Michael Foote
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Michael Foote's Degrees
- PhD Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago
- Masters Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago
- Bachelors Geology Stanford University
Why Is Michael Foote Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael J. Foote is a paleontologist and co-author, with Arnold I. Miller, of Principles of Paleontology . He was awarded the Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society in 2000. He is currently on the faculty at the University of Chicago, where he is Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology.
Michael Foote's Published Works
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Published Works
- Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates (2008) (640)
- THE EVOLUTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (1997) (516)
- Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification (2001) (444)
- Origination and extinction components of taxonomic diversity: general problems (2000) (439)
- Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic: a reinterpretation (2001) (328)
- Evolutionary and preservational constraints on origins of biologic groups: divergence times of eutherian mammals. (1999) (273)
- Fossil preservation and the stratigraphic ranges of taxa (1996) (244)
- Calibrating the Ordovician Radiation of marine life: implications for Phanerozoic diversity trends (1996) (214)
- Absolute measures of the completeness of the fossil record (1999) (208)
- Origination and Extinction through the Phanerozoic: A New Approach (2003) (195)
- Determinants of extinction in the fossil record (2002) (180)
- Morphological diversity in the evolutionary radiation of Paleozoic and post-Paleozoic crinoids (1999) (173)
- Origination and extinction components of taxonomic diversity: Paleozoic and post-Paleozoic dynamics (2000) (154)
- Morphological approaches to measuring biodiversity. (1997) (149)
- Reefs as Cradles of Evolution and Sources of Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic (2010) (149)
- On the probability of ancestors in the fossil record (1996) (145)
- Rise and Fall of Species Occupancy in Cenozoic Fossil Mollusks (2007) (141)
- Paleozoic record of morphologica diversity in blastozoan echinoderms. (1992) (137)
- Estimating taxonomic durations and preservation probability (1997) (121)
- Ecological Controls on the Evolutionary Recovery of Post-Paleozoic Crinoids (1996) (118)
- Pulsed origination and extinction in the marine realm (2005) (117)
- Morphological and Taxonomic Diversity in Clade's History: The Blastoid Record and Stochastic Simulations (1991) (111)
- Inferring temporal patterns of preservation, origination, and extinction from taxonomic survivorship analysis (2001) (106)
- Symmetric waxing and waning of marine invertebrate genera (2007) (84)
- On the bidirectional relationship between geographic range and taxonomic duration (2008) (82)
- Perimeter-based Fourier analysis: a new morphometric method applied to the trilobite cranidium (1989) (80)
- Survivorship analysis of Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites (1988) (79)
- Cambrian and recent morphological disparity. (1992) (76)
- Nearest-Neighbor Analysis of Trilobite Morphospace (1990) (75)
- Greenhouse−icehouse transition in the Late Ordovician marks a step change in extinction regime in the marine plankton (2016) (63)
- The ark was full! Constant to declining Cenozoic shallow marine biodiversity on an isolated midlatitude continent (2006) (60)
- PERSPECTIVE: EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS IN THE FOSSIL RECORD (1996) (59)
- Second-Order Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on the Quality of the Fossil Record at an Active Margin: New Zealand Eocene to Recent Shelf Molluscs (2006) (53)
- Increased Longevities of Post-Paleozoic Marine Genera After Mass Extinctions (2003) (49)
- Substrate affinity and diversity dynamics of Paleozoic marine animals (2006) (45)
- Extinction and quiescence in marine animal genera (2007) (44)
- Selective feeding and grazing rates of oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae on natural phytoplankton assemblages (1984) (42)
- Biotic influences on species duration: interactions between traits in marine molluscs (2010) (42)
- Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination (2009) (41)
- Sampling, taxonomic description, and our evolving knowledge of morphological diversity (1997) (37)
- Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic (2001) (33)
- Pacing of Paleozoic macroevolutionary rates by Milankovitch grand cycles (2018) (33)
- Environmental controls on geographic range size in marine animal genera (2014) (27)
- Determinants of early survival in marine animal genera (2012) (25)
- Geographic ranges of genera and their constituent species: structure, evolutionary dynamics, and extinction resistance (2016) (25)
- Aragonite bias, and lack of bias, in the fossil record: lithological, environmental, and ecological controls (2015) (25)
- Evolutionary dynamics of taxonomic structure (2012) (24)
- Diversity-dependent evolutionary rates in early Palaeozoic zooplankton (2018) (21)
- Morphology of Carboniferous and Permian Crinoids (1995) (19)
- STRATIGRAPHY IN PHYLOGENY RECONSTRUCTION—COMMENT ON SMITH (2000) (2002) (18)
- Morphology of Ordovician-Devonian Crinoids (1994) (18)
- DEVELOPMENTAL BUFFERING AS A MECHANISM FOR STASIS: EVIDENCE FROM THE PULMONATE THEBA PISANA (1988) (18)
- Analysis of morphological data (1991) (17)
- The fossil record and spatial structuring of environments and biodiversity in the Cenozoic of New Zealand (2011) (11)
- On the measurement of occupancy in ecology and paleontology (2016) (11)
- The Efficiency of Boars to Detect Oestrous Females Housed Adjacent to Boars (1987) (8)
- Completeness of the known graptoloid palaeontological record (2019) (6)
- Association between geographic range and initial survival of Mesozoic marine animal genera: circumventing the confounding effects of temporal and taxonomic heterogeneity (2017) (5)
- Ephemeral species in the fossil record? Synchronous coupling of macroevolutionary dynamics in mid-Paleozoic zooplankton (2020) (5)
- Estimating Completeness of the Fossil Record (2007) (4)
- Early morphological diversity in blastozoan echinoderms (1992) (2)
- Descriptive and predictive approaches to biodiversity measurement Reply from M. Foote and K. Roy. (1997) (1)
- The Contributions of David Malcolm Raup (24 April 1933-9 July 2015) (2016) (1)
- EXTINCTION IN THE ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN GRAPTOLOID CLADE: RATE, SELECTIVITY, AND DRIVERS (2016) (0)
- Presentation of the 2017 Paleontological Society Medal to David Jablonski (2018) (0)
- The Inside View from Outsiders (2004) (0)
- David M. Raup, 1933–2015 (2015) (0)
- PAB volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2016) (0)
- Evolutionary dynamics of taxonomic structure (2012) (0)
- TOWARD BIAS CORRECTION IN THE MEASUREMENT OF OCCUPANCY IN ECOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY (2016) (0)
- Diversity-Dependent Diversification in the History of Marine Animals (2022) (0)
- CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF PALEONTOLOGY (2006) (0)
- DIVERSITY-DEPENDENT DIVERSIFICATION IN ORDOVICIAN–SILURIAN GRAPTOLOIDS (2017) (0)
- Effect of fluid flux on the width of contact metamorphic aureoles: evidence from Silver Star, Montana (1985) (0)
- Book Review:Paleobiology of Climactichnites, and Enigmatic Late Cambrian Fossil. Ellis L. Yochelson, Mikhail A. Fedonkin (1994) (0)
- Presentation of the 2011 Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to C. Kevin Boyce (2012) (0)
- Presentation of the 2014 Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Shanan E. Peters (2017) (0)
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