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., Mylroie, J.E., Gamble, D.W., Wilson, M.A., Davis, L.R., Sealy, N.E. and Voegeli, V.J. 2004. 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.

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: Implications for sequence stratigraphy on the craton. Dynamics of Epeiric Seas: Sedimentological, Paleontological, and Geochemical Perspectives; Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 48 (in press).

Palmer, T.J. and Wilson, M.A. 2004. Calcite precipitation and dissolution of biogenic aragonite in shallow Ordovician calcite seas. Lethaia 37: 417-427.

Taylor, P.D. and Wilson, M.A. 2007. Morphology and affinities of hederelloid “bryozoans”, p. xxx-xxx. International Bryozoology Association Conference; Boone, North Carolina (in press).

Wilson, M.A. 2004. 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.

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.

Wilson, M.A., Wolfe, K.R., and Avni, Y. 2005. Development of a Jurassic rocky shore complex (Zohar Formation, Makhtesh Qatan, southern Israel). Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 54: 171-178.

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