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- Barnes, L.G., N.D. Pyenson, and S.A. McLeod. 2005. Middle Miocene marine ecosystems and cetacean diversity as exemplified by the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, California, USA. Evolution of Aquatic Tetrapods, Fourth Triannual Convention Abstracts. Cranbrook Institute of Science Miscellaneous Publications 1:6-7.
- Barnosky, A.D. 2005. Effects of Quaternary climatic change on speciation in mammals. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12 (1/2):247-264.
- Barnosky, A.D., and A.B. Shabel. 2005. Comparison of mammalian species richness and community structure in historic and mid-Pleistocene times in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56(Supp. I, no. 5):50-61. Read it
- Barnosky, A.D., M.A. Carrasco, and E.B. Davis. 2005. The impact of the species-area relationship on estimates of paleodiversity. PLoS Biology 3(8):e266. Pp. 1-5. Read it
- Buskirk, J.R., J.F. Parham, and C.R. Feldman. 2005. On the hybridisation of two distantly related Asian turtles (Sacalia x Mauremys). Salamandra 41(1/2):21-26.
- Caldwell, R.L. 2005. An observation of inking behaviour protecting adult Octopus bocki from predation by Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings. Pacific Science 59:69-72.
- Clemens, W.A., and T.E. Williamson. 2005. A new species of Eoconodon (Triisodontidae, Mammalia) from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):208-213.
- Danilov, I.G., and J.F. Parham. 2005. A reassessment of the referral of an isolated skull from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan to the stem-testudinoid turtle genus Lindholmemys. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4).
- Diesmos, A.C., J.F. Parham, B.L. Stuart, and R. Brown. 2005. The phylogenetic position of the recently rediscovered Philippine forest turtle (Bataguridae: Heosemys leytensis). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56(3):31-41.
- Egi, N., P.A. Holroyd, T. Tsubamoto, Aung Naing Soe, M. Takai, and R.L. Ciochon. 2005. Proviverrine hyaenodontids (Creodonta: Mammalia) from the Eocene of Myanmar and phylogenetic analysis of the proviverrines from the Para-Tethys area. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 3(4):337-358. Read it
- Encinas, A., K.L. Finger, S.N. Nielsen, A. Lavenu, L. Buatois, and D.E. Peterson. 2005. Late Miocene coastal subsidence in central Chile: tectonic implications. 6th Intl. Symp. Andean Geodynamics, Sept. 12-14, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Pp. 246-249.
- Erwin, D.M., and H.E. Schorn. 2005. Revision of the conifers from the Eocene Thunder Mountain flora, Idaho, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 137:125-145.
- Erwin, D.M., H.E. Schorn, R.C. Smith, L.M. Levy, C.I. Millar, R.D. Westfall, J.C. King, and V.S. Moran. 2005. Nevada's buried treasure: the Lund Petrified Forest. Botanical Society of America meeting, Austin, Texas. Abstract #271. Read it
- Estes, J.A., D.R. Lindberg, and C. Wray. 2005. Evolution of large body size in abalones (Haliotis): Patterns and implications. Paleobiology 31(4):591-606.
- Feranec, R. S., A. D. Barnosky, and Chi N. Quang. 2005. New populations and biogeographic patterns of the geomyoid rodents Lignimus and Mojavemys from the Barstovian of western Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):962-975. Read it
- Finger, K.L., S.N. Nielsen, D.E. Peterson, and A. Encinas. 2005. Microfaunal evidence of late Miocene to early Pliocene deep-water displacement off the central coast of Chile. 19th Colloquium on Latin American Geosciences, GeoForshungsZentrum, April 18-20, Potsdam, Germany.
- Finnegan, S., and M.L. Droser. 2005. Relative and absolute abundance of trilobites and rhynchonelliform brachiopods across the Lower/Middle Ordovician boundary, eastern Basin and Range. Paleobiology 31(3):480-502.
- Fox, H.E., P.J. Mous, J.S. Pet, A.H. Muljadi, and R.L. Caldwell. 2005. Experimental assessment of coral reef rehabilitation following blast fishing. Conservation Biology 19:98-107.
- Fraser, N.C., R.B. Irmis, and D.K. Elliott. 2005. A procolophonid (Parareptilia) from the Owl Rock Member, Chinle Formation of Utah, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 8(1):13A. 7 pp. Read it
- Goodwin, M. B. 2005. What good was all the headgear? For decoration. Natural History Magazine 114(4):48-49.
- Hawkes, A., D.B. Scott, and J.H. Lipps. 2005. Evidence of possible precursor events for mega-thrust earthquakes on the west coast of North America. Geological Society of America Bulletin 117:996-1008.
- Hayward, B. W., Grenfell, H. R., Sabaa, A. T., Cochran, U., Carter, R., Lipps, J. H., and Morley, M. S. 2005. Marine microfossil record of large earthquakes in the past 7200 years in southern Hawkes Bay. 2005 Joint Conference of NZMSS, MBIC and MARGINS. Conference Programme, Information and Abstracts, p.52.
- Head, J.J., Holroyd, P.A., Hutchison J.H., and R.L. Ciochon. 2005. First report of snakes (Serpentes) from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):246-250.
- Hickman, C.S. 2005. How have bacteria contributed to the evolution of multicellular animals? Pp. 3-33 in M.J. McFall-Ngai, B. Henderson, and E.G. Ruby (eds.), The Influence of Cooperative Bacteria on Animal Host Biology. Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology 10. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Hickman, C.S. 2005. Seagrass fauna of the temperate southern coast of Australia I: The cantharidine trochid gastropods. Pp. 1-22 in F.E. Wells, D.I. Walker and G.A. Kendrick (eds), The Marine Flora and Fauna of Esperance, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth.
- Hickman, C.S. 2005. Seagrass fauna of the temperate southern coast of Australia II: The limpets Naccula parva and Asteracmea stowae. Pp. 23-36 in F.E. Wells, D.I. Walker and G.A. Kendrick (eds), The Marine Flora and Fauna of Esperance, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth.
- Holroyd, P.A., and J.C. Mussell. 2005. Origin and relationships of the Macroscelidea and Tubulidentata. Pp. 71-83 in K.D. Rose and J.D. Archibald (eds.), The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Holroyd, P.A., J.F. Parham, and J.H. Hutchison. 2005. A reappraisal of some Paleogene turtles from the southeastern United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):979-982.
- Hunt, A.P., S.G. Lucas, and N.D. Pyenson. 2005. The significance of the Union Chapel Mine site: A Lower Pennsylvanian (Westphalian A) ichnological Kozentrat-Lagerstätte, Alabama, USA. Pp. 3–14 in R.J. Buta, A.K. Rindsberg, and D.C. Kapaska-Merkel (eds.), Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama. Alabama Paleontological Society, Monograph No. 1, Birmingham, Alabama.
- Irmis, R.B. 2005. A review of the vertebrate fauna of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:55-71. Read it
- Irmis, R.B. 2005. The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona. Pp. 63-88 in S.J. Nesbitt, W.G. Parker, and R.B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic formations of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9. Read it
- Irmis, R.B., and W.G. Parker. 2005. Unusual tetrapod teeth from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Arizona. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42(7):1339-1345. Read it
- Lipps, J.H., and S. Rieboldt. 2005. Habitats and taphonomy of life on Europa. Icarus 177:515-527.
- Lonardelli, I., H-R. Wenk, L. Lutterotti, and M.B. Goodwin. 2005. Texture analysis from synchrotron diffraction with the Rietveld method: Dinosaur tendon and salmon scale. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 12:354-360.
- Main, R.P., A. de Ricqlès, J.R. Horner, and K. Padian. 2005. The evolution and function of thyreophoran scutes: Implications for plate function in stegosaurs. Paleobiology 31:293-316.
- Martin, A.J., and N.D. Pyenson. 2005. Behavioral significance of vertebrate trace fossils from the Union Chapel Mine Site. Pp. 59–73 in R.J. Buta, A.K. Rindsberg, and D.C. Kapaska-Merkel (eds.), Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama. Alabama Paleontological Society, Monograph No. 1, Birmingham, Alabama.
- Martínez-Navarro, B., A. Claret, A.B. Shabel, J.A. Pérez-Claros, C. Lorenzo, and P. Palmqvist. 2005. Early Pleistocene “hominid remains” from southern Spain and the taxonomic assignment of the Cueva Victoria phalanx. Journal of Human Evolution 48(5):517-523.
- Meyer, E., and K. Coates. 2005. An exploration of gamete maturity, growth and movement studies of Cittarium pica (West Indian Topshell) in Bermuda. The Tentacle 13: 20-21. Read it
- Nesbitt, S.J., R.B. Irmis, S.G. Lucas, and A.P. Hunt. 2005. A giant crocodylomorph from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 79(4):471-478.
- Nesbitt, S.J., W.G. Parker, and R.B. Irmis (eds.). 2005. Guidebook to the Triassic formations of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona: geology, paleontology, and history. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9.
- Nielsen, S.N., T. Vietor, H. Echtler, F. Lamy, K.L. Finger, D.E. Peterson, and D. Frassinetti. 2005. Late Cenozoic climate indicators in marine sediments of southern Chile: indications for the expansion of the circum-antarctic cryosphere and impact on strength of the subduction zone. 6th Intl. Symp. Andean Geodynamics, Sept. 12-14, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, Extended Abstracts. Pp. 552-554.
- Padian, K., K. Dial. 2005. Could 'four-winged' dinosaurs fly? Nature 438:doi:10.1038/nature04354.
- Parham, J.F. 2005. A reassessment of the referral of sea turtle skulls to the genus Osteopygis (Late Cretaceous, New Jersey, USA). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):71-77.
- Parker, W.G., and R.B. Irmis. 2005. Advances in vertebrate paleontology based on new material from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 29:45-58. Read it
- Parker, W.G., R.B. Irmis, S.J. Nesbitt, J.W. Martz, and L.S. Browne. 2005. The Late Triassic pseudosuchian Revueltosaurus callenderi and its implications for the diversity of early ornithischian dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences 272:963-969. Read it
- Patek, S.N., and R.L. Caldwell. 2005. Extreme impact and cavitation forces of a biological hammer: Strike forces of the peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus). Journal of Experimental Biology 208:3655-3664.
- Pyenson, N.D. 2005. Maxilla and mandible: tooth counts, telescoping, and the evolution of dentition in Neoceti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):102A.
- Pyenson, N.D., and L. Pyenson. 2005. Treating Medieval manuscripts as fossils. Science 309:698-701.
- Ratcliffe, B.C., D.M. Smith, and D.M. Erwin. 2005. Oryctoantiquus borealis, new genus and species from the Eocene of Oregon, USA, the world's oldest fossil dynastine and largest fossil scarabaeid (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 59(1):127-135. Read it
- Schulze-Makuch, D., L.N. Irwin, J.H. Lipps, D. LeMone, J.M. Dohm, and A.G. Fairén. 2005. Scenarios for the evolution of life on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research—Planets, 110, E12S23, doi:10.1029/2005JE002430.