Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Links (in blue) to article .pdfs are included below references.

Arthropod Biogeochemistry

Vrazo, M.B., Diefendorf, A.F, Crowley, B.E., and Czaja, A.D. (2018). Late Cretaceous marine arthropods relied on terrestrial organic matter as a food source: geochemical evidence from the Coon Creek Lagerstätte in the Mississippian Embayment. Geobiology 61, 235–252.
Vrazo et al., 2018_Geochemistry of Coon Creek Lagerstätte decapods

Eurypterid Paleoecology and Taphonomy

Broussard, D.R., Treaster, C.J., Trop, J.M., Daeschler, E.B., Zippi, P.A., Vrazo, M.B., and Rygel, M.C. (2020). Vertebrate taphonomy, paleontology, sedimentology, and palynology of a fossiliferous Late Devonian fluvial succession, Catskill Formation, north-central Pennsylvania, USA. PALAIOS ; 35 (11): 470–494.
Vertebrate taphonomy, paleontology, sedimentology, and palynology of a fossiliferous Late Devonian fluvial succession, Catskill Formation, north-central Pennsylvania, USA

Plax, D.P., Lamsdell, J.C., Vrazo, M.B., and Barbikov, D.V. (2018). A new genus of eurypterid (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Upper Devonian salt deposits of Belarus. Journal of Paleontology 92, 838–849.
Plax et al_2018_A new genus of eurypterid from the Upper Devonian salt deposits of Belarus

Vrazo, M.B., and Ciurca, Jr., S.J. (2018). New trace fossil evidence for eurypterid swimming behavior. Palaeontology 61, 235–252.
Vrazo and Ciurca_2018_Eurypterid swimming traces

Vrazo, M.B., Brett, C.E., and Ciurca, S.J., Jr. (2017). Paleoecological and stratigraphic controls on eurypterid Lagerstätten: a model for preservation in the mid-Paleozoic. Paleobiology 43, 383–406.
Vrazo et al_2017_Stratigraphic and ecological controls on eurypterid Lagerstätten

Vrazo, M.B., Brett, C.E., and Ciurca, S.J., Jr. (2016). Buried or Brined? Eurypterids and evaporites in the Silurian Appalachian basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 444, 48–59.
Vrazo et al_2016_Buried or brined

Vrazo, M.B., Trop, J.M., and Brett, C.E. (2014). A new eurypterid Lagerstätte from the upper Silurian of Pennsylvania. PALAIOS 29, 431–448.
Vrazo et al_2014_A new eurypterid Lagerstatte from Pennsylvania

Vrazo, M.B. and Braddy, S.J. (2011). Testing the “mass-moult-mate” hypothesis of eurypterid paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 311, 63–73.
Vrazo and Braddy_2011_Testing the mass-moult-mate hypothesis

Trace fossils (amphibian) from the Carboniferous

Vrazo, M.B., Benton, M.J., and Daeschler, E.B. (2007). Tetrapod tracks from the Mauch Chunk Formation (middle to upper Mississippian) of Pennsylvania, USA. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 156, 199–209.
Vrazo et al_2007_Mississippian amphibian trackways

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Daniels, Patricia (2020). 1,000 Facts About Dinosaurs, Fossils, and Prehistoric Life. National Geographic Kids Books. (Paleontological consultant and content editor)

Parker, Steve (2007). World Encyclopedia of Fossils & Fossil-Collecting. Lorenz Books, London, UK. (Section author)