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 examples: 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 and Thompson, W.G., Curran, H.A., Wilson, M.A. & White, B. 2011. Sea-level oscillations during the Last Interglacial highstand recorded by Bahamas corals. Nature Geoscience 4: 684–687.)

Ausich, W.I., Wilson, M.A. and Vinn, O. 2012. Crinoids from the Silurian of western Estonia (Phylum Echinodermata). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (in press).

Feldman, H.R., Schemm-Gregory, M, Ahmad, F. and Wilson, M.A. 2012. Jurassic rhynchonellide brachiopods from the Jordan Valley. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57: 191-204.

Johnson, M.E., Wilson, M.A. and Redden, J.A. 2010. Borings in quartzite surf boulders from the Upper Cambrian basal Deadwood Formation, Black Hills of South Dakota. Ichnos 17:48-55.

Krawczynski, C. and Wilson, M.A. 2011. The first Jurassic thecideide brachiopods from the Middle East: A new species of Moorellina from the Upper Callovian of Hamakhtesh Hagadol, southern Israel. Acta Geologica Polonica 61: 71-77.

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 biomineralization in ‘lophophorates’. Special Papers in Palaeontology 84: 317-333.

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.

Thompson, W.G., Curran, H.A., Wilson, M.A. and White, B. 2011. Sea-level oscillations during the Last Interglacial highstand recorded by Bahamas corals. Nature Geoscience 4: 684–687.

Vinn, O. and Wilson, M.A. 2010a. Abundant endosymbiotic Cornulites in the Sheinwoodian (Early Silurian) stromatoporoids of Saaremaa, Estonia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 257: 13-22.

Vinn, O. and Wilson, M.A. 2010b. Sabellid-dominated shallow water calcareous polychaete tubeworm association from the equatorial Tethys Ocean (Matmor Formation, Middle Jurassic, Israel). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 258: 31-38.

Vinn, O. and Wilson, M.A. 2010c. Microconchid-dominated hardground association from the late Pridoli (Silurian) of Saaremaa, Estonia. Palaeontologia Electronica 13(2):9A, 12 p.

Vinn, O. and Wilson, M.A. 2010d. Occurrence of giant borings of Osprioneides kampto in the Lower Silurian (Sheinwoodian) stromatoporoids of Saaremaa, Estonia. Ichnos 17: 166-171.

Vinn, O. and Wilson, M.A. 2010e. Early large borings from a hardground of Floian-Dapingian age (Early and Middle Ordovician) in northeastern Estonia (Baltica). Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology, Brest, Note brève / Letter 2010/04 (CG2010_L04).

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., Feldman, H.R. and Krivicich, E.B. 2010. Bioerosion in an equatorial Middle Jurassic coral-sponge reef community (Callovian, Matmor Formation, southern Israel). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 289: 93-101.

Wilson, M.A., Krivicich, E.B., Avni, Y. and Goldberg, M. 2009. Addition to the top of the stratigraphic column of the Be'er Sheva Formation (Jurassic, Callovian-Oxfordian) in Hamakhtesh Hagadol, Israel. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 58: 81-85.

Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. 2012. Palaeoecology, preservation and taxonomy of encrusting ctenostome bryozoans inhabiting ammonite body chambers in the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale of Wyoming and South Dakota, USA. In: Ernst, A., Schäfer, P. and Scholz, J. (eds.) Bryozoan Studies 2010; Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 135: (in press).

Wilson, M.A., Yancey, T.E. and Vinn, O. 2011. A new microconchid tubeworm from the Lower Permian (Artinskian) of central Texas, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56: 785-791.

Wilson, M.A., Zaton, M. and Avni, Y. 2012. Origin, paleoecology and stratigraphic significance of bored and encrusted concretions from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) of southern Israel. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (DOI 10.1007/s12549-012-0082-8).

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.

Zaton, M., Kremer, B., Marynowski, L., Wilson, M.A. and Krawczynski, W. 2012. Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) encrusted oncoids from the Polish Jura, southern Poland. Facies 58: 57–77.

Zaton, M., Machocka, S., Wilson, M.A., Marynowski, L. and Taylor, P.D. 2011. Origin and paleoecology of Middle Jurassic hiatus concretions from Poland. Facies 57: 275-300.

Zaton, M., Wilson, M.A. and Zavar, E. 2011. Diverse sclerozoan assemblages encrusting large bivalve shells from the Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of southern Poland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 307: 232–244.

Zaton, M., Wilson, M.A. and Vinn, O. 2012. Redescription and neotype designation of the Middle Devonian microconchid (Tentaculita) species 'Spirorbis' angulatus Hall, 1861. Journal of Paleontology 86: 417-424.

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 37: 335-349.

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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