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Publication NEW PARABLASTOIDS FROM THE WESTERN UNITED STATES(University of Kansas, Paleontological Institute, 2008-12-01) Sprinkle, James; Sumrall, Colin D.Two new genera and two new species of Parablastoidea are described from Early and Middle Ordovician faunas from the western United States. Eurekablastus n. gen. is similar in plating to Blastoidocrinus except that it possesses a conical pelvis with shallow basal cavity restricted to the basal circlet, one to two additional plate sets above the radials, medium to long cataspire slits, and lacks oral and ambulacral crests. Eurekablastus ninemilensis n. sp. from the Lower Ordovician Nimemile Shale of central Nevada and Eurekablastus rozhnovi n. sp. from the Lower Ordovician Wah Wah Limestone and uppermost Fillmore Formation of western Utah differ in thecal proportions, the number and distribution of interbrachial plates, the relative proportions of bibrachials and radials, and the length of the cataspire slits. Parabolablastus n. gen. is erected for Blastoidocrinus?? elongatus (Sprinkle), 1973, based on a mostly complete but crushed theca from the lower Middle Ordovician Antelope Valley Limestone of central Nevada. The plating in Parabolablastus may have been derived from Eurekablastus, but differs by having large parabolic deltoid plates, greatly enlarged bibrachials that form a complete circlet at the top of the pelvis and extend up into the vault interrays, and fewer or smaller plates in the lower pelvis. Blastoidocrinus? rossi Sprinkle, 1973, and B.? nevadensis Sprinkle, 1973, remain questionably assigned to Blastoidocrinus because they appear to have a high, fused, conical or cylindrical oral crest unlike the peristomial cover plates found in Eurekablastus and probably Parabolablastus.Publication SUPRASPECIFIC TAXA OF THE BIVALVIA FIRST NAMED, DESCRIBED, AND PUBLISHED IN CHINA (1927–2007)(The University of Kansas, Paleontological Institute, 2009-05-15) Fang, Zong-jie; Chen, Jin-hua; Chen, Chu-zhen; Sha, Jin-geng; Lan, Xiu; Wen, Shi-xuanA total of 209 bivalve generic (subgeneric) and 19 familial (subfamilial) names first proposed by Chinese palaeontologists and published in China are treated herein as an annotated database. The present paper is designed especially for the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Bivalvia revision project, because access to bivalve taxa published by Chinese authors in China has been difficult for non-Chinese researchers. The original diagnoses of these taxa, including the original descriptions and explanation of figures of all the type species, have been translated from Chinese into English, so that non-Chinese colleagues can more easily have access to them.Publication Phylogeny and systematics of the Coleoidea(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1994-08-01) Doyle, P.; Donovan, D. T.; Nixon, M.Publication Stratigraphic and Geographic Bryozoan Abundance Gradients in the Calcareous Shales of the Wreford Megacyclothem (Lower Permian, Kansas)(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1999-08-01) Pachut, Joseph F.; Cuffey, Roger J.Publication Phylogeny of Arenig to Caradoc crinoids (Phylum Echinodermata) and suprageneric classification of the Crinoidea(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1998-06-01) Ausich, William I.Publication Paleoenvironmental significance of stromatolites in the Americus Limestone Member (Lower Permian, Midcontinent, USA)(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1992-08-01) Denver, Larry E.; Kaesler, Roger L.Publication PaleoBank, A Relational Database for Invertebrate Paleontology: The Data Model(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1996-08-01) Krebs, Jill W.; Kaesler, Roger L.; Brosius, Elizabeth A.; Miller, Douglas L.; Chang, Yi-MawPublication Some New Genera of Paleozoic Calcareous Sponges(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1995-04-01) Finks, Robert M.Publication Induced color in ostracode shells: an experimental study(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1992-08-01) Kontrovitz, Mervin; Ainsworth, Nigel R.; Burnett, Richard D.; Slack, Jerry M.Publication Effects of nonnormality on studies of morphological variation of a Rhabdomesine bryozoan, Streblotrypa (Streblascopora) prisca (Gabb and Horn)(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1993-11-01) Hageman, Steven J.Publication An examination of Plesiosauria (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) from the Niobrara Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of central North America(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1999-08-01) Storrs, Glenn W.Publication Revised Biostratigraphy, Systematics, and Paleobiogeography of the Trilobites from the Middle Cambrian Nelson Limestone, Antarctica(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 2004-08-26) Lieberman, Bruce S.Publication Type Specimens of Athyridid Brachiopods from the James Hall Collection(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 2000-03-15) Alvarez, Fernando; Brime, CovadongaPublication Phylogenetic revision of Rhineuridae (Reptilia: Squamata: Amphisbaenia) from the Eocene to Miocene of North America(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 2007-04-30) Hembree, Daniel I.Publication Upper Permian Inozoid, Demospongid, and Hexactinellid Sponges from Djebel Tebaga, Tunisia(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1995-02-01) Rigby, J. Keith; Senowbari-Daryan, BabaPublication Remarkable New Birdlike Dinosaur (Theropoda: Maniraptora) from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 2000-03-15) Burnham, David A.; Derstler, Kraig L.; Currie, Philip J.; Bakker, Robert T.; Zhou, Zhonghe; Ostrom, John H.Publication Through a glass darkly: taxonomy, phylogeny, and biostratigraphy of the Olenellina(The Paleontological Institute, The University of Kansas, 1993-05-01) Palmer, Allison R.; Repina, Lada N.