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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Clapham, M.E. and James, N.P.  In press.  Paleoecology of Early-Middle Permian (Sakmarian-Capitanian) marine communities in eastern Australia: response to global climate change in the aftermath of the late Paleozoic ice age.  Palaios, 32 MS pp.

Clapham, M.E., Shen, S.Z., and Bottjer, D.J. In press. The double mass extinction revisited: re-assessing the severity, selectivity, and paleobiogeographic pattern of the end-Guadalupian biotic crisis (Middle-Late Permian). Paleobiology, 38 MS pp.

Bottjer, D.J., Clapham, M.E., Fraiser, M.L., and Powers, C.M. In press. Understanding mechanisms for the end-Permian mass extinction and the protracted Early Triassic aftermath/recovery. GSA Today, 27 MS pp.

Shen, S.Z. and Clapham, M.E.  In press.  Wuchiapingian (Lopingian) brachiopods from the Episkopi Formation at Hydra, Greece. Palaeontology, 88 MS pp.

Alroy, J., Aberhan, M., Bottjer, D.J., Foote, M. Fürsich, F.T., Harries, P.J., Hendy, A.J.W., Holland, S.M., Ivany, L.C., Kiessling, W., Kosnik, M.A., Marshall, C.R., McGowan, A.J., Miller, A.I., Olszewski, T.D., Patzkowsky, M.E., Peters, S.E., Villier, L., Wagner, P.J., Bonuso, N., Borkow, P.S., Brenneis, B., Clapham, M.E., Fall, L.M., Ferguson, C.A., Hanson, V.L., Kruz, A.Z., Layou, K.M., Leckey, E.H., Nürnberg, S., Powers, C.M., Sessa, J.A., Simpson, C., Tomašových, A., Visaggi, C.C.  In press. Sampling-standardized Phanerozoic trends in the diversity of marine organisms. Science.
Clapham, M.E. and Bottjer, D.J.  2007.  Prolonged Permian-Triassic ecological transition recorded by molluscan dominance in Late Permian offshore assemblages.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, v. 104, p. 12971-12975.

Clapham, M.E. and Bottjer, D.J.  2007.  Permian marine paleoecology and its implications for large-scale decoupling of brachiopod and bivalve abundance and diversity during the Lopingian (Late Permian).  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 249, p. 283-301.

Clapham, M.E., Bottjer, D.J., Powers, C.M., Bonuso, N., Fraiser, M.L., Marenco, P.J., Dornbos, S.Q., and Pruss, S.B.  2006. Assessing the ecological dominance of Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.  Palaios, v. 21, p. 431-441.

Clapham, M.E. and Corsetti, F.A.  2005.  Deep valley incision in the terminal Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran) Johnnie Formation, eastern California, USA: tectonically or glacially driven?  Precambrian Research, v. 141, p. 154-164.

Clapham, M.E., Narbonne, G.M., Gehling, J.G., Greentree, C., and Anderson, M.M.  2004.  Thectardis avalonensis: a new Ediacaran fossil from the Mistaken Point biota, Newfoundland.  Journal of Paleontology, v. 78, p. 1031-1036.

Clapham, M.E., Narbonne, G.M., and Gehling, J.G.  2003.  Paleoecology of the oldest known animal communities: Ediacaran assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.  Paleobiology, v. 29, p. 527-544.

Wood, D.A., Dalrymple, R.W., Narbonne, G.M., Gehling, J.G., and Clapham, M.E.  2003.  Paleoenvironmental analysis of the late Neoproterozoic Mistaken Point and Trepassey formations, southeastern Newfoundland.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 40, p. 1375-1391.

Clapham, M.E., and Narbonne, G.M.  2002.  Ediacaran epifaunal tiering.  Geology, v. 30, p. 627-630.


BOOK CHAPTERS

Fraiser, M.L., Clapham, M.E., and Bottjer, D.J.  In review.  Mass extinctions and changing taphonomic processes: Fidelity of the Guadalupian, Lopingian, and Early Triassic Fossil Records. In: Taphonomy: Process and Bias Through Time, Allison, P.A. and Bottjer, D.J. (eds), 33 MS pp.

Bottjer, D.J. and Clapham, M.E.  2006.  Evolutionary paleoecology of Ediacaran benthic marine organisms.  In: Neoproterozoic Geobiology, Xiao, S. and Kaufman, A.J. (eds.), Kluwer Press, p. 91-114.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Clapham, M.E., Smith, P.L., and Tipper, H.W.  2002.  Lower to Middle Jurassic stratigraphy, ammonoid fauna and sedimentary history of the Laberge Group in the Fish Lake Syncline, northern Whitehorse Trough, Yukon, Canada.  In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2001, Emond, D.S., Weston, L.H., and Lewis, L.L. (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 73-85.

Narbonne, G.M., Dalrymple, R.W., Gehling, J.G., Wood, D.A., Clapham, M.E., and Sala, R.A.  2001.  Field trip localities description.  In: Neoproterozoic Fossils and Environments of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Narbonne, G.M., Dalrymple, R.W., and Gehling, J.G. (eds.), Geological Association of Canada Field Trip B5 Guidebook, 100 pp.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

Clapham, M.E., Bottjer, D.J., and Shen, S.Z.  2007.  Re-assessing the end-Guadalupian extinction using sampling-standardized Permian marine invertebrate diversity patterns.  16th International Conference on the Carboniferous and Permian.  Journal of Stratigraphy, v. 31, supplement 1, p. 172.

Clapham, M.E., Bottjer, D.J., and Shen, S.Z.  2006.  Decoupled diversity and ecology during the end-Guadalupian extinction (Late Permian).  GSA Abstracts with Program, v. 38, no. 7, p. 117.  (Invited Presentation)

Clapham, M.E. and Bottjer, D.J.  2006.  The rise of the Modern Evolutionary Fauna: decoupled taxonomic and ecological response during the end-Guadalupian extinction.  Second International Paleontological Congress, Abstracts, p. 374.

Clapham, M.E. and Bottjer, D.J.  2005.  Small taxonomic and large ecological effects of the end-Guadalupian extinction (Late Permian).  GSA Abstracts with Program, v. 37, no. 7, p. 385.

Clapham, M.E. and Bottjer, D.J.  2005.  Early initiation of Modern Fauna ecological dominance before the Permo-Triassic mass extinction.  North American Paleontological Convention.  PaleoBios, v. 25, no. 2, p. 30.

Clapham, M.E. and Corsetti, F.A.  2004.  Tectonically-driven deep valley incision in the terminal Neoproterozoic Johnnie Formation, eastern California.  GSA Abstracts with Program, v. 36, no. 5, p. 531.

Clapham, M.E., Bottjer, D.R., Pruss, S.B., Marenco, P.J., Jamet, C.M., Fraiser, M.L., Dornbos, S.Q., and Bonuso, N.  2003. Phanerozoic trends in ecological dominance.  GSA Abstracts with Program, v. 35, no. 6, p. 589.

Jamet, C.M., Bottjer, D.J., Bonuso, N., Clapham, M.E., Dornbos, S.Q., Fraiser, M.L., Marenco, P.J., and Pruss, S.B.  2003. Assessing ecological dominance from the fossil record.  GSA Abstracts with Program, v. 35, no. 6, p. 589.

Narbonne, G.M. and Clapham, M.E.  2003.  Life after snowball: the Mistaken Point biota and the origin of animal ecosystems. GSA Abstracts with Program, v. 35, no. 6, p. 516.  (Invited Pardee Symposium Presentation)

Clapham, M.E. and Narbonne, G.M.  2002.  Ecological succession in the Neoproterozoic.  GSA Abstracts with Program, v. 34, no. 6, p. 169.

Clapham, M.E. and *Narbonne, G.M.  2002.  Ediacaran epifaunal tiering.  First International Paleontology Congress, Geological Society of Australia Abstracts Volume, v. 68, p. 34-35.  (*Presenter)

Clapham, M.E. and Narbonne, G.M.  2002.  Ediacaran epifaunal tiering.  Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Abstracts Volume, v. 27, p. 21.

Clapham, M.E., Narbonne, G.M., and Gehling, J.G.  2002.  Community ecology of Ediacaran fossil assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.  Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Program and Abstracts, p. 151-152.  (Invited Presentation)

Clapham, M.E., Narbonne, G.M., and Gehling, J.G.  2001.  Community ecology of Ediacaran fossil assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.  Canadian Paleontology Conference, Program and Abstracts, v. 11, p. 10-13.

Wood, D.A., Dalrymple, R.W., Narbonne, G.M., Clapham, M.E., and Gehling, J.G.  2001.  Paleoecological implications of oriented Ediacaran fossils in the late Neoproterozoic Mistaken Point and Trepassey formations, southeastern Newfoundland. Canadian Paleontology Conference, Program and Abstracts, v. 11, p. 64.

Clapham, M.E., Narbonne, G.M., and Gehling, J.G.  2001.  Population structure, diversity, and species abundance models of Ediacaran communities at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.  Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Abstracts Volume, v. 26, p. 26.

Wood, D.A., Dalrymple, R.W., Narbonne, G.M., Clapham, M.E., and Gehling, J.G.  2001.  Sedimentology and taphonomy of Ediacaran fossils at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.  Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Abstracts Volume, v. 26, p. 165.