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List of works by Roy E. Plotnick

18. Scale-Independent Interpretations of Macroevolutionary Dynamics

Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record?

scientific article published on 14 July 2006

Changes in shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers

article

Correcting a 135-year error: Limulidae Leach, 1819 (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) is the proper authority, not Limulidae Zittel, 1885

scientific article published on 15 March 2021

Evidence for Trait-Based Dominance in Occupancy among Fossil Taxa and the Decoupling of Macroecological and Macroevolutionary Success

article

Evidence of multiple late Bashkirian to early Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) fire events preserved in contemporaneous cave fills

article

In Search of Watty Piper: The History of the “Little Engine” Story

journal article; published in 2012

Information landscapes and sensory ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Jurassic Pork: What Could a Jewish Time Traveler Eat?

article

Lacunarity indices as measures of landscape texture

article

Lift based mechanisms for swimming in eurypterids and portunid crabs

Morphological diversity of Carboniferous arthropods and insights on disparity patterns through the Phanerozoic

Recurrent hierarchical patterns and the fractal distribution of fossil localities

scholarly article

Relationship between biological extinctions and geomagnetic reversals

scholarly article

Revision of the pseudoniscine merostome genus Cyamocephalus Currie

scientific article published in 1974

Spherical multi-lacunarity reveals possible equatorial-polar differences in crater densities on the dwarf planet Ceres

scientific article published in 2022

Spines and baskets in apex predatory sea scorpions uncover unique feeding strategies using 3D-kinematics

scientific article published in 2022

The Anthropocene fossil record of terrestrial mammals

scientific article published on 07 December 2019

The Eurypterid Endostoma and Its Homology with Other Chelicerate Structures

scientific article published in 2022

The Phanerozoic aftermath of the Cambrian information revolution: sensory and cognitive complexity in marine faunas

scientific article published on 28 January 2022

The first Cenozoic spinicaudatans from North America

scientific article published in 2017

The fossil record of the sixth extinction

scientific article

The pterygotid telson as a biological rudder

scientific article published in 1988

Using the voids to fill the gaps: caves, time, and stratigraphy

scholarly article by Roy E. Plotnick et al published 25 March 2014 in Geological Society Special Publication

Voracious Fangs: Three-Dimensional Kinematic Modelling of Apex Predatory Sea Scorpions Uncovers Unique Eurypterid Feeding Strategies

scientific article published in 2021