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List of works by Melanie J. Hopkins

A Trilobite Cluster from the Silurian Rochester Shale of New York: Predation Patterns and Possible Defensive Behavior

scientific article published in 2019

A new family of dissimilarity metrics for discrete character matrices that include inapplicable characters and its importance for disparity studies

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Air Breathing in an Exceptionally Preserved 340-Million-Year-Old Sea Scorpion

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

Articulated trilobite ontogeny: suggestions for a methodological standard

scientific article published in 2020

Comparing cal3 and other a posteriori time-scaling approaches in a case study with the pterocephaliid trilobites

article published in 2016

Development, Trait Evolution, and the Evolution of Development in Trilobites

scientific article published on 5 June 2017

Differential niche dynamics among major marine invertebrate clades

scientific article

Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Dynamic evolutionary change in post-Paleozoic echinoids and the importance of scale when interpreting changes in rates of evolution

scientific article

Evolutionary mode routinely varies among morphological traits within fossil species lineages

scientific article (publication date: 11 December 2012)

Extinction space--a method for the quantification and classification of changes in morphospace across extinction boundaries

scientific article

Geophysical Terranes of the Great Basin and Parts of Surrounding Provinces

scientific article published in 2004

How species longevity, intraspecific morphological variation, and geographic range size are related: a comparison using late Cambrian trilobites

scientific article published on July 11, 2011

INFERRING ANCESTOR-DESCENDANT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE FOSSIL RECORD (WITH STATISTICS)

Ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty leads to erroneous estimates of species divergence times under the fossilized birth-death process.

scientific article published in May 2019

Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

scientific article

Mosaic heterochrony and evolutionary modularity: the trilobite genus Zacanthopsis as a case study

scientific article published on June 20, 2011

No Change in Morphological Disparity in Lichid Trilobites across the End-Ordovician Extinction

Ontogeny and geographic variation of a new species of the corynexochine trilobite Zacanthopsis (Dyeran, Cambrian)

scientific article published in July 2009

Phylogenetic Analysis and Revision of the Trilobite Subfamily Balnibarbiinae (Olenidae)

scientific article published in 2019

Phylogenetic Paleoecology: Tree-Thinking and Ecology in Deep Time

scientific article

Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of Lichid Trilobites

Preliminary integrated geologic map databases for the United States - western states: California, Nevada, Arizona, and Washington

scholarly article

Response by Melanie Hopkins for the presentation of the 2021 Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society

scientific article published on 31 August 2022

Selectivity and the effect of mass extinctions on disparity and functional ecology

scientific article

Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change

scientific article

Species-level phylogenetic analysis of pterocephaliids (Trilobita, Cambrian) from the Great Basin, western USA

scientific article published in November 2011

The Ordovician Succession Adjacent to Hinlopenstretet, Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen

scientific article published in 2017

The inseparability of sampling and time and its influence on attempts to unify the molecular and fossil records

The oldest known digestive system consisting of both paired digestive glands and a crop from exceptionally preserved trilobites of the Guanshan Biota (Early Cambrian, China).

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

U-Pb zircon and geochemical evidence for bimodal mid-Paleozoic magmatism and syngenetic base-metal mineralization in the Yukon-Tanana terrane, Alaska

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