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Prof David Harper - all publications

Book chapters: online

Stouge, S., Boyce, W.D. Christiansen, J.L. Harper, D.A.T. & Knight, I. (2013). Development of the Lower Cambrian–Middle Ordovician Carbonate Platform: North Atlantic Region. In The great American carbonate bank: The geology and economic resources of the Cambrian-Ordovician Sauk megasequence of Laurentia. Derby, J. R., Fritz, R.D., Longacre, S.A. Morgan, W.A. & Sternbach, C.A. AAPG Memoir. 98: 597-626.

Books: authored

Rasmussen, C.M.O., Harper, D.A.T. & Blodgett, R.B. (2012). Late Ordovician Brachiopods from West-Central Alaska: systematics, ecology and palaeobiogeography. Fossils and Strata 58, Wiley-Blackwell.
Benton, M.J. & Harper, D.A.T. (2009). Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record.

Edited works: journals

Donovan, S.K. & Harper, D.A.T. (2011). Early Palaeozoic ecosystems, environments and evolution. Geological Journal, 46
Munnecke, A., Calner, M. & Harper, D.A.T. (2010). Early Palaeozoic sea level and climate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 296 Elsevier.
Cusack, M. & Harper, D.A.T. (2008). Brachiopod Research into the Third Millennium. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth and Environmental Sciences, 98
Harper, D.A.T., Nielsen, C. & Long, S.L. (2008). Brachiopoda: Fossil and Recent. Fossils and Strata, 54

Journal papers: academic

Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B., Harper, D.A.T. & Ahlberg, P. (2013). A Bradoriid and Brachiopod Dominated Shelly Fauna from the Furongian(Cambrian) of Västergötland, Sweden. Journal of Paleontology 87(1): 69-83.
Topper, T.P., Harper, D.A.T. & Brock, G.A. (2013). Ancestral billingsellides and the evolution and phylogenetic relationships of early rhynchonelliform brachiopods. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology in press.
Harper, D.A.T., Hammarlund, E.U. & Rasmussen, C.M.Ø. (2013). End Ordovician extinctions: A coincidence of causes. Gondwana Research in press.
Frisk, Å & Harper, D.A.T. (2013). Late Ordovician brachiopod distribution and ecospace partitioning in the Tvären crater system, Sweden. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology in press.
Jin Jisuo, Harper, D.A.T., Cocks, L.R.M., McCausland, P.J.A., Rasmussen, C.M.Ø. & Sheehan, P.M. (2013). Precisely locating the Ordovician equator in Laurentia. Geology 41(2): 107-110.
Donovan, S.K., Harper, D.A.T., Zhan Renbin, Stemmerik, L., Liu Jianbo & Stouge, S. (2012). A primitive cladid crinoid from the Jiacun Group, Tibet (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician). Geological Journal 47: 653-660.
Hammarlund, E.U., Dahl, T.W., Harper, D.A.T., Bond, D.P.G., Nielsen, A.T., Bjerrum, C.J., Schovsbo, N.H., Schönlaub, H.-P., Zalasiewicz, J.A. & Canfield, D.E. (2012). A sulfidic driver for the end-Ordovician mass extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 331-332: 128-139.
Jin J., Harper, D.A.T., Rasmussen, J.A. & Sheehan, P.M. (2012). Late Ordovician massive-bedded Thalassinoides ichnofacies along the palaeoequator of Laurentia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 367-368: 73-88.
Mangano, M.G., Bromley, R.G. Harper, D.A.T., Nielsen, A.T., Smith, M.P & Vinther, J. (2012). Nonbiomineralized carapaces in Cambrian seafloor landscapes (Sirius Passet, Greenland): Opening a new window into early Phanerozoic benthic ecology. Geology 40(6): 519-522.
Zuykov, M., Vinarski, M. Pelletier, E. Demers, S. & Harper, D.A.T. (2012). Shell malformations in seven species of pond snail (Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae): analysis of large museum collections. Zoosystematics and Evolution 88(2): 365-368.
Vinther, J., Eibye-Jacobsen, D. & Harper, D.A.T. (2011). An Early Cambrian stem polychaete with pygidial cirri. Biology Letters 7(6): 929-932.
Hughes, N.C., Myrow, P.M., McKenzie, N.R. Harper, D.A.T. , Bhargava, O.N., Tangri, S.K., Ghalley, K.S. & Fanning, C.M. (2011). Cambrian rocks and faunas of the Wachi La, Black Mountains, Bhutan. Geological Magazine 148(03): 351-379
Rasmussen, C.M.O. & Harper, D.A.T. (2011). Did the amalgamation of continents drive the end Ordovician mass extinctions?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 311(1-2): 48-62.
Zuykov, M., Gudkov, D., Vinarski, M., Pelletier, E., Harper, D.A.T. & Demers, S. (2011). Does radioactive contamination affect the shell morphology of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl NPP (Ukraine)?. The Environmentalist 31(4): 369-375.
Rasmussen, C.M.O. & Harper, D.A.T. (2011). Interrogation of distributional data for the End Ordovician crisis interval: where did disaster strike?. Geological Journal 46: 478-500.
Stouge, S., Christiansen, J.L., Harper, D.A.T., Houmark-Nielsen, M., Kristiansen, K., MacNiocaill, C. & Buchard-Westergaard, B. (2011). Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian–Ediacaran) deposits in East and North-East Greenland. Geological Society, London, Memoirs 36(1): 581-592.
Frisk, Å. & Harper, D.A.T. (2011). Palaeoenvironmental aspects of Late Ordovician Sericoidea shell concentrations in an impact crater, Tvaren, Sweden. Lethaia 44(4): 383-396.
Zuykov, M., Harper, D.A.T. & Pelletier, E. (2011). Revision of the Ordovician brachiopod genus Noetlingia Hall and Clarke, 1893. Journal of Paleontology 85(3): 595-598.
Vinther, J., Smith, M.P. & Harper, D.A.T. (2011). Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstatte, North Greenland, and the polarity of morphological characters in basal deuterostomes. Palaeontology 54(3): 711-719.
Huang Bing, Harper, D.A.T., Zhan Renbin & Rong Jiayu (2010). Can the Lilliput Effect be detected in the brachiopod faunas of South China following the terminal Ordovician mass extinction?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 285(3-4): 277-286.
Azmy, K., Stouge, S., Christiansen, J.L., Harper, D.A.T, Knight, I. & Boyce, D. (2010). Carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Lower Ordovician succession in Northeast Greenland: Implications for correlations with St. George Group in western Newfoundland (Canada) and beyond. Sedimentary Geology 225(1-2): 67-81
Candela, Y. & Harper, D.A.T. (2010). Late Ordovician (Katian) brachiopods from the Southern Uplands of Scotland: biogeographic patterns on the edge of Laurentia. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 100(03): 253-274
Harper, D.A.T., Parkes, M.A. & McConnell, B.J. (2010). Late Ordovician (Sandbian) brachiopods from the Mweelrea Formation, South Mayo, western Ireland: stratigraphic and tectonic implications. Geological Journal 45: 445-450
Dahlqvist, P., Harper, D.A.T. & Wickstrom, L. (2010). Late Ordovician shelly faunas from Jamtland: palaeocommunity development along the margin of the Swedish Caledonides. Bulletin of Geosciences 85: 505-512.
Munnecke, A., Calner, M., Harper, D.A.T. & Servais, T. (2010). Ordovician and Silurian sea-water chemistry, sea level, and climate: A synopsis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 296(3-4): 389-413.
Servais, T., Owen, A.W., Harper, D.A.T., Kroger, B. & Munnecke, A. (2010). The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): The palaeoecological dimension. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 294(3-4): 99-119.
Rasmussen, C.M.O., Ebbestad, J.O.R. & Harper, D.A.T. (2010). Unravelling a Late Ordovician pentameride (Brachiopoda) hotspot from the Boda Limestone, Siljan district, central Sweden. GFF 132(3-4): 133-152.
Rasmussen, C.M.O., Nielsen, A.T. & Harper, D.A.T. (2009). Ecostratigraphical interpretation of lower Middle Ordovician East Baltic sections based on brachiopods. Geological Magazine 146(05): 717-731.
Jin, J., Harper, D.A.T. & Rasmussen, C.M.O. (2009). Sulcipentamerus (Pentamerida, Brachiopoda) from the Lower Silurian Washington Land Group, North Greenland. Palaeontology 52(2): 385-399.
Schmitz, B., Harper, D.A.T., Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B., Stouge, S., Alwmark, C., Cronholm, A., Bergstrom, S.M., Tassinari, M. & Xiaofeng, W-F. (2008). Asteroid breakup linked to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Nature Geoscience 1(1): 49-53.
Harper, D.A.T. & Pickerill, R.K. (2008). Generation of brachiopod-dominated shell beds in the Miocene rocks of Carriacou, Lesser Antilles. Geological Journal 43(5): 573-581.