• The modern pattern of insect herbivory predates the advent of angiosperms by 60 My 

  Xiao, Lifang; Chen, Liang; Labandeira, Conrad C.; Azevedo-Schmidt, Lauren; Wang, Yongjie; Ren, Dong (2025)

  Modern ecosystems display complex associations of plants–insects that underwent a long evolutionary process since the appearance of mid-Paleozoic vascular plants. Although several major hypotheses explain the evolution of ...
• The History of Insect Parasitism and the Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution 

  Labandeira, Conrad C.; Li, Longfeng (Springer, 2021)

  Insect parasites and parasitoids are a major component of terrestrial food webs. For parasitoids, categorization is whether feeding activity is located inside or outside its host, if the host is immobilized or allowed to ...
• Taphonomy 

  Behrensmeyer, Anna K. (Academic Press, 2021)

  Taphonomy is the study of how organic remains pass from the biosphere to the lithosphere, and this includes processes affecting remains from the time of death of an organism (or the discard of shed parts) through decomposition, ...
• Introduction 

  Rützler, Klaus; Macintyre, Ian G. (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 1982)
• Foreword 

  Kier, Porter M. (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 1982)
• Palynofloral Change Through the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming 

  Korasidis, Vera A.; Wing, Scott L. (2023)

  To better understand the effect of the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on continental ecosystems, we studied 40 new palynological samples from the Bighorn Basin (BHB), northwestern Wyoming, USA. We see palm and ...
• Paleoecological Significance of Trace Fossils and Fossil Plants from a New Locality in the Upper Part of the Abo Formation (Lower Permian), Socorro County, New Mexico 

  Lucas, Spencer G.; DiMichele, William A.; Harris, Susan K.; May, Paul T.; Kerp, Hans (2023)

  A recently discovered tracksite in the Abo Formation in the Quebradas region of Socorro County is distinguished by unusually high ichnodiversity and exceptional preservation. This site, NMMNH (New Mexico Museum of Natural ...
• Two Early Permian Fossil Floras from the Arroyo De Alamillo Formation of the Yeso Group, Socorro County, New Mexico 

  DiMichele, William A.; Lucas, Spencer G.; Kerp, Hans; May, Paul T. (2023)

  We report fossil plants and traces from the Arroyo de Alamillo Formation of the Yeso Group, a lithologic succession of siltstone, sandstone, and minor dolostone and gypsum of early Permian (early Leonardian/late Artinskian) ...
• Paleobotany of the Corinth Coal Bed, Upper Pennsylvanian, Southern Illinois 

  DiMichele, William A.; Eble, Cortland F.; Nelson, W. John; Pfefferkorn, Hermann W.; Elrick, Scott D. (2023)

  The Corinth Coal bed is a recently recognized stratigraphic unit in the lower part of the Upper Pennsylvanian Patoka Formation of the Illinois Basin, located between the underlying Chapel Coal and overlying Womac Coal in ...
• Fossil Vegetational Transect from Below the Colchester Coal to the Roof of the Cardiff (Survant) Coal (Desmoinesian, Upper Middle Pennsylvanian), Illinois Basin 

  Calder, John H.; Nelson, W. John; Bashforth, Arden R.; Wittry, Jack; Elrick, Scott D.; DiMichele, William A. (2023)

  Four collections of Middle Pennsylvanian plant fossils create an opportunity to examine a transect from below the Colchester Coal through the roof shale of the Cardiff (Survant) Coal of the Illinois Basin. The collections ...
• Turtles of the Lee Creek Mine (Pliocene: North Carolina) 

  Zug, George R. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001)

  Eleven taxa of turtles have been recovered from the Lee Creek Mine: a sideneck turtle ( Bothremys)\ six seaturtles ( Caretta, IChelonia, Lepidochelys, Procolpochelys, Syllomus, and Psephophorus); two pond turtles (probably ...
• Pollen Analysis of the Peat Member from the Lee Creek Mine 

  Whitehead, Donald R. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983)

  A pollen analytical study of the peat horizon exposed in the Lee Creek phosphate mine indicates that it was deposited in a freshwater environment during interglacial time (probably Sangamon). The freshwater nature of the ...
• Remington Kellogg 1892-1969 

  Whitmore, Frank C. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983)
• <i>Balaena ricei</i>, a New Species of Bowhead Whale from the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Hampton, Virginia 

  Westgate, James W.; Whitmore, Frank C. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002)

  Fossil species of <i>Balaena</i> have previously been named on the basis of material from the Western Hemisphere, but all are founded upon undiagnostic material. The holotype of <i>B. ricei</i> new species consists of a ...
• The World’s Oldest Owl: A New Strigiform from the Paleocene of Southwestern Colorado 

  Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Bohaska, David J. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976)

  Among the fossils recovered from a small, mid-Paleocene fissure filling in southwestern Colorado is the oldest known owl, <i>Ogygoptynx wetmorei</i>, new genus and species. This form, represented by a single tarsometatarsus, ...
• The Neogene Sharks, Rays, and Bony Fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina 

  Purdy, Robert W.; Schneider, Vincent P.; Applegate, Shelton P.; McLellan, Jack H.; Meyer, Robert L.; Slaughter, Bob H. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001)

  The fish remains, including 104 species from 52 families, collected at the Lee Creek Mine near Aurora, Beaufort County, North Carolina, constitute the largest fossil marine fish assemblages known from the Coastal Plain of ...
• A New Pliocene Grebe from the Lee Creek Deposits 

  Storer, Robert W. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001)

  A new species of Podiceps (Aves: Podicipedidae) is described from the early Pliocene Lee Creek marine deposits in North Carolina. The holotype is a femur. Referred material includes entire or partial femora (7), tarsometatarsi ...
• The Pleistocene Pied-billed Grebes (Aves: Podicipedidae) 

  Storer, Robert W. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976)

  Pleistocene specimens of pied-billed grebes ( <i>Podilymbus</i>) were compared with a series of skeletons of the modern North American form, <i>Podilymbus podiceps podiceps</i>. Most of the fossils agreed closely with this ...
• Prodromus 

  Ray, Clayton E. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001)
• Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at the Lee Creek Mine 

  Ward, Lauck W.; Blackwelder, Blake W. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987)

  A molluscan fauna consisting of 194 species is described from the Chowan River (upper Pliocene) and James City (lower Pleistocene) formations at the Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina. These two formations are as much ...

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