UW-Madison Paleontology Publications


  • Geary, D.H. 1990. Exploring the roles of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the evolutionary radiation of Melanopsis. Pp. 305-321. In: Ross, R.M. and W.D. Allmon (eds.), Causes of Evolution: A Paleobiological Perspective. University of Chicago Press.

  • Geary, D.H. 1990. Patterns of evolutionary tempo and mode in the radiation of melanopsid gastropods. Paleobiology. 16:492-511.

  • Geary, D.H. and W. D. Allmon. 1990. Biological and physical contributions to the accumulation of strombid gastropods in a Pliocene shell bed. Palaios. 5:259-272.

  • Anderson, L.C., D.H. Geary, R.H. Nehm, and W.D. Allmon. 1991. A comparative study of naticid gastropod predation on Varicorbula caloosae and Chione cancellata, Plio-Pleistocene of Florida, U.S.A. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 85:29-46.

  • Geary, D.H., W.D. Allmon, and M.L. Reaka-Kudla. 1991. Stomatopod predation on fossil gastropods from the Plio-Pleistocene of Florida. Journal of Paleontology. 65:355-360.

  • Geary, D.H. 1992. An unusual pattern of divergence between fossil melanopsid gastropods: hybridization, dimorphism, or ecophenotypy? Paleobiology. 18:97-113.

  • Geary, D.H., T.A. Brieske, and B.E. Bemis. 1992. The influence and interaction of temperature, salinity, and upwelling on the stable isotopic profiles of strombid gastropod shells. Palaios. 7(1):77-85.

  • Gianniny, G.L. and D.H. Geary. 1992. Geographic and temporal variation in shell morphology of Acanthina species from California and northern Baja California. The Veliger. 35(3):195-204.

  • Nehm, R.H. and D.H. Geary. 1994. A gradual morphological transition during a rapid speciation event in marginellid gastropods (Neogene; Dominican Republic). Journal of Paleontology. 68(4):787-795.

  • Geary, D.H. 1995. Investigating species-level transitions in the fossil record: the importance of geologically gradual change. In: Erwin, D.H. and R.A. Anstey (eds.), New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record. Columbia University Press.

  • Teranes, J.L., D.H. Geary, and B.E. Bemis. 1996. The oxygen isotopic record of seasonality in Neogene bivalves from the Central American isthmus. In: Jackson, J.B.C. and A.F. Budd (eds.), Environmental and Biological Change in Neogene and Quaternary Tropical America. University of Chicago Press.

  • Bemis, B.E. and D.H. Geary. 1996. The usefulness of bivalve stable isotope profiles as environmental indicators: Data from the eastern Pacific Ocean and the southern Caribbean Sea. Palaios. 11:328-339.

  • Magyar, I., D.H. Geary, P. M¸ller. 1999. Paleogeographic evolution of the Late Miocene Lake Pannon in the Carpathian basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology 147:151-167.

  • M¸ller, P., D.H. Geary, I. Magyar. 1999. The endemic molluscs of the Late Miocene Lake Pannon: their origin, evolution, and family-level taxonomic review. Lethaia. 32:47-60.

  • Magyar, I., D.H. Geary, M. S¸tž-Szentai, M. Lantos, P. M¸ller. 1999. Integrated bio-, magneto- and chronostratigraphic correlations of the Late Miocene Lake Pannon deposits. Acta Geologica Hungarica 42:5-32.

  • Mezž, ¡., M. SzÛnoky, D.H. Geary, I. Magyar. 1999. Mass occurrence of Congeria paleoecology, and paleogeography of the "Congeria ungulacaprae beds" (=Lymnocardium ponticum Zone) in NW Hungary: study of the D·ka outcrop. Acta Geologica Hungarica 42:33-55.

  • Lennert, J., M. SzÛnoky, D.H. Geary, I. Magyar. 1999. The Lake Pannon fossils of the B·taszÈk brickyard. Acta Geologica Hungarica 42:67-88.

  • Szonoky, M., E. Dobos-Hortobagyi, S. Guly·s, P. M¸ller, A. Szuromi-Korecz, D.H. Geary, and I. Magyar. 1999. Arpad, a classic locality of Lake Pannon bivalves. Acta Geologica Hungarica 42:89-108.

  • Geary, D.H., I. Magyar, and P. M¸ller. 2000. Ancient Lake Pannon and its Endemic Molluscan Fauna (Central Europe; Mio-Pliocene). Advances in Ecological Research 31:463-482. A. Rossiter and H. Kawanabe (eds.), Biology of Ancient Lakes.

  • Magyar, I., P. M¸ller, D.H. Geary, H.C. Sanders, G.C. Tari. 2000. Diachronous deposits of Lake Pannon in the Kisalf–ld basin reflect basin and mollusc evolution. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt. Band 56/2:669-678.

  • Geary, D.H. Predation in the marine realm. 2000. Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.

  • Bush, A.M., M.G. Powell, W.S. Arnold, T.M. Bert, and G.M. Daley, 2002. Time-averaging, evolution, and morphological variation. Paleobiology 28: 9-24.


  • Sanders, H., D.H. Geary, and C.W. Byers. In Press. Paleoecology and sedimentology of the Prasopora zonule in the Dunleith Formation (Ordovician), Upper Mississippi Valley. Geoscience Wisconsin.

  • Schneider, J.A., I. Magyar, and D.H. Geary. Submitted ms. The origin and evolution of the cardiid bivalve species flock of Late Miocene Lake Pannon. Lethaia.

  • Schneider, J.A., I. Magyar, and D.H. Geary. Submitted ms. Anatomy of an endemic radiation: comparison of morphospace occupation between a lacustrine species flock and its marine relatives. Science.

  • Geary, D.H., A.W. Staley, P. Muller, and I. Magyar. In revision. Iterative changes in Lake Pannon Melanopsis reflect a recurrent theme in gastropod morphological evolution. Paleobiology.

  • Daley, G.M. in review. Creating a paleoecological framework for evolutionary and paleoecological studies: An example from the Fort Thompson Formation (Pleistocene) of Florida. Palaios.

    Recent Abstracts

  • Freiheit, J. and Geary, D.H. 2001. Species-level evolutionary patterns in Neogene strombids from the Dominican Republican. Presented at NAPC 2001.

    Sanders, H. and Geary, D.H. 2001. Morphological evolution of congerine bivalves in the Late Miocene Lake Pannon of Central Europe Presented at NAPC 2001.

  • Daley, G.M., A.M. Bush, and D.H. Geary 2001. Using paleocommunities to frame evolutionary and paleoecological studies: An example from the Fort Thompson Formation (Pleistocene) of Florida. Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Boston.

  • Stimpson, J. and G.M. Daley 2001. Testing for ecophenotypic variation across a paleoenvironmental gradient in a small mactrid bivalve (Yorktown Formation, Pliocene, Virginia). Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Boston.

  • Ostrowski, S., G.M. Daley, and D.H. Geary 2001. Environmentally and ecologically controlled variation in predatory and epibiont patterns in Chione cancellata from the Fort Thompson Formation (Pleistocene) of Florida. Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Boston.


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