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Mark A. Wilson Lewis M. and Marian Senter Nixon Professor of Natural Sciences Department of Geology The College of Wooster Wooster, Ohio 44691 E-mail: mwilson@wooster.edu EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Paleontology from the University
of California, Berkeley (1982)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Professor, Department of Geology, The College of Wooster. Teaching
responsibilities currently include Invertebrate
Paleontology, History of Life,
Evolution, Processes
& Concepts of Geology, Sedimentology
& Stratigraphy, Desert
Geology, and First-Year
Seminar courses; several Independent
Study field and laboratory projects are directed each year. 1993
- present.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: Chair, Department of Geology, The College of Wooster. 1988-1998,
2000-2001, 2002-2005.
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Present
Research: Evolutionary paleoecology of marine encrusting and
boring faunas; systematics and evolution of encrusting bryozoans, foraminiferans
and brachiopods; development and early diagenesis of marine carbonate
rocks, especially hardgrounds; calcite sea diagenesis and evolutionary dynamics; Pleistocene sea level dynamics and carbonate shores. Advisory Board: GSA Today, 2001-present. Program Coordinator and Member of Council: The Paleontological Society,
2000-2006.
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS: National Science Foundation
Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant, 1995-1997.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
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JOURNAL ARTICLES: 2008. Wilson, M.A., Feldman, H.R., Bowen, J.C.* and Avni, Y. A new equatorial, very shallow marine sclerozoan fauna from the Middle Jurassic (late Callovian) of southern Israel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (in press). 2007. Ernst, A., Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Ordovician bryozoans from the Kanosh Formation (Whiterockian) of Utah, USA. Journal of Paleontology 81: 998-1008. 2007. McLaughlin, P.I*, Brett, C.E. and Wilson, M.A. Hierarchy of sedimentary discontinuity surfaces and condensed beds: Implications for sequence stratigraphy on the craton. Dynamics of Epeiric Seas: Sedimentological, Paleontological, and Geochemical Perspectives; Geological Association of Canada Special Volume (in press). 2006. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Patterns and processes in the Ordovician Bioerosion Revolution. Ichnos 13: 109-112. 2006. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. Predatory drillholes and partial mortality in Devonian colonial metazoans. Geology 34: 565-568. 2005. Wilson, M.A., Wolfe, K.R.* and Avni, Y. Development of a Jurassic rocky shore complex (Zohar Formation, Makhtesh Qatan, southern Israel). Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 54: 171-178. 2004. Palmer, T.J. and Wilson, M.A. Calcite precipitation and dissolution of biogenic aragonite in shallow Ordovician calcite seas. Lethaia 37: 417-427. 2003. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities. Earth-Science Reviews 62: 1-103. 2002. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. A new terminology for marine organisms inhabiting hard substrates. Palaios 17: 522-525. 2001. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Domiciles, not predatory borings: a simpler explanation of the holes in Ordovician shells analyzed by Kaplan and Baumiller, 2000. Palaios 16: 524-525. 2001. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. Palaeoecology of hard substrate faunas from the Cretaceous Qahlah Formation of the Oman Mountains. Palaeontology 44: 21-41. 2000. Wilson, M.A. and Rigby, J.K. Asteriacites lumbricalis von Schlotheim 1820: ophiuroid trace fossils from the Lower Triassic Thaynes Formation, central Utah. Ichnos 7: 43-49. 1999. Baker, P.G. and Wilson, M.A. The first thecideide brachiopod from the Jurassic of North America. Palaeontology 42: 887-895. 1999. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Middle Jurassic bryozoans from the Carmel Formation of southwestern Utah. Journal of Paleontology 73: 816-830. 1999. Taylor, P.D., Wilson, M.A. and Bromley, R.G. Leptichnus, a new ichnogenus for etchings made by cheilostome bryozoans into calcareous substrates. Palaeontology 42: 595-604. 1999. Dornbos, S.Q.* and Wilson, M.A. Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral reef in Cyprus: Recovery of a marine community from the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 213: 103-118. 1999. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Dianulites: an unusual Ordovician bryozoan with a high-magnesium calcite skeleton. Journal of Paleontology 73: 38-48. 1998. White, B.H., Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. Bahamian coral reefs yield evidence of a brief sea-level lowstand during the last interglacial: Reply. Carbonates and Evaporites 13: 231-234. 1998. Wilson, M.A., Curran, H.A. and White, B. Paleontological evidence of a brief global sea-level event during the last interglacial. Lethaia 31: 241-250. 1998. Wilson, M.A. Succession in a Jurassic marine cavity community and the evolution of cryptic marine faunas. Geology 26: 379-381. 1998. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. The earliest Gastrochaenolites (Early Pennsylvanian, Arkansas, USA): an Upper Paleozoic bivalve boring? Journal of Paleontology 72: 769-772. 1998. Wilson, M.A., Ozanne, C.R.* and Palmer, T.J. Origin and paleoecology of free-rolling oyster accumulations (ostreoliths) in the Middle Jurassic of southwestern Utah, USA. Palaios 13: 70-78. 1998. White, B.H., Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. Bahamian coral reefs yield evidence of a brief sea-level lowstand during the last interglacial. Carbonates and Evaporites 13: 10-22. 1995. Smith, A.B. and Wilson, M.A. A new cyclocystoid (Echinodermata) from the Late Ordovician of Kentucky, USA. Journal of Paleontology 69: 1186-1187. 1995. Noble, R.S.*, Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological analyses of a Pleistocene mollusc-rich lagoonal facies, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 300: 91-103. 1994. Wilson, M.A., Palmer, T.J. and Taylor, P.D. Earliest preservation of soft-bodied fossils by epibiont bioimmuration: Upper Ordovician of Kentucky. Lethaia 27: 269-270. 1994. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. A carbonate hardground in the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic, SW Utah, USA) and its associated encrusters, borers and nestlers. Ichnos 3: 79-87. 1994. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Corynotrypa from the Ordovician of North America: colony growth in a primitive stenolaemate bryozoan. Journal of Paleontology 68: 241-257. 1993. Mitchell, C.E., Wilson, M.A. and St. John, J.M.* In situ crustoid colonies (Graptolithina) from an Upper Ordovician hardground, southwestern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 67: 1011-1016. 1992. Wilson, M.A., Palmer, T.J., Guensburg, T.E., Finton, C.D.* and Kaufman, L.E.* The development of an Early Ordovician hardground community in response to rapid sea-floor calcite precipitation. Lethaia 25: 19-34. 1990. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. A review of evolutionary trends in carbonate hardground communities. In: Miller, W. III (ed.), Paleocommunity temporal dynamics: The long-term development of multispecies assemblies. The Paleontological Society Special Publication 5: 137-152. 1990. Palmer, T.J. and Wilson, M.A. Growth of ferruginous oncoliths in the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of Europe. Terra Nova 2: 142-147. 1989. Bodenbender, B.E.*, Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Paleoecology of Sphenothallus on an Upper Ordovician hardground. Lethaia 22: 217-225. 1988. Palmer, T.J., Hudson, J.D. and Wilson, M.A. Palaeoecological evidence for early aragonite dissolution in ancient calcite seas. Nature 335: 809-810. 1988. Palmer, T.J. and Wilson, M.A. Parasitism of Ordovician bryozoans and the origin of pseudoborings. Palaeontology 31: 939-949. 1988. Wilson, M.A. Ecological succession on cobble substrates: a reply. Journal of Paleontology 62: 313. 1988. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Nomenclature of a bivalve boring from the Upper Ordovician of the midwestern United States. Journal of Paleontology 62: 306-308. 1987. Wilson, M.A. Ecological dynamics on pebbles, cobbles and boulders. Palaios 2: 594-599. 1987. Kammer, T.W., Tissue, E.C.*, and Wilson, M.A. Neoisorophusella, a new edrioasteroid genus from the Upper Mississippian of the eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 61: 1033-1042. 1986a. Wilson, M.A. New adherent foraminiferans from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of south-central England. Journal of Micropalaeontology 5: 1-18. 1986b. Wilson, M.A. Coelobites and spatial refuges in a Lower Cretaceous cobble-dwelling hardground fauna. Palaeontology 29: 691-703. 1985a. Wilson, M.A. Disturbance and ecologic succession in an Upper Ordovician cobble-dwelling hardground fauna. Science 228: 575-577. 1985b. Wilson, M.A. A taxonomic diversity measure for encrusting organisms. Lethaia 18: 166. 1985c. Wilson, M.A. Conodont biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments at the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary (Carboniferous: Namurian) in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 14: 69-80. 1982. Wilson, M.A. Origin of brachiopod-bryozoan assemblages in an Upper Carboniferous limestone: importance of physical and ecological controls. Lethaia 15: 263-273. 1979. Wilson, M.A. A new species of the trilobite Brachymetopus from the Cuyahoga Formation (Lower Mississippian) of northeastern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 53: 221-223.
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS: 2008. Wilson, M.A. An online bibliography of bioerosion references, p. xxx-xxx. In: Wisshax, M. and Tapanila, L. (eds.), Current developments in bioerosion. Erlangen Earth Conference Series (in press). 2007. Curran, H.A., Wilson, M.A. and Mylroie, J.E. 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. 2007. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Morphology and affinities of hederelloid “bryozoans”, p. xxx-xxx. International Bryozoology Association Conference; Boone, North Carolina (in press). 2007. Wilson, M.A. Macroborings and the evolution of bioerosion, p. 356-367. In: Miller, W. III (ed.), Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems, Prospects. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 611 pages. 2006. Wilson, M.A. 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. 2004. Curran, H.A., Mylroie, J.E., Gamble, D.W., Wilson, M.A., Davis, L.R., Sealy, N.E. and Voegeli, V.J. Geology of Long Island, Bahamas: A Field Trip Guide. 12th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions. Gerace Research Center. San Salvador, Bahamas. 2004. Wilson, M.A. Cornulitids, coleoloids and sphenothallids, p. 218-220. In: Webby, B.D., Paris, F. and Droser, M. (eds.), The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Columbia University Press, New York, 484 pages. 2001. White, B.H., Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. A sea-level lowstand (Devil's Point Event) recorded in Bahamian reefs: comparison with other Last Interglacial climate proxies; In: Greenstein, B.J. and Carney, C., (editors), Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas: Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador Island, p. 109-128. 1997. White, B.H., Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. Bahamian Sangamonian coral reefs and sea-level change. Eighth Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, San Salvador Island, Bahamas, Proceedings Volume, p. 196-213. 1997. Wilson, M.A. Trace fossils, hardgrounds and ostreoliths in the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic) of southwestern Utah. Geological Society of America 1997 Annual Meeting Fieldtrip Guidebook, BYU Geology Studies 42, part II, pages 6-9. 1997. Wilson, M.A. Pleistocene and Recent borings in lithologic substrates on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas, p. 41-46. In: Curran, H. A. (ed.), Guide to Bahamian Ichnology: Pleistocene, Holocene, and Modern Environments. Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador, Bahamas. 1996. Anstey, R.L. and Wilson, M.A. Chapter 15, Phylum Bryozoa, p. 196-209. In: Feldmann, R.M. and Hackathorn, M.(eds.), Fossils of Ohio. Ohio Division of Geological Survey, Bulletin 70. 1996. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Cuffeyella, a new bryozoan genus from the Late Ordovician of North America, and its bearing on the origin of the post-Paleozoic cyclostomates, p. 351-360. In: Gordon, D.P., A.M. Smith and J.A. Grant-Mackie (eds.), Bryozoans in Space and Time. Proceedings of the 10th International Bryozoology Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 1995. National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd, Wellington, 442 pages. 1992. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Hardgrounds and Hardground Faunas. University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Institute of Earth Studies Publications 9: 1-131. 1989. Wilson, M.A. Enlarging latex molds and casts. In: Feldmann, R.M., Chapman, R.E. and Hannibal, J.T. (eds.), Paleotechniques. The Paleontological Society Special Publication 4: 282-283. 1989. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Preparation of acetate peels. In: Feldmann, R.M., Chapman, R.E. and Hannibal, J.T. (eds.), Paleotechniques. The Paleontological Society Special Publication 4: 142-145.
REVIEWS, MAGAZINE ARTICLES AND OTHERS: 2008. Wilson, M.A. Review of Teaching about scientific origins: taking account of creationism by Jones, L.S. and Reiss, M.J., editors (2007. Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, Vol. 277. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York) published in Teachers College Record (Journal of the Teachers College at Columbia University), February 11, 2008, article ID number 14989. 2007. Wilson, M.A. Unraveling time: A review of A Natural History of Time (Pascal Richet, University of Chicago Press, 2007). American Paleontologist 15: 34-35. 2007. Wilson, M.A. Review of Frank K. McKinney's The northern Adriatic ecosystem: Deep time in a shallow sea. Newsletter of the Paleontological Association 65: 126-128. 2007. Wilson, M.A. Trypanites. In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th edition, vol. 18, p. 668-669. 2005. Wilson, M.A. This is not your father’s creationism: A review of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, Oxford University Press, 2004). Geotimes (July 2005). 2002. Wilson, M.A. 'Geology confronts creationism': An undergraduate science curriculum. Skeptical Inquirer 26: 52-53. 2002. Wilson, M.A. Our origins of scientific thought. Wooster, Fall 2002: 14-16. 2002. Williams, T.R. and Wilson, M.A. Science literacy: Making sense of our world. Wooster, Fall 2002: 11. 1999. Wilson, M.A. Review of H. L Levin's Ancient Invertebrates and Their Living Relatives. GSA Today 9: 24. 1995 - Present. Numerous short reviews of geological and other earth science books in the library journal American Reference Books Annual. 1993 - Present. Numerous short reviews of geological and other earth science books in the library journal CHOICE. 1992. Wilson, M.A. Review of R. Goldring's Fossils in the Field. Palaios 7: 329-330. 1980. Chiment, J. J., Foster, D.E., McLeod, S.A., Nesbitt, E.A. and Wilson, M.A. (editors). PaleoBios: Issues 1-28, 1967-1978. C.J. Graphics, Inc., Berkeley, California, 450 pages.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS (peridodically updated): Bibliography of Marine Bioerosion Marine Hard Substrates Bibliography
INVITED PAPERS: 2005. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. How bioerosion and seawater geochemical cycles have made and destroyed marine sclerobiont niches. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 37(7): 403. 2004. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Marine hard substrate communities through time: patterns and processes. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(5): 110. 2004. Wilson, M.A., Palmer, T.J., House, A.*, and Shields, A*. Systematic patterns and ecological processes in the bioerosion of Paleozoic marine hard substrates. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(5): 110. 2004. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Patterns and processes in the Ordovician Bioerosion Revolution. Fourth International Bioerosion Workshop (Prague). 2003. Wilson, M.A. Hard substrate communities and the wonders of taphonomy. Reunión Annual de Communicationes de la Associacion Paleontólogica Argentina and the Simposio Tafonomía y Paleoecología; Ameghiniana 40 (supplement 4): 109. 2000. Wilson, M.A. The history and geological importance of marine bioerosion in the Phanerozoic. Eos, American Geophysical Union, Spring 2000 Meeting Abstracts 81(19): S88. 2000. Wilson, M.A. and Lazzuri, J.E.* Paleoecology of borings and pseudoborings in the Cincinnatian (Late Ordovician) of the North American midcontinent. North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 32(4): A68. 1998. Wilson, M.A. Paleoecology of a Middle Jurassic cavity community: ecological succession and the development of cryptic marine faunas. North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 30(2): 78-79. 1997. Wilson, M.A. Pleistocene bioerosion and sea-level changes in the Bahamas. Fourth International Ichnofabric Workshop, San Salvador Island, The Bahamas. [Abstract] 1991. Noble, R.S.*, Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological analyses of a Pleistocene lagoonal, mollusk-rich facies, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Symposium: "Terrestrial and Shallow Marine Geology, Bahamas and Bermuda". Northeastern & Southeastern Section Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs 23(1): 109. 1988. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. The evolution of marine communities on inorganic hard substrates. Symposium: "Paleocommunity temporal dynamics". Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Annual Midyear Meeting (Columbus, Ohio), volume V: 59. 1988. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Parasitism of Ordovician bryozoans and the origin of pseudoborings. Symposium: "Epibionts on Paleozoic fossils". Northeastern Section Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs 20(1): 79. 1986. Wilson, M.A. Physical disturbance and hardground communities. Symposium: "Physical disturbance: impact on modern and ancient benthic faunas". Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Annual Midyear Meeting (Raleigh, North Carolina), volume III: 117. 1986. Wilson, M.A. Ecologic dynamics on pebbles, cobbles and boulders. Symposium: "Paleoecology and evolution of hard substrata communities". North American Paleontology Convention IV (Boulder, Colorado), Abstracts with Programs 4: A50.
ABSTRACTS: 2007. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. Affinities of the enigmatic hederelloids: phoronid worms rather than bryozoans or corals? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39(6): 90. 2007. Wilson, M.A. and Milligan, A.J.* Cystoid preservation in the Kukruse Oil Shales (Upper Ordovician, Caradoc) of northern Estonia shows rapid early sea floor calcite cementation and post-mortem encrustation of internal molds. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting; Uppsala, Sweden, p. 61. 2007. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Were hederelloids horseshoe worms? Expanding the diversity of the minor phylum Phoronida. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting; Uppsala, Sweden, p. 57. 2007. Zavar, E.M.*, Wilson, M.A., and Krobicki, M. Ecological succession in cryptic sclerobiont communities from the Callovian (Middle Jurassic) near Kraków, Poland. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39(6): 404. 2007. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Morphology and affinities of hederelloid ‘bryozoans’. In: Hageman, S.J. and McKinney, F.K. (eds.). Abstracts with Program, 14th Meeting of the International Bryozoology Association, Boone, North Carolina, 2007, p. 78. 2006. Bowen, J.C.*, Wilson, M.A., Avni, Y. and Feldman, H.R. A shallow-water microsolenid community from the Jurassic (Callovian) of southern Israel. North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38(4): 75. 2006. Clites, E.C.*, Palmer, T.J. and Wilson, M.A. Paleoenvironmental analysis of thrombolites in the basal Purbeck Formation (Upper Jurassic of southern England). North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38(4): 15. 2006. Curran, H.A., Wilson, M.A. and Mylroie, J.E. Fossil palm frond and tree trunk molds: implications for interpretation of Bahamian Quaternary carbonates. 13th Bahamas Geology Symposium Volume, San Salvador, Bahamas, p. 10. 2006. Feldman, H.R., Boucot, A.J., Smoliga, J., and Wilson, M.A. A brachiopod faunule from the Ordovician Martinsburg Shale, Shawangunk Mountains, New York. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38(7): 436. 2006. Tapanila, L. and Wilson, M.A. The Paleozoic hard substrate invasion. Fifth International Bioerosion Workshop (Erlangen, Germany). 2006. Umstead, M.A.*, Wilson, M.A., and Palmer, T.J. Using epoxy casting to investigate microborings in ancient hard substrate communities. North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38(4): 76. 2006. Wilson, M.A., Dennison-Budak, W.C.* and Bowen, J.C.* Half-borings and missing encrusters on brachiopods in the Upper Ordovician: Implications for paleoecological analysis of sclerobionts. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38(7): 514. 2006. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. Predatory borings provide new insights on the paleoecology and systematic placement of hederellids, common encrusters in the Devonian of Ohio. North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38(4): 13. 2006. Yancey, T. and Wilson, M. Alatoform edgewise reclining bivalves appear early in the Triassic, in Malchus, N. and Pons, J.M., eds., Scientific Program and Abstracts, International Congress on Bivalvia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain, p. 79-80. 2005. Feldman, H.R., Wilson, M.A., Rosenfeld, A., Bram, J., Sved, T., and Serel, M.J. A marine faunal assemblage from the Jurassic (Callovian) Ethiopian Province of southern Israel. Northeastern Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 37(1): 82. 2005. McLaughlin, P.I.*, Brett, C.E. and Wilson, M.A. A hierarchical model of discontinuity surfaces: contributions from analysis of Upper Ordovician strata of eastern North America. Second International Symposium of IGCP Project 503 "Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate"; June 15-18, 2005. 2004. Feldman, H.R., Rosenfeld, A., Honigstein, A. and Wilson, M.A. Callovian-Oxfordian biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of northern Sinai and Israel. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(5): 363. 2004. Wilson, M.A., Wolfe, K.R.*, Mione, A.C.* and Avni, Y. From soft sediment to rocky shore: trace fossils record the development of a channeled rockground in carbonates of the Middle Jurassic in southern Israel. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(5): 379. 2003. Conroy, J.L.*, Patterson, W.P. and Wilson, M.A. A high resolution Holocene paleoclimate record from western Ireland: Evidence from population, biometric and stable isotope values of freshwater mollusks. Northeastern Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 35(3): 71. 2003. Nicholson, K.A.* and Wilson, M.A. Paleoecology of an Upper Jurassic cryptic community inhabiting empty mollusk shells (Portland Limestone of southern England). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 35(6): 420. 2003. Wilson, M.A. Paleoecology of a tropical Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) skeletozoan community in the Negev Desert of southern Israel. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 35(6): 420. 2003. Wilson, M.A., Nicholson, K.A.*, and Palmer, T.J. Studying the naturally-exposed attachment surfaces of fossil encrusters (skeletozoans): a simple acetate peel technique reveals growth histories and surface paleoecology. Northeastern Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 35(3): 85. 2002. Austin, S.E.*, Hall, J.M.*, Martin, A.S.* and Wilson, M.A. Paleoecology and sedimentology of the Falmouth Formation (Eemian, Jamaica): evidence for sea-level changes during the Last Interglacial. North-Central and Southeastern Sections, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 34(2): A96-A97. [Received Best Student Paper award.] 2002. Conroy, J.L.*, Wilson, M.A. and Tang, C.M. Bored and encrusted carbonate cobbles and hardgrounds at the base of a regressive sequence (Lower Sundance Formation, Middle Jurassic, eastern Wyoming). North-Central and Southeastern Sections, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 34(2): A95. 2002. Nicholson, K.A.* and Wilson, M.A. Paleoecology of an ancient shell-encrusting community: observations from "upside-down" encrusters in external and internal molds (Upper Jurassic of southern England). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 34(6): 357. 2002. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. A new classification system for describing marine organisms inhabiting hard substrates (sclerobionts) . Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 34(6): 34. 2001. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. The Ordovician Bioerosion Revolution. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 33(6): A248. 2001. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. "Pseudobryozoans" and the problem of encruster diversity in the Paleozoic. North American Paleontological Convention 2001 (Berkeley, California); PaleoBios 21 (2, supplement): 134-135. 2000. Cornett, A.M.* and Wilson, M.A. Paleontological and isotopic features of an unusual sea level event recorded in fossil coral reefs of the Bahamas (Substage 5e, Eemian, Sangamonian, Pleistocene). North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 32(4): A9. 2000. Curran, H.A., Greer, L., Cormier, E.C.* and Wilson, M.A. Stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Mid-Holocene fringing reef sequence, Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic. Tenth Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, Proceedings Volume: 11. 2000. Hooker, M.F.*, Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. Paleoenvironments of the Simsima Formation (Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous), Oman Mountains, Arabian Peninsula. North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 32(4): A17. 2000. White, B., Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. The Devil's Point Event: Global manifestations in records of the Last Interglacial. Tenth Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, Proceedings Volume: 26-27. 2000. Wilson, M.A., Curran, H.A. and Greer, L. Rocky shore bioerosion and encrustation as a key to assessing sea-level change: an example from an emergent mid-Holocene limestone coast, Lago Enriquillo, the Dominican Republic. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 32(7): A96. 1999. Lazzuri, J.E.*, Fischer, W.W.*, Wilson, M.A. and Tang, C.M. Bioimmuration as a key to paleoecology on shell substrates and early aragonite dissolution in a calcite sea (Upper Ordovician, Cincinnati region, USA). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 31(7): 465. 1999. Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. Rocks and other hard places: hard substrate palaeoecology in the Upper Cretaceous of the Oman Mountains. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Abstracts 1999: 36-37. 1999. Trubee, K.J.* and Wilson, M.A. Acrothoracican barnacle borings in the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic, southwestern Utah, USA) and what they reveal about bivalve life modes and early diagenesis. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 31(5): 76. 1999. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. Carbonate hardgrounds and their faunas in a coarse siliciclastic environment: the Qahlah Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of the Oman Mountains. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 31(7): 105. 1998. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. New data on hard substrate communities in the Middle Jurassic of SW Utah, USA: faunal diversity in the Western Interior Seaway. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 30(6): 39. 1998. Bannister, K.*, Spencer, P. and Wilson, M. Sedimentation, stratigraphy, and paleoenvironments of the lower members of the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic, southwestern Utah). Rocky Mountain Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs 30(6): 3. 1998. Charette, E.K.*, Wilson, M.A. and Hanger, R.A. Taphonomy and paleoecology of a Middle Jurassic marine invertebrate fossil assemblage, Carmel Formation, southwest Utah. Southeastern Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 30(4): 7. 1998. Kilbourne, K.H.*, Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. Ichnocoenoses and paleoenvironments of the Middle Jurassic Carmel-Twin Creek Seaway (Carmel Formation, southwestern Utah). SEPM-AAPG Annual Meeting Expanded Abstracts. 1998. St. John, J.M.* and Wilson, M.A. The enigmatic encruster Chaunograptus from the Richmond Stage of the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician) of southwestern Ohio and southeastern Indiana. North-Central Section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 30(2): 72. 1997. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. The earliest Gastrochaenolites (Early Pennsylvanian of Arkansas, USA) and the origin of the bivalve macroboring habit. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 29(6): 107. 1997. Dornbos, S.D.*, Wilson, M.A., Avery, E.A.*, and Givens, L.E.* Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral reef in Cyprus: recovery of a marine community from the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 29(6): 108. 1997. White, B.H., Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. Last interglacial sea-level fluctuations recorded in Bahamian coral reefs: stratigraphy and chronology. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 29(6): 340. 1996. Wilson, M.A. and Taylor, P.D. Ordovician bioimmurations and skeletalization of hard substratum communities through geological time. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 28(7): 290-291. 1996. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Paleoecological, evolutionary and taphonomic effects of seawater chemistry in Paleozoic and Mesozoic calcite seas. Sixth North American Paleontology Convention Abstracts of Papers (Washington, D.C.), Babcock, L.E. and Ausich, W.I., eds., The Paleontological Society Special Publication 8: 424. 1996. White, B.H., Curran, H.A. and Wilson, M.A. Bahamian Sangamonian coral reefs and sea-level change. Eighth Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, San Salvador Island, Bahamas, Abstracts and Program: 15. 1995. Wilson, M.A., Palmer, T.J. and Ozanne, C.R.* Paleoecology and paleoenvironmental significance of free-rolling oyster accumulations (ostreoliths) in the Middle Jurassic of southwestern Utah, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 27(6): 167. 1995. Palmer T.J. and Wilson, M.A. Early aragonite dissolution fabrics and sea-floor lithification on shallow Ordovician sea-floors. Abstracts, 10th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, University of London, 2-5 July 1995. 1994. Palmer, T.J. and Wilson, M.A. Early aragonite dissolution fabrics on shallow Ordovician sea-floors: markers for calcite seas. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 26(7): 130-131. 1993. Wilson, M.A., Palmer, T.J. and Taylor, P.D. Earliest preservation of soft-bodied fossils by epibiont bioimmuration: Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian) of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 25(6): 458. 1993. Smail, S.E.* and Wilson, M.A. Detailed ichnology of a Middle Jurassic shallowing-upward marine sequence in the Carmel Formation, southwestern Utah, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 25(6): 270. 1991. Finton, C.D.*, Buckley, S.M.*, Wilson, M.A., Palmer, T.J. and Guensburg, T.E. Paleoecological and evolutionary context of one of the earliest diverse hardground communities: the Kanosh Shale fauna (Ordovician, Whiterockian, late Arenig?) of west-central Utah, U.S.A. North-central section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 23(3): 13. 1991. Kaufman, L.E.*, Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. The formation of limestone hardgrounds in the Kanosh Shale (Ordovician, Whiterockian, late Arenig?) of west-central Utah, U.S.A.: rapid seafloor cementation and its possible relationship to long-term atmospheric CO2 cycles. North-central section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 23(3): 21. 1991. St. John, J.M.* and Wilson, M.A. Hardground development and its influence on sedimentation in the Richmond Group (Upper Ordovician) at Caesar Creek emergency spillway, Warren County, Ohio. North-central section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 23(3): 62. 1990a. Palmer, T.J. and Wilson, M.A. Submarine cementation and the origin of intraformational conglomerates in Cambro-Ordovician calcite seas. 13th International Sedimentological Congress 1990, Abstracts Volume, p. 171-172. 1990b. Palmer, T.J. and Wilson, M.A. The radiation of hard-substrate dwellers in the Cambro-Ordovician greenhouse. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Durham, p. 22. 1989. Wilson, M.A., Palmer, T.J., Guensburg, T.E. and Finton, C.D.* Sea-floor cementation and the development of marine hard substrate communities: New evidence from Cambro-Ordovician hardgrounds in Nevada and Utah. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 21(3): 253. 1988. Park, L.E.* and Wilson, M.A. New interpretations of arthropod-bearing nodules from the Miocene of southern California. North-Central Section Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 20(5): 384. 1988. Reierson, C.J.*, Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Diagenetic origin, depositional environments and stratigraphy of encrusted limestone cobbles in the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician) of northern Kentucky. North-Central Section Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 20(5): 385. 1988. Neal, L. A.*, Wilson, M.A. and Curran, H.A. Distribution and ecology of marine pebble and cobble communities on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. North-Central Section Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 20(5): 382-383. 1988. Wilson, M.A. and Palmer, T.J. Parasitism of Ordovician bryozoans and the origin of pseudoborings. North-Central Section Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 20(1): 79. 1985. Miller, J.S.* and Wilson, M.A. Cambrian oncolite formation in western North America. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 17: 664. 1984. Wilson, M.A. Succession and disturbance in an Upper Ordovician cobble-dwelling hardground fauna. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 16: 697. 1984. Norrish, W.A.* and Wilson, M.A. Paleoecology of the Upper Ordovician ichnofossil Diplocraterion in northern Kentucky. North-Central & Southeastern Sections Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 16: 206. 1983. Leach, B.R.* and Wilson, M.A. Statistical analysis of paleocommunities from the Logan Formation (Lower Mississippian) in Wayne County, Ohio. The Ohio Journal of Science 83: 26. 1983. Kozar, M.G.* and Wilson, M.A. Petrography, depositional environments and paleotectonics of the lower Bird Spring Formation (Morrowan-Atokan), Clark County, Nevada. The Ohio Journal of Science 83: 23. 1982. Wilson, M.A. Chesterian and Morrowan paleoenvironments in southwestern Nevada: Lithologic interpretations within conodont zones. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 14: 648. 1981. Rendina, M.A.* and Wilson, M.A. Late Mississippian and Pennsylvanian paleogeography and tectonics of the Bird Spring Group, Clark County, Nevada. The Ohio Journal of Science 81: 45. 1981. Wilson, M.A. Brachiopod-bryozoan assemblages in an Upper Carboniferous limestone: importance of physical and ecological controls. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 13: 582. 1978. Wilson, M.A. The paleoecology of the Cambridge Limestone. The Ohio Journal of Science 78: 32. *Denotes student co-authors.
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