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Last update: 17 May 2024

Zimmt, J.B.*, Holland, S.M., Desrochers, A., Jones, D.S., Finnegan, S., 2024. A high-resolution sequence stratigraphic framework for the eastern Ellis Bay Formation, Canada: A record of Hirnantian sea-level change. Geological Society of America Bulletin. | https://doi.org/10.1130/B37190.1 | pdf | supplemental

Kahanamoku-Meyer, S.S.*, Samuels-Fair, M.*, Kamel, S.M.‡,Stewart, D.‡, Wu, B.‡, Kahn, L.X.‡, Titcomb, M.‡, Mei, Y.A.‡,Bridge, R.C.‡, Li, Y.S.‡, Sinco, C.‡, Moreno, J.‡, Epino, J.T.‡, Gonzalez-Marin, G.‡, Latt, C.‡, Fergus, H.‡, Duijnstee, I.A.P., Finnegan, S., 2024. An 800-year record of benthic foraminifer images and 2D morphometrics from the Santa Barbara Basin. Scientific Data 11:Article 144. | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02934-9 | pdf

Finnegan, S., Harnik, L.H., Lockwood, R., Lotze, H.K., McClenachan, L. and Kahanamoku, S.S.*, 2024. Using the fossil record to understand extinction risk and inform marine conservation in a changing world. Annual Review of Marine Sciences 16:307-333. | https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-021723-095235 | pdf

Smith, J. , Rillo, M. , Kocsis, A.T., Dornelas, M., Fastovich, D., Huang, H.H. , Jonkers, L. , Kiessling, W. , Li, Q., Liow, L.H. , Margulis-Ohnuma, M., , Meyers, S., Na, L., Penny, A., Pippenger, K., Renaudie, J. , Saupe, E.E. , Steinbauer, M., Sugawara, M., Tomašových, A., Williams, J.W. , Yasuhara, M., Finnegan, S., Hull, P.M., 2023. BioDeepTime: a database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(10):1680-1689 | https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13735 | pdf | supplemental S1, S2

Rasmussen, C.M.Ø., Vandenbrouke, T.R.A., Nogues-Bravo, D., and Finnegan, S., 2023. Was the Late Ordovician mass extinction truly exceptional? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38(9): 812-821. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.009 | pdf

Pohl, A., Lu, Z., Lu, W., Stockey, R. G., Elrick, M., Li, M., Desrochers, A., Shen, Y., He, R., Finnegan, S., and Ridgwell, A., 2021. Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation. Nature Geoscience 14:868–873. | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00843-9 | pdf | supplemental

Stockey, R. G., Pohl, A., Ridgwell, A., Finnegan, S., and Sperling, E. A., 2021. Decreasing Phanerozoic extinction intensity as a consequence of Earth surface oxygenation and metazoan ecophysiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2101900118. | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101900118 | pdf | supplemental

Orzechowski, E. A.*, and Finnegan, S., 2021. Controls on range shifts of coastal Californian bivalves during the peak of the last interglacial and baseline predictions for today. Paleobiology 47:418–431. | https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2020.43 | pdf

Goldberg, S. L., T. M. Present, T.M., Finnegan, S., and Bergmann, K.D., 2021. A high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2013083118. | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013083118 | pdf | supplemental

Zimmt, J. B.*, Holland, S. M., Finnegan, S., and Marshall, C. R. 2021. Recognizing pulses of extinction from clusters of last occurrences. Palaeontology 64:1–20. | https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12505 | pdf

Saulsbury, J.‡, Moss, D.K., Ivany, L.C., Kowalewski, M., Lindberg, D.R., Gillooly, J.F., Heim, N.A., McClain, C.R., Payne, J.L., Roopnarine, P.D., Schöne, B.R., Goodwin, D., Finnegan, S. 2020. Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to heterogeneity are complementary: Response to comments on “Evaluating the influences of temperature, primary production, and evolutionary history on bivalve growth rates.” Paleobiology 46, 275–277. | https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2020.20 | pdf

McClain, C.R., Webb, T.J., Nunnally, C.C., Dixon, S.R., Finnegan, S., Nelson, J.A., 2020. Metabolic niches and biodiversity: a test case in the deep sea benthos. Frontiers in Marine Science 7. | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00216 | pdf

Yasuhara, M., Huang, H.-H.M., Hull, P., Rillo, M.C., Condamine, F.L., Tittensor, D.P., Kučera, M., Costello, M.J., Finnegan, S., O’Dea, A., Hong, Y., Bonebrake, T.C., McKenzie, N.R., Doi, H., Wei, C.-L., Kubota, Y., Saupe, E.E., 2020. Time machine biology: cross-timescale integration of ecology, evolution, and oceanography. Oceanography 33, 16–28. | https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2020.225 | pdf

Saupe, E.E., Qiao, H., Donnadieu, Y., Farnsworth, A., Kennedy-Asser, A.T., Ladant, J.-B., Lunt, D.J., Pohl, A., Valdes, P., Finnegan, S., 2019. Extinction intensity during Ordovician and Cenozoic glaciations explained by cooling and palaeogeography. Nature Geosciences 13, 65-70. | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0504-6 | pdf | supplemental

Ling, M.-X., Zhan, R.B., Wang, G.X., Wang, Y., Amelin, Y., Tang, P., Liu, J.B., Jin, J., Huang, B., Wu, R.C., Xue, S., Fu, B., Bennett, V.C., Wei, X., Luan, X.C., Finnegan, S., Harper, D.A.T., Rong, J.Y., 2019. An extremely brief end Ordovician mass extinction linked to abrupt onset of glaciation. Solid Earth Sciences 4, 190-198. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sesci.2019.11.001 | pdf

Smits, P.^§, Finnegan, S., 2019. How predictable is extinction? Forecasting species survival at million-year timescales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374, 1788. | https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0392 | pdf | supplemental

Saulsbury, J.‡, Moss, D.K., Ivany, L.C., Kowalewski, M., Lindberg, D.R., Gillooly, J.F., Heim, N.A., McClain, C.R., Payne, J.L., Roopnarine, P.D., Schöne, B.R., Goodwin, D., Finnegan, S., 2019. Evaluating the influences of temperature, primary production, and evolutionary history on bivalve growth rates. Paleobiology 45, 405-420. | https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2019.20 | pdf | data

Taylor, L.D.*, O’Dea, A., Bralower, T.J., Finnegan, S., 2019. Isotopes from fossil coronulid barnacle shells record evidence of migration in multiple Pleistocene whale populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116, 7377–7381. | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1808759116 | pdf | supplemental

Finnegan, S., Gehling, J.G., Droser, M.L., 2019. Unusually variable paleocommunity composition in the oldest metazoan fossil assemblages. Paleobiology 45, 235–245. | https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2019.1 | pdf

Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Hyžný, M., Portell, R.W., Jauvion, C., Charbonnier, S., Fussell, S.S., Klier, A.T., Tejera, R., Jakobsen, S.L., 2019. Muscles and muscle scars in fossil malacostracan crustaceans. Earth-Science Reviews 194, 306–326. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.012 | pdf

Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Kelley, P.H., Chattopadhyay, D., Clements, J.C., Huntley, J.W., Kowalewski, M., 2019. Predation in the marine fossil record: Studies, data, recognition, environmental factors, and behavior. Earth-Science Reviews 194, 472–520. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.02.020 | pdf

Lee, C.^§, Love, G.D., Hopkins, M.J., Kröger, B., Franeck, F., Finnegan, S., 2019. Lipid biomarker and stable isotopic profiles through Early-Middle Ordovician carbonates from Spitsbergen, Norway. Organic Geochemistry 131, 5–18. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.02.008 | pdf | supplemental

Villegas‐Martín, J., Ceolin, D., Fauth, G., Klompmaker, A.A.^§, 2019. A small yet occasional meal: predatory drill holes in Paleocene ostracods from Argentina and methods to infer predation intensity. Palaeontology. | https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12423 | pdf

Hryniewicz, K., Amano, K., Bitner, M.A., Hagström, J., Kiel, S., Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Mörs, T., Robins, C.M., Kaim, A., 2019. A late Paleocene fauna from shallow-water chemosynthesis-based ecosystems, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Acta Palaeontologia Polonica 64, 101–141. | https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00554.2018 | pdf

Zimmt, J.B.*, Lockwood, R., Andrus, C.F.T., Herbert, G.S., 2019. Sclerochronological basis for growth band counting: A reliable technique for life-span determination of Crassostrea virginica from the mid-Atlantic United States. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 516, 54–63. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.029 | pdf

Rose, C.V., Fischer, W.W., Finnegan, S., Fike, D.A., 2019. Records of carbon and sulfur cycling during the Silurian Ireviken Event in Gotland, Sweden. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 246, 299–316. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.11.030 | pdf | supplemental

Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Finnegan, S., 2018. Extreme rarity of competitive exclusion in modern and fossil marine benthic ecosystems. Geology 46, 723–726. | https://doi.org/10.1130/G45032.1 | pdf | supplemental

Hsiang, A.Y., Nelson, K., Elder, L.E., Sibert, E.C., Kahanamoku, S.S.*, Burke, J.E., Kelly, A., Liu, Y. and Hull, P.M., 2018. AutoMorph: Accelerating morphometrics with automated 2D and 3D image processing and shape extraction. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9, 605–612. | https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12915 | pdf | supplemental

Elder, L.E., Hsiang, A.Y., Nelson, K., Strotz, L.C., Kahanamoku, S.S.*, Hull, P.M., 2018. Sixty-one thousand recent planktonic foraminifera from the Atlantic Ocean. Scientific Data 5, 180109. | https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.109 | pdf | supplemental

Marshall, C.R., Finnegan, S., Clites, E.C., Holroyd, P.A., Bonuso, N., Cortez, C., Davis, E., Dietl, G.P., Druckenmiller, P.S., Eng, R.C., Garcia, C., Estes-Smargiassi, K., Hendy, A., Hollis, K.A., Little, H., Nesbitt, E.A., Roopnarine, P., Skibinski, L., Vendetti, J., White, L.D., 2018. Quantifying the dark data in museum fossil collections as palaeontology undergoes a second digital revolution. Biology Letters 14, 20180431. | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0431 | pdf

Bergmann, K.D., Finnegan, S., Creel, R., Eiler, J.M., Hughes, N.C., Popov, L.E., Fischer, W.W., 2018. A paired apatite and calcite clumped isotope thermometry approach to estimating Cambro-Ordovician seawater temperatures and isotopic composition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 224, 18–41. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.11.015 | pdf | supplemental

Creveling, J.R., Finnegan, S., Mitrovica, J.X., Bergmann, K.D., 2018. Spatial variation in Late Ordovician glacioeustatic sea-level change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 496, 1–9. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.008 | pdf

Kahanamoku, S.S.*, Hull, P.M., Lindberg, D.R., Hsiang, A.Y., Clites, E.C., Finnegan, S., 2018. Twelve thousand recent patellogastropods from a northeastern Pacific latitudinal gradient. Scientific Data 5, 170197. | https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.197 | pdf | supplemental

Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Portell, R.W., Frick, M.G., 2017. Comparative experimental taphonomy of eight marine arthropods indicates distinct differences in preservation potential. Palaeontology 60, 773–794. | https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12314 | pdf

Luque, J., Schweitzer, C.E., Santana, W., Portell, R.W., Vega, F.J., Klompmaker, A.A.^§, 2017. Checklist of fossil decapod crustaceans from tropical America, Part I: Anomura and Brachyura. Nauplius 25, e2017025. | https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2017025 | pdf

Díaz-Medina, G., Hyžný, M., Klompmaker, A.A.^§, 2017. A lithostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental framework for the Late Miocene El Caracolar section (Granada Basin, Betic Cordillera, Spain) and description of decapod crustaceans. Geobios 50, 173–195. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2017.04.003 | pdf | supplemental

Finnegan, S., Rasmussen, C.M.Ø., Harper, D.A.T., 2017. Identifying the most surprising victims of mass extinction events: an example using Late Ordovician brachiopods. Biology Letters 13, 20170400. | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0400 | pdf | supplemental

Kröger, B., Finnegan, S., Franeck, F., Hopkins, M.J., 2017. The Ordovician succession adjacent to Hinlopenstretet, Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen.  American Museum Novitates 3882, 1–28. | https://doi.org/10.1206/3882.1 | pdf

Heim, N.A., Payne, J.L., Finnegan, S., Knope, M.L., Kowalewski, M., Lyons, S.K., McShea, D.W., Novack-Gottshall, P.M., Smith, F.A., Wang, S.C., 2017. Hierarchical complexity and the size limits of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284, 20171039. | https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1039 | pdf | supplemental

Klompmaker A.A.^§, Kowalewski M., Huntley J.W., Finnegan S., 2017. Increase in predator-prey size ratios throughout the Phanerozoic history of marine ecosystems. Science 356, 1178–1180. | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam7468 | pdf | supplemental

Zaffos, A., Finnegan, S., Peters, S.E., 2017. Plate tectonic regulation of global marine animal diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114, 5653–5658. | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702297114 | pdf | supplemental

Spalding, C., Finnegan, S., Fischer, W.W. 2017. Energetic costs of calcification under ocean acidification. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 31, 866–877. | https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GB005597 | pdf | supplemental

Smith, F.A., Payne, J.L., Heim, N.A., Balk, M.A., Finnegan, S., Kowalewski, M., Lyons, S.K., McClain, C.R., McShea, D.W., Novack-Gottshall, P.M., Anich, P.S., Wang, S.C., 2016. Body size evolution across the Geozoic. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 44, 523–553. | https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012147 | pdf

Finnegan, S., Rasmussen, C.M.Ø., Harper, D.A.T., 2016. Biogeographic and bathymetric determinants of brachiopod extinction and survival during the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283, 20160007. | https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0007 | pdf | supplemental S1, S2, S3, S4

O’Dea, A., Lessios, H.A., Coates, A.G., Eytan, R.I., Restrepo-Moreno, S.A., Cione, A.L., Collins, L.S., de Queiroz, A., Farris, D.W., Norris, R.D., Stallard, R.F., Woodburne, M.O., Aguilera, O., Aubry, M., Berggren, W.A., Budd, A.F., Cozzuol, M.A., Coppard, S.E., Duque-Caro, H., Finnegan, S., Gasparini, G.M., Grossman, E.L., Johnson, K.G., Keigwin, L.D., Knowlton, N., Leigh, E.G., Leonard-Pingel, J.S., Marko, P.B., Pyenson, N.D., Rachello-Dolmen, P., Soibelzon, E., Soibelzon, L., Todd, J.A., Vermeij, G.J., Jackson, J.B.C., 2016. Formation of the Isthmus of Panama.  Science Advances 2, e1600883. | https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600883 | pdf | supplemental

Neto de Carvalho, C., Pereira, B., Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Baucon, A., Moita, J.A., Pereira, P., Machado, S., Belo, J., Carvalho, J., Mergulhão, L., 2016. Running crabs, walking crinoids, grazing gastropods: behavioral diversity and evolutionary implications of the Cabeço da Ladeira Lagerstätte (Middle Jurassic, Portugal). Comunicações Geológicas 103, 39–54. | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5285 | pdf

Villegas-Martín, J., Rojas-Consuegra, R., Klompmaker, A.A.^§, 2016. Drill hole predation on tubes of serpulid polychaetes from the Upper Cretaceous of Cuba. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 455, 44–52. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.05.009 | pdf | supplemental

Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Chistoserdov, A.Y., Felder, D.L., 2016. Possible shell disease in 100-million-year-old crabs. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 119, 91–99. | https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02988 | pdf

Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Portell, R.W., Van der Meij, S.E.T., 2016. Trace fossil evidence of coral-inhabiting crabs (Cryptochiridae) and its implications for growth and paleobiogeography. Scientific Reports 6, 23443. | https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23443 | pdf | supplemental S1, S2, S3

Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Nützel, A., Kaim, A., 2016. Drill hole convergence and a quantitative analysis of drill holes in mollusks and brachiopods from the Triassic of Italy and Poland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 457, 342–359. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.06.017 | pdf | supplemental

Klompmaker, A.A.^§, Jakobsen, S.L., Lauridsen, B.W., 2016. Evolution of body size, vision, and biodiversity of coral-associated organisms: evidence from fossil decapod crustaceans in cold-water coral and tropical coral ecosystems. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16, 132. | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0694-0 | pdf | supplemental

Orzechowski, E.A.*, Lockwood, R., Byrnes, J.E.K., Anderson, S.C., Finnegan, S., Finkel, Z.V., Harnik, P.G., Lindberg, D.R., Liow, L.H., Lotze, H.K., McClain, C.R., McGuire, J.L., O’Dea, A., Pandolfi, J.M., Simpson, C., Tittensor, D.P., 2015. Marine extinction risk shaped by trait–environment interactions over 500 million years. Global Change Biology 21, 3595–3607. | https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12963 | pdf | supplemental S1, S2

Finnegan, S., Anderson, S.C., Harnik, P.G., Simpson, C., Tittensor, D.P., Byrnes, J.E., Finkel, Z.V., Lindberg, D.R., Liow, L.H., Lockwood, R., Lotze, H.K., McClain, C.R., McGuire, J.L., O’Dea, A., Pandolfi, J.M., 2015. Paleontological baselines for evaluating extinction risk in the modern oceans. Science 348, 567–570. | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa6635 | pdf | supplemental

Finnegan, N.J., Schumer, R., Finnegan, S., 2014. A signature of transience in bedrock river incision rates over timescales of 104-107 years. Nature 505, 391–394. | https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12913 | pdf | supplemental

Cummins, R.C., Finnegan, S., Fike, D.A., Eiler, J.M., Fischer, W.W., 2014. Carbonate clumped isotope constraints on Silurian ocean temperature and seawater δ18O. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 140, 241–258. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.05.024 | pdf | supplemental

Blois, J.L., Zarnetske, P.L., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Finnegan, S., 2013. Climate change and the past, present, and future of biotic interactions. Science 341, 499–504. | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1237184 | pdf

Finnegan, S., 2013. Quantifying seafood through time : counting calories in the fossil record. In: Ecosystem Geobiology and Paleobiology, Paleontological Society Papers. pp. 21–49. | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1089332600002679 | pdf

Rohrssen, M., Love, G.D., Fischer, W., Finnegan, S., Fike, D.A., 2013. Lipid biomarkers record fundamental changes in the microbial community structure of tropical seas during the Late Ordovician Hirnantian glaciation. Geology 41, 127-30. | https://doi.org/10.1130/G33671.1 | pdf | supplemental

Finnegan, S., Fike, D.A., Jones, D., Fischer, W.W., 2012. A temperature-dependent positive feedback on the magnitude of carbon isotope excursions. Geoscience Canada 39, 122–131. | https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/geocan39_3pfh01 | pdf

Payne, J.L., Smith, F.A., Kowalewski, M., Krause, J., Richard, A., Boyer, A.G., McClain, C.R., Finnegan, S., Novack-Gottshall, P.M., Sheble, L., 2012. A lack of attribution: closing the citation gap through a reform of citation and indexing practices. Taxon 61, 1349–1351. | https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.616030 | pdf

Harnik, P.G., Lotze, H.K., Anderson, S.C., Finkel, Z.V., Finnegan, S., Lindberg, D.R., Liow, L.H., Lockwood, R., McClain, C.R., McGuire, J.L., O Dea, A., Pandolfi, J.M., Simpson, C., Tittensor, D.P., 2012. Extinctions in ancient and modern seas. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27, 608–617. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2012.07.010 | pdf

Finnegan, S., Heim, N.A., Peters, S.E., Fischer, W.W., 2012. Climate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, 6829–6834. | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1117039109 | pdf | supplemental

Finnegan, S., Bergmann, K., Eiler, J.M., Jones, D.S., Fike, D.A., Eisenman, I., Hughes, N.C., Tripati, A.K., Fischer, W.W., 2011. The magnitude and duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation. Science 331, 903–906. | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1200803 | pdf | supplemental

Payne, J.L., McClain, C.R., Boyer, A.G., Brown, J.H., Finnegan, S., Kowalewski, M., Krause, R.A., Lyons, S.K., McShea, D.W., Novack-Gottshall, P.M., Smith, F.A., Spaeth, P., Stempien, J.A., Wang, S.C., 2011. The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective. Photosynthesis Research 107, 37–57. | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-010-9593-1 | pdf

Kowalewski, M., Payne, J.L., Smith, F.A., Wang, S.C., Mcshea, D.W., Xiao, S., Novack-Gottshall, P.M., McClain, C.R., Krause Jr, R.A., Boyer, A.G., Krause, R.A., Finnegan, S., Lyons, S.K., Stempien, J.A., Alroy, J., Spaeth, P.A., 2011. The Geozoic Supereon. Palaios 26, 251–255. | https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2011.S03 | pdf

Jones, D.S., Fike, D.A., Finnegan, S., Fischer, W.W., Schrag, D.P., McCay, D., 2011. Terminal Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy and glacioeustatic sea-level change across Anticosti Island (Quebec, Canada). Geological Society Of America Bulletin 123, 1645–1664. | https://doi.org/10.1130/B30323.1 | pdf | supplemental

Finnegan, S., McClain, C.M., Kosnik, M.A., Payne, J.L., 2011. Escargots through time: an energetic comparison of marine gastropod assemblages before and after the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Paleobiology 37, 252–269. | https://doi.org/10.1666/09066.1 | pdf | supplemental

Finnegan, S., Peters, S.E., Fischer, W., 2011. Late Ordovician-Early Silurian selective extinction patterns in Laurentia and their relationship to climate change. Ordovician of the World, Cuadernas del Museo Geominero 14, 155–159. | pdf

Pruss, S.B., Finnegan, S., Fischer, W.W., Knoll, A.H., 2010. Carbonates in skeleton-poor seas: new insights from Cambrian and Ordovician strata of Laurentia. Palaios 25, 73–84. | https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.p09-101r | pdf

Kowalewski, M., Finnegan, S., 2010. Theoretical diversity of the marine biosphere. Paleobiology 36, 1–15. | https://doi.org/10.1666/0094-8373-36.1.1 | pdf

Bennington, J.B., Dimichele, W.A., Badgley, C., Bambach, R.K., Barrett, P.M., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Bobe, R., Burnham, R.J., Daeschler, E.B., Dam, J.V., Eronen, J.T., Erwin, D.H., Finnegan, S., Holland, S.M., Hunt, G., Jablonski, D., Jackson, S.T., Jacobs, B.F., Kidwell, S.M., Koch, P.L., Kowalewski, M.J., Labandeira, C.C., Looy, C.V., Lyons, S.K., Novack-Gottshall, P.M., Potts, R., Roopnarine, P.D., Strömberg, C.A.E., Sues, H.-D., Wagner, P.J., Wilf, P., Wing, S.L., 2009. Critical issues of scale in paleoecology. Palaois 24, 1–4. | https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01 | pdf

Sumrall, C.D., Sprinkle, J., Pruss, S., Finnegan, S., 2009. Cardiocystella, a new cornute stylophoran from the Upper Cambrian Whipple Cave Formation, eastern Nevada, USA. Journal of Paleontology 83, 307–312. | https://doi.org/10.1666/08-114.1 | pdf

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