Everett C. Olson
U.S. paleontologist, zoologist, and geologist
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Everett C. Olson's Degrees
- PhD Zoology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Zoology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Zoology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Everett Claire Olson was an American zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist noted for his seminal research of origin and evolution of vertebrate animals. Through his research studying terrestrial vertebrate fossils he identified intervals of extinction in the Permian and Triassic. He developed the concept of chronofauna, which he defined as "a geographically restricted, natural assemblage of interacting animal populations that has maintained its basic structure over a geologically significant period of time". He also proposed stratigraphic correlations between North American and Russian vertebrate-bearing strata for which additional support was found much later. The drop in terrestrial vertebrate diversity he proposed in at the end of the Kungurian stage of the Permian period that occurred 270 million years ago now carries his name - Olson's Extinction. Alternatively, some scientists think that the change was gradual but that it looks abrupt because of a gap in the fossil record, called "Olson's Gap". Some of his other notable research also included the taxa Slaugenhopia, Trimerorhachis, and Waggoneria.
Everett C. Olson's Published Works
Published Works
- THE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE ORIGIN OF LAND VERTEBRATES (1981) (235)
- The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene (1941) (198)
- The Visual System in Vertebrates (1977) (154)
- The family Diadectidae and its bearing on the classification of reptiles (1947) (148)
- The Beginning of the Age of Mammals in South America. Part 2. Systematics: Notoungulata, Concluded (Typotheria, Hegetotheria, Toxodonta, Notoungulata Incertae Sedis); Astrapotheria; Trigonostylopoidea; Pyrotheria; Xenungulata; Mammalia Incertae Sedis. George Gaylord Simpson (1969) (144)
- A Cold Look At The Warm-blooded Dinosaurs (1980) (142)
- Origin of Mammals Based Upon Cranial Morphology of the Therapsid Suborders (1944) (135)
- Late Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. (1964) (129)
- Community Evolution and the Origin of Mammals (1966) (120)
- THE EVOLUTION OF A PERMIAN VERTEBRATE CHRONOFAUNA (1952) (120)
- JAW MECHANISMS: RHIPIDISTIANS, AMPHIBIANS, REPTILES (1961) (87)
- Patterns of temporal change in single morphological characters of a Miocene stickleback fish (1985) (81)
- : The Haplolepidae, a New Family of Late Carboniferous Bony Fishes: A Study in Taxonomy and Evolution (1945) (61)
- CHAPTER 7 – AMNIOTE ORIGINS AND THE DISCOVERY OF HERBIVORY (1997) (61)
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin Area, Wyoming and Montana.John H. Ostrom (1972) (58)
- THE EVOLUTION OF MAMMALIAN CHARACTERS (1959) (58)
- The family Caseidae (1967) (54)
- Size-Frequency Distributions in Samples of Extinct Organisms (1957) (53)
- The Family Trematopsidae (1941) (51)
- The San Angelo Formation, Permian of Texas, and Its Vertebrates (1953) (47)
- A MATHEMATICAL MODEL APPLIED TO A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIES (1951) (44)
- Dinosaurs Past and Present (1987) (43)
- The dorsal axial musculature of certain primitive permian tetrapods (1936) (41)
- New and little known genera and species of vertebrates from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma (1970) (41)
- Mammalian fauna from the Pliocene of Honduras (1941) (40)
- Invasions of the land : the transitions of organisms from aquatic to terrestrial life (1994) (32)
- An eryopid (Amphibia: Labyrinthodontia) from the Fort Sill fissures, Lower Permian, Oklahoma (1991) (30)
- Aspects of the biology of Trimerorhachis (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) (1979) (29)
- The middle ear--morphological types in amphibians and reptiles. (1966) (25)
- RELATIONSHIPS OF SEYMOURIA, DIADECTES, AND CHELONIA (1965) (24)
- Problems of permo‐triassic terrestrial vertebrate extinctions (1989) (24)
- Extinctions of Permian and Triassic nonmarine vertebrates (1982) (22)
- Catalogue of Localities of Permian and Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Territories of the U.S.S.R. (1957) (22)
- Permo-Carboniferous Paleoecology and Morphotypic Series (1975) (22)
- RELATIVE GROWTH IN PALEONTOLOGICAL STUDIES (1951) (19)
- A skeleton of Lysorophus tricarinatus (Amphibia; lepospondyli) from the Hennessey Formation (Permian) of Oklahoma (1971) (17)
- Notes on Gnathorhiza (Osteichthyes, Dipnoi) (1972) (16)
- New genera and species of tetrapods from the Karroo beds of South Africa (1937) (16)
- Diplocaulus : a study in growth and variation / Everett Claire Olson -- (1951) (15)
- The occipital, otic, basicranial and pterygoid regions of the Gorgonopsia (1938) (15)
- Trematops Stonei sp. nov. (Temnospondyli Amphibia) from the Washington Formation, Dunkard Group, Ohio (1970) (15)
- Fresh- and Brackish-Water Vertebrate-Bearing Deposits of the Pennsylvanian of Illinois (1946) (15)
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza : summary, review, and integration of the geology and the faunas / Everett Claire Olson -- (1958) (14)
- The Cranial Morphology of a New Gorgonopsian (1937) (13)
- Carrolla craddocki: A New Genus and Species of Microsaur from the Lower Permian of Texas (1986) (13)
- The Geology and Mammalian Fauna of the Pleistocene of Nebraska (1935) (13)
- Seymouria grandis n. sp. (Batrachosauria; Amphibia) from the middle Clear Fork (Permian) of Oklahoma and Texas (1979) (12)
- The Statistical Stability of Quantitative Properties as a Fundamental Criterion for the Study of Environments (1955) (12)
- A Preliminary Report on Vertebrates from the Permian Vale Formation of Texas (1948) (12)
- Notes on the Skull of Youngina Capensis Broom (1936) (11)
- Invasions of the Land (1994) (11)
- The Problem of Missing Links: Today and Yesterday (1981) (11)
- A trilophosaurid reptile from the Kootenai Formation (Lower Cretaceous) [Montana] (1960) (10)
- The taxonomic status and morphology of Pleuristion brachycoelus Case; referred to Protocaptorhinus pricei Clark and Carroll (Reptilia: Captorhinomorpha) (1984) (10)
- Fayella chickashaensis; The Dissorophoidea and the Permian Terrestrial Radiations (1972) (9)
- Russian Viewpoints on Evolution@@@Ucheniye O Vida (Studies of Species).@@@Teoriya Polovogo Otbora (The Theory of Sexual Selection). (1963) (9)
- The Arroyo Formaton (Leonardian: Lower Permian) and Its Vertebrate Fossils (1989) (9)
- Introduction to J Harlen Bretz's Paper on "The Lake Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scabland" (1969) (8)
- The Osteology of Aulacocephalodon Peavoti Broom (1938) (8)
- The Skull Structure of a New Anomodont (1937) (8)
- Diplocaulus parvus n. sp. (Amphibia, Nectridea) from the Chickasha Formation (Permian, Guadalupian) of Oklahoma (1972) (8)
- The Fauna of the Lysorophus Pockets in the Clear Fork Permian Baylor County, Texas (1939) (8)
- Fossil vertebrates of Africa, 4 (1977) (7)
- UPPER PERMIAN TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATES OF THE USA AND RUSSIA: 1991 (1992) (7)
- The Other Side of the Medal: A Paleobiologist Reflects on the Art and Serendipity of Science (1990) (7)
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza : Pelycosauria : family Caseidae / Everett Claire Olson -- (1954) (7)
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza : Lysorophus : Vale and Choza ; Diplocaulus, Cacops and Eryopidae : Choza / Everett Claire Olson -- (1956) (7)
- The skull of Megalagus turgidus (Cope) (1942) (6)
- Vertebrate paleoecology: A current perspective (1985) (5)
- The First Mammals (1935) (5)
- A Late Pleistocene Fauna from Herculaneum, Missouri (1940) (5)
- Notes on the brain case of a therocephalian (1938) (5)
- New Specimens of Permian Vertebrates in Walker Museum (1941) (5)
- Integrating Factors in Amphibian Skulls (1953) (5)
- THE GEOLOGY AND MAMMALIAN FAUNAS OF THE TERTIARY AND PLEISTOCENE OF SOUTH AMERICA. (1964) (4)
- Vertebrates from the Choza Formation, Permian of Texas (1951) (4)
- Fauna of upper Vale and Choza: Everett Claire Olson -- (1951) (4)
- MORPHOLOGICAL INTEGRATION: A DISCUSSION (1960) (4)
- Fauna of the upper Vale and Choza : 6, Diplocaulus / Everett Claire Olson -- (1952) (4)
- Kratkii Ocherk Teorii Evolyutsii. (An Outline of Evolutionary Concepts.) N. V. Timofeeff-Ressovsky, N. N. Vorontsov, and A. V. Yablokov. Izdatelstvo Nauka, Moscow, 1969. 408 pp., illus. 1 R 92 K (1970) (4)
- DIALEC'TICS IN EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES (1968) (4)
- : The Geology of the U.S.S.R.: A Short Outline (1961) (4)
- A Mounted Skeleton of Labidosaurus Cope (1937) (3)
- Dialectics in Evolutionary Studies@@@The Contemporary Status of Evolutionary Studies in the West. (1968) (3)
- The temporal region of the Permian reptile Diadectes / Everett Claire Olson -- (1950) (3)
- The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland. Part II of Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland (1935) (3)
- The evolutionary synthesis today; an essay on paleontology and molecular biology (1986) (3)
- Permo-Carboniferous fresh water burrows / Everett C. Olson -- and Kathryn Bolles --. (1975) (2)
- Vertebrates from the San Angelo Formation Early Permian of Texas (1952) (2)
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza : Trimerorhachis : including a revision of prevale species / Everett Claire Olson -- (1955) (2)
- RUSSIAN VIEWPOINTS ON EVOLUTION (1963) (2)
- The Role of Paleontology in the Formulation of Evolutionary Thought (1966) (2)
- A Mounted Skeleton of the Mammal-Like Reptile Dicynodon Tigriceps (1935) (2)
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza : a new Trematopsid amphibian from the Vale formation / Everett Claire Olson -- (1956) (1)
- Yablokov, A. V. Variability in Mammals. Institute of Animal Morphology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, U.S.S.R., 364 pp., 67 figs., 90 text tables, 10 appendix tables, 1966. Price, approximately $1.80 (1967) (1)
- The History of the Vertebrates (1977) (1)
- Notes on the Stratigraphic and Geographic Ranges of Certain Genera of Permian Vertebrates (1954) (1)
- Parallelism in the evolution of the Permian reptilian faunas of the Old and New Worlds / Everett C. Olson. (1980) (1)
- EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (1954) (1)
- A Fresh Look at Vertebrate Paleontology (1967) (1)
- : Search for the Past: An Introduction to Paleontology (1968) (1)
- The early development of tetrapod herbivory (1992) (1)
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza : Captorhinomorpha / Everett Claire Olson -- (1954) (1)
- Some Russian Viewpoints@@@Problems of Evolution.@@@Problems of the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics.@@@Contemporary Problems of Paleontology.@@@Whales and Dolphins. (1973) (1)
- Permo-Triassic vertebrate extinctions: A program (1988) (1)
- Macroevolution conference. (1981) (1)
- Sample-Population Concepts in Faunal-Lithologic Facies Studies (1954) (1)
- Book Review:Our Geological Environment. Joel S. Watkins, Michael L. Bottino, Marie Morisawa (1976) (0)
- Contributions to the Goelogy of Northern Mongolia. R. H. Beckwith (1935) (0)
- The family Caseidae / [by] Everett C. Olson -- [Edited by Edward G. Nash, Patricia M. Williams] (1968) (0)
- Evolution of the Vertebrates (1971) (0)
- Book Review:Ecology of the Amur Tiger. A. G. Yudakov, E. G. Nikolayev (1988) (0)
- Book Review:Concession to the Improbable. An Unconventional Autobiography. George Gaylord Simpson (1979) (0)
- Book Review:Geology of the Grand Canyon. William J. Breed, Evelyn C. Roat (1975) (0)
- Presentation of the Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Robert L. Carroll; Response by Robert L. Carroll, October 24, 1978 (1979) (0)
- Prichiny Vymiraniya Organizmov. (Causes of Extinctions of Organisms.) L. Sh. Davitashvili. Izdatelstvo Nauka, Moscow, 1969. 440 pp., illus. 2 R (1970) (0)
- Relationships of Diadectes / Everett Claire Olson -- (1966) (0)
- Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Based on a Symposium Held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 23-24 May 1986. David D. Gillette , Martin C. Lockley (1993) (0)
- Book Review:The Vertebrate Body. Alfred Sherwood Romer, Thomas S. Parsons (1978) (0)
- Evolution of the Vertebrates. Edwin H. Colbert (1971) (0)
- Book Review:Vertebrates of the United States. W. Frank Blair, Albert P. Blair, Pierce Brodkorb, Fred R. Cagle, George A. Moore (1969) (0)
- Book Review:Evolution and the Fossil Record. Leo F. Laporte (1979) (0)
- Systematic Dissections of Vertebrates.George C. Kent (1976) (0)
- Comparative Odontology. Bernard Peyer , Rainer Zangerl (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Mammal-Like Reptiles and the Origin of Mammals. T. S. Kemp (1983) (0)
- Book Review:Hunting for Fossils. A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All Fifty States. Marian Murray (1969) (0)
- Russian Literature in the Natural Sciences (1958) (0)
- Book Review:Growth of a Prehistoric Time Scale-Based on Organic Evolution. William B. N. Berry (1969) (0)
- Military Maps and Air Photographs: Their Use and Interpretation@@@Map Interpretation with Military Applications@@@How to Read Military Maps@@@Foreign Maps (1944) (0)
- Book Review:Vertebrate History: Problems in Evolution. Barbara J. Stahl (1975) (0)
- Paleontology and Paleoenvironments. Earth and its Inhabitants: Readings from American Scientist.Brian J. Skinner (1982) (0)
- Book Review:Structure and Habit in Vertebrate Evolution. G. S. Carter (1968) (0)
- Comparative Vertebrate Morphology.Douglas Webster , Molly Webster (1974) (0)
- Book Review:Uniformity and Simplicity. A Symposium on the Principle of the Uniformity of Nature. Claude C. Albritton, Jr. (1969) (0)
- Vertebrate Paleontology. Alfred S. Romer (1946) (0)
- Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Evolution. Bernhard Grzimek (1977) (0)
- A life in paleontology. (1981) (0)
- Elements of Paleontology.Rhona M. BlackPrinciples of Paleontology.David M. Raup , Steven M. Stanley (1971) (0)
- Book Review:Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History. Topics in the Earth Sciences. Claude C. Albritton, Jr. (1990) (0)
- New and little known genera and species of vertebrates from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma / [by] Everett C. Olson -- [Patricia M. Williams, editor] (1970) (0)
- Historical Geology. Walter A. Ver Wiebe (1935) (0)
- History of Life. Richard Cowen (1991) (0)
- THE MAJOR FEATURES OF EVOLUTION (1954) (0)
- Book Review:World Minerals and World Peace C. K. Leith, J. W. Furness, Cleona Lewis (1944) (0)
- Book Review:How to Deep-Freeze a Mammoth. Based on a Translation by Erik Friis of the Original Work. Bjorn Kurten (1987) (0)
- Book Review:Death Valley. Geology, Ecology, Archaelogy. Charles B. Hunt (1977) (0)
- A Life in Paleontology: A Fossil-Hunter's Notebook . My Life with Dinosaurs and Other Friends. Edwin H. Colbert. Dutton, New York, 1980. xiv, 242 pp., illus. $15.95. (1981) (0)
- Book Review:Notes and Comments on Vertebrate Paleontology. Alfred Sherwood Romer (1969) (0)
- Book Review:Elements of Palaeontology. Claude Babin, N. Orriss, D. Palmer (1981) (0)
- Book Review:Evolution of the Vertebrates. A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time. Edwin H. Colbert (1981) (0)
- Geologic History at a Glance. L. W. Richards , G. L. Richards Jr. (1935) (0)
- Book Review:The Origin of Terrestrial Vertebrates. I. I. Schmalhausen, Leon Kelso, Keith Stewart Thomas (1969) (0)
- Book Review:The Ornithischian Dinosaur Hypsilophodon from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. Peter Malcolm Galton (1975) (0)
- Book Review:The Reptile Ear: Its Structure and Function. Ernest Glen Wever (1979) (0)
- Book Review:Elements of Geology. James H. Zumberge, Clemens A. Nelson (1974) (0)
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza : Pelycosauria : Dimetrodon / Everett Claire Olson -- (1954) (0)
- Dynamics of Extinction. Based on a Conference Held at Northern Arizona University, August 9-11, 1983.David K. Elliott (1987) (0)
- The C.S.E.O.L. Conference on DNA-DNA Hybridization and Evolution, Lake Arrowhead, California, May 11–14, 1989 (1990) (0)
- The Elements of Palaeontology. Rhona M. Black (1989) (0)
- Osteology of the Reptiles . Alfred S. Romer. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1957. 772 pp. Illus. $20. (1957) (0)
- Geology of Central Alberta. John A. Allen , Ralph L. Rutherford (1935) (0)
- Mazon Creek Fossils.Matthew H. Nitecki (1980) (0)
- Book Review:Synapsida: A New Look Into the Origins of Mammals. John C. McLoughlin (1981) (0)
- Dinosaur systematics: Approaches and perspectives (1992) (0)
- Vertebrates from the Flower Pot Formation, Permian of Texas (1954) (0)
- Book Review:Discoverers of the Lost World. An Account of Some of Those Who Brought Back to Life South American Mammals Long Buried in the Abyss of Time. George Gaylord Simpson (1985) (0)
- Book Review:The Lower Cricetidae of the World Fauna. Part I: Morphology and Ecology. Nikolia N. Vorontzov (1984) (0)
- The meaning of fossils: M. J. S. Rudwick. MacDonald, London, and American Elsevier Inc., New York, N.Y., 1972, 287 pp., £6.00 (1974) (0)
- SOME RUSSIAN VIEWPOINTS (1973) (0)
- The Bering Land Bridge.David M. Hopkins (1968) (0)
- Elementary Topography and Map Reading@@@Foreign Maps@@@Military Maps and Air Photographs@@@Historical Atlas of the United States@@@Atlas of Global Geography@@@Atlas Estatistico Do Brasil (1945) (0)
- Back Matter (1958) (0)
- Physiologist Interprets Evolution of Air Breathing The Evolution of Air Breathing in Vertebrates David J. Randall Warren W. Burggren Anthony P. Farrell M. Stephen Haswell (1982) (0)
- Book Review:The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part I and 2. C. Bertrand Schultz, Charles H. Falkenbach (1969) (0)
- Early tetrapod evolution and the progressive integration of Permo-Carboniferous terrestrial ecosystems (1992) (0)
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza : Diadectes, Xenacanthus, and specimens of uncertain affinities / Everett Claire Olson -- (1956) (0)
- Book Review:The Earth and Its History. Richard Foster Flint (1974) (0)
- Book Review:The Ecology of Fossils: An Illustrated Guide. W. S. McKerrow (1979) (0)
- Voprosy Metodologii v Izuchenii Organicheskogo Mira. (Problems of Methodology in the Study of Evolution of the Organic World.) L. Sh. Davitashvilt. Izdatelstvo Metsinereba, Tiflis, 1968. 218 pp (1970) (0)
- :Contributions to Geology, 1944 (1947) (0)
- Book Review:Evolutionary Biology. Volume 1. Theodosius Dobzhansky, Max K. Hecht, William C. Steere (1968) (0)
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