William A. Clemens Jr.
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William A. Clemens Jr.'s Degrees
- PhD Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Alvin Clemens Jr. was a paleontologist at the University of California at Berkeley. He was faculty of the Department of Paleontology from 1967, then the Department of Integrative Biology from 1994 to his retirement and curator of the UC Museum of Paleontology. Clemens was also director of the museum and chair of the Department of Paleontology . He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship , a U.S. Senior Scientist Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Romer-Simpson Medal , and was made a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
William A. Clemens Jr.'s Published Works
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- Mesozoic mammals : the first two-thirds of mammalian history (1979) (325)
- Dinosaur bones: fossils or pseudomorphs? The pitfalls of physiology reconstruction from apatitic fossils (1996) (178)
- Levels of complexity in the microstructure of mammalian enamel and their application in studies of systematics. (1992) (154)
- The Evolution of Artiodactyls (2009) (135)
- 3. Paleocene Biochronology: The Puercan Through Clarkforkian Land Mammal Ages (2004) (130)
- Cretaceous extinctions: multiple causes. (2010) (124)
- Dinosaurs on the North Slope, Alaska: High Latitude, Latest Cretaceous Environments (1987) (104)
- ORIGIN AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF MARSUPIALS (1968) (87)
- New Late Cretaceous, North American advanced therian mammals that fit neither the marsupial nor eutherian molds (1986) (86)
- PURGATORIUS (PLESIADAPIFORMES, PRIMATES?, MAMMALIA), A PALEOCENE IMMIGRANT INTO NORTHEASTERN MONTANA: STRATIGRAPHIC OCCURRENCES AND INCISOR PROPORTIONS (2004) (83)
- Paleoecological implications of Alaskan terrestrial vertebrate fauna in latest Cretaceous time at high paleolatitudes (1993) (82)
- High-resolution chronostratigraphy of the terrestrial Cretaceous-Paleogene transition and recovery interval in the Hell Creek region, Montana (2015) (82)
- Calibration of chron C29r: New high-precision geochronologic and paleomagnetic constraints from the Hell Creek region, Montana (2018) (76)
- Evolution of the mammalian fauna across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana and other areas of the Western Interior (2002) (67)
- Upper Cretaceous–Paleocene biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy, Hell Creek and Tullock Formations, northeastern Montana (1982) (67)
- 2. Mammalian Biochronology of the Latest Cretaceous (2004) (65)
- Mesozoic continental vertebrates with associated palynostratigraphic dates from the northwestern Ethiopian plateau (1999) (63)
- Purgatorius, an Early Paromomyid Primate (Mammalia) (1974) (60)
- THE SMALLEST KNOWN TRICERATOPS SKULL: NEW OBSERVATIONS ON CERATOPSID CRANIAL ANATOMY AND ONTOGENY (2006) (60)
- Oldest known euarchontan tarsals and affinities of Paleocene Purgatorius to Primates (2015) (59)
- Dental Morphology of the Jurassic Holotherian Mammal Amphitherium, with a Discussion of the Evolution of Mammalian Post‐Canine Dental Formulae (2001) (44)
- A probable pseudo-tribosphenic upper molar from the late Jurassic of China and the early radiation of the Holotheria (1998) (41)
- Phylogeny of the marsupials (1977) (35)
- Mesozoic Mammalian Evolution (1970) (34)
- The Roles of Fossil Vertebrates in Interpretation of Late Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico (1973) (32)
- A POSSIBLE LATE CRETACEOUS “HARAMIYIDAN” FROM INDIA (2006) (27)
- Aspects of intrageneric variation and evolution of Mesodma (Multituberculata, Mammalia) (1977) (26)
- Were Immigrants a Significant Part of the Earliest Paleocene Mammalian Fauna of the North American Western Interior (2010) (25)
- EARLY TORREJONIAN MAMMALIAN LOCAL FAUNAS FROM NORTHEASTERN MONTANA, U.S.A. (2009) (25)
- Mid-Tertiary Thylacoleonidae (Marsupialia, Mammalia) (1974) (24)
- Chapter 2. Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity: Episodes and Insights (1986) (23)
- AN ENIGMATIC (SYNAPSID?) TOOTH FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA (2003) (22)
- AN EXCEPTIONAL SPECIMEN OF CIMEXOMYS JUDITHAE (MAMMALIA: MULTITUBERCULATA) FROM THE CAMPANIAN TWO MEDICINE FORMATION OF MONTANA, AND THE PHYLOGENETIC STATUS OF CIMEXOMYS (2000) (20)
- New morganucodontans from an Early Jurassic fissure filling in Wales (United Kingdom) (2011) (19)
- Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA (2018) (19)
- Eutheria and summary (1973) (18)
- From Tyrannosaurus rex to asteroid impact: Early studies (1901–1980) of the Hell Creek Formation in its type area (2014) (17)
- A mandible of Didelphodon vorax (Marsupialia, Mammalia) (1968) (17)
- Cf. Wortmania from the early Paleocene of Montana and an evaluation of the fossil record of the initial diversification of the Taeniodonta (Mammalia) (2013) (16)
- Introduction and multituberculata (1963) (15)
- Early Paleocene (Puercan) peradectid marsupials from northeastern Montana, North American Western Interior (2006) (14)
- Late Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate fauna, North Slope, Alaska (1985) (13)
- A NEW SPECIES OF EOCONODON (TRIISODONTIDAE, MAMMALIA) FROM THE SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO (2005) (12)
- A problem in morganucodontid taxonomy (Mammalia) (1979) (12)
- Early Jurassic allotherians from South Wales (United Kingdom) (2007) (12)
- Holographic gauged NJL model: The conformal window and ideal walking (2018) (11)
- Revision of the Ektopodontidae (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Phalangeroidea) of the Australian Neogene (1986) (10)
- A Late Cretaceous mammal from Dragon Canyon, Utah (1961) (10)
- Patterns of mammalian evolution across the Cretaceous‐Tertiary boundary (2001) (10)
- (Leptictidae, Mammalia) from the Tullock Member of the Fort Union Formation, Garfield and McCone Counties, Montana, USA (2015) (9)
- Patterns of extinction and survival of the terrestrial biota during the Cretaceous/Tertiary transition (1981) (9)
- Review of the non-tritylodontid synapsids from bone beds in the Rhaetic Sandstone, southern Germany (2014) (9)
- Earliest Palaeocene purgatoriids and the initial radiation of stem primates (2021) (9)
- A holographic study of the gauged NJL model (2017) (7)
- Comments on Cretaceous Eutheria, Lance Scaphites, and Inoceramus? ex Gr. tegulatus (1965) (7)
- Dinosaur diversity and extinction. (1992) (6)
- Northernmost record of the Metatheria: a new Late Cretaceous pediomyid from the North Slope of Alaska (2019) (5)
- First record of a Jurassic mammal (?"Peramura") from Ethiopia (2007) (5)
- Eoconodon ( “ Triisodontidae , ” Mammalia ) from the Early Paleocene ( Puercan ) of northeastern Montana , USA (2011) (5)
- North American Mammoths: An Annotated Bibliography-1940-1990. The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Inc.Larry D. Agenbroad , Bax R. Barton (1993) (4)
- A pantodont (Mammalia) from the latest Puercan North American Land Mammal Age (earliest Paleocene) of the Western Interior, USA (2018) (4)
- Holograms of a dynamical top quark (2017) (3)
- Procerberus (Cimolestidae, Mammalia) from the Latest Cretaceous and Earliest Paleocene of the Northern Western Interior, USA (2017) (3)
- Response: arctic dinosaurs and terminal cretaceous extinctions. (1988) (3)
- Palececological implications of Alaskan terrestrial vertebrate fauna in latest Cretaceous time at high paleolatitudes: Comment and Reply (1993) (3)
- First known tarsals of the earliest primate Purgatorius (2013) (2)
- Interpreting stratigraphic relationships and Laramide structural history of the northeastern margin of the Hanna Basin (Wyoming): Meniscoessus (Mammalia, Multituberculata) exposes its faults (2013) (2)
- Mammalian evolution during the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition; evidence for gradual, non-catastrophic patterns of biotic change (1983) (2)
- Reminiscences of a Director (1958) (2)
- REVISED STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE LOWER FORT UNION FORMATION (TULLOCK MEMBER; GARFIELD COUNTY, MONTANA, U.S.A.) PROVIDE A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING POST K-PG MAMMALIAN RECOVERY DYNAMICS (2021) (1)
- A Volume Honoring James Allen Hopson (2008) (1)
- Acyonidae Ameghino, 1889 (Mammalia): proposed suppression under plenary powers. Z.N. (S.) 2159 (1977) (1)
- Eocene and earlier deposits. (1982) (1)
- Puercolestes and Betonnia (Cimolestidae, Mammalia) from the early Paleocene (Puercan 3 Interval Zone) of northeastern Montana, U.S.A. (2019) (1)
- Paleocene and Early Eocene of the Bighorn and Clark's Fork Basins, Wyoming (2013) (1)
- A Literary Life: Poems (2002) (0)
- MESOZOIC MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION 4014 (2016) (0)
- Biogeographic and evolutionary patterns of change in the terrestrial biota across the Cretaceous\Tertiary boundary (1992) (0)
- HIGH-RESOLUTION CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY AND MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE TERRESTRIAL CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY TRANSITION IN THE HELL CREEK REGION, MONTANA (2016) (0)
- Book Review:Dinosaurs of Darkness Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich (2001) (0)
- An Experimental Study of Spatial Frequency Adaptation Effects in the Human Visual System. (1979) (0)
- REVISED STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE LOWER FORT UNION FORMATION (TULLOCK MEMBER, GARFIELD COUNTY, MONTANA, U.S.A.) PROVIDE A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING POST K–PG MAMMALIAN RECOVERY DYNAMICS (2022) (0)
- Acknowledging the Generosity of Our Donors (2013) (0)
- Response : Arctic Dinosaurs and Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions (1988) (0)
- Cimolestidae Marsh, 1889 (Mammalia): proposed suppression under the plenary powers (1964) (0)
- The Freshwater Fishes. vol. I. Key to the game and commercial fishes of the Province of Quebec. Vianney Legendre. Quebec Biological Bureau, Montreal, Engl. ed. 1, 1954. 180 pp. Les Poissons d'Eau Douce, Tome 1. Deuxième édition française (1954) (0)
- On the Big Bang Theory's Success: A Causal Analysis (2013) (0)
- EARLY MAMMALIAN FAUNAL RECOVERY FOLLOWING THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE MASS EXTINCTION EVENT IN MCGUIRE CREEK, MONTANA, USA (2017) (0)
- Mesozoic/Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Classic Localities, Contemporary Approaches (2013) (0)
- Eocene and Earlier Deposits: Advances In San Juan Basin Paleontology . Spencer G. Lucas, J. Keith Rigby, Jr., and Barry S. Kues, Eds. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1981. xii, 394 pp., illus. $27.50. (1982) (0)
- Vernal, Utah to Kemmerer, Wyoming (2013) (0)
- IGC Field Trip T322: Roadlog (2013) (0)
- Book Review:Deltatheridia, a New Order of Mammals. Leigh van Valen (1967) (0)
- Acyonidae Ameghino, 1889 (Mammalia): Supplement To Proposal To Suppress This Name. Z.n.(S.) 2159 (1978) (0)
- Cretaceous-tertiary dinosaur extinction. (1986) (0)
- The Valley of Hell Creek, Garfield County, Montana (2013) (0)
- MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION ACROSS THE CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SURVIVAL, DISPERSAL, AND EXTINCTION (2015) (0)
- Book Review:The Miacidae (Mammalia, Carnivora). Part I. The Systematics of Ictidopappus and Protictis. G. T. MacIntyre (1967) (0)
- Salt Lake City, Utah to Vernal, Utah (2013) (0)
- Race as a Disciplinary Property of Diaspora Studies (2013) (0)
- Characterization of enamel microstructure and application of the origins of prismatic structures in systematic analyses (2020) (0)
- Thermopolis, Wyoming to Cody, Wyoming (2013) (0)
- PAB volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2016) (0)
- Mammals (Pre-Quaternary), Extinctions of (2013) (0)
- Timescale of Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary: Links Between the Chicxulub Impact, Deccan Volcanism, and the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary (2018) (0)
- Quaternary extinctions. A prehistoric revolution: Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein (Editors). The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1984, 891 pp. Hardback. US $65.00. ISBN 0-8165-0812-7 (1988) (0)
- Holographic gauged NJL model and applications (2019) (0)
- Cody, Wyoming to Jordan, Montana (2013) (0)
- The Dog Imagery and Metaphors among the "Mutt Genres" in Michelle Boisseau's A Sunday in God-Years (2013) (0)
- Abstracts of Papers: Collecting Late Cretaceous Mammals in Alberta (1965) (0)
- The Freshwater Fishes . vol. I. Key to the game and commercial fishes of the Province of Quebec. Vianney Legendre. Quebec Biological Bureau, Montreal, Engl. ed. 1, 1954. 180 pp. Les Poissons d'Eau Douce , Tome 1. Deuxième édition française (1954) (0)
- Mesozoic/Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Classic Localities, Contemporary Approaches. Salt Lake City, Utah to Billings, Montana, July 19–27, 1989 (1989) (0)
- Chapter 30 Mammalia (1967) (0)
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