History of Life

Evolutionary paleoecology and systematics of marine encrusting and boring faunas (sclerobionts), especially those in the Ordovician and Jurassic. (See for example: Taylor, P.D. & Wilson, M.A. 2003. Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities. Earth-Science Reviews 62: 1-103.)

The development and early diagenesis of marine carbonate rocks, particularly carbonate hardgrounds. (See for example: Palmer, T.J. & Wilson, M.A. 2004. Calcite precipitation and dissolution of biogenic aragonite in shallow Ordovician calcite seas. Lethaia 37: 417-427.)

Eemian Stage interglacial coral reefs and sea level dynamics. (See for example: Wilson, M.A., Curran, H.A. & White, B., 1998. Paleontological evidence of a brief global sea-level event during the last interglacial. Lethaia 31: 241-250.

Curran, H.A., Wilson, M.A. and Mylroie, J.E. 2007. Fossil palm frond and tree trunk molds: occurrence and implications in Bahamian Quaternary carbonate eolianites, p. 178-190. Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas: Gerace Research Center. San Salvador, Bahamas.

Ernst, A., Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. 2007. Ordovician bryozoans from the Kanosh Formation (Whiterockian) of Utah, USA. Journal of Paleontology 81: 998-1008.

McLaughlin, P.I., Brett, C.E. and Wilson, M.A. 2008. Hierarchy of sedimentary discontinuity surfaces and condensed beds from the Middle Paleozoic of eastern North America: Implications for cratonic sequence stratigraphy, In: Dynamics of Epeiric Seas: Sedimentological, Paleontological, and Geochemical Perspectives. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 48: 175-200.

Taylor, P.D., Vinn, O. and Wilson, M.A. 2010. Evolution of biomineralisation in ‘lophophorates’. Special Papers in Palaeontology (in press).

Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. 2008. Morphology and affinities of hederelloid "bryozoans", p. 301-309.  In: Hageman, S.J., Key, M.M., Jr., and Winston, J.E. (eds.), Bryozoan Studies 2007: Proceedings of the 14th International Bryozoology Conference, Boone, North Carolina, July 1-8, 2007.  Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 15.

Vinn, O. and Wilson, M.A. 2009a. Abundant endosymbiotic Cornulites in the Sheinwoodian (Early Silurian) stromatoporoids of Saaremaa, Estonia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie (in press).

Vinn, O. and Wilson, M.A. 2009b. Sabellid-dominated shallow water calcareous polychaete tubeworm association from the equatorial Tethys Ocean (Matmor Formation, Middle Jurassic, Israel). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie (in press).

Wilson, M.A. 2006. Dinosaurs, p. 198-204, In: Hall, D.R. and Hall, S. (eds.), American Icons: People, Places, and Things That Have Shaped Our Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut, 3 volumes, 870 pages

Wilson, M.A. 2007. Macroborings and the evolution of bioerosion, p. 356-367. In: Miller, W. III (ed.), Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems, Prospects. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 611 pages..

Wilson, M.A. 2008. An online bibliography of bioerosion references, p. 473-478. In: Wisshax, M. and Tapanila, L. (eds.), Current developments in bioerosion. Erlangen Earth Conference Series; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Wilson, M.A., Feldman, H.R., Bowen, J.C.*, and Avni, Y. 2008. A new equatorial, very shallow marine sclerozoan fauna from the Middle Jurassic (late Callovian) of southern Israel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 263: 24-29.

Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. 2006. Patterns and processes in the Ordovician Bioerosion Revolution. Ichnos 13: 109-112.

Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. 2006. Predatory drillholes and partial mortality in Devonian colonial metazoans. Geology 34: 565-568.

Yancey, T.E., Wilson, M.A. and Mione, A.C.S.* 2009. The ramonalinids: a new family of mound-building bivalves of the early Middle Triassic. Palaeontology 52: 1349-1361.

Zhang, Y.-L., Gong, E.-P., Wilson, M.A., Guan, C.-Q., and Sun, B.-L. 2010. A large coral reef in the Pennsylvanian of Ziyun County, Guizhou (South China): The substrate and initial colonization environment of reef-building corals. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (in press).

Zhang, Y.-L., Gong, E.-P., Wilson, M.A., Guan, C.-Q., Sun, B.-L., and Chang, H.-L. 2009. Paleoecology of a Pennsylvanian encrusting colonial rugose coral in south Guizhou, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 280: 507-516.

Thomas Yancey

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