Dr. William I. Ausich Professor Department of Geological Sciences 86 Orton Hall 155 S. Oval Mall The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210 E-mail - ausich.1@osu.edu

Office............(614) 292-3353 Department...(614) 292-8746 Fax.............. (614) 292-1496

Publications:  

       Books and Monographs:
       Ausich, W.I., and G.D. Sevastopulo 2001.  Tournaisian crinoids from Hook Head, County Wexford, Ireland.
               Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, 617:1-136.

       Hess, H., W.I. Ausich, C.E. Brett, and M.S. Simms.  1999.  Fossil Crinoids . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 316 p.

       Ausich, W.I., and N.G. Lane.  1999.  Life of the Past, Fourth Edition.  Prentice-Hall, New York, 321 p.

       Recent Journal Articles:

       Ausich, W.I., A.Goldstein, and R. Yates.  2000.  Crinoids from the Muldraugh Member of the Borden Formation in north-central Kentucky (Echinodermata,
               Lower Mississippian).  Journal of Paleontology, 74:1072-1082.

       Ausich, W.I. 2000.  Bones in the Ivory Tower.  Geotimes, 45:18-21.

       Unrug, R., W.I. Ausich, J. Bernarczyk, R.J. Cuffey, B.L. Mamet, S.L. Palmes, and S. Unrug.  2000.  Paleozoic age of the Walden Creek Goup, Ocoee
                Supergroup in the Western Blue Ridge, Southern Appalachians:  Implications for evolution of the Appalachian margin of Laurentia.  Geological
                Society of America Bulletin, 112:982-996.   

       Bodenbender, B.E., and W.I. Ausich.  2000.  Skeletal crystallography and crinoid calyx architecture.  Journal of Paleontology, 74: 52-66.

       Ausich, W.I., G.D. Sevastopulo, and H. Torrens.  1999.  Middle Nineteenth Century crinoid studies of Thomas Austin, Sr., and Thomas Austin, Jr.: Newly
                discovered unpublished materials.  Earth Sciences History, 18:180-197.

       Ausich, W.I.  1999.  Origin of Crinoids, p. 237-242.  In M.D. Candia Carnevali and F. Bonasara (eds.).  Echinoderm Research 1998.  A.A.
             Balkema; Rotterdam.

       Ausich, W.I.  1998.  Phylogeny of Arenig to Caradoc Crinoids (Phylum Echinodermata) and suprageneric classification of the Crinoidea.
             University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Papers, New Series, 9, 36 p.

       Kammer, T.W., T.K. Baumiller, and W.I. Ausich.  1998.  Evolutionary significance of differential species longevity in Osagean-Meramecian
             (Mississippian) crinoid clades.  Paleobiology, 24:155-176.

       Ausich, W.I., and T.K. Baumiller.  1998.  Disarticulation patterns in Ordovician crinoids:  Implications for the evolutionary history of connective
             tissue in the class Crinoidea (Echinodermata).  Lethaia, 31:113-123.

       Ausich, W.I.  1998.  Origin of the Crinoidea, p. 127-132.  In R. Mooi, and M. Telford (eds.) Echinoderms: San Francisco.  A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

       Ausich, W.I., T.E. Bolton, and L.M. Cumming.  1998.  Whiterockian (Ordovician) crinoid fauna from the Table Head Group, western
             Newfoundland (Canada).  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 35:121-130.

       Ausich, W.I., and L.E. Babcock.  1998.  Phylogenetic position of Echmatocrinus brachiatus, a probable Burgess Shale octacoral.
             Palaeontology, 41:193-202.

        Ausich, W.I.  1998.  Early phylogeny and subclass division of the Crinoidea (phylum Echinodermata).  Journal of Paleontology, 72:499-510.

       Research Websites: 

        Crinoid Webpage in Tree of Life. Page by W.I. Ausich and C.G. Messing
               http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/echinodermata/crinoidea/crinoidea.html

       Tiering Website by W.I. Ausich and D.J. Bottjer
              http://www.geology.ohio-state.edu/tiering