., 1996.  Habitat of Quetzalcoatlus: Paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the Javelina Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (supplement) (3):48A.

Lundelius, Ernest L. Jr. and Collins, Michael B. 1999. (Abstract) Speleological contexts of micromammal assemblages from caves and rockshelters in the Texas hill country: retrospects and prospects, p. 112 in Book of Abstracts, The Environmental Background to Hominid Evolution in Africa. INQUA XV, Durban, South Africa, August 3-11, 1999.

Lundelius, Ernest L., Jr. and Turnbull, William D. 1999. Leporillus (Rodentia: Muridae) from Madura Cave, W.A. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 121:129-146. This grew out of an invited paper to the Rodent Symposium of the Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics held in sydney, N.S.W. April, 1999.

Lundelius, Ernest L. Jr. and Graham, Russell W. 1997. Climate models for Pleistocene extinction of megafauna. (Abst.) Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics. July 7-11, 1997, Perth W.A. Programme and Abstracts:41-42.

Macrini, T. E. 2000. The synapsid mandible and auditory region in ontogeny and phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):55A.

Owen, P. R. and C. J. Bell.  1998.  A fossil black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) from Cathedral Cave, White Pine County, Nevada.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(Supplement to 3):68A.

Owen, Pamela R.  1996.  Morphological variability of the atlas-axis complex of large carnivorans from Rancho La Brea:  Reflections of predatory style.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(Suppl. 3):57A.

Owen, Pamela R.  1996.  The problematic mustelid from the Pliocene of Texas: another look at Canimartes cumminsii  Cope, 1892.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, South-Central Section 28(1):56-57. 

Owen, Pamela R.  1993. A factor analytic approach to the functional assessment of the atlas-axis complex of Rancho La Brean carnivorans Smilodon fatalis and Canis dirus.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(Suppl. 3):51A.

Owen, Pamela R.  1991.  The atlas of Smilodon.  The Annual Meeting of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Abstract 17.

Owen, Pamela R. and Christopher J. Bell.  1998.  A fossil black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) from Cathedral Cave, White Pine County, Nevada.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(Suppl. 3):68A.

Rowe, T., 1995.  Brain heterochrony and origin of the mammalian middle ear: new data from high resolution X-ray CT.  [abstract] Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, supplement to volume 15(3): 50A.

Rowe, T., Ketcham, R., Guan, J., Alcober, O., and D. Dufeau (1999):  High-Resolution X-ray CT Study of the Primitive Bird Confuciusornis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19, 72A.

Rowe, T.  2000.  Analyzing fossils with High-resolution X-ray Computed Tomography.  Texas Academy of Sciences, Programs and Abstracts for Papers, 103rd Annual Meeting, Kingsville, Texas, p. 85.

Ruez, D. R., Jr.  1998.  Heterochrony in the origin of the marsh rabbit.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18:73A.

Ruez, D. R., Jr.  1999a.   Fossil Bison from Lubbock Lake, Texas:  Arguments against human butchering.   Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:72A.

Sumrall, C.D., C.A. Brochu, and J.W. Merck.  1996.  The effects of multiple primitive states and single-taxon outgroups on parsimony-based phylogenetic analyses. Geological Society of America South-Central Regiona Meeting, Austin.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 28(1):65.

Tykoski, R. S. 1997.  A new coelophysid ceratosaurid theropod from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology supplement to 17( 3):81A.

 


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