Dr. Schweitzer

Dr. Schweitzer

 

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Schweitzer Hopkins, C. and R. M. Feldmann. 1997. Sexual dimorphism in fossil and extant species of Callianopsis de Saint Laurent. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 17(2): 236-252.

Feldmann, R. M., K. L. Bice, C. Schweitzer Hopkins, and E. W. Salva. 1998. Decapod crustaceans from the Eocene Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina: paleoceanographic implications. Paleontological Society Memoir 48, 28 p.

Schweitzer Hopkins, C., E. W. Salva, and R. M. Feldmann. 1999. Reevaluation of the genus Xanthosia Bell, 1863 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) and description of two new species from the Cretaceous of Texas. Journal of Paleontology, 73(1):77-90.

Schweitzer, C. E. and R. M. Feldmann. 1999. Fossil decapod crustaceans of the Pysht Formation (late Oligocene to early Miocene) and Quimper Sandstone (late Eocene), Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 68:215-273.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, A. B. Tucker, and R. E. Berglund. 2000. Fossil decapod crustaceans from Eocene rocks at Pulali Point, Washington. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 69:23-67.

Schweitzer, C. E. and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. New species of calappid crabs from Western North America and reconsideration of the Calappidae de Haan sensu lato. Journal of Paleontology, 74:230-246.

Schweitzer, C. E. and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. Callichirus? symmetricus (Decapoda: Thalassinoidea) and associated burrows, Antarctica. In J. Stilwell and R. M. Feldmann (eds.), Paleobiology and paleoenvironments of Eocene fossiliferous erratics, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica. American Geophysical Union Antarctic Research Series, 76:335-347.

Schweitzer, C. E. and E. W. Salva. 2000. First recognition of the Cheiragonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the fossil record and comparison of the family to the Atelecyclidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 20(2): 285-298.

Schweitzer, C. E. and C. B. Boyko. 2000. First occurrence of the genus Lophomastix (Decapoda: Albuneidae) in the fossil record and reconsideration of Blepharipoda brucei Rathbun, 1926. Journal of Paleontology, 74(4): 631-635.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. New fossil portunids from Washington, USA, and Argentina and a reevaluation of generic and family relationships within the Portunoidea Rafinesque (Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Paleontology, 74(4): 636-653.

Schweitzer, C. E. 2000. Tertiary Xanthoidea (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Pacific Northwest of North America. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 20(4): 715-742.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. Reevaluation of the Cancridae (Decapoda: Brachyura) including three new genera and three new species. Contributions to Zoology, 69: 223-250.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. First notice of the Chirostylidae (Decapoda) in the fossil record and new Tertiary Galatheidae (Decapoda) from the Americas. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 27:147-165.

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Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann. 2001. Differentiating fossil Hexapodidae Miers (Decapoda: Brachyura) from similar forms. Journal of Paleontology, 75(2): 330-345.

Schweitzer, C. E. 2001. Additions to the Tertiary decapod fauna of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 21(2): 521-537.

Schweitzer, C. E. 2001. Paleobiogeography of Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans of the North Pacific Ocean. Journal of Paleontology, 75(4): 808-826.

Vega, F. J., T. Cosma, M. A. Coutiño, R. M. Feldmann, T. G. Nyborg, C. E. Schweitzer, and D. A. Waugh. 2001. New middle Eocene Decapods (Crustacea) from Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology, 75(4): 929-946.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann. 2001. New Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans from western North America. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 28: 173-210.

Schweitzer, C. E., and Rodney M. Feldmann. 2002. New Eocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from Southern California. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 22:938-967.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, G. Gonzáles-Barba, and F. J. Vega. 2002. New crabs from the Eocene and Oligocene of Baja California, México and an assessment of the evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of Méxican fossil decapods. The Paleontological Society Memoir 59 (Supplement to Journal of Paleontology Volume 76): 43 p.

Schweitzer, C. E., P. R. Scott-Smith, and P. K. L. Ng. 2002. New occurrences of fossil decapod crustaceans (Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from late Pleistocene deposits of Guam, United States Territory. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 29:25-49.

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Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, and S. Marenssi. 2003. Stratigraphy and paleoecology of decapod crustaceans from the La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica. Journal of Geology, 160:151-160.

Schweitzer, C. E., K. J. Lacovara, J. B. Smith, M. C. Lamanna, M. A. Lyon, and Y. Attia. 2003. Mangrove-dwelling crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Necrocarcinidae) from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Egypt. Journal of Paleontology, 888-894.

Schweitzer, C. E.  2003.  Utility of proxy characters for classification of fossils: an example from the fossil Xanthoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura).  Journal of Paleontology, 77:1107-1128.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, J. Fam, W. A. Hessin, S. W. Hetrick, T. G> Nyborg, and R. L. M. Ross.  2003.  Cretaceous and Eocene decapod crustaceans from the Georgia Basin, British Columbia, Canada.  National Research Council of Canada Memoir Series, 66 p.

Schweitzer, C. E., T. G. Nyborg, R. M. Feldmann, and T. L. Ross.  2004.  Homolidae de Haan and Homolodromiidae from the Pacific Northwest of North America.  Journal of Paleontology, 78:133-149.

Feldmann, R. M., A. A. Garassino, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2004.  The presumed decapod, Palaeopemphix Gemmellaro, is a unique member of the Phyllocarida (Palaeopemphicida, Palaeopemphidae).  Journal of Paleontology, 78:340-348.

Feldmann, R. M., and C. E. Schweitzer.  2004.  Decapod crustaceans from the Lower Miocene of North-western Venezuela (Cerro La Cruz, Castillo Formation).  Special Papers in Palaeontology, 71:71-86.

Schweitzer, C. E., and H. Karasawa.  2004.  Revision of Amydrocarcinus and Palaeograpsus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) with definition of three new genera.  Paleontological Research, 8:71-86.

Casadio, S. A. De Angeli, R. M. Feldmann, A. Garassino, J. L. Hetler, A. Parras, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2004.  New decapod crustaceans (Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from the late Oligocene of Patagonia, Argentina.  Annals of Carnegie Museum, 73:25-47.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, and P. D. Gingerich.  2004.  New Decapoda (Crustacea) from the middle and late Eocene of Pakistan and a revision of Lobonotus A. Milne Edwards, 1864.  University of Michigan Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, 31(4):89-118.

Karasawa, H., and C. E. Schweitzer.  2004.  Revision of the genus Glyphithyreus Reuss, 1859 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthoidea) and recognition of a new genus.  Paleontological Research, 8(3): 143-154.

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Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, S. Marenssi, and D. A. Waugh.  2005.  Remarkably preserved annelid worms from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctica.  Palaeontology, 48: 1-13.

Schweitzer, C. E.  2005.  The genus Xanthilites Bell, 1858 and a new xanthoid family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea): new hypotheses on the origin of the Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838.  Journal of Paleontology, 79: 277-295.  PDF available

Schweitzer, C. E., and Feldmann, R. M. 2005. Decapod crustaceans, the K/P event, and Palaeocene recovery. In S. Koenemann and R. A. Jenner, eds., Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida, p. 17-53.

Schweitzer, C. E., V. Ćosović, and R. M. Feldmann.  2005.  Harpactocarcinus from the Eocene of Istria, Croatia, and the paleoecology of the Zanthopsidae Via, 1959 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura).  Journal of Paleontology, 79: 663-669.

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, and A. Encinas.  2005.  New decapods from the Navidad Formation.  Journal of Crustacean Biology, 25: 427-449.

Tshudy, D., W. S. Donaldson, C. Collom, R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2005.  Hoploparia albertaensis, a new species of clawed lobster (Nephropidae) from the late Coniacian, shallow-marine Bad Heart Formation of northwestern Alberta, Canada.  Journal of Paleontology, 79: 961-968.

Schweitzer, C. E.  2005.  The Trapeziidae and Domeciidae (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) in the fossil record and a new Eocene genus from Baja California Sur, Mexico.  Journal of Crustacean Biology, 25: 626-636.

Casadío, S., R. M. Feldmann, A. Parras, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2005.  Miocene fossil Decapoda (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Patagonia, Argentina, and their paleoecological setting.  Annals of Carnegie Museum, 74: 151-188.

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Feldmann, R. M., and C. E. Schweitzer. 2006.  Paleobiogeography of Southern Hemisphere decapod Crustacea. Journal of Paleontology, 80: 83-103.

Schweitzer, C. E., G. González-Barba, R. M. Feldmann, and D. A. Waugh.  2006 [imprint 2005].  Decapoda (Thalassinoidea and Paguroidea from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate formations, Baja California Sur, México: systematics, cuticle microstructure, and paleoecology.  Annals of Carnegie Museum, 74: 275-293.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, A. Encinas, and M. Suárez.  2006.  New Cretaceous and Eocene Callianassoidea (Thalassinidea, Decapoda) from Algarrobo, Chile.  Journal of Crustacean Biology, 26: 73-81.

Schweitzer, C. E., M. Iturralde-Vinent, J. L. Hetler, and J. Velez-Juarbe.  2006.  Oligocene and Miocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from the Caribbean.  Annals of Carnegie Museum, 75:  111-136.

Karasawa, H., and C. E. Schweitzer.  2006.  A new classification of the Xanthoidea sensu lato (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) based on phylogenetic analysis and traditional systematics and evaluation of all fossil Xanthoidea sensu lato.  Contributions to Zoology, 75: 23-72.

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, and D. McLauchlan. 2006. Additions to the records for decapod Crustacea from Motunau and Glenafric beaches, North Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v. 49, p. 417-427.

Feldmann, R. M., I. Lazăr, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2006. New crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Prosopidae) from Jurassic (Oxfordian) sponge bioherms of Dobrogea, Romania. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 33: 1-20.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, G. González-Barba, and V. Ćosović. 2006. New Decapoda (Anomura, Brachyura) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate formations, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 33: 21-45.

Conkle, L. N., C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, and R. B. Blodgett. 2006. A new species of Tymolus and a report on Metacarcinus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Miocene of Alaska. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 33: 47-57.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, G. González-Barba, and V. Ćosović.  2006.  New Decapoda (Anomura, Brachyura) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate Formations,  Baja California Sur, México.  Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 33: 21-45.

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Schweitzer, C. E., P. Artal, B. van Bakel, J. W. M. Jagt, and H. Karasawa.  2007.  Revision of the genus Titanocarcinus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) with two new genera and one new species.  Journal of Crustacean Biology, 278-295.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, and H. Karasawa.  2007.  Revision of the Carcineretidae Beurlen, 1930 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunoidea) and remarks on the Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815.  Annals of Carnegie Museum, 15-37.

Feldmann, R. M., and C. E. Schweitzer.  2007.  Sexual dimorphism in fossil and extant Raninidae (Decapoda: Brachyura). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 39-52.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, G. Gonzalez-Barba, and V. Ćosović.  2007.  Fossil decapods from the Eocene Tepetate Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico.  Annals of Carnegie Museum, 1-14. 

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, and I. R. Lazăr. 2007. Decapods from Jurassic (Oxfordian) sponge megafacies of Dobrogea, Romania and reconsideration of Nodoprosopon Beurlen, 1928. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen, 244: p. 99-113.

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, C. M. Redman, N. J. Morris, and D. J. Ward. 2007. New Late Cretaceous lobsters from the Kyzylkum Desert of Uzbekistan.  Journal of Paleontology, 81: 701-713.

Schweitzer, C. E., A. M. Shirk, V. Ćosović, Y. Okan, R. M. Feldmann, and I. Hoşgör.  2007.  New species of Harpactocarcinus from the Tethyan Eocene and their paleoecological setting.  Journal of Paleontology, 81: 1091-1100.

Feldmann, R. M., R.-Y. Li, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2008 [imprint 2007].  A new family, genus, and species of crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Manitoba, Canada.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44: 1741-1752.

Karasawa, H., C. E. Schweitzer, and R. M. Feldmann.  2008.  Revision of the Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Decapoda: Brachyura) with emphasis on the fossil genera and families.  Journal of Crustacean Biology, 28: 82-127.

Schweitzer, C. E., J. Velez-Juarbe, M. Martinez, A. C. Hull, R. M. Feldmann, and H. Santos.  2008.  New Cretaceous and Cenozoic Decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory.  Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 34: 1-15.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann.  2008 [imprint 2007].  A new classification for some Jurassic Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Homolodromioidea): families Goniodromitidae Beurlen, 1932 and Tanidromitidae new family.  Senckenbergiana lethaea, 87: 119-156.

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, P. A. Maxwell, and B. M. Kelley.  2008.  Fossil isopod and decapod crustaceans from the Kowai Formation (Pliocene) near Makikihi, South Canterbury, New Zealand.  New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 51: 43-58.

Schweitzer, C. E. 2008.  Paleontological systematics in the 21st century: we need more specialists and more data.  Palaeontologica Electronica, 11(2) <www.palaeo-electronica.org/2008_2>

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, and R. M. Green.  Unusual Albian (Early Cretaceous) Brachyura (Homoloidea: Componocancroidea new superfamily) from Montana and Wyoming, U.S.A.  Journal of Crustacean Biology, 28: 502-509.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann. 2008. New Eocene hydrocarbon seep decapod crustacean (Anomura: Galatheidae; Shinkaiinae) and its paleobiology. Journal of Paleontology, 82: 1021-1029.

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, and W. R. Wahl. 2008. Ekalakia (Decapoda: Brachyura): The preservation of eyes links Cretaceous crabs to Jurassic ancestors. Journal of Paleontology, 82: 1030-1034.

Parras, A., M. Griffin, R. Feldmann, S. Casadío, C. Schweitzer, and S. Marenssi. 2008. Correlation of marine beds based on Sr- and Ar-date determinations and faunal affinities across the Paleogene/Neogene boundary in southern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 26: 204-216.

Amato, C. G., D. A. Waugh, R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2008. Effect of calcification on cuticle density in decapods: a key to lifestyle. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 28:587-595.

Crawford, R. S., S. Casadío, R. M. Feldmann, M. Griffin, A. Parras, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2008. Mass mortality of fossil decapods within the Monte León Formation (early Miocene), southern Argentina: Victims of Andean volcanism.
Annals of Carnegie Museum, 77: 259-288.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann. 2008. Revision of the genus Laeviprosopon Glaessner, 1933 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Homolodromioidea: Prosopidae) including two new species. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paaläontologie – Abhandlungen, 250: 273-285.

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Abstracts of Papers Delivered

Salva, E. W., C. E. Schweitzer‑Hopkins, and R. M. Feldmann.  1995.  Paleoceanography of decapod‑rich rocks of the Castle Hayne Formation (Eocene) of North Carolina.  Abstracts with Programs of the Geological Society of America 1995 Annual Meeting, 27(6):A368.

Salva, E. W., C. E. Schweitzer‑Hopkins, and R. M. Feldmann.  1996.  A comparison between cladistic and systematic analysis of the species of Xanthosia (Decapoda: Xanthidae).  Abstracts with Programs of the Geological Society of America 1996 Annual Meeting, 28(7):A239.  

Schweitzer‑Hopkins, C. E.  1996.  Sexual dimorphism in fossil and extant species of Callianopsis de Saint Laurent. Abstracts with Programs of the Geological Society of America 1996 Annual Meeting, 28(7):A431.

Feldmann, R. M., and C. Schweitzer Hopkins.  1999.  Reconsideration of the family status of fossil and extant calappid crabs.  Meeting Program of the Crustacean Society 1999 Summer Meeting, Lafayettte, LA, p. 29‑30.

Feldmann, R. M., and C. E. Schweitzer.  1999.  Heterochrony and the origin of the Geryonidae.  Abstracts with Programs of the Geological Society of America 1999 Annual Meeting, 31(7):A‑171. 

Feldmann, R. M. and C. E. Schweitzer.  2000.  Reconciling the fossil record of decapods with modern biological classifications: can it be done?  1st Workshop on Mesozoic and Tertiary Decapod Crustaceans; Studi e Ricerche, Associazone Amici del Museo, Museo Civico AG. Zannato, Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza) Italy, 6 October 2000, p. 21‑23.

Schweitzer, C. E. and R. M. Feldmann.  2000.  Palaeobiogeography of fossil decapod crustaceans: global implications of regional studies.  1st Workshop on Mesozoic and Tertiary Decapod Crustaceans; Studi e Ricerche, Associazone Amici del Museo, Museo Civico AG. Zannato, Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza), Italy, 6 October 2000, p. 67‑69.

Feldmann, R. M. and C. E. Schweitzer.  2001.  Fossil decapod crustaceans in the high latitudes: pioneers and survivors.  North American Paleontological Convention 2001, June 26‑July 1, 2001, Berkeley, California.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann.  2001.  Combining paleontological and biological criteria within the Xanthoidea (Decapoda): toward a new view of decapod systematics, evolution, and paleobiogeography.  Geological Society of America 2001 Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, 33(6):A‑378.

Feldmann, R. M., and C. E. Schweitzer.  2001.  Remarkable preservation of fossil worms (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctica.  Geological Society of America 2001 Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, 33(6):A‑379.

Feldmann, R. M., S. Marenssi, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2001.  Distribution of fossil decapod crustaceans from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene) on Seymour Island, Antarctica: changing times and changing patterns.  Geological Society of America 2001 Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, 33(6):A378‑379.

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, and A. A. Garassino.  2002.  The search for roots: Palaeopemphix is not a decapod.  Geological Society of America 2002 Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, 34(6):A267.

Schweitzer, C. E.  2003.  Progress on the fossil Xanthoidea Macleay, 1838 (Decapoda, Brachyura).  Contributions to Zoology, 72(2‑3):181‑186.

Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, D. A. Waugh, and G. Gonzáles‑Barba.  2003.  New Eocene fossil decapod crustaceans from Baja California Sur: a Tethyan link.  Abstracts with Program, Geological Society of America 2003 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 35(6): 56.

Karasawa, H., and C. E. Schweitzer.  2004.  Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Xanthoidea MacLeay (Decapoda: Brachyura).  Abstracts of the 2004 Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan (June 25-27, 2004, Kitakyushu).

Parras, A., S. Casadío, R. Feldmann, and C. Schweitzer.  2003.  Análisis tafonómico e interpretación paleoambiental de concentraciones dominadas por ostras y cancrejos en la Formación Puerto Madryn (Mioceno superior), Patagiona, Argentina.  Argentinian Paleontological Association, Symposium on Taphonomy, Santa Rosa, Argentina, November, 2003.

Schweitzer, C. E., A. Brösing, and R. M. Feldmann.  2004.  Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the Oxystomata sensu lato (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura): new hypotheses about brachyuran evolution.  Abstracts with Program, Geological Society of America 2004, 36(5).

Parras, A., S. Casadío, M. Griffin, R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2004.  Age and paleogeography of the marine transgressions at the Paleogene-Neogene boundary in Patagonia, Southern Argentina.  Abstracts with Program, Geological Society of America 2004, 36(5). 

Karasawa, H., C. E. Schweitzer, and H. Kato.  2005.  Phylogenetic analysis of Xanthoidea sensu lato (Decapoda: Brachyura), fossil and recent, using adult morphological characters, p. 132. In Books of Abstracts, Sixth International Crustacean Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 18-22 July 2005.

Casadío, S., R. S. Crawford, R. M. Feldmann, M. Griffin, A. Parras, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2005.  Paleobiological and taphonomic study of two Miocene South Atlantic shelf bottom communities.  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2005 Annual Meeting, 37(7): 404. 

Conkle, L. N., and C. E. Schweitzer.  2005.  Gender disparity in a population of Branchioplax washingtoniana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Eocene of Washington, USA.  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2005 Annual Meeting, 37(7): 133-134.

Lazăr, I., R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, and A. M. Shirk.  2005.  Did sponges have crabs?  The fauna of a unique sponge-algal cylindrical bioherm complex from the Upper Jurassic of Romania.  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2005 Annual Meeting, 37(7): 136.

Conkle, L. N., C. E. Schweitzer, and R. M. Feldmann.  2006.  Initial report on decapod crustaceans from the Miocene Bear Lake Formation, Alaska.  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2006 North-Central Meeting, 38(4): 56. 

Crawford, R. S., S. Casadío, R. M. Feldmann, M. Griffin, A. Parras, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2006.  Marine record of an early Miocene catastrophic volcanic event, Monte Leon Formation, Patagonia, Argentina.  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2006 North-Central Meeting, 38(4): 56.

Feldmann, R. M., R. W. Portell, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2006.  Costacopluma n. sp. (Decapoda: Retroplumidae) from the Eocene Tallahatta Formation, Alabama: range extension and a reevaluation of the Retroplumidae.  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2006 North-Central Meeting, 38(4): 57.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann.  2006.  Are paddle-like pereiopods a phylogenetically appropriate character within the Brachyura?  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2006 North-Central Meeting, 38(4): 56.

Shirk, A. M., R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, and I. Laz|r.  2006.  A novel assemblage of decapod Crustacea from a Tithonian coral reef olistolith, Purc|reni, Romania.  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2006 North-Central Meeting, 38(4): 56-57.

Ćosović, V., C. E. Schweitzer, V. Premec Fucek, R. M. Feldmann, A. M. Shirk, and A. Moro.  2006.  Orthophragminids and associated fossils in paleogeographic interpretation of transitional beds (Croatia).  Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 29: 647-648.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann.  2006.  Reevaluating prosopid decapod crustaceans: the rootstock of the true crabs.  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2005 Annual Meeting, 38(7): 555.

Waugh, D. A., R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2006.  Preliminary examination of cuticular microstructure within the Raninoidea (Decapoda, Brachyura).  Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2005 Annual Meeting, 38(7): 555.

Feldmann, R. M., R. Green, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2007.  An unusual Albian (Early Cretaceous) crab from Montana: the earliest eubrachyuran?  3rd Symposium on Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans, Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 35 (II): 28-29.

Feldmann, R. M., and C. E. Schweitzer.  2007.  A compilation of Decapoda in collections in museums on the world.  3rd Symposium on Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans, Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 35 (II): 30-36.

Robins, C. M., R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2007.  Primitive brachyurans and galatheids from Ernstbrunn, Austria: an evaluation of the Friedrich Bachmayer collection.  3rd Symposium on Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans, Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 35 (II): 85-86.


Schweitzer. C. E., R. M. Feldmann, A. M. Shirk, and I. Laz|r.   2007.  Differential diversity in Jurassic sponge-algal and coralline communities, Romania.  3rd Symposium on Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans, Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 35 (II): 91-94.

Waugh, D. A., R. M. Feldmann, A. Hull, K. Hein, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2007.  Scaling and classification of cuticular pits in raninids.  2007.  3rd Symposium on Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans, Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 35 (II): 103-104.

Karasawa, H., C. E. Schweitzer, and R. M. Feldmann.  2007.  Systematics and phylogeny of the Portunoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura).  Abstracts with Programs, 2007 Annual Meeting, The Palaeontological Society of Japan, June 29-July 1, 2007, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture: 57.

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, and D. A. Waugh.  2007.  Selective biomineralization of crab cuticle: the key to a pelagic lifestyle.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 39, no. 6: 74.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann.  2007.  Goniodromites Reuss, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goniodromitidae): the cockroach of the Jurassic oceans. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 39, no. 6: 75.

Waugh, D. A., R. M. Feldmann, A. Hull, K. Hein, and C. E. Schweitzer.  2007.  Effect of sample location and ontogeny on decapod cuticle, a case study of Callinectes sapidus.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 39, no. 6: 75.

Feldmann, R. M., and C. E. Schweitzer. 2008. Assessment of Jurassic brachyuran (Crustacea: Decapoda) diversity and paleoecology. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Abstract Book, 81.5.

Crawford, R. s., S. Casadío, R. Feldmann, M. Griffin, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2008. The ecologic and taphonomic effects of a Miocene volcanic ashfall on Atlantic inner-shelf communities. Atlantic Neogene Stratigraphy Meeting, Buenos Aires,

Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, M. Griffin, and S. Casadío. 2008. Miocene decapod crustacean fauna of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, signals timing of establishment of modern biogeographic provinces. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with program, v. 40, no. 6, p. 139.

Frantescu, O. D., C. E. Schweitzer, and R. M. Feldmann. 2008. New crab species and genera from Jurassic (Oxfordian) coral reefs and comparison of decapod abundance between coral and sponge environments in Dobrogea, Romania. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with program, v. 40, no. 6, p. 480.

Robins, C. M., R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2008. Standardized terminology for description of diverse morphology of Late Jurassic galatheoid squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with program, v. 40, no. 6, p. 480.

Waugh, D. A., R M. Feldmann, G. Schweigert, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2008. Cuticle microstructure from the Late Jurassic shrimp Aeger sp. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with program, v. 40, no. 6, p. 480.

Schweitzer, C. E., and R. M. Feldmann. 2008. Specimen-based research results in recognition of an explosive radiation of Jurassic Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with program, v. 40, no. 6, p. 541.
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