Abstracts - January 2007, Volume 22, Issue 1

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Table of Contents for the January issue of PALAIOS
Volume 22, Number 1

Spotlight

Change is good, isn't it?
     Edith L. Taylor and Stephen T. Hasiotis Article
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Research Articles

Paleontologic evidence for sedimentary displacement in Neogene forearc basins of central Chile
     Kenneth L. Finger, Sven N. Nielsen, Thomas J. Devries, Alfonso Encinas, and Dawn E. Peterson Abstract
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Placunopsis bioherms: The first metazoan buildups following the end-Permian mass extinction
     Sara B. Pruss, Jonathan L. Payne, and David J. Bottjer Abstract
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Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of the Williston Basin, Montana, USA: Implications from the quantitative analysis of unionoid bivalve taxonomic diversity and morphologic disparity
     Henning Scholz and Joseph H. Hartman Abstract
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Late Cretaceous gastropod drilling intensities: Data from the Maastrichtian Fox Hills Formation, Western Interior Seaway, USA
     Peter J. Harries and Kenneth M. Schopf Abstract
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Unmixing foraminiferal assemblages: Polytopic vector analysis applied to Yakataga Formation sequences in the offshore Gulf of Alaska
     Sarah Diana Zellers and Anthony C. Gary
     Supplementary Data Abstract
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Body size estimates from the literature: utility and potential for macroevolutionary studies
     Richard A. Krause, Jr., Jennifer A. Stempien, Michał Kowalewski, and Arnold I. Miller Abstract
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Lingulide brachiopods and the trace fossil Lingulichnus from the Triassic of western Canada: Implications for faunal recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction
     John-Paul Zonneveld, Tyler W. Beatty, and S. George Pemberton Abstract
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Oxygen isotopic composition of biogenic phosphate and the temperature of Early Ordovician seawater
     Damon Bassett, Kenneth G. Macleod, James F. Miller, Raymond L. Ethington Abstract
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Research Notes

Thalassinoides and its producer: Populations of Mecochirus buried within their burrow systems, Boca do Chapim Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Portugal
     Carlos Neto De Carvalho, Pedro Andrade Viegas, and Mário Cachão Abstract
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