Michael Sandy
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SANDY, M. R. Mesozoic brachiopods of Mexico - a review and some comments on their paleobiogeographic affinities and paleoecology. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas. Mexico City. 14 page ms, 4 figures, 1 table. Anticipated publication date: Early 1998. INVITED PAPER

SANDY, M. R. Investigation of the loop of a Late Triassic (Norian) terebratulid brachiopod from Mexico and its taxonomic significance. Journal of Paleontology. 30 page ms, 7 figures. Anticipated publication date: 3/1998.

HAGDORN, H., and SANDY, M. R. Color banding in the Triassic terebratulid brachiopod Coenothyris from the Muschelkalk of Central Europe. Journal of Paleontology . 45 page ms, 11 figures. Anticipated publication date: 3/1998.

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SANDY, M. R. 1997a. Guest Editor. "Festschrift" to Dr. F. A. Middlemiss. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association of London. Volume 108, part 3, 96 pages.

SANDY, M. R. 1997b. Dedication of Festschrift to Dr. F. A. Middlemiss. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association of London. Vol. 108(3), pp. 161-162.

SANDY, M. R., HARPER, D. A. T., DONOVAN, S. K., and MILLER, D. J. 1997c. A Late Cretaceous Terebratulid Brachiopod from Jamaica and its Significance for Mesozoic Brachiopod Palaeobiogeography and Evolution. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association of London. Vol. 108(3), pp. 201-207.

SCHWIMMER, B. A. and SANDY, M. R. 1997d. Phylum Brachiopoda. (Ordovician and Silurian brachiopods by M. R. Sandy), pp. 210-241. In: Fossils of Ohio, edited by R. M. Feldmann. Ohio Division of Geological Survey Bulletin Number 70. Publication date 1996. Print-run of 10,000 copies. INVITED CONTRIBUTION.

SANDY, M. R. 1997e. Mesozoic Brachiopoda from North America, with particular reference to Mexico: shedding light on paleoecology, paleobiogeography, biostratigraphy, and evolution. U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research: International Workshop on the Geology of Sonora, Memoir, C. M. Gonz‡lez-Le—n and G. D. Stanley (eds.). Estaci—n Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geolog’a, Universidad Nacional Aut—noma de MŽxico. Publicaciones Ocasionales, 1, pp. 58-62.

SANDY, M. R. 1997f. A review of some Palaeozoic and Mesozoic brachiopods as members of cold seep chemosynthetic communities: "unusual" palaeoecology and anomalous palaeobiogeographic patterns explained. Fšldtani Kšzlšny, Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society, Vol. 125, parts 3 and 4, pp. 241-258. Year 1995.

SANDY, M. R. 1996a. Oldest record of peduncular attachment of brachiopods to crinoid stems, Upper Ordovician, Ohio, U.S.A. (Brachiopoda; Atrypida: Echinodermata; Crinoidea). Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 70(3), pp. 532-534.

SANDY, M. R. and BLODGETT, R. B. 1996b. Peregrinella (Brachiopoda; Rhynchonellida) from the Early Cretaceous, Wrangellia Terrane, Alaska. Brachiopods, Proceedings of the Third International Brachiopod Congress, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 2-5 September 1995, P. Copper and J. Jin. (eds.). A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 239-242.

SANDY, M. R. 1995a. Early Mesozoic (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic) Tethyan brachiopod biofacies: possible evolutionary intra-phylum niche replacement within the Brachiopoda. Paleobiology, Vol. 21(4), pp. 479-495.

SANDY, M. R., MURPHY, M. A., and RODDA, P. U. 1995b. Dzirulina (Brachiopoda; Terebratellidina) from California, U.S.A. - additional record of an Early Cretaceous transatlantic brachiopod genus. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 69(5), pp. 838-845.

SANDY, M. R., SQUIRES, R. L., and DEMETRION, R. 1995c. Middle Eocene terebratulid brachiopods from the Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 69(1), pp. 45-51.

SANDY, M. R. 1994a. Triassic-Jurassic articulate brachiopods from the Pucar‡ Group, Central Peru, and description of the brachidial net in the spiriferid Spondylospira. Palaeontographica A, Vol. 233, pp. 99-126, 10 pls. INVITED CONTRIBUTION.

STANLEY, G. D., Jr., GONZALEZ-LEON, C., SANDY, M. R., SENOWBARI-DARYAN, B., DOYLE, P., TAMURA, M., and ERWIN, D. H. 1994b. Upper Triassic invertebrates from the Antimonio Formation, Sonora, Mexico. Memoirs of the Paleontological Society, 36, 1-33 pp.

SANDY, M. R. and CAMPBELL, K. A. 1994c. New rhynchonellid genus from Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) cold seep deposits of California and its paleoenvironmental significance. Journal of Paleontology, 1994, Vol. 68(6), pp. 1243-1252.

SANDY, M. R. 1994d. Mesozoic Brachiopods of Alpine Europe: Essay review. Fšldtani Kšzlšny, Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Soceity, Vol. 123, 1993 (issued 1994), Pt. 4, pp. 503-510. INVITED CONTRIBUTION.

SANDY, M. R., and STANLEY, G. D., Jr. 1993a. Late Triassic brachiopods from the Luning Formation, Nevada, U.S.A. and their palaeobiogeographical significance. Palaeontology, Vol. 36(2), pp. 439-480, 3 pls.

 

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