Bruce S. Lieberman

University of Kansas

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Alycia L. Stigall

Ohio University

Julien Kimmig

State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe

Luke C. Strotz

University of Kansas

Niles Eldredge

American Museum of Natural History

Michael C. Pope

Texas A&M University

Gregory D. Edgecombe

Natural History Museum

Kelly A. Dilliard

Wayne State College

Adrian L. Melott

University of Kansas

Heather Shinogle

University of Kansas

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Chevron (United States)

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Editorial: Horizons in Earth science 2022

Frontiers in Earth Science (2023)

Derek Keir Bruce S. Lieberman Valerio Acocella Wouter Buytaert Steven L. Forman

EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 09 November 2023Sec. Volcanology Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1321937

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Volcanology

10.3389/feart.2023.1321937

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Paleobiogeography: The Relevance of Fossils to Biogeography

Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics (2003)

Bruce S. Lieberman

▪ Abstract Paleobiogeography has advanced as a discipline owing to the increasing utilization of a phylogenetic approach to the study of biogeographic patterns. Coupled with this, there has been an increasing interdigitation of paleontology with molecular systematics because of the development of techniques to analyze ancient DNA and because of the use of sophisticated methods to utilize molecules to date evolutionary divergence events. One pervasive pattern emerging from several paleontological and molecular analyses of paleobiogeographic patterns is the recognition that repeated episodes of range expansion or geo-dispersal occur congruently in several different lineages, just as congruent patterns of vicariance also occur in independent lineages. The development of new analytical methods based on a modified version of Brooks Parsimony Analysis makes it possible to analyze both geo-dispersal and vicariance in a phylogenetic context, suggesting that biogeography as a discipline should focus on the analysis of a variety of congruent phenomena, not just vicariance. The important role that extinction plays in influencing apparent biogeographic patterns among modern and fossil groups suggests that this is another area ripe for new methodological developments.

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10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.121101.153549

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Revised Biostratigraphy, Systematics, and Paleobiogeography of the Trilobites from the Middle Cambrian Nelson Limestone, Antarctica

Paleontological Contributions New Series (1992-2009) (2004)

Bruce S. Lieberman

A biostratigraphic analysis of the Nelson Limestone, Neptune Range, Antarctica based on the distribution of trilobites in measured sections suggests that the age of the formation is probably late Floran to Undillan; the possibility of a Boomerangian age is considered less likely.The Nelsonia schesis and A mphoton oatesi zones are also defined.Paleobiogeographic analysis of trilobites in the Nelson Limestone using parsimony analysis of endemism (PAE) suggests that the Neptune Range and other parts of East Antarctica share the closest biogeographic area relationships with Australia rather than with northern Victoria Land or West Antarctica.This may have implications for the tectonic assembly of Antarctica.New specimens of previously described trilobite species from the Nelson Limestone include two new species, Peishania?neptunensis and Poriagraulos kaesleri.One species, Dorypyge sp.cf.D. australis, previously known only from the Bowers Terrane of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, is recognized for the first time in the Neptune Range.

10.17161/pcns.1808.3765

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Paleobiology II.Edited by Derek E G Briggs and , Peter R Crowther. Oxford and Malden (Massachusetts): Blackwell Science. $210.95. xv + 583 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–632–05147–7. 2001.

The Quarterly Review of Biology (2003)

Bruce S. Lieberman

10.1086/382386

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Middle Cambrian arthropods from Utah

Journal of Paleontology (2008)

Derek E. G. Briggs Bruce S. Lieberman Jonathan R. Hendricks Susan L. Halgedahl Richard D. Jarrard

The Middle Cambrian Spence Shale Member (Langston Formation) and Wheeler and Marjum Formations of Utah are known to contain a diverse soft-bodied fauna, but important new paleontological material continues to be uncovered from these strata. New specimens of anomalocaridids include the largest and smallest near complete examples yet reported from Utah. New material of stem group arthropods includes two new genera and species of arachnomorphs: Nettapezoura basilika and Dicranocaris guntherorum. Other new arachnomorph material includes a new species of Leanchoilia comparable to L. protogonia Simonetta, 1970; Leanchoilia superlata? Walcott, 1912; Sidneyia Walcott, 1911a; and Mollisonia symmetrica Walcott, 1912. L. protogonia from the Burgess Shale is confirmed as a separate species and is not a composite fossil. The first example of the trilobite Elrathia kingii preserving traces of the appendages is described. In addition, new material of the bivalved arthropods Canadaspis Novozhilov in Orlov, 1960; Branchiocaris Briggs, 1976; Waptia Walcott, 1912; and Isoxys Walcott, 1890 is described.

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10.1666/06-086.1

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Quantitative palaeobiogeography: GIS, phylogenetic biogeographical analysis, and conservation insights

Journal of Biogeography (2006)

Alycia L. Stigall Bruce S. Lieberman

Abstract Aim The utility of GIS‐based and phylogenetic biogeographical analysis in palaeobiogeography is reviewed with reference to its ability to elucidate patterns of interest for modern conservation biology, specifically the long‐term effects of invasive species. Location Emphasis is on biogeographical patterns in the Appalachian basin and mid‐continent of North America during the Devonian. Global palaeobiogeographical patterns of the Cambrian are also considered. Methods Palaeobiogeographical patterns are assessed within a GIS framework, including both direct range reconstruction and niche modelling methods, and within phylogenetic biogeographical analysis. Biogeographical patterns are considered within multiple clades of fossil invertebrates, including trilobites, crustaceans, brachiopods, and bivalves. Results GIS‐based analysis (including niche modelling methods) of Devonian invertebrates demonstrates a tightly correlated relationship between sea‐level rises and range expansion, dispersal events, and species invasions. The predominance of range expansion and species invasions during the Late Devonian reduced opportunities for vicariant speciation during this interval. Comparison of phylogenetic biogeographical patterns between Cambrian and Devonian trilobites allows discernment of the relative roles of tectonics and eustacy in driving biogeographical patterns. Main conclusions GIS analysis and phylogenetic biogeography are powerful tools for analysing the coevolution of the Earth and its biota. Analyses can identify episodes of vicariance and geo‐dispersal and produce testable hypotheses for further analysis within the fossil record.

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10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01585.x

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PaleoENM: applying ecological niche modeling to the fossil record

Paleobiology (2015)

Corinne Myers Alycia L. Stigall Bruce S. Lieberman

Abstract Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is a quantitative approach to predict species’ abiotic requirements. It is a correlative technique, requiring geographically explicit information on species occurrences and the suites of environmental conditions experienced at each occurrence point. The output of these models is a set of environmental suitability rules that can be projected geographically and through time to test biogeographic, ecologic, and evolutionary hypotheses. Although developed by biologists and used extensively in the modern, ENM is in its early stages of application to the deep-time fossil record (hence PaleoENM). In part its limited use in the fossil record thus far reflects the methodological challenge of constructing paleoenvironmental layers needed for PaleoENM analysis, whereas in the modern these layers are available from large public databases (e.g., WorldClim). This paper provides a contextual and methodological framework for appropriately applying PaleoENM, including best practices for developing species occurrence and paleoenvironmental data sets for PaleoENM analyses.

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10.1017/pab.2014.19

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Defining Areas in Paleobiogeography

Topics in geobiology (2000)

Bruce S. Lieberman

Vicariance

10.1007/978-1-4615-4161-5_7

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MOBILIZING AND SHARING DIGITIZED FOSSIL AND EXTANT SPECIMEN IMAGES: INTEGRATING THE TREATISE ON INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND MORPHOSOURCE

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America (2023)

Natalia López Carranza Bruce S. Lieberman

10.1130/abs/2023am-393010

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PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE OLENELLINA WALCOTT, 1890 (TRILOBITA, CAMBRIAN)

Journal of Paleontology (2001)

Bruce S. Lieberman

Phylogenetic analysis was used to evaluate evolutionary relationships within the Cambrian suborder Olenellina Walcott, 1890; special emphasis was placed on those taxa outside of the Olenelloidea. Fifty-seven exoskeletal characters were coded for 24 taxa within the Olenellina and two outgroups referable to the "fallotaspidoid" grade. The Olenelloidea, along with the genus Gabriellus Fritz, 1992, are the sister group of the Judomioidea Repina, 1979. The "Nevadioidea" Hupé, 1953 are a paraphyletic grade group. Four new genera are recognized, Plesionevadia, Cambroinyoella, Callavalonia, and Sdzuyomia, and three new species are described, Nevadia fritzi, Cirquella nelsoni, and Cambroinyoella wallacei. Phylogenetic parsimony analysis is also used to make predictions about the ancestral morphology of the Olenellina. This morphology most resembles the morphology found in Plesionevadia and Pseudojudomia Egorova in Goryanskii and Egorova, 1964.

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10.1666/0022-3360(2001)075<0096:paotow>2.0.co;2

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