Recent Faculty and Student Research Publications

Journal of Paleontology, June 16, 2025

First report of Jurassic Anomura (Galatheoidea) and Brachyura(Dromiacea, Goniodromitidae) in Russia

Eduard V. Mychko, Carrie E. Schweitzer, and Rodney M. Feldmann

Journal of Paleontology, June 11, 2025

New Carboniferous and Permian cyclidans (Multicrustacea: Cyclida) from the Urals (Russia): the unpublished collection of B.I. Chernyshev at the CNIGR museum in St. Petersburg

Eduard V. Mychko, Alexander S. Alekseev, and Carrie E. Schweitzer

Archaeometry March 2025

What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's 'primordial soup'? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature

Metin I. Eren, Stephen J. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, Alastair Key, Briggs Buchanan, Emma Finestone, Joseph Benson, Rebecca Biermann Gürbüz, Adela Cebeiro, Roman Garba, Anne Grunow, C. Owen Lovejoy, Danielle MacDonald, Erica Maletic, G. Logan Miller, Joseph D. Ortiz, Jonathan Paige,  Justin Pargeter, Tomos Proffitt, Mary Ann Raghanti,  Teal Riley, Jeffrey I. Rose, David M. Singer, Robert S. Walker

Treatis Online, Number 186

Part R, Revised, Volume 1, Evolutionary History of Decapod Groups: Anomura

Carrie E. Schweitzer, Hiroaki Karasawa

Geological Magazine, March 14, 2025

Long duration ~600-500 Ma high-T metamorphism ended with early Ordovician rapid intermediate-T cooling and stabilization of Sri Lanka in central Gondwana

Daniel K. Holm, Inoka Widanagamage, Nelia Dunbar, Matthew Heizler

Journal of Crustacean Biology, March 4, 2025

New genus and species of Stomatopoda (Malacostraca: Hoplocarida: Gorgonophontidae) from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Oklahoma, USA

Carrie E. Schweitzer and Frederick R. Schram

Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, February 2025

Soil contamination by environmentally persistent free radicals and dioxins following train derailment in East Palestine, OH

Myron L. Lard, Sarah E. Eichler, Peng Gao, Kuldeep Singh, Joseph D. Ortiz, Robert L. Cook, Slawomir Lomnicki, Stephania A. Cormier, and Jennifer Richmond-Bryant

Journal of Paleontology and Cambridge University Press, February 2025

Ontogenetic morphology changes in crab assemblage (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Dakoticancroida) from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the Mississippi Embayment, USA

Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann, and Jillian Findling

Treatise Online, January 2025

Treatise Online no. 185: Part R, Revised, Volume 1. Evolutionary history of decapod groups: Lobsters (Palaeopalaemonida, Polychelida, Achelata, Glypheidea, marine Astacidea)

Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann, Denis Audo, Sylvain Charbonnier, Hiroaki Karasawa, Guenter Schweigert

Journal of Crustacean Biology, October 26, 2024

Diversity, environments, and biogeography of Homoloida (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Late Jurassic to the present

Austin B. Shaffer, Carrie E. Schweitzer

Palaeontologica Electronica, October 2024

The body impression of a new genus and species of cymothoid isopod (Cymothoidae, Crustacea) preserved in a vertebrate coprolite from the Atlantic Coastal Plain (Miocene, Chesapeake Group) of Virginia, USA

S. J. Godfrey, R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer

Biologically-Inspired Systems, September 2024

Microwear Analysis and Functional Morphology of Claws of the Florida Stone Crab, Menippe mercenaria

Eric J. Sload, Rodney M. Feldmann, Matthew S. Lehnert, Carrie E. Schweitzer

Nature, September 2024

Interplay of the Indian summer monsoon and intermonsoon precipitation in Sri Lanka due to ITCZ migration during the last 80,000 years

P. N. Ranasinghe, K. A. Hughen, T. U. T. Wijewardhana, J. D. Ortiz, et. al. 

Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, August 2024

Revision and additions to early Cenozoic Brachyura (Crustacea: Dromiacea: Eubrachyura) from the USA

Carrie E. Schweitzer

Part R, Revised, Volume 1, Treatise Online 183, 2024

Systematic Descriptions: Additions to Superfamilies of Eubrachyura, Exclusive of Thoracotremata

Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann, Hiroaki Karasawa

Part R, Revised, Volume 1, Treatise Online 184, 2024

Systematic Descriptions: Additions to Sections Homoloida, Dakoticancroida, Cyclodorippoida, and Raninoida

Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann, Hiroaki Karasawa

Neues Jahrbuch fűr Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, July 2024

Revision of a Cretaceous dromiacean crab (Decapoda: Brachyura) from North America

Caitlin E. LaBonte, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann

Communications Earth & Environment, July 2024

Discovery of giant and conventional magentofossils bookending Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

Courtney L. Wagner, Ioan Lascu, Jean M Self-Trail, Tim Gooding, Kenneth J. T. Livi, Gianna Greger, Kristina Gardner, Jody Wycech, Mark Dreier, Tom Oliver

Geoarchaeology, An International Journal, July 2024

Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar and south-central (Duqm, Al Wusta) Oman

Metin I. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber, David M. Singer, Chloe Pearson, Joseph D. Ortiz, et. al.

Nature, January 2024

Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini

Tim Druitt, Steffen Kutterolf...Tatiana Fernandez-Perez, et. al.

Journal of Paleolimnology, June 2023

A pre-bomb radiocarbon freshwater reservoir correction for the Laurentian Great Lakes

Kalpani M. Ratnayake, Rebecca Clotts, Enriqueta C. Barrera, Beverly Z. Saylor, Joseph D. Ortiz

Soil Systems, June 2023

Surface Coal Mine Soils: Evidence for Chronosequence Development

Kyle E. Smart, David M. Singer

Applied Geochemistry, February 2023

Lime slurry treatment of soils developing on abandoned coal mine spoil: Linking contaminant transport from the micrometer to pedon-scale

Daniel L. Wood, Kortney A, Cole, Elizabeth M. Herndon, David M. Singer

Science, February 2023

A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem

Xu Dai, Joshua H. F. L. Davies, Zhiwei Yuan, Arnaud Brayard, Maria Ovtcharova, Guanghui Xu, Xiaokang Liu, Christopher P. A. Smith, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Mingtao Li, Morgann G. Perrot, Shouyi Jiang, Luyi Miao, Yiran Cao, Jia Yan, Ruoyu Bai, Fengyu Wang, Wei Guo, Huyue Song, Li Tian, Jacopo Dal Corso, Yuting Liu, Daoliang Chu, Haijun Song

Terra Nova, July 2022

Continent-scale sediment dispersal for the Proterozoic Baraboo Interval quartzites in the Laurentian midcontinent

D.H. Malone, J.P. Craddock, D.K. Holm, Aidan Kreiger, S.J. Baumann

The Geological Society of America, April 2022

Five million years of high atmospheric CO₂ in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

M.M. Joachimski, J. Müller, T.M. Gallaher, G. Mathes, D.L. Chu, F. Mouraviev, V. Silantiev, Y.D. Sun, J.N. Tong