Dr. Gerald Smith, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

(in press) Smith, G.R., and T.E. Dowling Hydrography and phylogeography of speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus, in the Colorado River drainage in Reheis, M., and Hershler, R., eds. Geological Society of America Special Publication
(in press) Spencer, J.E., G.R. Smith, and T.E. Dowling Middle and Late Cenozoic Evolution of Topography and Late Cenozoic Evolution of Fish in the American Southwest, and the Location of the Continental Divide in Reheis, M., and Hershler, R., eds. Geological Society of America Special Publication
2007 Smith, G.R., D.R. Montgomery, N.P. Peterson, Bruce Crowley Spawning sockeye salmon fossils in Pleistocene lake beds of Skokomish Valley, Washington Quaternary Review (Download PDF)
2007 Eiting, T., and G.R. Smith Miocene Salmon (Oncorhynchus) from Idaho and Oregon: Gill Raker Evolution Correlated with Plankton productivity Paleobiology, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology (in press)
2006 Zazzo, A., G.R. Smith, W.P. Patterson, and E. Dufour Life history reconstruction of modern and fossil sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) by oxygen isotopic analysis of otoliths vertebrae, and teeth: implication for paleoenvironmental reconstruction Earth and Planetary Science Letters 249:200-215
2004 Lucchitta, I., K. McDougall, D.G. Metzger, P. Morgan, G.R. Smith, B. Chernoff The Bouse Formation and Post Miocene uplift of the Colorado Plateau pp. 173-182 in R. A. Young and E. E. Spamer (eds) Colorado River Origin and Evolution Proceedings of a Symposium held at Grand Canyon National Park in June, 2000. Grand Canyon Association
2002 Smith, G.R., T. Dowling, K.W. Gobalet, T. Lugaski, D. Shiazawa, and R.P. Evans Biogeography and timing of evolutionary events among Great Basin Fishes pp. 175-234, in R. Hershler, D.B. Madsen, and D.R. Currey, Great Basin Aquatic Systems History Smithsonian Contributions to Earth Sciences, Number 33, 405 pp (Download PDF)
2002 Smith, G., and J. Cossel Fishes from the late Miocene Chalk Hills and Poison Creek Formations, Owyhee County Idaho Idaho Mus. Nat. Hist. Occasional Papers 37:23-35 (Download PDF)
2002 Hearst, J. M., and G. R. Smith Fishes of the late Pleistocene Duck Point local fauna, Power County, Idaho: Equable climate indicator or reworked assemblage? Idaho Mus. Nat. Hist. Occasional Papers 37:131-140
2001 Van Tassel, J., M. Ferns, V. McConnell, G.R. Smith The Imbler fish fossils, Grande Ronde Valley, NE Oregon and the Pliocene Lake Idaho-Columbia River connection Oregon Geology 63(3):77-96
2001 Patterson, W.P., G.R. Smith Chapter 9, Fish, pp 1-15, in J.P. Smol, H.J.B. Birks, W.M. Last (eds), Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments Vol. 4: Zoological Indicators. Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht, the Netherlands
2000 Smith, G.R., N. Morgan, and E. Gustafson Fishes of the Mio-Pliocene Ringold Formation, Washington: Pliocene Capture of the Snake River by the Columbia River Papers Univ. Michigan Museum of Paleontology. 32:1-47
1999 Smith, G.R. Claude W. Hibbard [biography] in Encyclopedia of Paleontology Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, Illinois. Pp. 568-569
1997 Firby, J.R., S.E. Sharpe, J.F. Whelan, G.R. Smith, and W.G. Spaulding Paleobiotic and isotopic analysis of mollusks, fish, and plants from core OL-92: Indicators for an open or closed lake system pp. 121-125 in G.I. Smith and J.L. Bischoff (Eds.) An 800,000-Year Paleoclimatic Record from Core OL-92, Owens Lake, Southeast California Boulder Colorado, Geol. Soc. America Spec. Pap. 317, 165 pp
1996 Shoshani, J., and G.R. Smith Late Pleistocene fishes from the Shelton Mastodon site (Oakland County, Michigan) and their ecological context Contrib. Univ. Michigan Mus. Paleo. 29(16):419-433
1994 Smith, G.R., and W.P. Patterson Mio-Pliocene seasonality on the Snake River plain: Comparison of faunal and oxygen isotopic evidence Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 107:291-302
1993 Drummond, C.N., B.H. Wilkinson, K.C. Lohmann, and G.R. Smith Effect of regional topography and hydrology on the lacustrine isotopic record of Miocene paleoclimate in the Rocky Mountains Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 101:67-79
1993 Patterson, W.P., G.R. Smith, and K.C. Lohmann Continental paleothermometry and seasonality using the isotopic composition of aragonitic otoliths of freshwater fishes pp. 191-202 in P. Swart and K.C. Lohmann (Eds.), Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records Geophys. Monogr. 78
1992 Koch, P.L., A.N. Halliday, L.M. Walter, R.F. Stearley, T.J. Huston, and G.R. Smith Sr isotopic composition of hydroxyapatite from Recent and fossil salmon: The record of lifetime migration and diagenesis Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett. 108:277-287
1992 Rogers, K.L., E.E. Larson, Gary Smith, D. Katzman, G.R. Smith, T. Cerling, Yang Wang, R.G. Baker, K.C. Lohmann, C.A. Repenning, P. Patterson, and G. Mackie Pliocene and Pleistocene geologic and climatic evolution in the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 94:55-86
1990 Straccia, F.J., B.H. Wilkinson, and G.R. Smith Miocene lacustrine algal reefs--southwestern Snake River plain Idaho Sed. Geol. 67:7-23
1988 Elder, R.L., and G.R. Smith Fish taphonomy and environmental inference in paleolimnology Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 62:577-592
1988 Smith G.R., R.F. Stearley, and C.E. Badgley Taphonomic bias in fish diversity from Cenozoic floodplain environments Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 63:263-273
1987 Smith, G.R. Fish speciation in a western North American Pliocene rift lake Palaios 2:436-445
1987 Thewissen, J.G.M., and G.R. Smith Vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Idaho Contrib. Univ. Michigan Mus. Paleontol. 27(9):237-245
1985 Smith, G.R. Paleontology of Hidden Cave: Fish pp. 171-178 in D.H. Thomas (Ed.), The Archeology of Hidden Cave, Nevada Anthro. Pap. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 61(1), 430 pp
1985 Smith, G.R., and R.R. Miller Taxonomy of fishes from Miocene Clarkia lake beds, Idaho pp. 75-84 in C.J. Smiley (Ed.), Late Cenozoic History of the Pacific North West A.A.A.S. Pacific Div., San Francisco, 417 pp
1985 Smith, G.R., and R.L. Elder Environmental interpretation of burial and preservation of Clarkia fishes pp. 85-94 in C.J. Smiley (Ed.), Late Cenozoic History of the Pacific North West
1985 Rogers, K.L., C.A. Repenning, R.M. Forester, E.E. Larson, S.A. Hall, G.R. Smith, E. Anderson, and T.J. Brown Middle Pleistocene (Late Irvingtonian: Nebraskan) climatic changes in south-central Colorado Nat. Geogr. Res. 1(4):535-563
1984 Elder, R.L., and G.R. Smith Fish taphonomy and paleoecology Proc. First Int. Congr. on Paleoecology Geobios, Mem. Spec. No. 8:287-291
1984 Miller, R.R., and G.R. Smith Fish remains from Stanton's Cave, Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona, with notes on the taxonomy of Gila cypha pp. 61-65 in R.C. Euler (Ed.), The Archaeology, Geology, and Paleobiology of Stanton's Cave, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Grand Canyon Nat. Hist. Assoc. Monogr. 6
1982 Smith, G.R., K. Swirydczuk, P.G. Kimmel, and B.H. Wilkinson Fish biostratigraphy of late Miocene to Pleistocene sediments of the western Snake River Plain, Idaho (Download PDF) p. 519-542 in B. Bonnichsen and R.M. Breckenridge (Eds.), Cenozoic Geology of Idaho Idaho Bur. Mines and Geol. Bull. 26, 725 pp
1982 Swirydczuk, K., G.P. Larson, and G.R. Smith Volcanic ash beds as stratigraphic markers in the Glenns Ferry and Chalk Hills Formations from Adrian, Oregon, to Bruneau, Idaho pp.543-558 in B. Bonnichsen and R.M. Breckenridge (Eds.), Cenozoic Geology of Idaho Idaho Bur. Mines and Geol. Bull. 26, 725 pp
1981 Smith, G.R. Late Cenozoic freshwater fishes of North America Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 12:163-193
1981 Miller, R.R., and G.R. Smith Distribution and evolution of Chasmistes (Pisces: Catostomidae) in western North America Occ. Pap. Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. 696:1-46
1981 Taylor, D.W., and G.R. Smith Pliocene molluscs and fishes from northeastern California and northwestern Nevada Contrib. Mus. Paleo. Univ. Michigan 25(18):339-413
1981 Swirydczuk, K., B.H. Wilkinson, and G.R. Smith Synsedimentary lacustrine phosphorites from the Pliocene Glenns Ferry Formation of southwestern Idaho J. Sed. Petrol. 51(4):1205-1214
1980 Swirydczuk, K., B.H. Wilkinson, and G.R. Smith The Pliocene Glenns Ferry oolite II: Sedimentology of oolitic lacustrine terrace deposits J. Sed. Petrol. 50(4):1237-1248
1980 Webb, P.W., and G.R. Smith Function of the caudal fin in early fishes Copeia 1980(3):559-562
1980 Swirydczuk, K., B.H. Wilkinson, and G.R. Smith [Reply] The Pliocene Glenns Ferry oolite: Lake-margin carbonate deposition in the southwestern Snake River plain J. Sed. Petrol. 50:999-1002
1979 Swirydczuk, K., B.H. Wilkinson, and G.R. Smith The Pliocene Glenns Ferry oolite: Lake-margin carbonate deposition in the southwestern Snake River plain J. Sed. Petrol. 49(3):995-1004
1975 Smith, G.R. Fishes of the Pliocene Glenns Ferry Formation, southwest Idaho Univ. Mich. Mus. Paleontol. Pap. Paleontol. 14:1-68
1972 Smith, G.R., and J. Lundberg The Sand Draw fish fauna, pp. 40-54 in M.F. Skinner and C.W. Hibbard, Early Pleistocene preglacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska American Mus. Nat. Hist. Bull. 148
1967 Miller, R.R., and G.R. Smith New fossil fishes from Plio-Pleistocene Lake Idaho Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 654:1-24
1965 Stokes, W.L., G.R. Smith, and K.F. Horn Fossil fishes from the Stansbury level of Lake Bonneville, Utah Proc. Utah Acad. Sci., Arts, Lett. 41(1):87-88
1963 Smith, G.R. A Late Illinoian fish fauna from southwestern Kansas and its climatic significance Copeia 1963(2):278-285

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