Updated May 6, 2023
(* UCSC graduate student; ^ UCSC undergraduate student)
Foster, W.J., Allen, B.J., Kitzmann, N.H., Münchmeyer, J., Rettelbach, T., Witts, J.D., Whittle, R.J., Larina, E., Clapham, M.E., Dunhill, A.M. 2023. How predictable are mass extinction events? Royal Society Open Science, v. 10, 221507.
Allen, B.J., Clapham, M.E., Saupe, E.E., Wignall, P.B., Hill, D.J., and Dunhill, A.M. 2023. Estimating spatial variation in origination and extinction in deep time: A case study using the Permian–Triassic marine invertebrate fossil record. Paleobiology, in press.
Zhao, X.Y., Yu, Y.L., Clapham, M.E., Yan, E., Chen, J., Jarzembowski, E.A., Zhao, X.D., and Wang, B. 2021. Early evolution of beetles regulated by the end-Permian deforestation. eLife, v. 10, e72692.
Killam, D.*, Al-Najjar, T., and Clapham, M.E. 2021. Giant clam growth in the Gulf of Aqaba is accelerated compared to fossil populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 288, 20210991.
Lamsdell, J.C. and Clapham, M.E. 2021. Belinurus Bronn, 1839 (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) has priority over Bellinurus Pictet, 1846. Journal of Paleontology, v. 95, p. 1352-1355.
Clapham, M.E. 2021. Extinction: end-Permian mass extinction. In: eLS 2021, John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Chichester.
Manojlovic, M.*, and Clapham, M.E. 2021. The role of bioturbation-driven substrate disturbance in the Mesozoic brachiopod decline. Paleobiology, v. 47, p. 86-100.
Arefifard, S. and Clapham, M.E. 2021. Cisuralian and Guadalupian global paleobiogeography of fusulinids in response to tectonics, ocean circulation and climate change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 561, 110052.
Clapham, M.E. 2021. The End-Permian Mass Extinction. In: D. Alderton, S.A. Elias (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition, v. 3, p. 645-652.
Killam, D.E.*, Thomas, R.^, Al-Najjar, T., and Clapham, M.E. 2020. Interspecific and intrashell stable isotope variation among the Red Sea giant clams. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 21, e2019GC008669.
Close, R.A., Benson, R.B.J., Saupe, E.E., Clapham, M.E., and Butler, R.J. 2020. The spatial structure of Phanerozoic marine animal diversity. Science, v. 368, p. 420-424.
Schachat, S.R., Labandeira, C.C., Clapham, M.E., and Payne, J.L. 2019. A Cretaceous peak in family-level insect diversity estimated with mark–recapture methodology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 289, 2019054.
Clapham, M.E. 2019. Conservation evidence from climate-related stressors in the deep-time marine fossil record. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, v. 274, 20190223.
Clapham, M.E. and Renne, P.R. 2019. Flood basalts and mass extinctions. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 47, p. 275-303..
Clapham, M.E. 2018. Flipping the paleontology classroom: benefits, challenges, and strategies. Cohen, P.A., Lockwood, R., and Boush, L. (eds.), Pedagogy and Technology in the Modern Paleontology Classroom. Elements of Paleontology, p. 1-17.
Killam, D.E.* and Clapham, M.E. 2018. Identifying the ticks of bivalve shell clocks: seasonal growth in relation to temperature and food supply. Palaios, v. 33, p. 228-236. PDF
Solórzano Kraemer, M.M., Delclòs, X., Clapham, M.E., Arillo, A., Peris, D., Jäger, P., Stebner, F., and Peñalver, E. 2018. Arthropods in modern resins reveal if amber accurately recorded forest arthropod communities, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 115, p. 6739-6744. PDF
Zhang, F.F., Romaniello, S.J., Algeo, T.J., Lau, K.V., Clapham, M.E., Richoz, S., Herrmann, A.D., Smith, H., Horacek, M., and Anbar, A.D. 2018. Multiple episodes of extensive marine anoxia linked to
global warming and continental weathering following the latest Permian mass extinction. Science Advances, v. 4, e1602921. PDF
Santiago-Matarese, D.L.*, Iraci, L.T., Clapham, M.E., and Chuang, P.Y. 2018. Chlorine-containing salts as water ice nucleating particles on Mars. Icarus, v. 303, p. 280-287.
Vázquez, P.* and Clapham, M.E. 2017. Extinction selectivity among marine fishes during multi-stressor global change in the end-Permian and end-Triassic crises. Geology, v. 45, p. 395-398. PDF
Clapham, M.E. 2017. Organism activity levels predict marine invertebrate survival during ancient global change extinctions. Global Change Biology, v. 23, p. 1477-1485. PDF
Clapham, M.E., Karr, J.A.*, Nicholson, D.B., Ross, A.J., and Mayhew, P.J. 2016. Ancient origin of high taxonomic richness among insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 283(20152476), p. 1-6. PDF - R code at GitHub
Condamine, F.L., Clapham, M.E., and Kergoat, G.J. 2016. Global patterns of insect diversification: towards a reconciliation of fossil and molecular evidence? Scientific Reports, v. 6(19208), p. 1-13. PDF
Schaal, E.K., Clapham, M.E., Rego, B.L., Wang, S.C., and Payne, J.L. 2016. Comparative size evolution of marine clades from the Late Permian through Middle Triassic. Paleobiology, v. 42, p. 127-142. PDF
Clapham, M.E. 2015. Ecological consequences of the Guadalupian extinction and its role in the brachiopod-mollusk transition. Paleobiology, v. 41, p. 266-279. PDF - R code at GitHub
Karr, J.A.* and Clapham, M.E. 2015. Taphonomic biases in the insect fossil record: shifts in articulation over geologic time. Paleobiology, v. 41, p. 16-32 PDF - R code at GitHub - Data files at Dryad
Clapham, M.E. 2014. History of insect body size. AccessScience/McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology, p. 145-147.
Ghisalberti, M., Gold, D.A., Laflamme, M., Clapham, M.E., Narbonne, G.M., Summons, R.E., Johnston, D.T., and Jacobs, D.K. 2014. Canopy flow analysis reveals the advantage of size in the oldest communities of multicellular eukaryotes. Current Biology, v. 24, p. 305-309. PDF
Badyrka, K.A.*, Clapham, M.E., and Lopez, S. 2013. Paleoecology of brachiopod communities during the late Paleozoic ice age in Bolivia (Copacabana Formation, Pennsylvanian-Early Permian). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 389, p. 56-65. PDF
Darroch, S.A.F., Laflamme, M., and Clapham, M.E. 2013. Population structure of the oldest known macroscopic communities from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. Paleobiology, v. 39, p. 591-608. PDF - Data files at Figshare
Clapham, M.E., Fraiser, M.L., Marenco, P.J., and Shen, S.Z. 2013. Taxonomic composition and environmental distribution of post-extinction rhynchonelliform brachiopod faunas: constraints on short-term survival and the role of anoxia in the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 374, p. 284-292. PDF
McGhee, G.R., Clapham, M.E., Sheehan, P.M., Bottjer, D.J., and Droser, M.L. 2013. A new ecological-severity ranking of major Phanerozoic biodiversity crises. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 370, p. 260-270. PDF
Clapham, M.E. 2013. Extinction: end-Permian mass extinction. In: eLS 2013, John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001654.pub3.
Clapham, M.E. and James, N.P. 2012. Regional-scale marine faunal change in eastern Australia during late Paleozoic climate fluctuations and its relationship to local community restructuring. Palaios, v. 27, p. 627-635. PDF
Clapham, M.E. and Karr, J.A.* 2012. Environmental and biotic controls on the evolutionary history of insect body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 109, p. 10927-10930. PDF - Insect size database
Payne, J.L. and Clapham, M.E. 2012. End-Permian mass extinction in the oceans: an ancient analog for the 21st century? Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 40, p. 89-111. PDF
Marenco, P.J., Griffin, J.M., Fraiser, M.L., and Clapham, M.E. 2012. Paleoecology and geochemistry of Lower Triassic (Spathian) microbial mounds and implications for anoxia following the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology, v. 40, p. 715-718. PDF
Dornbos, S.Q., Clapham, M.E., Fraiser, M.L., and Laflamme, M. 2012. Lessons from the fossil record: the Ediacaran radiation, the Cambrian radiation, and the end-Permian mass extinction, in Solan, M., Aspden, R., and Paterson, D. (eds.), Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, Oxford University Press, p. 52-72. PDF
Clapham, M.E. and Payne, J.L. 2011. Acidification, anoxia, and extinction: a multiple regression analysis of extinction selectivity during the Middle and Late Permian. Geology, v. 39, p. 1059-1062. PDF
Clapham, M.E. 2011. Ordination methods and the evaluation of Ediacaran communities, in Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J.D. and Dornbos, S.Q. (eds.), Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems, Springer, p. 3-21. PDF
Fraiser, M.L., Clapham, M.E., and Bottjer, D.J. 2011. Mass extinctions and changing taphonomic processes: fidelity of the Guadalupian, Lopingian, and Early Triassic fossil records, in Allison, P.A. and Bottjer, D.J. (eds.), Taphonomy: Process and Bias Through Time, Springer, p. 569-590. PDF
Clapham, M.E. 2010. Faunal evidence for a cool boundary current and decoupled regional climate cooling in the Permian of western Laurentia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 298, p. 348-359. PDF
Clapham, M.E. 2010. The late Paleozoic section at Arrow Canyon, Nevada: facies, cyclicity, and far-field record of the late Paleozoic ice age. Pacific Section SEPM Fall Field Trip Guidebook, Book 109, p. 1-42.
Clapham, M.E., Shen, S.Z., and Bottjer, D.J. 2009. The double mass extinction revisited: re-assessing the severity, selectivity, and paleobiogeographic pattern of the end-Guadalupian biotic crisis (Middle-Late Permian). Paleobiology, v. 35, p. 32-50. PDF
Shen, S.Z. and Clapham, M.E. 2009. Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods from the Episkopi Formation of Hydra Island, Greece. Palaeontology, v. 52, p. 713-743. PDF
Clapham, M.E. and James, N.P. 2008. 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, v. 23, p. 738-750. PDF
Bottjer, D.J., Clapham, M.E., Fraiser, M.L. and Powers, C.M. 2008. Understanding mechanisms for the end-Permian mass extinction and the protracted Early Triassic aftermath/recovery. GSA Today, v. 18, no. 9, p. 4-10. PDF
Alroy, J., Aberhan, M., Bottjer, D.J., Foote, M., Fursich, 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, D.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., Krug, A.Z., Layou, K.M., Leckey, E.H., Nurnburg, S., Powers, C.M., Sessa, J.A., Simpson, C., Tomasovych, A., and Visaggi, C.C. 2008. Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science, v. 321, p. 97-100. PDF
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 Sciences, v. 104, p. 12971-12975. PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF
Bottjer, D.J. and Clapham, M.E. 2006. Evolutionary paleoecology of Ediacaran benthic marine organisms, in Xiao, S. and Kaufman, A.J. (eds.), Neoproterozoic Geobiology, Kluwer Press, p. 91-114. PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF - Data files at Figshare
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. PDF
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. Yukon Exploration and Geology 2001, p. 73-85. PDF
