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O’Malley, C. E., Ausich, W. I., and Chin, Y.-P. (2016). Deep echinoderm phylogeny preserved in organic molecules from Paleozoic fossils. Geology 44, 379–382. doi:10.1130/G37761.1
Oulhen, N., Heyland, A., Carrier, T. J., Zazueta-Novoa, V., Fresques, T., Laird, J., Onorato, T. M., Janies, D., and Wessel, G. (2016). Regeneration in bipinnaria larvae of the bat star Patiria miniata induces rapid and broad new gene expression. Mechanisms of Development 142, 10–21. doi:10.1016/j.mod.2016.08.003
Rhenberg, E. C., Ausich, W. I., and Meyer, D. L. (2016). Actinocrinitidae from the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (Crinoidea, Viséan). Journal of Paleontology 90, 1148–1159. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.85
Thompson, J. R., and Ausich, W. I. (2016). Facies distribution and taphonomy of echinoids from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) of Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 90, 239–249. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.46
Ausich, W. I., Kammer, T. W., Rhenberg, E. C., and Wright, D. F. (2015a). Early phylogeny of crinoids within the Pelmatozoan clade Ed A. Smith. Palaeontology 58, 937–952. doi:10.1111/pala.12204
Ausich, W. I., Kammer, T. W., Wright, D. F., Cole, S. R., Peter, M. E., and Rhenberg, E. C. (2015b). Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Crinoidea (Echinodermata). In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 29–32. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Ausich, W. I., Peter, M. E., and Ettensohn, F. R. (2015c). Echinoderms from the lower Silurian Brassfield Formation of east-central Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 89, 245–256. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.20
Ausich, W. I., Rozhnov, S. V., and Kammer, T. W. (2015d). Iocrinid crinoids from the Ordovician of the Baltic Region, Estonia. Paleontological Journal 49, 145–152. doi:10.1134/S0031030115020069
Ausich, W. I., Stelck, C. R., Plint, A. G., Buckley, R. A., and Angiel, P. J. (2015e). Early Cretaceous (?early late Albian) echinoderms from northeastern British Columbia, Canada Ed J. Jin. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, 235–243. doi:10.1139/cjes-2014-0218
Ausich, W. I., Wilson, M. A., and Vinn, O. (2015f). Wenlock and Pridoli (Silurian) crinoids from Saaremaa, western Estonia (Phylum Echinodermata). Journal of Paleontology 89, 72–81. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.6
Bauer, J. E., Sumrall, C. D., and Waters, J. (2015). Classifying blastoids through hydrospire morphology. In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 33–36. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Blake, D. B., Donovan, S. K., Mah, C. L., and Dixon, H. L. (2015). Asteroid (Echinodermata) skeletal elements from upper Oligocene deposits of Jamaica and Antigua. Geological Magazine 152, 1043–1056. doi:10.1017/S0016756815000096
Byrne, M., Koop, D., Cisternas, P., Strbenac, D., Yang, J. Y. H., and Wray, G. A. (2015). Transcriptomic analysis of Nodal- and BMP-associated genes during juvenile development of the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma. Marine Genomics 24, 41–45. doi:10.1016/j.margen.2015.05.019
Christensen, A. B., Herman, J. L., Elphick, M. R., Kober, K. M., Janies, D., Linchangco, G., Semmens, D. C., Bailly, X., Vinogradov, S. N., and Hoogewijs, D. (2015). Phylogeny of echinoderm hemoglobins Ed H. Escriva. PLOS ONE 10, e0129668. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129668
Clouse, R. M., Linchangco, G. V., Kerr, A. M., Reid, R. W., and Janies, D. A. (2015). Phylotranscriptomic analysis uncovers a wealth of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases variants in echinoderms. Royal Society Open Science 2, 150377. doi:10.1098/rsos.150377
Cole, S. R., and Ausich, W. I. (2015). Phylogenetic analysis of the Ordovician Diplobathrida (subclass Camerata, class Crinoidea): implications for early camerate evolution. In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 41–44. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Deline, B. (2015). Quantifying morphological diversity in early Paleozoic echinoderms. In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 45–48. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Kallmeyer, J. W., and Ausich, W. I. (2015). Deepwater occurrence of a new Glyptocrinus (Crinoidea, Camerata) from the Late Ordovician of southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky: Revision of crinoid paleocommunity composition. Journal of Paleontology 89, 1068–1075. doi:10.1017/jpa.2015.72
Lefebvre, B., Ausich, W. I., Clausen, S., Courville, P., Kundura, J.-P., Legrain, X., Régnault, S., and Roussel, P. (2015). A review of Ordovician crinoids from France: New data from the Darriwilian of the Armorican Massif and palaeobiogeographic implications. Annales de Paléontologie 101, 301–313. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2015.10.004
Lin, J.-P., Ausich, W. I., and Waters, J. (2015a). Fossil echinoderm studies in China and other countries: Historical and new perspectives. Palaeoworld 24, 361–362. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2015.11.005
Lin, J.-P., Ausich, W. I., Zhao, Y.-L., Peng, J., and Tai, T.-S. (2015b). Crypto-helical body plan in partially disarticulated gogiids from the Cambrian of South China. Palaeoworld 24, 393–399. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2014.11.005
Mah, C. L. (2015a). A new Atlantic species of Evoplosoma with taxonomic summary and in situ observations of Atlantic deep-sea corallivorous Goniasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea). Marine Biodiversity Records 8, e5. doi:10.1017/S1755267214001407
Mah, C. L. (2015b). New species, corallivory, in situ video observations and overview of the Goniasteridae (Valvatida, Asteroidea) in the Hawaiian Region. Zootaxa 3926, 211–228. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3926.2.3
Mah, C., Linse, K., Copley, J., Marsh, L., Rogers, A., Clague, D., and Foltz, D. (2015). Description of a new family, new genus, and two new species of deep-sea Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea), including the first known sea star from hydrothermal vent habitats. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174, 93–113. doi:10.1111/zoj.12229
Mao, Y.-Y., Lin, J.-P., Lin, C.-H., and Ausich, W. I. (2015). Chinese origin and radiation of the Palaeozoic crinoid family Petalocrinidae. Palaeoworld 24, 445–453. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2014.12.007
Meadows, C. A., Fordyce, R. E., and Baumiller, T. K. (2015). Drill holes in the irregular echinoid, Fibularia, from the Oligocene of New Zealand. Palaios 30, 810–817. doi:10.2110/palo.2015.043
Rahman, I. A., Waters, J. A., Sumrall, C. D., and Astolfo, A. (2015). Early post-metamorphic, Carboniferous blastoid reveals the evolution and development of the digestive system in echinoderms. Biology Letters 11, 20150776. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2015.0776
Rhenberg, E. C., Ausich, W. I., and Kammer, T. W. (2015). Generic concepts in the Actinocrinitidae Austin and Austin, 1842 (class Crinoidea) and evaluation of generic assignments of species. Journal of Paleontology 89, 1–19. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.2
Sheffield, S. L., and Sumrall, C. D. (2015). A new interpretation of the oral plating patterns of the Holocystites Fauna (Diploporita, Echinodermata). In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 159–162. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Sprinkle, J., and Sumrall, C. D. (2015). New edrioasterine and astrocystitid (Echinodermata: Edrioasteroidea) from the Ninemile Shale (Lower Ordovician), central Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 89, 346–352. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.29
Sumrall, C. D. (2015). Understanding the oral area of derived stemmed echinoderms. In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 169–174. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Sumrall, C. D., Deline, B., Colmenar, J., Sheffield, S. L., and Zamora, S. (2015). New data on late Ordovician (Katian) echinoderms from Sardinia, Italy. In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 175–180. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Sumrall, C. D., and Sprinkle, J. (2015). Unusual ambulacral branching pattern in a new Ordovician giant edrioasteroid, Bizarroglobus. Journal of Paleontology 89, 353–359. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.30
Sumrall, C. D., and Zamora, S. (2015). A columnal-bearing eocrinoid from the Cambrian Burgess Shale (British Columbia, Canada). Journal of Paleontology 89, 366–368. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.54
Thompson, J. R., and Ausich, W. I. (2015). Testing for escalation in Lower Mississippian camerate crinoids. Paleobiology 41, 89–107. doi:10.1017/pab.2014.6
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Ausich, W. I., and Toom, U. (2015). Tremichnus in crinoid pluricolumnals from the Silurian of western Estonia (Baltica). Carnets de Géologie 15, 239–243. Available at: http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1517/index.html
Waters, J. A. (2015). The evolutionary paleoecology of the Blastoidea: What have we learned in the past 29 years? In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 189–192. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Waters, J. A., Sumrall, C. D., White, L. E., and Nguyen, B. K. (2015). Advancing phylogenetic inference in the Blastoidea (Echinodermata): Virtual 3D reconstructions of the internal anatomy. In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 193–198. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Wright, D. F., and Ausich, W. I. (2015). From the stem to the crown: Phylogeny and diversification of pan-cladid crinoids. In ‘Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19’. (Eds S. Zamora and I. Rábano.) pp. 199–202. (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España: Madrid.)
Zamora, S., Rahman, I. A., and Ausich, W. I. (2015a). Palaeogeographic implications of a new iocrinid crinoid (Disparida) from the Ordovician (Darriwillian) of Morocco. PeerJ 3, e1450. doi:10.7717/peerj.1450
Zamora, S., Sumrall, C. D., and Sprinkle, J. (2015b). New long-stemmed eocrinoid from the Furongian Point Peak Shale Member of the Wilberns Formation, central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 89, 189–193. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.16
Chattopadhyay, D., Rathie, A., Miller, D., and Baumiller, T. (2014). Hydrodynamic effects of drill holes on postmortem transportation of bivalve shells and its taphonomic implications. Palaios 28, 875–884. doi:10.2110/palo.2013.029
Donovan, S. K., Ausich, W. I., Wilson, M. A., and Peter, M. E. (2014). A Middle Ordovician crinoid from the beach gravels of Ristna Cape, Hiiumaa Island, Estonia. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 125, 96–98. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.05.003
Gale, K. S. P., Mah, C., Hamel, J.-F., and Mercier, A. (2014). New records of brisingidan asteroids (Asteroidea: Brisingida) in eastern Canada. Marine Biodiversity Records 7, e125. doi:10.1017/S1755267214001201
GIGA Community of Scientists (2014). The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing community resources to study diverse invertebrate genomes. Journal of Heredity 105, 1–18. doi:10.1093/jhered/est084
Howells, C., and Kammer, T. (2014). A new crinoid from the Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) of South Pembrokeshire, Wales. Geological Journal 49, 207–212. doi:10.1002/gj.2514
Kerr, A. M. (2014). Survey of the shallow-water echinoderms of Nauru, Micronesia. University of Guam Marine Laboratory Technical Report 158. Mangilao, Guam.
Kerr, A. M., Kim, S. W., and Miller, A. K. (2014). The shallow-water holothuroids of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. University of Guam Marine Laboratory Technical Report 155. Mangilao, Guam.
Kim, S. W., Miller, A. K., Brunson, C., Netchy, K., Clouse, R. M., Janies, D., Tardy, E., and Kerr, A. M. (2014). Shallow-water holothuroids (Echinodermata) of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. Pacific Science 68, 397–420. doi:10.2984/68.3.8
Krivicich, E. B., Ausich, W. I., and Meyer, D. L. (2014). Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 88, 1154–1162. doi:10.1666/13-180
Mah, C. L., and Foltz, D. W. (2014). New taxa and taxonomic revisions to the Poraniidae (Valvatacea; Asteroidea) with comments on feeding biology. Zootaxa 3795, 327. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.7
Mah, C., Neill, K., Eléaume, M., and Foltz, D. (2014). New species and global revision of Hippasteria (Hippasterinae: Goniasteridae; Asteroidea; Echinodermata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171, 422–456. doi:10.1111/zoj.12131
O’Malley, C. E., Ausich, W. I., and Chin, Y.-P. (2014). Isolation and characterization of the earliest taxon-specific organic molecules (Mississippian, Crinoidea): Reply. Geology 42, e322–e322. doi:10.1130/G35388Y.1
Rhenberg, E. C., Miller, J. F., and Ausich, W. I. (2014). Collicrinus excavatus (Hall, 1861), generic affinity for a Lower Mississippian crinoid (Phylum Echinodermata). Palaeoworld 23, 252–257. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2013.11.006
Salamon, M. A., Gorzelak, P., Niedźwiedzki, R., Trzęsiok, D., and Baumiller, T. K. (2014). Trends in shell fragmentation as evidence of mid-Paleozoic changes in marine predation. Paleobiology 40, 14–23. doi:10.1666/13018
Shroat-Lewis, R., Sumrall, C. D., McKinney, M. L., and Meyer, D. L. (2014). A paleoecologic comparison of two edrioasteroid (Echinodermata) encrusted pavements from the Upper Ordovician Corryville Formation of Florence, Kentucky and the Miamitown Shale of Sharonville, Ohio, U.S.A. Palaios 29, 154–169. doi:10.2110/palo.2013.034
Summers, M. M., Messing, C. G., and Rouse, G. W. (2014). Phylogeny of Comatulidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida): A new classification and an assessment of morphological characters for crinoid taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 80, 319–339. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030
Summers, M. M., and Rouse, G. W. (2014). Phylogeny of Myzostomida (Annelida) and their relationships with echinoderm hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14, 1–15. doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0170-7
Syverson, V. J., and Baumiller, T. K. (2014). Temporal trends of predation resistance in Paleozoic crinoid arm branching morphologies. Paleobiology 40, 417–427. doi:10.1666/13063
Syverson, V., Messing, C. G., Stanley, K., and Baumiller, T. K. (2014). Growth, injury, and population dynamics in the extant cyrtocrinid Holopus mikihe (Crinoidea, Echinodermata) near Roatán, Honduras. Bulletin of Marine Science 91, 47–61. doi:10.5343/bms.2014.1061
Wilson, M. A., Reinthal, E. A., and Ausich, W. I. (2014). Parasitism of a new apiocrinitid crinoid species from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of southern Israel. Journal of Paleontology 88, 1212–1221. doi:10.1666/14-009
Wygoda, J. A., Yang, Y., Byrne, M., and Wray, G. A. (2014). Transcriptomic analysis of the highly derived radial body plan of a sea urchin. Genome Biology and Evolution 6, 964–973. doi:10.1093/gbe/evu070
Selected publications before 2014
Ausich, W. I., and Deline, B. (2012). Macroevolutionary transition in crinoids following the Late Ordovician extinction event (Ordovician to Early Silurian). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 361–362, 38–48. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.07.022
Baumiller, T. K., and Janevski, G. A. (2011). On the swimming function of crinoid cirri. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 130, 19–24. doi:10.1007/s13358-010-0004-1
Gorzelak, P., Salamon, M. A., and Baumiller, T. K. (2012). Predator-induced macroevolutionary trends in Mesozoic crinoids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 7004–7007. doi:10.1073/pnas.1201573109
Haig, J. A., Gillanders, B. M., and Rouse, G. W. (2012). Live fast, die young: the life cycle of the brooding feather star Aporometra wilsoni (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Invertebrate Biology 131, 235–243. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2012.00270.x
Hearn, P. W., and Deline, B. (2012). A new species of Paradiabolocrinus from the Upper Ordovician of central Kentucky, USA. Southeastern Geology 49, 25–30.
Janies, D. A. (2013). Xyloplax. In ‘McGraw-Hill 2013 Yearbook of Science & Technology’. (McGraw-Hill: New York.) doi:10.1036/1097-8542.YB130036
Janies, D. A., Studer, J., Handelman, S. K., and Linchangco, G. (2013). A comparison of supermatrix and supertree methods for multilocus phylogenetics using organismal datasets. Cladistics 29, 560–566. doi:10.1111/cla.12014
Janies, D. A., Voight, J. R., and Daly, M. (2011). Echinoderm phylogeny Including Xyloplax, a progenetic asteroid. Systematic Biology 60, 420–438. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syr044
Kammer, T. W., Sumrall, C. D., Zamora, S., Ausich, W. I., and Deline, B. (2013). Oral region homologies in Paleozoic crinoids and other plesiomorphic pentaradial echinoderms Ed D. Soares. PLoS ONE 8, e77989. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077989
Rouse, G. W., Jermiin, L. S., Wilson, N. G., Eeckhaut, I., Lanterbecq, D., Oji, T., Young, C. M., Browning, T., Cisternas, P., Helgen, L. E., Stuckey, M., and Messing, C. G. (2013). Fixed, free, and fixed: The fickle phylogeny of extant Crinoidea (Echinodermata) and their Permian–Triassic origin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66, 161–181. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.018
Sallan, L. C., Kammer, T. W., Ausich, W. I., and Cook, L. A. (2011). Persistent predator-prey dynamics revealed by mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 8335–8338. doi:10.1073/pnas.1100631108
Sumrall, C. D., Heredia, S., Rodriguez, C. M., and Mestre, A. I. (2012). The first report of South American edrioasteroids and the paleoecology and ontogeny of rhenopyrgid echinoderms. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58, 763–776. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0108
Zamora, S., Sumrall, C. D., and Vizcaino, D. (2012). Morphology and ontogeny of the Cambrian edrioasteroid echinoderm Cambraster cannati from western Gondwana. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58, 545–559. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0152