.

David Bottjer
Professor of Earth Sciences
(213) 740-6100
e-mail: dbottjer..(@usc.edu)
earth.usc.edu/research/paleolab/david_bottjer.htm

Selected Publications
Bottjer, D.J., W. Etter , J.W. Hagadorn and C.M. Tang (eds.). 2002. Exceptional Fossil Preservation: A Unique View on the Evolution of Marine Life. New York , Columbia University Press. 403 p..

Allmon, W.D. and D.J. Bottjer (eds.). 2001. Evolutionary Paleoecology: The Ecological Context of Macroevolutionary Change. New York , Columbia University Press, 335 p.

Bottjer, D.J. 2001. Biotic recovery from mass extinctions. In: Briggs, D.E.G. and Crowther, P.R. (eds.). Palaeobiology II, Blackwells, p. 202-206.

Bottjer, D.J., Hagadorn, J.W. and S.Q. Dornbos. 2000. The Cambrian substrate revolution. GSA Today, v. 10, p. 1-7.

Droser, M.L., Bottjer, D.J., Sheehan, P.M. and G.R. McGheen, Jr. 2000. Decoupling of taxonomic and ecologic severity of Phanerozoic mass extinctions. Geology, v. 28, p. 675-678.

Woods, A.D., Bottjer, D.J, Mutti, M. and J. Morrison. 1999. Lower Triassic large sea-floor carbonate cements: Their origin and a mechanism for the prolonged biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology, v. 27, p. 645-648.

Hagadorn, J.W. and D.J. Bottjer. 1999. Restriction of a late Neoproterozoic biotope: Suspect-microbial structures and trace fossils at the Vendian-Cambrian transition. Palaios, v. 14, p. 73-85.

Bottjer, D.J. 1998. Phanerozoic non-actualistic paleoecology. Geobios, v. 30, p. 885-893.

Hagadorn, J.W. and D.J. Bottjer. 1997. Wrinkle structures: Microbially mediated sedimentary structures common in subtidal siliciclastic settings at uthe Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition. Geology, v. 25, p. 1047-1050.

Droser, M.L., Bottjer, D.J. and P.M. Sheehan. 1997. Evaluating the ecological architecture of major events in the Phanerozoic history of marine invertebrate life. Geology, v. 25, p. 167-170.