High-Resolution Approaches in Stratigraphic Paleontology

The Limits of Paleontological Resolution.- Best-Fit Intervals and Consensus Sequences.- Combining Stratigraphic Sections and Museum Collections to Increase Biostratigraphic Resolution.- Zoophycos, Systematic Stratigraphic Leaking, and Lamella Stratigraphy.- Variation in Adult Size of Scaphitid Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formation.- Controls on Shell Shape in Acanthoceratid Ammonites from the Cenomanian-Turonian Western Interior Seaway.- A Reappraisal of the Relationship between Sea Level and Species Richness.- Diversity Patterns of Nonmarine Cretaceous Vertebrates of the Western Interior Basin.- Use of Event Beds and Sedimentary Cycles in High-Resolution Stratigraphic Correlation of Lithologically Repetitive Successions.- Late Devonian Sequence and Event Stratigraphy Across the Frasnian-Famennian (F-F) Boundary, Utah and Nevada.- Vertebrate Biostratigraphy of the Smoky Hill Chalk (Niobrara Formation) and the Sharon Springs Member (Pierre Shale).- Limestone Concretions as Near-Isochronous Surfaces.- CONOP9 Programs for Solving the Stratigraphic Correlation and Seriation Problems as Constrained Optimization.