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List of works by David J. Bottjer

A Proposed Geobiology-Driven Nomenclature for Astrobiological Observations and Sample Analyses

journal paper

A diverse assemblage of Permian echinoids (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) and implications for character evolution in early crown group echinoids

scientific article published in 2017

A diverse trackway-dominated marine ichnoassemblage from the Lower Triassic in the northern Paleotethys: Ichnology and implications for biotic recovery

scholarly article by Xueqian Feng published in December 2017

A global marine sedimentary response to the end-Permian mass extinction: Examples from southern Turkey and the western United States

article

A microbial carbonate response in synchrony with the end-Triassic mass extinction across the SW UK

scientific article

A new ecological-severity ranking of major Phanerozoic biodiversity crises

scientific article published in 2013

A new stem group echinoid from the Triassic of China leads to a revised macroevolutionary history of echinoids during the end-Permian mass extinction

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Additional records of ichnogenus Rhizocorallium from the Lower and Middle Triassic, South China: Implications for biotic recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction

article

Aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event: Paleoecology of Lower Triassic carbonates in the western USA

scientific article published in 1995

An Early Cambrian problematic fossil: Vetustovermis and its possible affinities

scientific article

Brachiopods and chemosymbiotic bivalves in Phanerozoic hydrothermal vent and cold seep environments

scientific article published in 1995

Bryozoan paleoecology indicates mid-Phanerozoic extinctions were the product of long-term environmental stress

scholarly article

Campanian/Maastrichtian stage boundary in southern California: Resolution and implications for large-scale depositional patterns

scholarly article

Comment and Reply on “Abundant and diverse early Paleozoic infauna indicated by the stratigraphic record”: COMMENT

scholarly article

Complex embryos displaying bilaterian characters from Precambrian Doushantuo phosphate deposits, Weng'an, Guizhou, China

scientific article

Complex marine bioturbation ecosystem engineering behaviors persisted in the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Complexity and diversity of eyes in early Cambrian ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: 25 September 2013)

Constraining carbonate chemistry at a potential ocean acidification event (the Triassic–Jurassic boundary) using the presence of corals and coral reefs in the fossil record

article

Depth transect of an Upper Triassic (Rhaetian) reef from Gosau, Austria: Microfacies and community ecology

scholarly article by Rowan C. Martindale published in April 2013

Development of lower Triassic wrinkle structures: implications for the search for life on other planets

scientific article

Dinosaur eggs and nesting behaviors: A paleobiological investigation

scholarly article by Gerald Grellet-Tinner et al published March 2006 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Diversity and species abundance patterns of the Early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China

article

Early Cambrian animal diapause embryos revealed by X-ray tomography

scholarly article

Early Triassic stromatolites as post-mass extinction disaster forms

scientific article

Early Triassic wrinkle structures on land: stressed environments and oases for life

scientific article

Echinoids from the Tesero Member (Werfen Formation) of the Dolomites (Italy): implications for extinction and survival of echinoids in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Ecological ranking of Phanerozoic biodiversity crises: The Serpukhovian (early Carboniferous) crisis had a greater ecological impact than the end-Ordovician

scholarly article

Eric Davidson's career as a paleontologist

scientific article published on 26 January 2016

Evaluating the ecological architecture of major events in the Phanerozoic history of marine invertebrate life

scientific article

Evidence for seafloor microbial mats and associated metazoan lifestyles in Lower Cambrian phosphorites of Southwest China

article

Evolutionary Paleoecology of Ediacaran Benthic Marine Animals

Evolutionary models in the Early Triassic marine realm

scientific article published in 2019

Geochemistry. Life in the Early Triassic ocean

scientific article

Homology and Potential Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms for the Development of Unique Feather Morphologies in Early Birds

scientific article (publication date: 14 September 2012)

Ichnofabric and Basin Analysis

scientific article published in June 1991

Juvenile skeletogenesis in anciently diverged sea urchin clades

scientific article

Limestone concretion growth documented by trace-fossil relations

scientific article

Long-term faunal stasis without evolutionary coordination: Jurassic benthic marine paleocommunities, Western Interior, United States

article

Lower Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) echinoids from the Marble Falls Formation, San Saba, Texas, USA

article published in 2015

Magnetostratigraphy of displaced Upper Cretaceous strata in southern California

scientific article

Mercury anomalies and the timing of biotic recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction

scientific article

Meroblastic cleavage identifies some Ediacaran Doushantuo (China) embryo-like fossils as metazoans

article

Microbial framework in Upper Triassic (Carnian) patch reefs from Williston Lake, British Columbia, Canada

article

Microbial mats in the terrestrial Lower Triassic of North China and implications for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

article

Mid-Cretaceous amber inclusions reveal morphogenesis of extinct rachis-dominated feathers

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Mixed Siliciclastic/Carbonate Systems

New probable cnidarian fossils from the lower Cambrian of the Three Gorges area, South China, and their ecological implications

article

Ordovician increase in extent and depth of bioturbation: Implications for understanding early Paleozoic ecospace utilization

scholarly article

Palaeoecological models, non-uniformitarianism, and tracking the changing ecology of the past

Palaeoenvironmental trends in the history of trace fossils

scientific article published in Nature

Paleogenomics of echinoderms

scientific article published on November 2006

Paleogenomics of echinoids reveals an ancient origin for the double-negative specification of micromeres in sea urchins

scientific article

Paleogeographic trends in Late Triassic reef ecology from northeastern Panthalassa

Paleomagnetic evidence that the central block of Salinia (California) is not a far-traveled terrane

scientific article

Peregrinella: an Early Cretaceous cold-seep-restricted brachiopod

Permian marine paleoecology and its implications for large-scale decoupling of brachiopod and bivalve abundance and diversity during the Lopingian (Late Permian)

scientific article published in 2007

Petrographic analysis of new specimens of the putative microfossil Vernanimalcula guizhouena (Doushantuo Formation, South China)

scientific article (publication date: February 2013)

Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates

scientific article

Phosphatized polar lobe-forming embryos from the Precambrian of southwest China

scientific article published in June 2006

Phylogenetic analysis of the Archaeocidaridae and Palaeozoic Miocidaridae (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) and the origin of crown group echinoids

article by Jeffrey Thompson et al published 6 September 2019 in Papers in Palaeontology

Platy coral patch reefs from eastern Panthalassa (Nevada, USA): Unique reef construction in the Late Triassic

scientific article published in 2012

Precambrian animal life: probable developmental and adult cnidarian forms from Southwest China

scientific article (publication date: August 2002)

Proliferation of Early Triassic wrinkle structures: Implications for environmental stress following the end-Permian mass extinction

scientific article

Prolonged Permian Triassic ecological crisis recorded by molluscan dominance in Late Permian offshore assemblages

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2007)

Quantitative analysis of substrate preference in Carboniferous stem group echinoids

scholarly article by Jeffrey R. Thompson published in June 2018

Raman spectra of a Lower Cambrian ctenophore embryo from southwestern Shaanxi, China

scientific article (publication date: 10 April 2007)

Rapid carbonate depositional changes following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction: Sedimentary evidence from South China

article

Recognising ocean acidification in deep time: An evaluation of the evidence for acidification across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

article

Reconstruction of Early Triassic ocean redox conditions based on framboidal pyrite from the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China

article

Reorganization of sea urchin gene regulatory networks at least 268 million years ago as revealed by oldest fossil cidaroid echinoid

scientific article

Significance of Silurian stromatolite-sphinctozoan reefs: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the cambrian

scientific article

Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian

scientific article

The Mesozoic return of Paleozoic faunal constituents: A decoupling of taxonomic and ecological dominance during the recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction

scientific article published in 2011

The double mass extinction revisited: reassessing the severity, selectivity, and causes of the end-Guadalupian biotic crisis (Late Permian)

The early evolution of animals.

scientific article published in August 2005

The exaerobic zone, a new oxygen-deficient marine biofacies

scientific article published in Nature

The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

scientific article

The prelude of the end-Permian mass extinction predates a postulated bolide impact

scientific article published in 2006

The use of shell beds as a tool for investigating ecological changes across mass extinction intervals

Trace-fossil model for reconstruction of paleo-oxygenation in bottom waters

article

Trends in depth and extent of bioturbation in Cambrian carbonate marine environments, western United States

scholarly article by Mary L. Droser & David J. Bottjer published 1988 in Geology

Understanding mechanisms for the end-Permian mass extinction and the protracted Early Triassic aftermath and recovery

Uppermost Triassic phosphorites from Williston Lake, Canada: link to fluctuating euxinic-anoxic conditions in northeastern Panthalassa before the end-Triassic mass extinction

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Wrinkle structures: Microbially mediated sedimentary structures common in subtidal siliciclastic settings at the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition

scientific article published in 1997