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Library » Research Skills » Michaelmas Reading List - Core 3

Michaelmas Reading List - Core 3

Please note that if references are marked with an asterisk (*) , they have been highlighted by your lecturers as being particularly useful to you.

Book References

A search in the Library Catalogue - Newton - will give you the classmark and location in the Library for each book.

• Allen, P.A. (1997) Earth Surface Processes. Blackwell Science.
• Allen, J.R.L., (1985) Principles of Physical Sedimentology. Allen & Unwin.
• Berendsen, H.J.A., and Stouthamer, E., (2001), Palaeogeographic development of the Rhine-Meuse delta , The Netherlands. Koninklijke Van Gorcum, Assen. 268 pp.
• Boardman, R.S. Cheetham, A. H. & Rowell, A.J. (1987) Fossil Invertebrates. Blackwell Science, Cambridge, Mass.
• Briggs, D.E.G. & Crowther, P.R. (1990). Palaeobiology: a synthesis. Blackwell
• Scientific Publications.
• Briggs, D.E.G. & Crowther, P.R. (2001). Palaeobiology: a synthesis II. Blackwell
• Scientific Publications.
• Clarkson, E. N. K. (1998). Invertebrate palaeontology and evolution, 4 th ed. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Doyle, O. (1996). Understanding Fossils. An introduction to invertebrate Palaeontology. Wiley
• Dyer, K.R. (1986) Coastal and estuarine sediment dynamics. Wiley.
• Komar, P.D. (1998) 2 nd ed. Beach processes and sedimentation. Prentice Hall.
• *Leeder, M.R. (1999) Sedimentology and sedimentary basins : from turbulence to tectonics. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.
• McCave, I.N. (199). Transport and escape of fine-grained sediment from shelf areas. In, Shelf Sediment Transport Swift, D.J.P. et al. (eds), Dowden, Stroudsburg Pa, p.225-248.
• Milsom, C. & Rigby, S. (2004). Fossils at a glance. Blackwells, Oxford
• Pickering, K.T., et al., (1989) Deep-marine environments : clastic sedimentation and tectonics. Unwin Hyman.
• Pye, K., (1994) Sediment Transport and Depositional Processes. Blackwell.
• Savazzi, E. (1999). Functional morphology of the invertebrate skeleton. Wiley
• Wood, R. (1999). Reef evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Journal References

If available online the journal title will be hyperlinked to ABSTRACT LEVEL. You will have the option to download full-text or pdfs.

A number of these references will be available in the part II/III reprint collection housed in the Library Office. A full listing of what is in this collection is available on the Library website.

Reading for Nick M

Lectures 1 to 4

Nick McCave

• McCubbin,D.G. 1982. Barrier-island and strand-plain facies. AAPG Memoir 31, p.247-279. CamTools link
• Wright, L.D. & Short, A.D. 1984. Morphodynamic variability of surf zones and beaches : a synthesis. Marine Geol., 56: 93-118 CamTools link

Lecture Five

David Hodell

Lisitzin, A. P. (1996), Oceanic Sedimentation: Lithology and Geochemistry, 400 pp., AGU, Washington, D. C., doi:10.1029/SP044. The link is for CamTools

Kennett, J.P. (1982).  Marine Geology, Chapters 13-16, pp. 396-573, Prentice Hall 

New sediment classification scheme for the ocean drilling program by Jim Mazzullo, Audrey Meyer, and Robert Kidd - CamTools link

Lecture Six

David Hodell

Lecture Seven

David Hodell

Lecture Eight

David Hodell

LectureNine

E M Harper

Sponges

• *Botting, J. P. Butterfield, N.J. (2005). Reconstructing early sponge relationships by using the Burgess Shale fossil Eiffelia globosa, Walcott. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102: 1554-1559.
• *Kershaw, S. (1990). Stromatoporoid palaeobiology and taphonomy in a Silurian biostrome in Gotland, Sweden. Palaeontology, 33:681-706.
• Palmer, T.J., Fürsich, F.T. (1981). Ecology of sponge-reefs from the Upper Bathonian of Normandy, Palaeontology 24: 1-23.
• Rigby, K. (2005). Sponges. Encyclopaedia entry – ***available in library reprints
• Vacelet, J. 2006. New carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Poecilosclerida)
• collected from manned submersibles in the deep Pacific . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 148: 553-584.
• doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00234.x
• *Wood, R. (1999). Reef evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 414 pp. Chapter 3 – parts of
• Wood, R., Dickson, J.A.D,.,Kirkland-George, B.L. (1994). Turning the Capitan reef upside down: a new appraisal of the ecology of the Permian Capitan Reef, Guadalupe mountains, Texas and New Mexico. Palaios 9: 422-427.
• *Wood, R., Zhuravlev, A.Y., Debrenne, F. (1992). Functional biology and ecology of Archaeocyatha. Palaios 7: 131-156.

Lecture Ten

E M Harper

Corals

• *Chatterton, B. et al. 2008. Spicules in Silurian tabulate corals from Canada, and implications fro their affinities. Palaeontology 51: 173-198.
• Copper, P.(1985).Fossilized polyps in 430-Myr-old Favosites corals.316, 142 – 144
• Dixon, O.A. 2010. Fossilized polyp remains in Silurian Heliolites (Anthozoa, Tabulata) from Nunavut, Arctic Canada (pages 60–72) Lethaia 43: 60-70
• *Oliver, W.A. 1980.  The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals. Paleobiology 6: 146-160.
• *Oliver, W. A., Jr. and Coates, A. G. 1987. Phylum Cnidaria. In R. S. Boardman, A. H. Cheetham and A. J. Rowell (eds.), Fossil Invertebrates. Pp 140–193. Blackwell Science, Cambridge, Mass.
• Romano, S. L., and S. R. Palumbi. 1996. Evolution of scleractinian corals inferred from molecular systematics. Science, 271:640-642.
• Rosen, B. R. 1990. Coloniality. In D. E. G. Briggs and P. R. Crowther (eds), Palaeobiology, a synthesis. Pp. 330–335. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.
• Scrutton, C.R. 1997. The Paleozoic coral, I: origins and relationships. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 51: 177-208.
• *Scrutton, C.R. 1998. The Palaeozoic corals, II: structure, variation and palaeoecology. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 52: 1-57.
• *Scrutton, C.R. & Clarkson, E.N.K. (1991). A new scleractinians-like coral from the Ordovician of the Southern Uplands, Scotland. Palaeontology34: 179-194
• *Stanley, G.D & Swart, P.K. (1995). Evolution of the coral-zooxanthellae symbiosis during the Triassic: a geochemical approach. Paleobiology, 21: 179-199.
• Stanley, G. D. (2003). "The evolution of modern corals and their early history." Earth Sciences Reviews60: 195-225.
• Stolarski, J. et al.( 2007). A Cretaceous Scleractinian coral with a calcitic skeleton. Science318: 92-94.
• *Wood, R. 1999. Reef evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 414 pp

Lecture Eleven

E M Harper

Bryozoans

• Cheetham, A.H. (1986). Tempo of evolution in a Neogene bryozoan: rates of morphologic change within and across species boundaries. Paleobiology 12: 190-202.
• Knowles, T.et al. (2009).  Plioecne seasonality across the North Atlantic inferred from cheilostome bryozoans.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 277: 226-235
• *Fuchs, J. Obst, M & Sundberg, P. (2009) .  The first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) based on combined analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial genes.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,  52:  225-233.
• McKinney, F.K. & Jackson, J. (1989). Bryozoan Evolution. Unwin Hyman.
• McKinney, F.K. (1992). Competitive interactions between related clades: evolutionary implications of overgrowth interactions between encrusting cyclostome and cheilostome bryozoans. Marine Biology 114: 645-652. ***available in library reprints
• *McKinney, F.K (1995). One hundred million years of competitive interactions between bryozoans clades: asymmetrical but not escalating. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 56: 465-481. ***available in library reprint
• *Taylor, P.D (1990). Preservation of soft-bodied and other organisms by bioimmuration. Palaeontology 33: 1-18.
• Taylor, P.D. (1999) Bryozoa. In: Savazzi, E. (Ed.) Functional morphology of the invertebrate skeleton, pp 623-646.
• *Taylor, P.D. (2005) Bryozoans Encyclopaedia entry. 310-320. ***available in library reprints
• Taylor, P.D. & Allison, P.A. (1998) Bryozoan carbonates in space and time, . Geology 26: 459-462.
• Taylor, P. D. and A. Ernst (2008). Bryozoans in transition: the depauperate and patchy Jurassic biota. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 263: 9-23.
• Taylor, P. D., et al . (2009). Evolving mineralogy of cheilostome bryozoans. Palaios 24: 440-452.
• Natural History Museum research project - Bryozoan skeletons:from crystallites to limestones

Lecture Twelve

E M Harper

Graptolites

• Crowther, P. R. (1981). The fine structure of graptolite periderm. Special Papers in Palaeontology 26.
• *Durman, P.N. & Sennikov, N.K. (1993). A new rhabdopleurid hemichordate from the Middle Cambrian of Siberia. Palaeontology 36: 283-296.
• Fortey, R.A. & Cooper, R.A. (1986). A phylogenetic classification of the graptoloids. Palaeontology 29: 631-654.
• Kirk, N. (1990). Juvenile sessility, vertical automobility, and passive lateral transport as factors in graptoloid evolution. Modern Geology, 14: 153-187.** a bit of a rant but useful to see alternative view
• Palmer, D.C. & Rickards, R.B. (1991). Graptolites: writing in the rocks. Boydell Press.
• Rickards, R.B. (1995). Utility and precision of Silurian graptolite biozones. Lethaia 28:129-137.
• Rickards, R.B. (2005). Graptolites encyclopeadia entry. ** available in library reprints.
• *Rickards B., Rig by, S., Rickards, J. & Swales, C. (1998). Fluid dynamics of the graptolite rhabdosome recorded by laser dopler anemometry. Palaeontology 41: 737-52.
• Rigby, S. & Dilly, N. (1993). Growth rates of pterobranchs and the lifespan of graptolites. Paleobiology 19: 459-475.
• Rigby, S & Rickards, B. (1989). New evidence for the life habit of graptoloids from physical modelling. Paleobiology 15: 402-413.
• Rigby , S. (1994). Hemichordate skeletal growth: shared patterns in Rhabdopleura and graptoloids. Lethaia 27: 317-324.
• Sato, A et al (2008) The origins of graptolites and other pterobranchs: a journey from’Polyzoa’.  Lethaia 41:  303-316.
• Underwood, C.J. (1993). The position of graptolites within Lower Palaeozoic planktic ecosystems. Lethaia 26: 189-202.

Lecture Thirteen

E M Harper

Evolution of Reef Communities

• *Oates, A.G. & Jackson, J.B.C. (1987). Clonal growth, algal symbiosis, and reef formation by corals. Palebiology, 13: 363-378.
• *Rosen, B. R. 1990. Reefs and carbonate build-ups. In D. E. G. Briggs and P. R. Crowther (eds), Palaeobiology, a synthesis. Pp. 341–346. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.
• *Stanley, G.D. & Swart, P.K. (1995) Evolution of the coral-zzoxanthellae symbiosis during the Triassic: a geochemical approach. Paleobiology, 21: 179-199.
• *Wood, R. 1999. Reef evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 414 pp.
• Wood, R.A., Grotzinger, J.P. & Dickson, J.A.D. (2002). Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoans from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science, 296. no. 2383 – 2386. doi:10.1126/science.1071599

Lecture Fourteen

E M Harper

Forams

• Armstrong, H.A. & Brasier, M.D. (2005). Microfossils. Chapter 15 Foraminfera,. ** This chapter provides an excellent up to date of the topic, It has an extensive reference list which you may want to dip into.
• Hallock, P. (1985). Why are larger foraminifera large? Paleobiology11: 195-205.
• Purton, L.M.A. & Brasier, M.D. (1999). Giant protest nummulites and its Eocene environment: life span and habitat insights from δ 18O and δ 13C data from Nummulites and Venericardia, Hampshire basin, UK. Geology 27: 711-714.

Lecture Fifteen

E M Harper

Echinoderms

• Cowen, R. (1981). Crinoid arms and banana plantations: an economic harvesting analogy.Paleobiology, 7: 332-343.
• Donovan, S.K. & Gale, A.S. (1990). Predatory asteroids and the decline of the articulate brachiopods. Lethaia 23: 77-86.
• Herringshaw, L.G., Smith, M.P. & Thomas, A.T. 2007. Evolutionary and ecological significance of Lepidaster grayi, the earliest multiradiate starfish. Zoologiocal Journal of the Linnean Society, 150: 743-754. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00299.x
• Hess, H. et al. (1999). Fossil Crinoids. CUP.
• Jeffereies, R.P.S. (1990). The solute Dendrocystites scoticus from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland and the ancestry of chordates and echinoderms. Palaeontology 33: 631-80.
• Kammer, T. W. and W. I. Ausich (2006). "The 'age of crinoids': a Mississippian biodiversity spike coincident with widespread carbonate ramps."Palaios21: 238-248.
• Kier, P.M. (1982) Rapid evolution in echinoids. Palaeontology 25:1-9.
• ***Simms, M.J. (2005) Crinoids ***** available in library reprints
• Smith, A.B, (1984). Echinoid palaeobiology . London: Allen & Unwin.
• **Smith, A.B. Echinoderms (other than echinoids. (2005). Encyclopaedia entry. ** available in library reprints.
• **Smith, A.B. (2005). Echinoids. ** available in library reprints
• Sprinkle J. & Guensburg, T.E. (1995). Origin of echinoderms in the Paleozoic evolutionary fauna: the role of substrates.Palaios 10: 437-453.

Lecture Sixteen

E M Harper

Arthropods and Focus on Trilobite Palaeontology

• Armstrong, H.A. & Brasier, M.D. (2005). Microfossils. Chapter 20. Ostracods.
• Anderson, L. (2005) Arthropods. Encyclopaedia entry *** available in library reprints
• Briggs, D.E.G., Rolfe, W.D.I. & Brannan, J. (1979). A giant myriapod trail from the Namurian of Arran. Palaeontology, 22: 273-91.
• Fortey, R.A. (2000). Trilobite! Eyewitness to evolution. London: Harper Collins.
• *Fortey, R.A. & Owen, R.M. (1999). Feeding habits in trilobites. Palaeontology, 42, p. 429 -
• *Fortey, R.A. (2000) Olenid trilobites: the oldest known chemautotrophic symbionts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U97: 6574-6578.
• Henwood, A.A. (1992). Exceptional preservation of dipteran flight musecle and the taphonomy of insects in amber. Palaios7: 203-212.
• Jensen, S. (1990). Predation by early Cambrian trilobites on infaunal worms. Lethaia 23: 29-42.
• *Rushton, A,H. (2005) Trilobites. Encylopaedia entry *** available in library reprints
• Sheldon, P.R. (1988). Trilobite size-frequency distributions, recognition of instars, and phyletic size change. Lethaia, 21, 293-306.
• Whittington, H.B. (1980). Exoskeleton, moult stage, appendage morphology and habits of the Middle Cambrian trilobite Olenoides serratus. Palaeontology 23: 171-204.

• Whittington, H.B. (1981). Paedomorphosis and cryptogenesis in trilobites. Geol. Mag. 116, 591-602.
• *Whittington, H.B. (1992). Trilobites. The Boydell Press
• Whittington, H.B. et al. (1999). Trilobita. Treatise on Invertebrates Paleontology, PtO, Arthropoda 1, Trilobita, Revised. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. (B09 300 01. 1A) – to be dipped into!

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