NCEAS Project 3980

Paleobiology Database (Hosted by NCEAS)

  • Alroy, John
  • Marshall, Charles
  • Miller, Arnold

Database/Analysis Platform http://flatpebble.nceas.ucsb.edu/

Publications

Alroy, J., C.R. Marshall, R.K. Bambach, K. Bezusko, M. Foote, F.T. F?rsich, T.A. Hansen , S.M. Holland, L.C. Ivany, D. Jablonski, D.K. Jacobs, D. C. Jones, M.A. Kosnik, S. Lidgard, S. Low, A. I. Miller, P. M. Novack- Gottshall , T.D. Olszewski, M.E. Patzkowsky, D.M. Raup, K. Roy, J.J. Sepkoski , M.G. Sommers, P.J. Wagner, and A. Webber. 2001. Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 98. Pages 6261-6266.

Commentaries on Alroy et al. (2001):

Kerr, Richard. 2001. Putting limits on the diversity of Life. Science. Vol: 292. Pages 1481.

Newman, Mark. 2001. A new picture of life's history on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol: 98. Pages 5955-5956.

Alroy, John. 2001. Multispecies overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Science. Vol: 292. Pages 1893-1896.

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Abstract
Our picture of global diversification and extinction on long time scales is mostly based on generalized data for Phanerozoic marine macroinvertebrates. While every effort was made to guarantee the comprehensiveness of this data set, the community has been aware that sampling artifacts may contribute to the observed trends. Until now, we have been unable to remove these effects. Several robust methods for doing this are now available, but these methods use locality-specific data that are not a part of the existing, more generalized compilations. In order to confirm the reality of the major observed patterns, a collaborative data compilation project needs to be initiated. We wish to form a working group to do this. As a first step, we propose a workshop this August involving workers who have specialized in analyzing paleontological diversity data. This workshop will determine the scope, goals, structure, and time table of a database project. Immediately after the workshop, a post-doc who will serve as project coordinator will begin a two-year residency at NCEAS. Over the following two years, experts specializing on particular parts of the fossil record will meet at NCEAS to guide the data collection process. A final meeting will focus on preparing collaborative publications showing how these data influence our picture of marine diversification and extinction.

TypeProducts of NCEAS Research
Publication Alroy, John. 2001. A multispecies overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Science. Vol: 292. Pages 1893-1896.
Publication Alroy, John. 2002. How many named species are valid?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol: 99. Pages 3706-3711.
Publication Alroy, John. 2002. Stratigraphy in phylogeny reconstruction - reply to Smith (2000). Journal of Paleontology. Vol: 76. Pages 587-589.
Publication Alroy, John. 2003. Cenozoic bolide impacts and biotic change in North American mammals. Astrobiology. Vol: 3. Pages 119-132.
Publication Alroy, John. 2003. Global databases will yield reliable measures of global biodiversity. Paleobiology. Vol: 29(1). Pages 26-29.
Publication Alroy, John. 2003. Taxonomic inflation and body mass distributions in North American fossil mammals. Journal of Mammalogy. Vol: 84(2). Pages 431-443.
Publication Alroy, John. 2004. Are Sepkoski's evolutionary faunas dynamically coherent?. Evolutionary Ecology Research. Vol: 6. Pages 1-32.
Publication Bowen, G.; Clyde, William C.; Koch, P. L.; Ting, S.; Alroy, John; Tsubamoto, T.; Wang, Yuanqing; Wang, Yuan. 2002. Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science. Vol: 295(5562). Pages 2062-2065.
Publication Bush, Andrew M.; , J.; Marshall, Charles R. 2004. Removing bias from diversity curves: The effects of spatially organized biodiversity on sampling-standardization. Paleobiology. Vol: 30. Pages 666-686.
Publication Bush, Andrew M.; Bambach, Richard K. 2004. Did alpha diversity increase through the Phanerozoic? Lifting the veils of taphonomic, latitudinal, and environmental biases. Journal of Geology. Vol: 112. Pages 625-642.
Publication Connolly, Sean R.; Miller, Arnold I. 2001. Global Ordovician faunal transitions in the marine benthos: Proximate causes. Paleobiology. Vol: 27(4). Pages 779-795.
Publication Connolly, Sean R.; Miller, Arnold I. 2001. Joint estimation of sampling and turnover rates from fossil databases: Capture-mark-recapture methods revisited. Paleobiology. Vol: 27(4). Pages 751-767.
Publication Connolly, Sean R.; Miller, Arnold I. 2002. Global Ordovician faunal transitions in the marine benthos: Ultimate causes. Paleobiology. Vol: 28(1). Pages 26-40.
Publication Fara, Emmanuel. 2002. Sea-level variations and the quality of the continental fossil record. Journal of the Geological Society of London. Vol: 159. Pages 489-491.
Publication Fara, Emmanuel. 2004. Estimating minimum global species diversity for groups with a poor fossil record: A case study of Late Jurassic-Eocene lissamphibians. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol: 207. Pages 59-82.
Publication Foote, Michael. 2001. Inferring temporal patterns of preservation, origination, and extinction from taxonomic survivorship analysis. Paleobiology. Vol: 27(4). Pages 602-630.
Publication Foote, Michael. 2003. Origination and extinction through the Phanerozoic: A new approach. Journal of Geology. Vol: 111. Pages 125-148. (Abstract)
Publication Holland, Steven M.; Patzkowsky, Mark E. 2004. Ecosystem structure and stability: Middle Upper Ordovician of central Kentucky, USA. PALAIOS. Vol: 19. Pages 316-331.
Publication Kerr, Richard. 2001. Putting limits on the diversity of life. Science. Vol: 292. Pages 1481.
Publication Kiessling, Wolfgang. 2005. Long-term relationships between ecological stability and biodiversity in Phanerozoic reefs. Nature. Vol: 433. Pages 410-413.
Publication Kiessling, Wolfgang; Baron-Szabo, R. 2004. Extinction and recovery patterns of scleractinian corals at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol: 214. Pages 195-223.
Publication Krug, Andrew Zack; Patzkowsky, Mark E. 2004. Rapid recovery from the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol: 101. Pages 17605-17610.
Publication Madin, Joshua S.; Lyons, Kathleen. 2005. Incomplete sampling of geographic ranges weakens or reverses the positive relationship between an animal species' geographic range size and its body size. Evolutionary Ecology Research. Vol: 7. Pages 607-617.
Publication Miller, Arnold I. 2003. On the importance of global diversity trends and the viability of existing paleontological data. Paleobiology. Vol: 29(1). Pages 15-18.
Publication Miller, Arnold I.; Connolly, Sean R. 2001. Substrate affinities of higher taxa and the Ordovician Radiation. Paleobiology. Vol: 27(4). Pages 768-778.
Publication Miller, Arnold I.; Foote, Michael. 2003. Increased longevities of post-Paleozoic marine genera after mass extinctions. Science. Vol: 302. Pages 1030-1032. (Abstract)
Publication Newman, Mark. 2001. A new picture of life's history on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol: 98. Pages 5955-5956.
Publication Olszewski, Tom. 2004. A unified mathematical framework for the measurement of richness and evenness within and among multiple communities. Oikos. Vol: 104. Pages 377-387.
Publication Patzkowsky, Mark E.; Holland, Steven M. 2003. Lack of community saturation at the beginning of the Paleozoic plateau: The dominance of regional over local processes. Paleobiology. Vol: 29(4). Pages 545-560. (Abstract)
Publication Raymond, Anne; Metz, C. 2004. Ice and its consequences: Glaciation in the Late Ordovician, Late Devonian, Pennsylvania-Permian and Cenozoic compared. Journal of Geology. Vol: 112. Pages 655-670.
Publication Villier, L.; Korn, Dieter. 2004. Morphological disparity of ammonoids and the mark of Permian mass extinctions. Science. Vol: 306. Pages 264-266.
Publication Wilf, Peter; Johnson, Kirk R. 2004. Land plant extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: A quantitative analysis of the North Dakota megafloral record. Paleobiology. Vol: 30(3). Pages 347-368.
Data Set Alroy, John; Marshall, Charles R.; Miller, Arnold I. 2004. Paleobiology database. (Online version)
Data Set Lockwood, Rowan. 2008. Lockwood: Late cretaceous molluscan abundance data (Sohl and Koch). (Online version)
Meeting or Workshop Kowalewski, Michal; Behrensmeyer, Anna K.; Fursich, Franz T.; Gastaldo, Robert A.; Kidwell, Susan; Kosnik, Matthew; Plotnick, Roy E.; Rogers, Raymond R.; Alroy, John. 2002. Phanerozoic taphonomy of marine benthos: Effects of skeletal durability on macroevolutionary trends. Annual Meeting of the GSA, Abstracts with Programs. Pages 542. (Abstract)