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WILLIAM I. AUSICH — CURRICULUM VITAE

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mailing Address:
William I. Ausich
School of Earth Sciences
125 South Oval Mall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210

e-mail: ausich.1@osu.edu
office phone: 614-292-3353
Earth Sci phone: 614-292-2721

webpage: https://u.osu.edu/ausich.1

Office Location:
160D Orton Hall
125 South Oval Hall

 

EDUCATION

1978    Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, Geology with Biology Minor
1976    A.M., Indiana University, Bloomington, Geology
1974    B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana, Geology

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020-22              Interim Editor-in-Chief, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleontological Contributions, University of Kansas                                    Paleontological Institute, Lawrence, Kansas
2019- present    Director Emeritus, Orton Museum of Geology
2016- present    Academy Professor, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University (Inaugural Class)
2014-Present     The Ohio State University Emeritus Academy (Inaugural Class)
2013-Present     Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University
1990-2013          Professor, The Ohio State University
2002-2019         Director, Orton Museum of Geology
1995-99              Chair, Department of Geological Sciences
1993-Present     Research Associate, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution
1992                     Research Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
1984-90              Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
1982-84              Associate Professor, Wright State University
1979-82              Assistant Professor, Wright State University
1978-79               Visiting Assistant Professor, Wright State University
1978                     Instructor, Indiana University
1974-78               Associate Instructor, Indiana University
1975-76               Research Assistant, Indiana Geological Survey for Army Corps of Engineers Waldron Shale Paleontology)

 

AWARDS (select)

2018        Raymond C. Moore Paleontology Medal, SEPM Society of Sedimentary Geology
2017        Golden Crinoid, International Echinoderm Conference
2014        Ohio State University Emeritus Academy (Inaugural Class)
2013        Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award
2012        Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
2011         Gilbert Harris Award, Paleontological Research Institute
2011         Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
2011         Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
2010        Harlan Hatcher Arts & Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award
2007        Distinguished GraduateTeaching Award, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
2006        Research medal from Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
2005        Fellow, Paleontological Society (Inaugural Class)
2001         Richard Owen Award; Outstanding Alumnus, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University
2002-04  Paleontological Society President
2000        Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
2000        Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University
1997          Fellow, Geological Society of America
1992-93   Paleontological Society Distinguished Lecturer (first class)
1992         Ohio Distinguished Citizen
1992         Fulbright Fellowship, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
1991          Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels
1990         Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society
1989         Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, The Ohio State University
1980         S.E.P.M. Outstanding Journal of Paleontology Paper Award (1979 volume)
1979          E. R. Cummings Award, Department of Geology, Indiana University
1977          Estwing Outstanding Geology Graduate Student Award, Indiana University
1976          Sigma Xi (Full Member, 1985)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (select)

Paleontology Consultant, 2021-2023, Mammoth Cave National Park
Paleontology Consultant, 2021, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Paleontology Consultant, 2020, Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, New York
Paleontology Consultant, 2020, Natural Museum of Natural History, Paris
Paleontological Research Institution, Board of Trustees Member, 2015-2022
Paleontology Consultant, 2019, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Paleontological Society, 2000-2002, President-elect; 2002-2004, President; 2004-2006, past-President
Ohio State Chapter of Sigma Xi, 2009-2010 Vice President, 2010-2011 President, 2011-2013, past-President, 2013-2014
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Midyear Meeting, Chairman, 1988, Columbus
North American Paleontological Converence 2009, Organizing Committee
Alumni Council, Department of Geology, Indiana University, 1984-87
Panelist, National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowship, 1990-97, 1999-2001; (Chair, 1996-97, 2000-2001)
Scientific Committee for: “Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology (PEP’15), Zargoza, Spain, June, 2015.

PUBLICATIONS

SUBMITTED/IN REVIEW/IN PRESS

Ausich, W.I. and S.K. Donovan. (2023, in press). Part T, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 7: Glossary of morphological terms, In W.I. Ausich (ed.) and W.I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise Online.

BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, EDITED VOLUMES

Sumrall, C.D., W.I. Ausich, I.A. Rahman, and S. Zamora (eds.). 2021-2023. Echinoderm Paleobiology: A Short Course on Echinoderms. Digitally bound papers in Elements of Paleontology series. Cambridge University Press.

Bauer, J.E., and W.I. Ausich (eds.). 2022. Improving our Understanding of Evolutionary Paleoecology – A Celebration of the Work and Career of Tomasz K. Baumiller. Special Volume of the Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology Papers, University of Michigan 34, 208 p. https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/4860

Horowitz, A.S., M.H. Nitecki, and D.V. Nitecki (authors); W.I. Ausich (ed.). 2017. Bibliography of James Hall (1811-1898). Bulletins of American Paleontology, 392, 146 p.

Mu, X-N, J.-P. Lin, W.I. Ausich, and J.A. Waters (eds.). 2015. Fossil Echinoderm Studies in China and Other Countries. Palaeoworld, 24(4):361-522. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/1871174X/24/4]

Hess, H., and C. Messing. 2011.  Articulata.  In Seldon, P. (ed.) and W.I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Revised, Volume 3, 261 p.

Ausich, W.I., and P. Copper.  2010.  The Crinoidea of Anticosti Island, Québec  (Late Ordovician to Early Silurian). Palaeontographica Canadiana, 29, 157 p.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Webster (eds.).  2008.  Echinoderm Paleobiology.  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 456 p.

Hess, H., W.I. Ausich, C.E. Brett, and M.J. Simms.  2002.  Fossil Crinoids.  Cambridge University Press, 275 p. [paperback edition of 1999 book].

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Sevastopulo.  2001.  Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) crinoids from Hook Head, County Wexford, Ireland.  Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, 617, 136 p.

Hess, H., W.I. Ausich, C.E. Brett, and M.J. Simms.  1999.  Fossil Crinoids. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 275 p. [reprinted in 2002 in paperback edition.]

Ausich, W.I., and N.G. Lane.  1999.  Life of the Past, Fourth Edition.  Prentice-Hall, New York, 321 p.

 

TREATISE ONLINE – TREATISE ON INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY REVISION OF PART T, CRINOIDEA (W.I. Ausich role as Coordinating Author)

Ausich, W.I. and S.K. Donovan. (2023, in press). Part T, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 7: Glossary of morphological terms, In W.I. Ausich (ed.) and W.I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise Online.

Ausich, W.I. 2021. Part T, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 6: Glossary of patterns, abbreviations, and symbols to designate crinoid morphology, In W.I. Ausich (ed.) and W.I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise Online, 145, 5 p. [published online 02-02-2021]

Salamon, M.A., B. Ferré, P. Gorzelak. 2019. Part T, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 20: Part T, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 20: Biostratigraphic value of Mesozoic crinoids, 9 p. In Seldon, P. (ed.) and W.I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise Online.

Hess, H., and C. Messing. 2011. Articulata. In Seldon, P. (ed.) and W.I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Revised, Volume 3, 261 p.

Hess, H. 2010. Part T, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 19: Paleoecology of Pelagic Crinoids, 33 p. In Seldon, P. (Ed.) and W.I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise Online, 16 (ISSN2153-4012).

 

IN REFERRED JOURNALS

Thompson, J.R., W.I. Ausich, and M.E. Cournoyer. 2022. The morphologic and paleobiogeographic implications of a new early Silurian echinoid from Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 59:973-983. [dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2022-0028]

Ausich, W.I., and N.E. Zehler 2022. Recovery of Laurentian cyclocystoids following Late Ordovician extinctions (Brassfield Formation (Llandovery) southwestern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology, 6 p. [https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.95] (published online 11/17/2022)

Vinn, O., W.I. Ausich, M.A. Wilson, U. Toom. 2022. Did stalked echinoderms bioerode calcareous substrates? A possible boring crinoid attachment structure in a stromatoporoid from the early Silurian Telychian of Estonia. Paläontoloigische Zeitschrift,
[https://dooi.org/10.1007/s15542-022-00637-3]

Bauer, J.E., W.I. Ausich, R.E. Plotnick, W.J. Sanders, and M.E. Vetch. 2022. Preface to Dr. Tomasz K. Baumiller – A career in evolutionary paleoecology. in, Bauer, J.E., and W.I. Ausich (eds.) Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology Papers, University of Michigan, Special Volume 34:v-viii. [https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/172912]

Ausich, W.I. 2022. The calceocrinid puzzle. In Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology Papers, University of Michigan, Special Volume 34(8):103-122. https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/171951 (published online 3-31- 2022). [https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/172912]

Webster, G.D., A.P. Heward, and W.I. Ausich. 2022. First crinoid crown from the Permian Khuff Formation of Oman. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 133:154-161. doi.org/10.1016/jpgeola2022.02005) (published online 3-17-2022).

Ausich, W.I., Salamon, M.A., Płachno, B.J., Brachaniec, T., Krawczyński, W., Boczarowiski, A., Paszcza, K., Łukowiak, N., and Gorzelak, P. 2022. Middle Devonian (Emsian) crinoids (Crinoidea, Echinodermata) from Poland. PeerJ, 10:e12842. doi:10.e12842/10.7717/peerj/12842 , 27 p. (published online 2-9-2022).

Gomeau, J.A., W.I. Ausich, S. Bertolino, H. Bik, M. Daly, S. Demissew, D.A. Donoso, R. Folk, A. Freire-Rierro, S.A. Ghazanfar, O.M. Grace, A.-Q. Hu, S. Kulkami, I.H. Lichter-Marck, L.G. Lohmann, J. Malumbres-Olart, A.M. Muasya, A. Pérez-González, Y. Singh, C.M. Sinicalchi, C.D., Specht, A.L. Stigall, D. Tank, L.A. Walker, L.A., D.F. Wright, A. Zamani, L.A. Esposito. 2022. Framing the future for monography: improving recognition, support, and access. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists, 16p. https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v1i1.8328 (published online 1-27-2022)
Waters, J.A., and W.I. Ausich. 2021. Gennaeocrinus tariatensis, a new Emsian (Devonian) monobathrid crinoid from the Tarvagatay Terrane of Mongolia. Journal of Paleontology, 96(3):631-637. doi:10.1017/jpa.2021.112 (published online 12-15-2021; published in volume 2022).

Lefebvre, B., and W.I. Ausich. 2021. New Siluro-Devonian anomalocystitids (Echinodermata, Stylophora) from Bolivia and Canada, and a reevaluation of skeletal mophologies in mitrates. Palaeontological Journal 55(9):2-35.

Bohatý, J., and W.I. Ausich. 2021. Revision of two Devonian cupressocrinititids from the Schultze Collection (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University) and description of a new Halocrinites (Crinoidea, Eucladida). Journal of Paleontology, 96(1):196-212. doi:10.1017/jpa.2021.65 (published online 8-8-2021; complete volume published in 2022 volume).

Ausich, W.I., S.C. Koenig, A. Goldstein, and G. Monreal. 2021. Evolutionary and taphonomic significance of a new species of Amphoracrinus from the early Viséan of Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology, 95:1273-1283, doi:10.1017/jpa.2021.42 (published online 7-2-2021).

Messing, C. G., W. I. Ausich, and D. L. Meyer. 2021. Feeding and arm postures in living and fossil crinoids Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part T, Echinodermata 2, Vol. 1 Revised, Chapter 16. In Paul Seldon, and W. I. Ausich (eds.) and W. I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise Online, 150, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 47 p.

Ausich, W.I., and J.R. Thompson. 2021. A possible Laurentian volchovid ophiocistioid from the Katian of southwestern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology, 95:1097-1098. [DOI: 10.1017/jpa.201.28] [published online 04-30-21]

Ausich, W.I. 2021. Part T, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 6: Glossary of patterns, abbreviations, and symbols to designate crinoid morphology, In W.I. Ausich (ed.) and W.I. Ausich (Coordinating Author). Treatise Online, 145, 5 p. [published online 02-02-2021]

Ausich, W.I. 2021. Disarticulation and Preservation of Fossil Echinoderms: Recognition of Ecological-Time Information in the Echinoderm Fossil Record. Elements of Paleontology. Paleontological Society and Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 56 p. [DOI: 10.1017/9781108893374] [published 02-09-2021]

Ausich, W.I. 2021. Crinoidea. In Alderton, D., and Elias, S.A. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd Edition, vo3:256-265. United Kingdom, Academic Press (Elsevier, Ltd).

Deline, B., J.R. Thompson, N.S. Smith, S. Zamora, I. Rahman, S.L. Sheffield, W.I. Ausich, T.W. Kammer, and C.D. Sumrall. 2020. Evolution and development at the origin of a phylum. Current Biology, 30:8 p. (published on line, 3-19-2020) [https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30261-X]

Ausich, W.I., D.F. Wright, S.R. Cole, and G.D. Sevastopulo. 2020. Homology of posterior interray plates in crinoids: A review and new perspectives from phylogenetics, the fossil record, and development. Palaeontology. [http://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12475; [published on line 2-16-2020]

Ausich, W.I., and S.M. Bergström. 2020. Another Primoridal Day – The Paleo Metal Diaries (editor-reviewed Book Review). Geology Today, 36(1):30-40.

Wright, D.F., S.R. Cole, and W.I. Ausich. 2019 (in print 2020 volume). Biodiversity, systematics, and new taxa of cladid crinoids from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) Brechin Lagerstätte. Journal of Paleontology, 94:334-357. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.81; [published on line 11-29-2019]

Ausich, W.I., M.A. Wilson, and U. Toom. 2019 (in print 2020 volume). Early Silurian recovery of Baltica crinoids following the end-Ordovician extinctions (Llandovery, Estonia). Journal of Paleontology, 94, 131-144. [http://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.89; [published on line 11-11-2019]

Gorzelak, P., D. Kołbuk, M. Salamon, M. Łukowiak, W.I. Ausich, T.K. Baumiller. 2019 (in 2020 print volume). Bringing planktonic crinoids back to the bottom: reassessment of the functional role of scyphocrinitid loboliths. Paleobiology, 46: 104-122. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2019.36 [published online 11-06-2019]

Ausich, W.I., M.A. Wilson, and O. Tinn. 2019 (in print 2020 volume). Kalana Lagerstätte crinoids: Silurian (Llandovery) of central Estonia. Journal of Paleontology, 93:131-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.27.; published online 05-14-19]

Salamon, M., J.-P. Lin, P. Duda, P. Gorzelak, W.I. Ausich, and T. Oji. 2019. Echinoderm ossicles trapped within Burmese amber: Paleoenvironmental, paleogeographic, and stratigraphic implications. PALAIOS, 34, 5 p. [http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2019.084; [published on line December 2019]

Meyer, D.L., and W.I. Ausich. 2019. Ecological and taphonomic fidelity in fossil crinoid accumulations. PALAIOS, 34: 575-583. [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.2110/palo.2019.032]

Ausich, W.I., and M.E. Cournoyer. 2019. New taxa and revised stratigraphic distribution of the crinoid fauna from Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada (Late Ordovician-Early Silurian). Journal of Paleontology, 93:1137-1158. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.29; published online 05-31-19]

Ausich, W.I., and S. Zamora. 2019. Stratigraphic and paleogeographic distributions of Devonian crinoids from Spain with description of new taxa from the Iberian Chains. Journal of Paleontology, 93:1159-1174. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.29; published online 05-28-19]

Ausich, W.I., Y. Mao, and Y. Li. 2019. Fusion or hypertrophy?: The unusual arms of the Petalocrinidae (Ordovician-Devonian; Crinoidea). Journal of Paleontology, 93:966-970. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.22.; published online 05-17-19]

Cole, S.R., D.F. Wright, and W.I. Ausich. 2019. Phylogenetic community paleoecology of one of the earliest complex crinoid faunas (Brechin Lagerstätte, Ordovician). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 521:82-98. [published online 02-20-19]

Ivany, L.C., W.I. Ausich, and T.K. Baumiller. 2018. Memorial: A Fond Farewell to Jim Brower (1934-2018). Journal of Paleontology, 92:938-941 (editor reviewed).[<http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1017/jpa.2018.69>; published online 09-11-18]

Mao, Y., G.D. Webster, W.I. Ausich, Y, Li, Q. Wang, and M. Reich. 2018. New crinoid fauna from the Taiyuan Formation (Early Permian) of Henan, North China. Journal of Paleontology, 92:1066-1080.[<http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1017/jpa.2017.154>; published online 06-22-18]

Lin, J.-P., W.I. Ausich, A. Baliński, S.M. Bergström, and Y. Sun. 2018. The oldest iocrinid crinoids from the Early/Middle Ordovician of China: possible paleogeographic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 151: 324-333.

Ausich, W.I., D.F. Wright, S.R. Cole, and J.M. Koniecki. 2018. Disparid and hybocrinid crinoids (phylum Echinodermata) from the Late Ordovician (Katian) Brechin Lagerstätte of Ontario. Journal of Paleontology, 92:850-871. [<http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1017/jpa.2017.154>; published online 06-19-18]

Ausich, W.I., E.C. Rhenberg, and D.L. Meyer. 2018. Batocrinidae (Crinoidea) from the lower Mississippian (lower Viséan) Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama: systematics, geographic occurrences, and facies distribution. Journal of Paleontology, 92:681-712.[<http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1017/jpa.2017.135>; published online 04-23-18]

Ausich, W.I. 2018. Morphological paradox of disparid crinoids (Echinodermata): phylogenetic analysis of a Paleozoic clade. Swiss Journal of Paleontology, 137:159-176. [DOI:10. 1007/10.1007/s13358-018-0147-z; published online 04-03-18]

Cole, L.R., W.I. Ausich, D.F. Wright, and J.M. Koniecki. 2018. An echinoderm Lagerstätte from the Upper Ordovician (Katian), Ontario: taxonomic re-evaluation and description of new dicyclic camerate crinoids. Journal of Paleontology, 92:488-505.[<http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1017/jpa.2017.151>; published online 2-22-18]

Sheffield, S.L., W.I. Ausich, and C. Sumrall. 2017 (paper version 2018 volume). Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) diploporitan fauna of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada: Implications for evolutionary and biogeographic patterns. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55:1-7. [<http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1139/cjes-2017-0160>; published online 12-06-17]

Cole, S.R., W.I. Ausich, S. Zamora, and J. Colmenar. 2017. Filling the Gondwanan gap: paleogeographic implications of new crinoids from the Fombuena and Castillejo formations (Middle and Upper Ordovician, Iberian Chains, Spain). Journal of Paleontology, 91:715-743. [doi: 10.1017/jpa.2016.135; published online 02-09-17]

Wright, D.F., W.I. Ausich, S.R. Cole, M.E. Peter, and E.C. Rhenberg. 2017. Phylogenetic taxonomy and classification of the Crinoidea (Echinodermta). Journal of Paleontology, 91:829-846. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.142; published online 02-22-17]

Mao, Y., Ausich, W.I., Li, Y., Lin, J.-P., and Lin, C. 2017. New taxa and phyletic
evolution of the Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) Petalocrinidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) in Guizhou, South China Block. Journal of Paleontology, 91:477-492. [http//dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.156; published online 30 January 2017]

Deline, B., and W.I. Ausich. 2017. Character selection and the quantification of morphological disparity. Paleobiology, v. 43, p. 68-84. [doi: 10.1017/pab.2016.28]

Ferretti, A., W.I. Ausich, C. Corrandini, M.G. Corriga, and H.P. Schönlaub. 2016. Stars in the Silurian sky: Echinoderm holdfasts from the Carnic Alps, Austria. Geologica Acta. [doi: 10.1344/GeologicaActa2016.14.4.1].

Rhenberg, E.C., W.I. Ausich, D.L. Meyer. 2016. Actinocrinitidae from the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky and Alabama. Journal of Paleontology, 90:1148-1159. [http//dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.85; published online 11 October 2016]

Ausich, W. I., and M.A. Wilson. 2016. Llandovery (early Silurian) crinoids from Hiiumaa
Island, western Estonia. Journal of Paleontology, 90:1139-1147.
[http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.120; published online 9 September 2016]

Ausich, W.I., and T.W. Kammer. 2016. Exaptation of pelmatozoan oral surfaces: constructional pathways in tegmen evolution. Journal of Paleontology, 90:689-720. [DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2016.73, Published online: 11 August 2016]

Thompson, J.R., and W.I. Ausich. 2016. Facies distribution of echinoids from the
Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) of Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology, 90:239-249.[http//dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.46]

Kallmeyer, J.W., and W.I. Ausich. 2016. Assemblage paleoecology of a new Glyptocrinus from the Late Ordovician of northern Kentucky and southwestern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology, 89:1068-1075. [note this paper is in the 2015 volume of the journal but was not published until 2016][doi: 10.1017/jpa.2016.72]

O’Malley, C.E., W.I. Ausich, and Y.-P. Chin. 2016. Deep echinoderm phylogeny preserved in organic molecules from Paleozoic fossils. Geology, 4:379-382. [doi:10.1130/G37761.1]

Ausich, W.I. 2016. Articulata (Echinodermata). McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill Education. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.053200 [editor reviewed]

Bergström, S.M., and W.I. Ausich. 2016. Memorial to Walter C. Sweet. Geological Society of America Memorials, 45: 5-8. [http://www.geosociety.org/pubs/memorials/index.asp] [editor reviewed]

Zamora, S., I.A. Rahman, and W.I. Ausich. 2015. A new iocrinid crinoid (Disparida) from the Ordovician (Darriwilian) of Morocco. PeerJ 3:e1450, 19 p. ; DOI 10.7717/peerj.1450 [pdf: https://peerj.com/articles/1450.pdf]

Lin, J.-P., W.I. Ausich, U.-L. Zhao, J. Peng, and T.-S. Tai. 2015. Crypto-helical body plan in partially disarticulated gogiids from the Cambrian of South China. Palaeoworld, 24:393-399.[published on line October 2015; doi: j.palwor.2-14.11.005]

Mao, Y., J.-P. Lin, and W.I Ausich. 2015. Chinese origin and radiation of the Palaeozoic crinoid family Petalocrinidae. Palaeoworld, 24:445-453. [published on line October 2015; doi: j.palwor.2-14.12.007]

Lin, J.-P., W.I. Ausich,, and J.A. Waters. 2015. Fossil echinoderm studies in China and other countries: Historial and new perspectives. Palaeoworld, 24:361-362. [introduction to edited issue of Palaeoworld]

Ausich, W.I., T.W. Kammer, E.C. Rhenberg, and D.F. Wright. 2015. Frontiers in Paleontology: Early phylogeny of crinoids within the Pelmatozoan clade. Palaeontology, 58(6):937-952. [published online 5 Oct 2015; doi: 10.1111/pala.12204; Dryad Repository, doi:10.5061/dryad.48h1q] [invited manuscript]

Vinn, O., M.A. Wilson, W.I. Ausich, and U. Toom. 2015. Tremichnus in crinoid pluricolumnals from the Silurian of western Estonia (Baltica). Carnets de Géologie, 15, no. 17:239-243. [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1517/index.html]

Lefebvre, B., Ausich, W.I., Clausen, S., Courville, P., Kundura, J.-P., Legrain, X., Régnault, S., and Roussel, P. 2015. A review of Ordovician crinoids from France: new data from the Darriwilian of the Armorican Massif and palaeobiogeographic implications. Annales de Paléontologie, 101(4):301-312.

Kammer, T. W., C. Bartels, and W.I. Ausich. 2015 (2016 volume of journal). Postlarval pentacrinoids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Lethaia, 49:307-311. [published online 4 SEP 2015. DOI: 10.1111/let.12147]

Ausich, W.I., M.E. Peter, and F.R. Ettensohn. 2015. Echinoderms from the Lower Silurian Brassfield Formation of east-central Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology, 245-256.

Ausich, W.I., C.R. Stelck, A.G. Plint, R.A. Buckley, and P.J. Angiel. 2015. Early Cretaceous (? early late Albian) echinoderms from northeastern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52(4):235-243. [doi: 10.1139/cjes-2014-0218]

Ausich, W.I., T.W. Kammer, D.F. Wright, S.R. Cole, M.E. Peter, and E.C. Rhenberg. 2015. Toward a phylogentic classification of the Crinoidea (Echinodermata) [Extended Abstract], p. 29-32. In S. Zamora and I. Rábano (Eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Palaeontology, Cuademos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero Españo, Madrid, Spain.

Wright, D.F., and W.I. Ausich. 2015. From the stem to the crown: phylogeny and diversification of the Pan-cladid crinoids [Extended Abstract], p. 199–202. In S. Zamora and I. Rábano (Eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Palaeontology, Cuademos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero Españo, Madrid, Spain.

Cole, S.R., and W.I. Ausich. 2015. Phylogenetic analysis of the Diplobathrida (Subclass Camerata, Class Crinoidea): Implications for early camerate evolution [Extended Abstract], p. 41-44. In S. Zamora and I. Rábano (Eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Palaeontology, Cuademos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero Españo, Madrid, Spain.

Озии, В.И., С.И. Роҗнов, Т.В. Каммер. 2015. Иокринилньіе Морсие Лилии Из Ордовика Приьалтики. Палеонтологический Журнал, 2015(2):36-43. [English Translation: Ausich, W.I., S.V. Rozhnov, and T.W. Kammer. 2015. Iocrinids from the Baltic Region (Ordovician; Estonia). Palaeontological Journal, 49(2):145-152.] (doi: 10.1134/S0031030115020069)

Thompson, J.R. and W.I. Ausich. 2015. Testing for escalation lower Mississippian camerate crinoids. Paleobiology, 41(1): 89-107.
Rhenberg, E.C., W.I. Ausich, and T.W. Kammer. 2015. Generic concepts in the Actinocrinitidae Austin and Austin, 1842 and evaluation of generic assignments. Journal of Paleontology, 89(1):1-39.

Ausich, W.I., M.A. Wilson, and O. Vinn. 2015. Wenlock and Pridoli (Silurian) crinoids from Saaremaa, western Estonia (Phylum Echinodermata). Journal of Paleontology, 89(1), 72-81.

Cramer, B.D., K.J. Lewandowski, A. Goldstein, P. Asher, J. Ryan, D.I. Schofield, R. Buchanan, R. Denne, W.I. Ausich, T.R.A. Vandenbroucke, S. Lundy, T.R. Priest, and R.J. Clark. 2015. Who will build the 21st Century? Addressing critical demographic gaps in the Geosciences. G.S.A. Today, 25(12):36-37.

Rhenberg, E.C., J.F. Miller, and W.I. Ausich. 2014. Collicrinus excavatus (Hall, 1861), generic affinity for a Lower Mississippian crinoid (phylum Echindermata). Palaeoworld, 23:252-257.

Wilson, M.A., E.A. Reinthal, and W.I. Ausich. 2014. Parasitism of a new apiocrinitid crinoid species from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of southern Israel. Journal of Paleontology, 88:1212-1221.

Krivicich, E.B., W.I. Ausich, and D.L. Meyer. 2014.  Crinoid assemblages from the  Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Journal of Paleontology, 88:1154-1162.

Ausich, W.I. 2014. Review of Visions of a Vanished World: The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsrück Slate. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 89:168.

O’Malley, C.E., W.I. Ausich, and Y.P. Chin. 2014. Forum Reply: Isolation and characterization of the earliest taxon-specific organic molecules (Mississippian, Crinoidea). Geology, 1 p. (Online only) [doi:10.1130/G35388Y.1]

Donovan, S.K., W.I. Ausich, M.A. Wilson, and M.E. Peter. 2014. A Middle Ordovician crinoid from the beach gravels of Ristna Cape, Hiiumaa, Estonia.  Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 125(1):96-98.

Kammer, T.W., C.D. Sumrall, S. Zamora, W.I. Ausich, and B. Deline. 2013. Oral region homologies in Paleozoic crinoids and other plesiomorphic pentaradiate echinoderms. PLoS ONE, 8(11), 16 p. [http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077989].

Ausich, W.I., C. Bartels, T.W. Kammer. 2013. Tube feet preservation in the Devonian crinoid Codiacrinus (Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany).  Lethaia, 46:416-420.

Ausich, W.I., and T.W. Kammer. 2013. Mississippian crinoid biodiversity, biogeography, and macroevolution.  Palaeontology, 56:727-740.

Krivicich, E.B., W.I. Ausich, and R.G. Keyes. 2013.  Crinoidea from the Fort Payne Chert of north-central Alabama and south-central Tennessee (Phylum Echinodermata; Mississippian). Southeastern Geology, 49:133-143.

O’Malley, C.E., W.I. Ausich, and Y.-P. Chin. 2013. Isolation and characterization of the earliest taxon-specific organic molecules (Mississippian, Crinoidea). Geology, 41(3):347-350.[http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/41/3/347?ijkey=afN62Tci6dkaw&keytype=ref&siteid=gsgeology]

Thompson, J.R., W.I. Ausich, and L. Smith. 2013. Echinoderms from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) Malvinokaffric Realm of Bolivia.  Journal of Paleontology, 87:164-173.

Ausich, W.I., and T.E. Wood. 2012.  Ontogeny in Hypselocrinus hoveyi, Mississippian cladid crinoid from Indiana.  Journal of Paleontology, 86:1017-1020.

Ausich, W.I., and M.A. Wilson.  2012.  New Tethyan Apiocrinitidae (Crinoidea; Articulata) from the Jurassic of Israel.  Journal of Paleontology, 86:1051-1055.

Deline, B., W.I. Ausich, and C.E. Brett. 2012.  Comparing taxonomic and geographic scales in the morphologic disparity of Ordovician through Early Silurian Laurentian crinoids.  Paleobiology, 38(4):538-553.

Ausich, W.I., and B. Deline.  2012.  Macroevolutionary transition in crinoids following the Late Ordovician extinction event (Ordovician to Early Silurian). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 361-362:38-48. [published online 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.07.022]

Ausich, W.I., M.A. Wilson, and O. Vinn.  2012.  Crinoids from the Silurian of Western Estonia (Phylum Echinodermata).  Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 57(3):613-631.

Ausich, W.I. 2012. Presentation of the 2010 Paleontological Society Medal.  Journal of Paleontology, 86:391. [editor reviewed]

Bohatý, J., Nyhuis, C., W.I. Ausich,  E. Nardine, C. Nyhuis, and S. Schröder. 2012.  A coral-crinoid biocoenosis from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel Synclines (Rhenish Massif, Germany).  Journal of Paleontology, 86:282-301.

Ausich, W.I., and E.W. Roerser.  2012.  Camerate and disparid crinoids from the late Kinderhookian Meadville Shale, Cuyahoga Formation of Ohio.  Journal of Paleontology, 86:488-506.

Sallan, L.C., T.W. Kammer, W.I. Ausich, and L.A. Cook.  2011.  Persistent predator–prey dynamics revealed by mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 108(20):8335-8338.

Ausich, W.I., R. Buckley, and A.G. Plint. 2011.  Nearshore articulate crinoid from the Albian of Alberta, Canada (Early Cretaceous).  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48:719-727.

Borths, M.R., and W.I. Ausich.  2011.  Ordovician-Silurian Lilliput crinoids during the end-Ordovician biotic crisis.  Swiss Journal of Paleontology, 130(1):7-18. (Invited paper)

Deline, B. and W.I. Ausich. 2011.  Testing the plateau: A re-examination of disparity and morphological constraints in early Paleozoic crinoids. Paleobiology, 37:214-236.

Young, S.A., M.R. Saltzman, A. Desrochers, W.I. Ausich, and D. Kaljo. 2010.  Did changes in atmospheric CO2 coincide with Late Ordovician glacial-interglacial cycles?  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 296:376-388.

Ausich, W.I., and T.W. Kammer. 2010.  Generic concepts in the Batocrinidae Wachsmuth and Springer, 1881 (Class Crinoidea).  Journal of Paleontology, 84:32-50.

Ausich, W.I. 2010.  Post-hoc sampling analysis of crinoid collections from Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada.  Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Paleontologists, 39: 12-25. (Invited paper)

Ausich, W. I.  2009.  A critical evaluation of the status of crinoids studied by Dr. Gerard Troost (1776-1850).  Journal of Paleontology, 83:484-488 [plus online supplemental data.]

Hollis, K.A., and W.I. Ausich.  2009. Ontogeny and life history strategy of Barycrinus (Crinoidea, Mississippian). Lethaia., 42(2):138-145.

Ausich, W.I. 2009.  These are not the crinoids your Granddaddy knew.  MAPS Digest. 32(1):4-19. [editor reviewed]

Boyarko, D., and W.I. Ausich. 2009.  New calceocrinids from the Brassfield Formation of northern Kentucky and southern Ohio.  Southeastern Geology, 46(2):103-108.

Ausich, W.I., and T.W. Kammer. 2009.  Generic concepts in the Platycrinitidae Austin and Austin (Class Crinoidea).  Journal of Paleontology, 83(5):694-717.

Ettensohn, F.R., W.I. Ausich, T.W. Kammer, W.K. Johnson, and D.R. Chesnut. Jr.  2009.  Carboniferous echinoderm succession in the Appalachian Basin, p. 85-93.  In S. F. Greb and D.R. Chesnut, Jr., Carboniferous of the Appalachian and Black Warrior Basins.  Kentucky Geological Survey Special Publication 10, Series XII.

Ausich, W,I., and T.W. Kammer.  2008.  Generic concepts in the Amphoracrinidae Bather, 1899 (Class Crinoidea) and evaluation of generic assignments of North American species.  Journal of Paleontology, 82:1130-1149.

Hollis, K.A., and W.I. Ausich. 2008.  The holdfast of Gilbertsocrinus (Mississippian, Crinoidea).  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45:135-140.

Lin, J.-P., W.I. Ausich, Y.-L. Zhao, and J. Peng.  2008.  Taphonomy, Colouration, and Paleoecologic, Implications of Cambrian gogiid echinoderms from Guizhou Province, South China. Geological Magazine, 145(1):17-36.

Peters, S.E., and W.I. Ausich.  2008. A sampling-adjusted macroevolutionary history for Ordovician-Silurian crinoids.  Paleobiology, 34(1):104-116.

Lin, J.-P., W.I. Ausich, and Y.-L. Zhao.  2008.  Settling strategies of eocrinoids from the Kaili Biota (middle Cambrian) Guizhou Province, South China.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, 258:213-221. (invited paper)

Ausich, W.I. 2007.  Book Review: Daniel F, Merriam, 2007, Raymond Cecil Moore, Legendary Scholar and Scientist, World-Class Geologist and Paleontologist.  University of Kansas Department of Geology and Palentological Institute Special Publication, 5, Lawrence Kansas, viii+170 p.  Palaios Book Review [online: DOI:10.2110/pao.2007.BR020].

Kammer, T.W., and W.I. Ausich. 2007.  Stratigraphical and geographical distribution of Mississippian Crinoidea from Scotland. Earth and Environmental Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 98:139-150.

Kammer, T.W., and W.I. Ausich.  2007.  New cladid and flexible crinoids from the Mississippian (Tournaisian) of England and Wales.  Palaeontology, 50(5):1039-1050.

Ettensohn, F.R., W.I. Ausich, T.W. Kammer, W.K. Johnson, and D.R. Chesnut, Jr..  2007.  Carboniferous echinoderm zonation in the Appalachian Basin, eastern USA. Geologie en Mijnbouw, 84:177-189 [T.E. Wong, (ed.) Proceedings of the Xvth International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy].

Schmidt, D.A., C.K. Carney, and W.I. Ausich.  2007.  Stromatoporoid-tabulate coral reefs, USA, p. 117-119. In, E. Vennin, M. Aretz, F. Boulvain, and A. Munnecke (Eds.), Facies from Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 195.

Ausich, W.I., D.A. Schmidt, and C.K. Carney.  2007.  Stromatactis-stromatoporoid-tabulate coral reefs, USA, p. 121-123. In, E. Vennin, M. Aretz, F. Boulvain, and A. Munnecke (Eds.), Facies from Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 195.

Kammer, T.W., and W.I. Ausich.  2007.  Soft tissue preservation of the hind gut in a new genus of cladid crinoids from the Lower Carboniferous (Asbian) at St. Andrews, Scotland.  Palaeontology, 50(4):951-959.

Ausich, W.I., A.A. Sá, and  J.C. Gutiérrez-Marco. 2007. New and Revised occurrences of Ordovician crinoids from southwestern Europe.  Journal of Paleontology, 81(6):1374-1383.

Richardson, J.G., and W.I. Ausich. 2007. Late Ordovician-Early Silurian crypotospore occurrences on Anticosti Island (Île d’Anticosti), Quebec, Canada.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44:1-7.

Schopf, J.W., W.I. Ausich, J.R. Dodd, C.A. Hall, R.L. Parsley, G.D. Webster. 2007. Norman Gary Lane: President of the Paleontological Society (1987-1988) and Founder of “Friends of the Echinoderms” (1967).  Journal of Paleontology, 81:221-226.

Kammer, T.W., W.I. Ausich, and A. Goldstein. 2007. Gilmocrinus kentuckyensis n. sp. from the late Osagean (Mississippian) Muldraugh Member of the Borden Formation in Kentucky: A European immigrant originally derived from North America? Journal of Paleontology, 81(1):209-212.

Lin, J.-P., A.C. Scott, C.-W. Li, H.-J. Wu, W.I. Ausich, Y.-L Zhao, and Y.K. Hwu.  2006. Silicified egg clusters from a Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale-type Deposit, Guizhou, South China.  Geology, 34(12):1037-1040.

Ausich, W.I.  2006.  Book Review: Frank Springer and New Mexico, from the Colfax County War to the Emergence of Modern Santa Fe.  Earth Sciences History, 25(1):155-158.

Lane, N.G. and W.I. Ausich.  2006.  Camerata, p. 415-416.  In, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.  McGraw-Hill, New York.

Ausich, W.I., and T.W. Kammer. 2006. Stratigraphic and Geographic Distribution of Lower Carboniferous Crinoidea from England and Wales.  Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 56(2):91-109.

Kammer, T.W., and W.I. Ausich.  2006. The “Age of Crinoids”: a Mississippian biodiversity spike coincident with widespread carbonate ramps. Palaios, 21:236-248.

Ausich, W.I., and S.E. Peters.  2005.  A revised macroevolutionary history for Ordovician-Silurian crinoids.  Paleobiology, 31:542-555.

Ausich, W.I., and N.G. Lane.  2005.  Isolated ideas: crinoid literature of the 16th Century.  Earth Sciences History, 24:81-92.

Lee, K.G., W.I. Ausich, and T.W. Kammer. 2005.  Crinoids from the Nada Member of the Borden Formation (Lower Mississippian) in eastern Kentucky.  Journal of Paleontology, 79(2):337-356.

Richardson, J.G., and W.I. Ausich. 2004.  Miospore biostratigraphy of the Borden Formation (Osagean; Tournaisian/Visean) of Kentucky and Indiana, U.S.A.  Palynology, 28:159-174.

Richardson, J.G., and W.I. Ausich.  2004.  Paleozoic glacio-eustatic fingerprints; Evidence from third-order sequences in the Borden Delta (Mississippian; Osagean) of Kentucky and Indiana (U.S.A.).  Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, 26(4):337-356.

Ausich, W.I.  2004.  A Geological Society.  Geoscientist, 14(1):18-19.

Ausich, W.I.  2003.  Encrinites, p. 248-249.  In G. Middleton (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks.  Kluwer Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Glass, A., W.I. Ausich, and P. Copper.  2003.  New cyclocystoid (Phylum Echinodermata) from Anticosti Island, Quebec, and its bearing on cyclocystoid life modes.  Journal of Paleontology, 77:949-957.

Ausich, W.I.  2003.  New cladid crinoid (Phylum Echinodermata) from the Middle Devonian Delaware Limestone, Franklin County, Ohio.  Ohio Journal of Sciences, 103(2):19-24.

Ausich, W.I.  2003.  Developmental breakdown during the early evolution of the Codiacrinidae: Parazophocrinus callosus Strimple (Class Crinoidea).  Journal of Paleontology, 77:471-475.

Ausich, W.I. 2003.  Lower Mississippian crinoid (Echinodermata) fauna from Utah County, Utah.  Journal of Paleontology, 77:139-145.

Ausich, W.I., and D. Gil Cid, and P. Domínquez Alonso.  2002.  Ordovician [Dobrotivian (Llandeillian Stage) to Ashgill] Crinoids (Phylum Echinodermata) from the Montes de Toledo and Sierra Morena, Spain with implications for paleogeography of peri-Gondwana.  Journal of Paleontology, 76:975-992.

Schneider, K.A., and W.I. Ausich.  2002. Paleoecology of framebuilders in Early Silurian reefs (Brassfield Formation, southwestern Ohio).  Palaios, 17:237-248.

Lane, N.G., and W.I. Ausich.  2001.  The legend of St. Cuthbert’s beads.  Folklore, 112, 65-87.

Ausich, W.I., and D.J. Bottjer.  2001.  Sessile Invertebrates, p. 384-386.  In D.E. Briggs, and P.R. Crowther.  Palaeobiology II.  Blackwell Scientific Publications, Ltd.; London.

Ausich W.I., and T.W. Kammer.  2001.  The study of crinoids during the 20th Century and the challenges of the 21st Century.  Journal of Paleontology, 75:1161-1173.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Sevastopulo.  2001. Nomenclatoral listing of all names applied to crinoid specimens from the Hook Head fauna with present status according to Ausich & Sevastopulo (2001).  The British Library Document Supply Centre Supplementary Publication, SUP 90487, 11 p.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Sevastopulo.  2001.  Hook Head Formation crinoids deposited in museums, forming the basis of systematic revisions in Ausich and Sevastopulo (2001).  The British Library Document Supply Centre Supplementary Publication, SUP 90488, 34 p.

Ausich, W.I. 2000.  A remarkably long crinoid column from the Notwata Shale (Marmaton Group, Upper Desmoinesian), Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geology Notes, 0:60-61.

Esquivel-Macías, C., W.I. Ausich, B.E. Buitrón-Sanchez, and A. Flores de Dios.  2000.  Pennsylvanian and Mississippian pluricolumnal assemblages (Class Crinoidea) from southern Mexico  and a new occurrence of a column with a tetralobate lumen.  Journal of Paleontology,74:1187-1190.

Ausich, W.I., and L.E. Babcock.  2000.  Echmatocrinus, a Burgess Shale animal reconsidered.  Lethaia, 33:92-94.

Ausich, W.I., A. Goldstein, and R. Yates.  2000.  Crinoids from the Muldraugh Member of the Borden Formation in north-central Kentucky (Echinodermata, Lower Mississippian).  Journal of Paleontology,74:1072-1082.

Ausich, W.I.  2000.  Bones in the Ivory Tower.  Geotimes, 45:18-21.

Bodenbender, B.E., and W.I. Ausich.  2000.  Skeletal crystallography and crinoid calyx architecture.  Journal of Paleontology, 74:52-66.

Unrug, R., W.I. Ausich, J. Bednarczyk, R.J. Cuffey, B.L. Mamet, S.L. Palmes, and S. Unrug.  2000.  Paleozoic age of the Walden Creek Group, Ocoee Supergroup in the Western Blue Ridge, Southern Appalachians:  Implication for evolution of the Appalachian margin of Laurentia.  Geological Society of America Bulletin. 112:982-966.

Ausich, W.I., G.D. Sevastopulo, and H. Torrens.  1999.  Middle Nineteenth Century crinoid studies of Thomas Austin, Sr. and Thomas Austin Jr.: Newly discovered unpublished materials.  Earth Sciences History, 18:180-197. [publication appeared November 2000, despite 1999 copyright]

Ausich, W.I.  1999.  Origin of Crinoids, p. 237-242.  In M.D. Candia Carnevali and F. Bonasara (eds).  Echinoderm Research 1998.  A.A. Balkema; Rotterdam.

Ausich, W.I.  1998.  Phylogeny of Arenig to Caradoc Crinoids (Phylum Echinodermata) and suprageneric classification of the Crinoidea.  University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Papers, New Series, 9, 36 p.

Kammer, T.W., T.K. Baumiller, and W.I. Ausich.  1998.  Evolutionary significance of differential species longevity in Osagean-Meramecian (Mississippian) crinoid clades.  Paleobiology, 24:155-176.

Ausich, W.I., and T.K. Baumiller.  1998.  Disarticulation patterns in Ordovician crinoids:  Implications for the evolutionary history of connective tissue in the class Crinoidea (Echinodermata).  Lethaia, 31:113-123.

Ausich, W.I., T.E. Bolton, and L.M. Cumming.  1998.  Whiterockian (Ordovician) crinoid fauna from the Table Head Group, western Newfoundland (Canada).  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 35:121-130.

Ausich, W.I.  1998.  Origin of the Crinoidea, p. 127-132.  In R. Mooi, and M. Telford (eds.) Echinoderms: San Franciso.  A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Ausich, W.I., and L.E. Babcock.  1998.  The phylogenetic position of Echmatocrinus brachiatus, a probable octocoral from the Burgess Shale.  Palaeontology, 41:193-202.

Ausich, W.I.  1998.  Early phylogeny and subclass division of the Crinoidea (phylum Echinodermata).  Journal of Paleontology, 72:499-510.

Harvey, E.W., and W.I. Ausich.  1997.  Phylogeny of calceocrinid crinoids (Paleozoic: Echinodermata): Biogeography and mosaic evolution.  Journal of Paleontology, 71:299-305.

Meyer, D.L., and W.I. Ausich.  1997.  Morphologic variation within and between populations of the camerate crinoid Agaricocrinus (Lower Mississippian, Kentucky and Tennessee):  Breaking the Spell of the mushroom.  Journal of Paleontology, 71:896-917.

Meyer, D.L., P.E. Potter, J.L. Thies, W.I. Ausich, and S.A. Leslie.  1997.  A deep-to-shallow transition in the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian) Kentucky  Highway 61, Cumberland County, Kentucky.  Kentucky Geological Survey Map and Chart Series, 12.

Kammer, T.W., T.K Baumiller, and W.I. Ausich.  1997.  Species longevity as a function of niche breadth:  Evidence from fossil crinoids.  Geology, 25: 219-222.

Ausich, W.I., T.W. Kammer, and D.L. Meyer.  1997.  Middle Mississippian disparid crinoids from the east-central United States.  Journal of Paleontology, 71:131-148.

Leslie, S.A., W.I. Ausich, and D.L. Meyer.  1996.  Lower Mississippian sedimentation dynamics and conodont biostratigraphy (lowermost Fort Payne Formation) along the southeastern margin of the Easter Interior Seaway.  Southeastern Geology, 36:27-35.

Ausich, W.I.  1996.  Crinoid plate circlet homologies.  Journal of Paleontology, 70:955-964.

Baumiller, T.K. and W.I. Ausich.  1996.  Crinoid stalk flexibility: Theoretical predictions and fossil stalk postures.  Lethaia, 29:47-59.

Kammer, T.W., and W.I. Ausich.  1996.  Primitive cladid crinoids from the upper Osagean-lower Meramecian (Mississippian) rocks of the east-central United States.  Journal of Paleontology, 70:835-866.

Ausich, W.I., and R.L. Guenther.  1996.  Blastoids from the Cuyahoga Formation of Ohio (Echinodermata: Lower Misissippian).  Kirklandia, 49:1-5.

Ausich, W.I.  1995.  What is Mitrocinus wetherbyi S.A. Miller and Gurley, 1894?  Journal of Paleontology, 69:1188-1190.

Ausich, W.I. 1995.  N. Gary Lane Raymond C. Moore Medalist For Excellence in Paleontology.  Journal of Sedimentary Research, B65:496-497 [not refereed].

Lane, N.G., and W.I. Ausich.  1995.  Interreef crinoid fauna from the Mississinewa Shale Member of the Wabash Formation (Northern Indiana, Silurian).  Journal of Paleontology, 69:1090-1106.

Ausich, W.I.  1995.  Presentation of the Paleontological Society Medal to Walter C. Sweet.  Journal of Paleontology, 69:797.  [not refereed]

Baumiller, T.K., G. Llewellyn, C. Messing, and W.I. Ausich.  1995.  Taphonomy and autotomy of isocrinid stalks: Influence of decay and autotomy.  Palaios, 10:87-95.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Sevastopulo.  1994.  Taphonomy of Lower Carboniferous crinoids from the Hook Head Formation, Ireland.  Lethaia, 27:245-256.

Ausich, W.I., T.W. Kammer, and T.K. Baumiller.  1994.  Demise of the Middle Paleozoic crinoid fauna: A single extinction event or rapid faunal turnover?  Paleobiology, 20: 345-361.

Ausich, W.I., and D.L. Meyer.  1994.  Hybrid crinoids in the fossil record (Early Mississippian, Phylum Echinodermata).  Paleobiology, 20:362-367.

Kammer, T.W. and W.I. Ausich.  1994.  Advanced cladid crinoids from the middle Mississippian of the east-central United States: Advanced-grade calyces.  Journal of Paleontology, 68:339-351.

Ausich, W.I., and T.K. Baumiller.  1993.  Column regeneration in an Ordovician crinoid (Echinodermata): Paleobiologic implicatons.  Journal of Paleontology, 67: 1068-1070.

Ausich, W.I. and T.K. Baumiller.  1993.  Taphonomic method for determining muscular articulations in fossil crinoids.  Palaios, 8:477-484.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Sevastopulo.  1993.  Poteriocrinites impressus (Phillips, 1836). Paläontologisches Zeitschrift 67:299-303.

Tull, J.F., W.I. Ausich, M.S. Goszos, and T.W. Thompson. 1993.  Appalachian Blue Ridge cover sequence ranges at least into the Ordovician.  Geology 21:215-218.

Kammer, T.W. and W.I. Ausich.  1993.  Advanced cladid crinoids from the middle Mississippian of the East-Central United States: Intermediate-grade calyces.  Journal of Paleontology 67:614-639.

Meyer, D.L., W.I. Ausich, and P.E. Potter.  1992.  Mississippian clinoform — Lithologic and paleoecologic diversity amid slopes, slides, and mounds (not refereed) Palaios 7:335-336.

Kammer, T.W. and W.I. Ausich.  1992.  Advanced cladid crinoids from the middle Mississippian of the East-Central United States:  Primitive-grade calyces.  Journal of Paleontology, 66:461-480.

Ausich, W.I. and T.W. Kammer.  1992.  Dizygocrinus:  Mississippian camerate crinoid from the midcontinental United States (Echinodermata).  Journal of Paleontology, 66:637-658.

Ausich, W.I.  1992.  Paleoecology Workshop.  Palaios, 7:239-240  (not refereed).

Ausich, W.I. and D.L. Meyer.  1992.  Crinoidea Flexibilia (Echinodermata) from the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian; Kentucky and Tennessee).  Journal of Paleontology, 66:825-838.

Baumiller, T.K. and W.I. Ausich.  1992.  The “broken stick” model as a null hypothesis for crinoid stalk taphonomy and as a guide to the distribution of connective tissues in fossils.  Paleobiology, 18:288-298.

Ausich, W.I. and D.J. Bottjer.  1991.  History of tiering among suspension feeders in the benthic marine ecosystem.  Journal of Geological Education, 39:313-318.

Ausich, W.I. and T.W. Kammer.  1991.  Systematic revisions to Aorocrinus, Dorycrinus, Macrocrinus, Paradichocrinus, Strotocrinus, and Uperocrinus:  Mississippian camerate crinoids from the stratotype region (Echinodermata).  Journal of Paleontology, 65:936-944.

Ausich, W.I. and T.W. Kammer.  1991.  Late Osagean and Meramecian Actinocrinites from the Mississippian stratotype region (Echinodermata:  Crinoidea).  Journal of Paleontology, 65:485-499.

Ausich, W.I.  1991.  Response by William I. Ausich for the Schuchert Award, 30 October 1990.  Journal of Paleontology, 65:524-525.  [not refereed]

Kammer, T.W., P.L. Brenckle, J.L. Carter, and W.I. Ausich.  1991 (1990).  Redefinition of the Osagean-Meramecian boundary in the Mississippian stratotype region.  Palaios, 5:414-431.

Powers, B.G. and W.I. Ausich.  1990.  Epizoan associations in a Lower Mississippian paleocommunity (Borden Group, Indiana, U.S.A.).  Historical Biology, 4:245-265.

Ausich, W.I. and T. W. Kammer.  1990.  Systematics and phylogeny of the late Osagean and Meramecian crinoids Platycrinites and Eucladocrinus from the Mississippian stratotype region.  Journal of Paleontology, 64:759-778.

Ausich, W.I. and D.L. Meyer.  1990.  Origin and composition of carbonate buildups and associated facies in the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian, south-central Kentucky):  An integrated sedimentologic and paleoecologic analysis.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, 102:129-146.

Meyer, D.L., W.I. Ausich, and R.E. Terry.  1990 (1989).  Comparative taphonomy of echinoderms in carbonate facies:  Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian) of Kentucky and Tennessee.  Palaios, 4:533-552.

Ausich, W.I. and T.W. Kammer.  1989.  Teratological specimen of Agaricocrinus americanus (Roemer) (Lower Mississippian, Crinoidea).  Journal of Paleontology, 63:945-946.

Wulff, J.I. and W. I. Ausich.  1989.  Growth of the xenomorphic crinoid column (Taxocrinus, Late Mississippian).  Journal of Paleontology, 63:657-662.

Sevastopulo, G.D., W.I. Ausich, and C. Franzén-Bengtson.  1989.  Echinoderms, p. 264-267.  In, C.H. Holland and M.G. Bassett, A Global Standard for the Silurian System, National Museum of Wales Geological Series 9.

Ausich, W.I.  1988.  Evolutionary convergence and parallelism in crinoid calyx design. Journal of Paleontology 62:906-916.

Riddle, S.W., J.I. Wulff, and W.I. Ausich.  1988.  Biomechanics and stereomic microstructure of the Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus column, p. 641-648.  In, R.D. Burke, P.V. Mladenov, P. Lambert, and R.L. Parsley (eds.) Echinoderm Biology.  A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Ausich, W.I., D.L. Meyer, and J.A. Waters.  1988.  Middle Mississippian blastoid extinction event.  Science, 240:796-798.

Ausich, W.I. and D.L. Meyer.  1988.  Blastoids from the late Osagean Fort Payne Formation (Kentucky and Tennessee).  Journal of Paleontology, 62:269-283.

Ausich, W.I. and P. Dravage.  1988.  Crinoids from the Brassfield Formation of Adams County, Ohio.  Journal of Paleontology, 62:285-289.

Kammer, T.W. and W.I. Ausich.  1987.  Aerosol suspension feeding and current velocities:  distributional controls for late Osagean crinoids.  Paleobiology, 13:379-395.

Ausich, W.I.  1987.  Revisions of Rowley’s Ordovician (?) and Silurian crinoids from Missouri.  Journal of Paleontology 61:563-578.

Ausich, W.I.  1987.  Brassfield Compsocrinina (Early Silurian crinoids) from Ohio.  Journal of Paleontology 61:552-562.

Bottjer, D.J. and W.I. Ausich.  1987.  Phanerozoic development of tiering in soft substrata suspension-feeding communities.  Paleobiology 12:400-420.

Ausich, W.I.  1986.  The crinoids of the Al Rose Formation (Early Ordovician, Inyo County, California, USA).  Alcheringa 10:217-224.

Ausich, W.I.  1986.  New camerate crinoids of the suborder Glyptocrinina from the Lower Silurian Brassfield Formation (southwestern Ohio).  Journal of Paleontology 60:887-897.

Ausich, W.I.  1986.  Early Silurian inadunate crinoids (Brassfield Formation, Ohio). Journal of Paleontology 60:719-735.

Ausich, W.I.  1986.  Palaeoecology and history of the Calceocrinidae (Palaeozoic Crinoidea).  Palaeontology 29(1):85-99.

Ausich, W.I.  1986.  Early Silurian rhodocrinitacean crinoids (Brassfield Formation, Ohio).  Journal of Paleontology 60(1):84-106.

Ausich, W.I. and N.G. Lane.  1985.  Crinoid assemblages and geographic endemism in the Lower Mississippian (Carboniferous) crinoids of the continental interior, p. 216-224.  In, J.T. Dutro, Jr., and H.W. Pfefferkorn (eds.), Neuvieme Congres International de Stratigraphie et de Geologie du Carbonifere, Compte Rendu, Vol. 5.  Paleontology/Paleoecology/Paleogeography.

Ausich, W.I. and D.J. Bottjer.  1985.  Echinoderm role in the history of Phanerozoic tiering in suspension-feeding communities, p. 3-11.  In B.F. Keegan and B.D.S. O’Connor (eds.), Echinodermata.  A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Ausich, W.I.  1985.  New crinoids and revision of the superfamily Glyptocrinacea (Early Silurian, Ohio).  Journal of Paleontology 59:793-808.

Bottjer, D.J. and W.I. Ausich.  1985.  Comment.  Geology 13:83-85.

Ausich, W.I.  1984.  The genus Clidochirus from the Early Silurian of Ohio (Crinoidea: Llandoverian).  Journal of Paleontology 58:1341-1346.

Ausich, W.I.  1984.  Calceocrinids from the Early Silurian (Llandoverian) Brassfield Formation of southwestern Ohio.  Journal of Paleontology 58:1167-1185.

Ausich, W.I. and G. A. Schumacher.  1984.  New Lower Silurian rhombiferan cystoid (Echinodermata, Callocystitidae) from southwestern Ohio.  Journal of Paleontology 58:9-15.

Ausich, W.I.  1983.  Component concept for the study of paleocommunities with an example from the Early Carboniferous of southern Indiana.  Palaeogeography/ Palaeoclimatology/Palaeoecology 44:251-282.

Ausich, W.I.  1983.  Functional morphology and feeding dynamics of the Early Mississippian crinoid Barycrinus asteriscus.  Journal of Paleontology 57(1):31-41.

Schumacher, G.A. and W.I. Ausich.  1983.  New Upper Ordovician echinoderm site:  Bull Fork Formation Caesar Creek Reservoir.  (Warren County, Ohio).  Ohio Journal of Science 83:60-64.

Ausich, W.I. and N.G. Lane.  1982.  Evolution of arm structure in the Early Mississippian Crinoid Cydrocrinus, p. 139-143.  In J.M. Lawrence (ed.), Echinoderms:  Proceedings of the Echinoderm Conference, Tampa Bay.  Balkema Press, Rotterdam.

Ausich, W.I. and N.G. Lane.  1982.  Crinoids from the Edwardsville Formation (Lower Mississippian) of Indiana.  Journal of Paleontology 56(6):1343-1361.

Ausich, W.I. and D.P. Smith.  1982.  New evidence for the early life history of solitary rugose corals.  Journal of Paleontology 56(5):1223-1229.

Bottjer, D.J. and W.I. Ausich.  1982.  Tiering and sampling requirements in paleoecological reconstruction.  Proceedings of Third North American Paleontological Convention 1:57-59.

Ausich, W.I. and D. J. Bottjer.  1982.  Tiering in suspension-feeding communities on soft substrata throughout the Phanerozoic.  Science, 216(4542):173-174.

Ausich, W.I.  1981.  Biovolume revisited:  A diversity index for paleoecological analyses.  Ohio Journal of Science 81:268-274.

Rigby, J.K. and W.I. Ausich.  1981.  Lower Mississippian sponges from the Edwardsville Formation, southern Indiana.  Journal of Paleontology 55:370-382.

Ausich, W.I.  1980.  A model for niche differentiation in Lower Mississippian crinoid communities.  Journal of Paleontology 54:273-288.

Kelly, S.M. and W.I. Ausich.  1979.  A new name for the Lower Ordovician crinoid Pogocrinus Kelly and Ausich.  Journal of Paleontology 53(6):1433.

Ausich, W.I., T.W. Kammer, and N.G. Lane.  1979.  Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippian) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky.  Journal of Paleontology, 53(5):1181-1196.

Ausich, W.I.  1979.  Hondichnus monroensis n. gen., n. sp., a new Lower Mississippian trace fossil.  Journal of Paleontology 53(5):1155-1159.

Ausich, W.I. and R. A. Gurrola.  1979.  Boring organisms in a Lower Mississippian community (Edwardsville Formation:  southern Indiana).  Journal of Paleontology 53(2):335-344.

Ausich, W.I.  1978.  Pisocrinus from California, Nevada, Utah, and Gaspe Peninsula.  Journal of Paleontology 52(2):487-491.

Shaver, R.H., C.H. Ault, W.I. Ausich, J.B. Droste, A.S. Horowitz, W.C. James, S.M. Okla, C.B. Rexroad, D.M. Suchomel, and J.R. Welch.  1978.  The search for a Silurian reef model Great Lakes area.  Indiana Geological Survey Spec. Report No. 15, 36 p.

Kelly, S.M. and W.I. Ausich.  1978.  A new Lower Ordovician disparid crinoid from Utah.  Journal of Paleontology 52(4):916-920.

Ausich, W.I.  1977.  The functional morphology and evolution of Pisocrinus (Crinoidea: Silurian).  Journal of Paleontology 51(4):672-686.

Lapham, K.E., W.I. Ausich, and N.G. Lane.  1976.  A technique for developing the stereom of fossil crinoid ossicles.  Journal of Paleontology 50(2):245-248.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS, SHORT COURSE NOTES, ETC.

Ausich, W.I., T.W. Kammer, and G. Mirantsev. 2021. Carboniferous crinoids, 51 p. In Lucas, S., Schneider, S.G., Wang, J.W., and Nikolaeva, S. (eds.), The Carboniferous Time Scale. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 512, 51 p. [DOI: 10.1144/SP512-2020-71, also https://sp.lyellcollection.org/online-first/512; published 2-5-2021] (invited).

Ausich, W.I. 2016. Fossil species as data: A perspective from echinoderms, p. 301-311. In W.D. Allmon and M.M. Yacobucci (eds.), Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record. University of Chicago Press (invited).

Ausich, W.I., and T.W. Kammer.  2010.  Tubes, sacs, cones, pyramids, and proboscises:Toward a homology-based understanding and terminology for plated, erect hindgut structures among the Crinoidea, p. 115-122.  In L.G. Harris, S.A. Böttger, C.W. Walker, and M.P. Lesser.  Echinoderms: Durham, Proceedings of the 12th International Echinoderm Conference, CRC Press, Leiden.

Ausich, W.I. and T.W. Kammer.  2008.  Evolution and extinction of a Paleozoic crinoid clade: phylogenetics, paleogeography, and environmental distribution of periechocrinids, p. 144-171.  In W.I. Ausich and G.D. Webster. (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology.

O’Malley, C.E., W.I. Ausich, and Y.-P. Chin.  2008.  Crinoid biomarkers (Borden Group, Mississippian): Implications for phylogeny, p.290-306.  In W.I. Ausich, and G.D. Webster (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Miller, J.F., K.R. Evans, C.W. Rovey II, W.I. Ausich, S.E. Bolyard, G.H. Davis, R.L. Ethington, C.A. Sandburg, T.L. Thompson, and J.A. Waters.  2008.  Mixed-age echinoderms and conodonts from an impact breccia in St. Clair County, West-Central Missouri, p.246-288.  In W.I. Ausich, and G.D. Webster (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Webster.  2008.  Introduction, p. xi-xii.  In W.I. Ausich, and G.D. Webster (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Webster.  2008.  Introduction to part 1, p. 3-4.  In W.I. Ausich, and G.D. Webster (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Webster.  2008.  Introduction to part 2, p. 131.  In W.I. Ausich, and G.D. Webster (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Webster.  2008.  Introduction to part 3, p. 175.  In W.I. Ausich, and G.D. Webster (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Webster.  2008.  Introduction to part 4, p. 245.  In W.I. Ausich, and G.D. Webster (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Webster.  2008.  Introduction to part 4, p. 309-310.  In W.I. Ausich, and G.D. Webster (eds.) Echinoderm Paleobiology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Ausich, W.I.  2001.  Echinoderm taphonomy, p. 171-227.  In, J. Lawrence and M. Jangoux (eds.), Echinoderm Studies–Volume 6 (2001).  Balkema Press, Rotterdam.

Ausich, W.I.  1997.  Calyx plate homologies and early evolutionary history of the Crinoidea, p. 289-304.  In J.A. Waters and C.G. Maples, Geobiology of Echinoderms.  Paleontological Society Papers, 3.

Ausich, W.I.  1997.  Regional encrinites:  A vanished lithofacies, p. 509-519. In C.E. Brett and G.C. Baird (ed.) Paleontological Events: Stratigraphic, Ecologic and Evolutionary Implications.  Columbia University Press.

Ausich, W.I.  1996.  Chapter 17, Phylum Echinodermata p. 242-261.  In R.M. Feldman (ed.), Fossils of Ohio.  Ohio Geological Survey Bulletin 70.

Meyer, D.L., W.I. Ausich, D.T. Bohl, W.A. Norrs and P.E. Potter.  1995.  Carbonate mud-mounds in the Fort Payne Formation (lower Carboniferous), Cumberland Saddle region, Kentucky and Tennessee, U.S.A., p. 273-287.  In C.L.V. Monty, D. Bosence, P. Bridges, and B. Pratt (eds.) Mud-Mounds: Origin and Evolution.  International Association of Sedimentology Special Publication, 23.  Blackwell Science, Oxford, England.

Ausich, W.I. and D.J. Bottjer.  1990.  Early diversification of major marine habitats, Infauna and Epifauna, p. 41-49.  In D.E. Briggs and P.R. Crowther, Palaeobiology:  A Synthesis.  Blackwell Scientific Publications, Ltd.; London.

Ausich, W.I. and D.J. Bottjer.  1985.  Phanerozoic suspension-feeding communities on soft substrata:  Implications for diversity, Chapter 7, p. 255-274.  In, J.W. Valentine (ed.), Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns:  Profiles in Macroevolution.  Princeton University Press.

Meyer, D.L. and W.I. Ausich.  1983.  Biotic interactions among recent and among fossil crinoids, p. 377-427.  In M.J.S. Tevesz and P.L. McCall (eds.), Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities.  Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, New York.

Ausich, W.I.  1981.  The Regional Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Ohio.  Wright State University, Department of Geological Sciences, Technical Report PA8103WA, 100 p.

Ausich, W.I.  1980.  Synecology–Niche Differentiation, p. 59-72.  In T.W. Broadhead and J.A. Waters (eds.), Echinoderms.  University of Tennessee, Studies in Geology 3.

 

NON-REFERRED ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

Ausich, W.I. 2021. Is it possible to recreate dinosaurs from their DNA? The Conversation, Articles on Curious Kids US – English verson: https://theconversation.com/is-it-possible-to-recreate-dinosaurs-from-their-dna-164060

Ausich, W.I. 2013. Fossil Record of Echinoderms. <echinotol.org>

Ausich, W.I. 2004.  Ohio.  In Tapestries of Times Past. <http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/tapestry>

Ausich, W.I., and D.J. Bottjer.  2001.  Tiering <www.geology.ohio-state.edu/ tiering>.

Ausich, W.I., and C.G. Messing.  1998.  Crinoidea, sea lilies and feather stars.  In Tree of Life <http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukanyotes/animals/echinodermata/ crinoidea/crinoidea.html>.

Ausich, W.I. ongoing contributor to the Echinoderm Tree of Life website <echinotol.org>

 

GUIDEBOOKS

Greb, S.F., P.E. Potter, D.L. Meyer, and W.I. Ausich.  2009.  Mud Mounds, Paleoslumps, Crinoids, and More; The Geology of the Fort Payne Formation at Lake Cumberland, South-central Kentucky.  Kentucky Geological Survey Guidebook. [online version available at www.professionalgeologist.org/guidebook.thtm]. [waiting for the paper version to be published].

Krause, R.A., Jr. D.L. Meyer, W.I. Ausich.  2002.  Carbonate buildups in the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian) Cumberland County, Kentucky, p. 1-13.  In F.R. Ettensohn and M.L. Smath (eds.) Guidebook for Geology Field Trips in Kentucky and Adjacent Areas, 2002 Joint Meeting of the North-Central Section and Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, Lexington; University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Krissek, L.A., and W.I. Ausich.  1997.  The Geological Setting of Lake Erie, Field Guide and Exercises in Selected Areas.  Ohio Sea Grant Publications, Columbus, Ohio, 71 p.

Meyer, D.L., and W.I. Ausich.  1992.  Fort Payne Carbonate Facies (Mississippian) of South-Central Kentucky.  Ohio Division of Geological Survey Miscellaneous Report 4, 20 p.

Potter, P.E., W.I. Ausich, J. Klee, L.A. Krissek, C.E. Mason, G.A. Schumacher, R.T. Wilson, and E.M. Wright.  1991.  Geology of the Alexandria-Ashland Highway (Kentucky Highway 546), Maysville to Garrison.  Joint Field Conference of the Geological Society of Kentucky, Ohio Geological Society, September 26-28, 1991.  Kentucky Geological Survey; Lexington, 64 p.

Kleffner, M.A. and W.I. Ausich.  1988.  Lower and Middle Silurian of the Eastern Flank of the Cincinnati Arch and the Appalachian Basin Margin, Ohio.  SEPM Fifth Midyear Meeting, Field Trip 1, 25 p.

Ausich, W.I.  1987.  John Bryan State Park, Ohio Silurian stratigraphy.  Geological Society of America Centenial Field Guide–North-Central Section, 419-422.

Kammer, T.W., W.I. Ausich, and N.G. Lane.  1983.  Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Borden delta of southern Indiana and northern Kentucky, p. 37-71.  In R.H. Shaver and J.A. Sunderman (eds.), Field Trips in Midwestern Geology, Vol. 1.  Indiana University.

Ausich, W.I. and N.G. Lane.  1980.  Platform communities and rocks of the Borden Siltstone Delta (Mississippian) along the south shore of Monroe Reservoir, Monroe County, Indiana, p. 36-67.  In R. H. Shaver (ed.), Field Trips 1980 from the Indiana University Campus, Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Horowitz, A.S. and W.I. Ausich.  1979.  Roadlog from New Albany to Bloomington, Indiana, via Interstate 64 and Indiana Highway 37.  In A.S. Horowitz (ed.), Mississippian Rocks:  New Albany to Indianapolis, Indiana, via Interstate 64 and Indiana Highway 37.  Guidebook for the Ninth International Congress of Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, Field Trip 7, Bloomington, Indiana.

Horowitz, A.S. and W.I. Ausich.  1979.  Roadlog from New Albany to Bloomington, Indiana, via Interstate 64 and Indiana Highway 37.  In J.E. Conkin and B.M. Conkin (eds.), Devonian-Mississippian boundary in southern Indiana and northwestern Kentucky.

 

STUDENTS

POST-DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Elizabeth Rhenberg (2012-2014)
Brian Bodenbender (1995-1996)
Tomasz K. Baumiller (1990-1991)

 

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Peter, M.(in progress)

Cole, L. (2017) Phylogeny, Diversification, and Extinction Selectivity in Camerate Crinoids

Wright, D. (2016) Phylogenetic Paleobiology: Phenotypic Diversification and Evolutionary Radiation in Paleozoic Crinodis

Best-Lazar, K.(co-advisor). 2014. Benthic Foraminifera as Paleo-Sea-Ice Indicators in the western, Arctic Ocean

Bancroft, A. 2014. Silurian and Ordovician Conodont Biostratigraphy of the Epicontinental Seas of Northeastern Laurentia

O’Malley, C.E 2009. Biomarkers in Paleozoic crinoids: Origin, Identity, and phylogenetic significance

Lin, J.-P. 2007.  From a fossil assemblage to a paleoecological community – Time organisms, and environment, based on the Kaili Lagerstätte (Cambrian) and coeveal deposits of exceptional preservation.

Schmidt, D.A.  2006.  Paleontology and sedimentary of calcifying microbes in the Silurian of the Ohio-Indiana region an expanded role of carbonate-forming microbial communities.

Richardson, J.G. 2003.  Miospore biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and glacio-eustatic response of the Borden Delta (Osagean; Tournaisian-Visean) of Kentucky and Indian, U.S.A.

Li, A.  2000.  Paleontology and paleoecology of the Nada Member, Borden Formation, (Lower Mississippian) in Eastern Kentucky.

Wulff, J. 1992.  Paleoecology and paleoenvironmental analysis of the upper Greenbrier Group (Chesterian), West Virginia.

 

MASTERS DEGREE STUDENTS

Krivicich, E. 2011.  Paleocommunity analysis of crinoids from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean) with localities in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.

O’Connor, G.  Paleoecology of a near-reef community in the Brassfield Formation (Lower Silurian) Oakes Quarry Park, Fairborn, Ohio.

O’Malley, C.E.  2006. Crinoid Biomarkers (Borden Group, Mississippian): Implications for Phylogeny

Bremar, K.  2005.  Adaptive morphology of crinoid holdfasts in relation to facies distribution of the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation, south-central Kentucky.

Schneider, K.A.  2000.  Paleoecology and taxonomy of the Frame Builders of the Brassfield Formation, Llandoverian (Lower Silurian), Fairborn, Ohio.

Glass, A. 2000.  Suspension-feeding niche differentiation of Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian) crinoids: A comparison of the Middle Paleozoic and late Paleozoic crinoid macroevolutionary faunas..

Lebold, J. 1998.  Quantitative analysis of epizoans on Silurian stromatoporoids within the Brassfield Formation.

Powers, B.  1989.  Occurrence and distribution of epizoans from the Edwardsville Formation (Lower Mississippian) of south-central Indiana

Riddle, S.W.  1987.  Functional morphology and paleoecological implications of the platycrinitid columnal (Echinodermata, Crinoidea).

Paquette, D.E.  1987.  Depositional and diagenetic history of a Devonian coral and stromatoporoid biostrome, Falls of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky.

Lewis, R.T.  1986.  Brachiopods of the Nancy Member, Borden Formation (Mississippian), Northeastern Kentucky.

Chamberlain, J.M.  1985.  Microfacies analysis of the Ames Limestone (Pennsylvanian-Conemaugh Group) in East-Central Ohio.

Hook, T.E.  1984.  Niagarian pinnacle reefs of northern Michigan:  a revised model.

Ganley, M.C.  1984.  Carbonate petrology of a Middle Silurian patch reef near Celina, Ohio (Karch Quarry).

Elliot, M.D.  1983.  Petrology of the Middle Silurian dolomites of Clark and Green Counties, Ohio.

Kratky, M.A.  1983.  Carbonate tidal flat sedimentation in the Newman Limestone (Mississippian) of northeastern Kentucky.

Wiedman, L.A.  1982.  Community paleoecological study of the Silica Shale equivalent of northeastern Indiana.

Sheehy, T.J. 1981.  Carbonate petrology of a carbonate buildup in the Brassfield Formation near Fairborn, Ohio.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Myers, J. 2013.

Perez, V. 2013.

Thompson, J. 2013

Borths, M. 2008.  Crinoids in Lilliput: Morphological Change in Class Crinoidea across the Ordovician-Silurian Boundary.

Boyarko, D. 2007. Paleoecology of the Calceocrinidae with description of new material from the Brassfield Formation (Early Silurian).

Minkler, H. 2003. The brachiopod communities and systematic paleontology of Anticosti Island.

Bentley, R.  1988.  Fish fauna from the Second Middle Devonian Bone Bed of central Ohio (Eiffelian).

Wright, V.D.  1988.  The paleoecology of solitary rugose corals in the Portersville Shale (Pennsylvanian, southeastern Ohio).

Roth, R.E.  1987.  Depositional occurrence of a Xenocrinus penicillus S.A. Miller Crinoidea) bed in the Upper Ordovician of southwestern Ohio.