Susan M. Kidwell
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American paleontologist and geologist
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Susan M. Kidwell's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of Chicago
- Masters Geology University of Chicago
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Susan M. Kidwell is an American paleontologist and geologist at the University of Chicago. Her research has focused on the relationships between fossil concentrations and sequence stratigraphy, experimental taphonomy, and the implications of the very recent fossil record for understanding modern ecological changes.
Susan M. Kidwell's Published Works
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Published Works
- Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems (2001) (6344)
- Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (2006) (2752)
- Taphonomy and Time-Averaging of Marine Shelly Faunas (1991) (642)
- Taphonomy and paleobiology (2000) (558)
- Conceptual framework for the analysis and classification of fossil concentrations (1986) (517)
- The stratigraphy of shell concentrations. (1991) (345)
- The Quality of the Fossil Record: Populations, Species, and Communities (1996) (309)
- Preservation of Species Abundance in Marine Death Assemblages (2001) (299)
- Taphonomy's contributions to paleobiology (1985) (251)
- Models for fossil concentrations: paleobiologic implications (1986) (246)
- Scales of climatic variability and time averaging in Pleistocene biotas: implications for ecology and evolution. (1996) (209)
- Stratigraphic Condensation of Marine Transgressive Records: Origin of Major Shell Deposits in the Miocene of Maryland (1989) (205)
- Taphonomic Feedback Ecological Consequences of Shell Accumulation (1983) (201)
- The Quality of the Fossil Record: Implications for Evolutionary Analyses (2002) (197)
- Time-averaged molluscan death assemblages: Palimpsests of richness, snapshots of abundance (2002) (195)
- Field description of coarse bioclastic fabrics (1991) (191)
- Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration (2015) (187)
- Time‐averaging and fidelity of modern death assemblages: building a taphonomic foundation for conservation palaeobiology (2013) (185)
- Experimental disintegration of regular echinoids: roles of temperature, oxygen, and decay thresholds (1990) (175)
- Bivalve taphonomy in tropical mixed siliciclastic-carbonate settings. II. Effect of bivalve life habits and shell types (2000) (165)
- Bivalve taphonomy in tropical mixed siliciclastic-carbonate settings. I. Environmental variation in shell condition (2000) (157)
- Discordance between living and death assemblages as evidence for anthropogenic ecological change (2007) (157)
- Time-averaging in the marine fossilrecord: Overview of strategies and uncertainties (1997) (149)
- Influence of Organic Matrix on the Post-Mortem Destruction of Molluscan Shells (1993) (138)
- THE QUALITY OF THE FOSSIL RECORD: Populations, Species, (1995) (122)
- Assessing the fidelity of the fossil record by using marine bivalves. (2006) (122)
- Implications of Time-Averaged Death Assemblages for Ecology and Conservation Biology (2013) (121)
- Patterns in bioclastic accumulation through the Phanerozoic: Changes in input or in destruction? (1994) (121)
- Taphonomic trade-offs in tropical marine death assemblages: Differential time averaging, shell loss, and probable bias in siliciclastic vs. carbonate facies (2005) (119)
- Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records (2015) (107)
- Notes on Sedimentary Basins in China Report of the American Sedimentary Basins Delegation to the People's Republic of China (1986) (103)
- Fidelity of variation in species composition and diversity partitioning by death assemblages: time-averaging transfers diversity from beta to alpha levels (2009) (98)
- Palaeobiological and sedimentological implications of fossil concentrations (1985) (97)
- The preservational fidelity of evenness in molluscan death assemblages (2007) (96)
- A Conceptual Framework for the Genesis and Analysis of Vertebrate Skeletal Concentrations (2007) (94)
- Ecological fidelity of open marine molluscan death assemblages: effects of post-mortem transportation, shelf health, and taphonomic inertia (2008) (91)
- Significance of molluscan shell beds in sequence stratigraphy: an example from the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group of Canada1 (1991) (88)
- Shell Composition Has No Net Impact on Large-Scale Evolutionary Patterns in Mollusks (2005) (87)
- Sensitivity of Taphonomic Signatures to Sample Size, Sieve Size, Damage Scoring System, and Target Taxa (2001) (86)
- Predicting the effects of increasing temporal scale on species composition, diversity, and rank-abundance distributions (2010) (83)
- Taphonomic feedback in Miocene assemblages; testing the role of dead hardparts in benthic communities (1986) (76)
- Mesh-size effects on the ecological fidelity of death assemblages: a meta-analysis of molluscan live–dead studies (2002) (74)
- Taphonomic approaches to time resolution in fossil assemblages (1993) (73)
- Associations of Vertebrate Skeletal Concentrations and Discontinuity Surfaces in Terrestrial and Shallow Marine Records: A Test in the Cretaceous of Montana (2000) (69)
- Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record? (2005) (66)
- Anatomy of extremely thin marine sequences landward of a passive-margin hinge zone; Neogene Calvert Cliffs succession, Maryland, U.S.A. (1997) (65)
- Sedimentary dynamics of complex shell beds: Implications for ecologic and evolutionary patterns (1985) (63)
- The Effects of Temporal Resolution on Species Turnover and on Testing Metacommunity Models (2010) (63)
- Preservation of spatial and environmental gradients by death assemblages (2009) (63)
- Outcrop Features and Origin of Basin Margin Unconformities in the Lower Chesapeake Group (Miocene), Atlantic Coastal Plain (1984) (58)
- Taphonomic expressions of sedimentary hiatuses: field observations on bioclastic concentrations and sequence anatomy in low, moderate and high subsidence settings (1993) (58)
- Paleocurrent evidence for lateral displacement of the Pliocene Colorado River delta by the San Andreas fault system, southeastern California (1986) (55)
- Long-term accumulation of carbonate shells reflects a 100-fold drop in loss rate (2014) (52)
- Taphonomic comparison of passive and active continental margins: Neogene shell beds of the Atlantic coastal plain and Northern Gulf of California (1988) (52)
- Nineteenth-century collapse of a benthic marine ecosystem on the open continental shelf (2017) (49)
- Carbonate Preservation in Shallow Marine Environments: Unexpected Role of Tropical Siliciclastics (2007) (47)
- Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation on a tectonically active margin: Example from the Pliocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico (1999) (46)
- Accounting for the effects of biological variability and temporal autocorrelation in assessing the preservation of species abundance (2011) (40)
- Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology (2009) (38)
- Reciprocal sedimentation and noncorrelative hiatuses in marine-paralic siliciclastics: Miocene outcrop evidence (1988) (37)
- Overview: ecological and evolutionary implications of taphonomic processes (1988) (36)
- Changes in shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers (2011) (33)
- Age, Correlation, and Lithostratigraphic Revision of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation in Its Type Area (North-Central Montana), with a Comparison of Low- and High-Accommodation Alluvial Records (2016) (33)
- Inferring skeletal production from time-averaged assemblages: skeletal loss pulls the timing of production pulses towards the modern period (2015) (32)
- The living, the dead, and the expected dead: variation in life span yields little bias of proportional abundances in bivalve death assemblages (2010) (29)
- Field Conference: Stratigraphy of a Marine Rift Basin: Neogene of the Western Salton Trough, California (1996) (29)
- EVALUATING HUMAN MODIFICATION OF SHALLOW MARINE ECOSYSTEMS: MISMATCH IN COMPOSITION OF MOLLUSCAN LIVING AND TIME-AVERAGED DEATH ASSEMBLAGES (2009) (28)
- Hiatal shell concentrations, sequence analysis, and sealevel history of a Pleistocene coastal alluvial fan, Punta Chueca, Sonora (2007) (24)
- Influence of subsidence on the anatomy of marine siliciclastic sequences and on the distribution of shell and bone beds (1993) (24)
- Miocene stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland (2015) (23)
- Symbiosis, competition, and physical disturbance in the growth histories of Pliocene cheilostome bryoliths (2007) (16)
- Major Biases in the Fossil Record (2007) (16)
- Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the (2005) (16)
- Unrecognized loss of seagrass communities based on molluscan death assemblages: historic baseline shift in tropical Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea (2018) (13)
- Detecting, sourcing, and age-dating dredged sediments on the open shelf, southern California, using dead mollusk shells. (2017) (11)
- Gauging benthic recovery from 20th century pollution on the southern California continental shelf using bivalves from sediment cores (2019) (9)
- Millennial‐Scale Age Offsets Within Fossil Assemblages: Result of Bioturbation Below the Taphonomic Active Zone and Out‐of‐Phase Production (2019) (9)
- Cenozoic stratigraphy and structure of the Chesapeake Bay region (2015) (8)
- High-latitude benthic bivalve biomass and recent climate change: Testing the power of live-dead discordance in the Pacific Arctic (2019) (6)
- Mixing depths and sediment accumulation rates on an arid tropical shelf based on fine-fraction 210Pb analysis (2020) (6)
- Inexpensive field technique for polyester resin peels of structures in unconsolidated sediments (1985) (6)
- Testing for human impacts in the mismatch of living and dead ostracode assemblages at nested spatial scales in subtropical lakes from the Bahamian archipelago (2018) (5)
- Chemosymbiont-dominated seafloor communities in modern and Cretaceous upwelling systems support a new, high-productivity variant of standard low-oxygen models (2015) (4)
- CHALLENGES OF CORRELATION IN VERY THIN STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS: EXTENDING G.B. SHATTUCK'S CLASSIC MIOCENE SUBDIVISIONS AWAY FROM THE TYPE CALVERT CLIFFS (2012) (2)
- Phanerozoic changes in hardpart availability and utilization in benthic communities: evolutionary ecology or evolutionary stratigraphy (1985) (1)
- Ecosystems Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal (2012) (1)
- STRONTIUM ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY REVEALS 100 KY-SCALE CONDENSATION, BEVELING, AND INTERNAL SHINGLING OF TRANSGRESSIVE SHELL BEDS IN THE MARYLAND MIOCENE (2022) (1)
- THE DINOCYSTS OF THE MORAN LANDING CORE, CALVERT CLIFFS, MARYLAND: NEW EVIDENCE FOR A HIGH-ANGLE REVERSE FAULT AFFECTING MIOCENE STRATA (2020) (1)
- Assessing variation in skeletal production from surface death assemblages on the basis of age-frequency distributions (2015) (1)
- Geological Origins of Bonebeds. (1999) (1)
- The consequences of time averaging for measuring temporal species turnover in the fossil record (2010) (0)
- Ability of surface and subsurface death assemblages to track km-scale spatial and decade-scale temporal variability in living communities: Tests using the urban southern California continental shelf (2016) (0)
- "Testing the Association Between Skeletal Lags and Discontinuity Surfaces: A Case Study from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana." (1998) (0)
- UNSUSPECTED LOSS OF SEAGRASS COMMUNITIES BASED ON MOLLUSCAN DEATH ASSEMBLAGES: HISTORIC BASELINE SHIFT IN THE TROPICAL GULF OF EILAT (AQABA), RED SEA (2017) (0)
- Arctic bivalve dead-shell assemblages as high temporal- and spatial- resolution archives of ecological regime change in response to climate change (2022) (0)
- A downcore increase in time averaging is the null expectation from the transit of death assemblages through a mixed layer (2023) (0)
- Atmospheric Circulation and Paleohydrology Change in Late Miocene and Pliocene as Recorded in the Linxia Basin , Northeast Tibetan Plateau (2005) (0)
- Field Conference Guidebook and Volume for AAPG National Convention, San Diego, California (1996) (0)
- Geodaze 2008 Sponsors Organizations Applied Geoscience Llc Arizona Geological Society Bp Chevron Conocophillips Individuals Geodaze 2008 Committee (2008) (0)
- Internal anatomy and skeletal taphonomy of marine sequences: variation with subsidence (1992) (0)
- COLLABORATIONS WITH AGENCIES WHILE STAYING IN ACADEMIC GEOLOGY: BALANCING APPLIED AND BASIC SCIENCE WHEN ASSESSING HUMAN MODIFICATION OF COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS (2020) (0)
- Presentation of the Charles Schuchert award of the Paleontological Society to Susan M. Kidwell; response (1996) (0)
- SEM EVIDENCE OF THE EARLY DIAGENESIS ASSOCIATED WITH ARAGONITIC SHELLS THAT SURVIVE 100S-1000S YEARS OF TIME-AVERAGED RESIDENCE IN BIOTURBATED SEABEDS (2018) (0)
- ARCTIC BIVALVE SHELL ASSEMBLAGES AS HIGH TEMPORAL- AND SPATIAL-RESOLUTION ARCHIVES OF ECOLOGICAL REGIME CHANGE (2022) (0)
- Developing Testable Hypotheses of Anthropogenic Stress: Some Approaches That Work (2023) (0)
- Phanerozoic trends in shell accumulations: A comparison of Ordovician-Silurian and Tertiary records (1993) (0)
- LONG-TERM PRESERVATION (SEQUESTRATION) – OR NOT -- OF BIOGENIC CARBONATE: SHARED STAGES, BUT NOT RATES, OF MICROSTRUCTURAL STABILIZATION IN TROPICAL, TEMPERATE, & ARCTIC SEABEDS (2020) (0)
- Survival of the 1%: Consequences of a Two-Phase Dynamic of Aragonitic Shell Loss and Stabilization for the Temporal Resolution of Proxy Data (2014) (0)
- MOLLUSCAN DEAD SHELL ASSEMBLAGES ARE ARCHIVES OF URBANIZATION: DISCOVERING HOW NITROGEN ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES VARY ALONG A GRADIENT OF SEPTIC POLLUTION AND AS A FUNCTION OF TROPHIC GROUP (2022) (0)
- Copano Bay cores data.txt (2010) (0)
- Significance of Skeletal Concentrations for the Analysis of Unconformities and Condensed Intervals: Case Studies from Neogene Shallow Marine Sequences: Abstract (1988) (0)
- Paleontologic Insights Set Restoration Aims and Priorities for an Urban Ocean (2017) (0)
- Historical baselines from dead marine molluscs reveal natural and human-related changes in benthic fauna (2014) (0)
- Dead molluscan shells from multiple trophic groups as archives of nitrogen isotopic evidence of wastewater gradients in estuaries. (2023) (0)
- PREDICTING THE IMPACTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON THE SPATIAL AND PHYLOGENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE GLOBAL MARINE BIVALVE FAUNA (2021) (0)
- Neogene Record of Rifting and Breakup in the Salton Trough, SE California: Limits on Sequence Analysis: ABSTRACT (1996) (0)
- Example from the Pliocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation on a tectonically active margin: (2009) (0)
- Modelling the effects of temporally-variable production and bioturbation on age offsets between molluscan species in open-shelf sediment cores (2018) (0)
- FUNCTIONAL COLLAPSE OF A PERSISTENT SHELL-GRAVEL BENTHIC ECOSYSTEM ON THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHELF WITHIN THE LAST 200 YEARS: PALEOBIOLOGIC DETECTION OF IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE (2016) (0)
- USING BIVALVE LIVE-DEAD MISMATCH TO EVALUATE THE FOOTPRINT OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER IN MARINE WATERS, VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA (2017) (0)
- BIVALVE DEAD-SHELL ASSEMBLAGES ARE STRONG SURROGATES FOR WHOLE BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES IN PUGET SOUND (2022) (0)
- CALCITE COATS ON ARAGONITIC BIVALVE SHELLS IN SHALLOW MARINE SEABEDS: FERRETING OUT THE EARLY DIAGENETIC PROCESSES THAT PERMIT PROLONGED TIME AVERAGING (2022) (0)
- THE POWER OF BIVALVE ASSEMBLAGES AS INDICATORS OF ECOLOGICAL CONDITION OVER SPACE AND TIME (2020) (0)
- Modeling the transition of death assemblages from surface to subsurface: predicting the effects of burial, mixing, and disintegration on time averaging (2020) (0)
- CHAPTER 1. A Conceptual Framework for the Genesis and Analysis of Vertebrate Skeletal Concentrations (2019) (0)
- the distribution of shell and bone beds Influence of subsidence on the anatomy of marine siliciclastic sequences and on (2007) (0)
- Living and dead bivalves are congruent surrogates for whole benthic macroinvertebrate communities in Puget Sound (2022) (0)
- THE STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF TIME-AVERAGED FOSSIL RECORDS: AN EMPIRICAL MODEL FROM AN OPEN SILICICLASTIC SHELF (2021) (0)
- ‘ A Generation More Educated Than Our Own and Individuals Better Educated Than Ourselves ’ : The Organization of the College and the Divisions in 1930 – 31 ” — (2001) (0)
- Testing the effects of durability (shell thickness) on species over-representation in death assemblages, a taphonomic baseline for conservation paleobiology (2021) (0)
- TRACKING POLLUTION AND SUBSEQUENT REMEDIATION OF LAKES USING AGREEMENT BETWEEN LIVING COMMUNITIES AND DEATH ASSEMBLAGES OF OSTRACODES (2018) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Nineteenth-century collapse of a benthic marine ecosystem on the open continental shelf" (2017) (0)
- A functional collapse of persistent shell-gravel benthic ecosystem on the California shelf within the last century (2016) (0)
- TAXONOMIC SURROGACY OF BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES ALONG DEPTH AND SUBSTRATE GRADIENTS IN THE PUGET SOUND (2021) (0)
- ESTIMATING THE DURATION OF STRATIGRAPHICALLY CONDENSED MIOCENE MARINE SHELL BEDS USING STRONTIUM ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY (CALVERT CLIFFS, MD): IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (2017) (0)
- Skeletal carbonate on the continental shelf: SEM evidence of early diagenetic alteration of the 1% of shells that persist for millennia in the mixed layer and thus enter the permanent record (2016) (0)
- Response by Susan M. Kidwell for the presentation of the 2020 Paleontological Society Medal (2021) (0)
- Williams Production Company INDIVIDUALS (2009) (0)
- Paleontological Events: Stratigraphic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Implications.Carlton E. Brett , Gordon C. Baird (1998) (0)
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