Peter von Bitter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter von Bitter is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto and he holds a post at the Royal Ontario Museum. His research has been wide-ranging but focused on conodonts. His most noted work was his examination of the well preserved fossil vent communities in Lower Carboniferous strata of western Newfoundland.
Peter von Bitter's Published Works
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- Constraints on Pennsylvanian glacioeustatic sea-level changes using oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite (2006) (139)
- Eramosa Lagerstätte—Exceptionally preserved soft-bodied biotas with shallow-marine shelly and bioturbating organisms (Silurian, Ontario, Canada) (2007) (50)
- Chemosynthesis; an alternate hypothesis for Carboniferous biotas in bryozoan/microbial mounds, Newfoundland, Canada (1992) (49)
- Early Carboniferous low-temperature hydrothermal vent communities from Newfoundland (1990) (48)
- Blade-shaped conodont elements functioned as cutting teeth (1992) (43)
- Revision of conodont biofacies nomenclature and interpretations of environmental controls in Pennsylvanian rocks of Eastern and Central North America (1976) (37)
- The Frasnian–Famennian (mid-Late Devonian) boundary in the type section of the Long Rapids Formation, James Bay Lowlands, northern Ontario, Canada (2002) (35)
- Conodont biostratigraphy of the Codroy Group (Lower Carboniferous), southwestern Newfoundland, Canada (1982) (31)
- Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and biofacies, Rabbitkettle Formation, District of Mackenzie / (1980) (26)
- Phylogeny, speciation, and palaeoecology of the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) conodont genus Mestognathus (1986) (24)
- AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF POST-DEPOSITIONAL TAPHONOMIC BIAS IN CONODONTS (2005) (24)
- The La Coulée Formation, a new post-Acadian continental clastic unit bearing groundwater calcretes, Gaspé Peninsula, Québec (1999) (24)
- Quaternary interglacial and associated deposits in southwest Newfoundland (1982) (19)
- Conodonts of the Windsor Group (Lower Carboniferous), Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada (1987) (13)
- Facies and frequencies among Pennsylvanian conodonts: Apparatuses and abundances (1984) (12)
- Paleoecology and distribution of Windsor Group (Visean-? early Namurian) conodonts, Port Hood Island, Nova Scotia, Canada (1976) (12)
- Fossil epithelial cell imprints as indicators of conodont biology (1994) (11)
- Late Palaeozoic species of Ellisonia (Conodontophorida) : evolutionary and palaeoecological significance (1983) (10)
- Thermal activation characteristics and thermoluminescence of chert from the Red Wing, Ontario region, and its putative heat treatment in prehistory (2005) (9)
- Neogondolelliform conodonts of early and middle Pennsylvanian age (1977) (9)
- Loch Macumber (early Carboniferous) of Atlantic Canada (1994) (9)
- Naked species of Gondolella (Conodontophorida) : their distribution, taxonomy, and evolutionary significance (1980) (8)
- Deep-basin/deep-water carbonate-evaporite deposition of a saline giant: Loch Macumber (Visean), Atlantic Canada (1994) (8)
- Apparatus of the Pennsylvanian conodont genus Neognathodus (1977) (7)
- Windsor Group (Lower Carboniferous) conodont biostratigraphy and palaeoecology, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada (1986) (7)
- Orthophotographs to assist participatory forest management: application in the Jhikhu Khola watershed, Nepal. (2000) (6)
- The use of "spikes" in monitoring the effectiveness of phosphatic microfossil recovery (1984) (6)
- Jaw-bearing polychaetes of the Silurian Eramosa Lagerstätte, Ontario, Canada (2015) (5)
- Late Palaeozoic species of Ellisonia (Conodontophorida) (1983) (3)
- Catalogue of type invertebrate, plant, and trace fossils in the Royal Ontario Museum (1978) (3)
- Carbonate mud flows and other indicators of excess pore-fluid pressure in the Macumber Formation (Lower Carboniferous, Viséan) at Ingonish, Nova Scotia, Canada (2001) (3)
- Balsam Lake Chert from the Upper Member of the Middle Ordovician Bobcaygeon Formation of Southern Ontario (1984) (3)
- Abstract: Chemosynthetic tube worms concentrated around hydrothermal mounds over volcanic rocks, Gays River Formation, basal Windsor Group, Ingonish Island, Cape Breton (1996) (3)
- Lithofacies and age variation in the Fossil Hill Formation (Lower Silurian), southern Georgian Bay region, Ontario (1999) (2)
- The Brunton Pocket Transit, A One Hundred Year Old North American Invention (1995) (2)
- Radiometric and Geometric Correction of Tm-Data of Mountainous Forested Areas (1992) (2)
- A Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Hindu Kush – Himalayan Region: (1999) (2)
- Phillipsite altered to analcime in basal Windsor [shallow-water marine] carbonates of Mississippian age in Nova Scotia (1980) (1)
- ASSESSMENT AND CORRECTION OF THE IMPACT OF TOPOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERE ON REMOTE SENSING FOREST MAPPING OF ALPINE REGIONS (1997) (1)
- Decolourization of heavy liquids — an economic assessment (1978) (1)
- Abstract: Carbonate microbial mounds, mineralized vents, periplatformal oozes, and slump domes in Macumber equivalents, eastern Cape Breton (1995) (1)
- Lower-Middle Devonian conodont biostratigraphy and palaeoecology, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario (1977) (1)
- Abstract: Carbonate tufa sheets draping plutonic basement in the basal Windsor Group at St. Anns Bay (Englishtown), Cape Breton (1996) (1)
- Echinoderms as Guide Fossils in the Correlation of the Windsor Group Subzones of the Minas Sub-Basin (1965) (1)
- History of Canadian Geology Charles Jackson, M.D. (1805-1880) and Francis Alger (1807-1863) (1978) (0)
- The reconstruction of fossil organisms using cluster analysis : a case study from late Palaeozoic conodonts / (1989) (0)
- A Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Hindu Kush - Himalaya Region: Some Institutional and Political Issues of Interoperation (1999) (0)
- Walter Andrew Bell (1889-1969) Canadian Carboniferous Stratigrapher, Paleobotanist and Paleontologist par excellence (1997) (0)
- Use of Conodont Genus Gondolella in High-Resolution Biostratigraphic Zonation of Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian Rocks, Central North America: ABSTRACT (1984) (0)
- Glen Kenton Merrill, B. Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 28, 1935; D. Houston, Texas, Dec. 2, 2014 — A personal remembrance (2018) (0)
- SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT COMMISSION o/«*« IUHPS LA COMMISSION DES INSTRUMENTS (2008) (0)
- Abstract: Conodont biostratigraphy of the Windsor Group (Lower Carboniferous), Les lies de la Madeleine, Quebec (1981) (0)
- Naked species of Gondolella (Conodontophorida) (1980) (0)
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