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Published Papers and Abstracts (in chronologic order)

 

 
Peer Reviewed Papers (Students are in bold):

DeSantis, L.R.G., and Wallace, S.C., In Press, Neogene forest refugium from the Appalachians of Tennessee, USA: Evidence from acient mammals and stable isotopes: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Special Issue).

Nave, J.W., Duncan, J., and Wallace, S.C., Submitted, Saber-tooth Cats and Tapirs and Bears, Oh My: Student Responses to Experiential Education at the Gray Fossil Site, Can You Dig It?: Journal of Geoscience education.

Wallace, S.C., and Wang, X., 2004, Two new carnivores from an unusual late Tertiary forest biota in eastern North America: Nature, v. 431, no. 7008, p. 556-559.

Wallace, S.C., 2004, Reconstructing the Past: Applications of Surveying and GIS to Fossil Localities: Proceedings of the Annual meeting for the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping – Tennessee Association of Professional Surveyors, Nashville, TN.

Non-Peer Reviewed:

Wallace, S.C., 2007, Why is it called the “Rhino Pit”?: Now and Then Magazine, v. 23, no. 1.

Lundquist, J. and Wallace, S., 2007, The Gray Fossil Site: A unique fossil site and museum opens to visitors in the mountains of East Tennessee: Smoky Mountain Living, v. 7. no. 2, p. 38,39,71.

Abstracts (Students are in bold):

Wallace, S.C., and Wang, X, 2007, First Mandible and Lower Dentition of Pristinailurus bristoli, with Comments of Life History and Phylogeny: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 27, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 162.

Schubert, B.W., and Wallace, S.C., 2006, Amphibians and Reptiles of the Mio-Pliocene Gray Fossil Site and their Paleoecologic Implications: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 26, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 122.

Wallace, S.C., and Schubert, B.W., 2006, Postcrania of Bristol’s Red Panda, Pristinailurus bristoli from the Southern Appalachians: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 26, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 136.

*Desantis, L.R.G., and Wallace, S.C., 2006, Evidence of a Forest Refugium at a Neogene Fossil Site, Gray, TN: GSA Abstracts with Programs v. 37, no. 3, p. 85.

*Hulbert, R.C., and Wallace, S.C., 2006, Phylogenetic Relationships and Morphology of Tapirus polkensis (Olsen) from the Late Neogene of the Southeastern United States: GSA Abstracts with Programs v. 37, no. 3, p. 85.

*Schubert, B.W., 2006, On The Identification Of Fossil Salamanders And Snakes: A case study from
the Mio-Pliocene Gray Fossil Site of Tennessee: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 3, p. 85.

*Sheets, H.A., Farlow, J. O., Schubert, B.W., and Wallace. S.C., 2006, A Paleoecology Comparison Study Of Anurans From The Gray Fossil Site, Washington County, Tn, And The Pipe Creek Sinkhole, Grant County, IN: GSA Abstracts with Programs v. 37, no. 3, p. 85.

*Wallace, S.C., 2006, A New Population of Teleoceras (Mammalia: Rhinocerotidae) from the Southern Appalachians (Gray, Tennessee): GSA Abstracts with Programs v. 37, no. 3, p. 85.

* Part of a special session entitled “Paleontology, Paleoecology, and Paleoenvironments of the Gray Fossil Site, Gray, Tennessee” at the Southeastern Section meeting for GSA (Geological Society of America) in Knoxville, March 2006.

Wallace, S.C., 2005, Eurasian taxa from a new late Cenozoic terrestrial fossil site in the southern Appalachians, and the probably occurrence of forest refugium: National Science Teacher Association, Nashville, TN, December 2005, Abstracts with Programs. p. 54.

Desantis, L.R., and Wallace, S.C., 2005, Anomalous paleoecology of a Neogene fossil site, Gray, TN: Utilizing stable isotope analyses of fossil tooth enamel to reconstruct past environments: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 25, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 51.

Grawe, L.R., and Wallace, S.C., 2005, Anomalous paleoecology of a Neogene fossil site, Gray, TN, USA: Utilizing stable isotope analyses to interpret canopy density: GSA Abstracts with Programs v. 37, no. 7, p. 340.

Hulbert, R., and Wallace, S.C., 2005, Phylogenetic analysis of Late Cenozoic Tapirus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 25, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 72.

Wallace, S.C., and Hulbert, R., 2005, Morphology and systematics of the Hemphillian (Miocene) Gray Fossil Site Tapir: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 25, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 127.

Schubert, B.W., and Wallace, S.C., 2005, Some Remarkable New Paleontological Finds from Tennessee Caves: National Speleological Society Convention Abstracts p. 101.

Wallace, S.C. and Schubert, B.W., 2005, The Gray Fossil Site: A Late Miocene Sinkhole Deposit in the Southern Appalachians: National Speleological Society Convention Abstracts p. 102.

Nye, A., Stout, G., and Wallace, S.C., 2004, A customized attribute information database for museum collection, storage, and analysis: Gray Fossil Site: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 24, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 98-99. 

Wallace, S.C., Wang, X., and Schubert, B.W., 2004, Hypo- And Hyper-Carnivores from the late Miocene/ early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site: Indications of a connection between the forested biomes of North America and Eurasia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 24, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 126. 

Wang, X., and Wallace, S.C., 2004, Two new immigrants from the old world: the earliest and most primitive red panda (“Parailurus”) and a new Eurasian badger (Arctomeles) from late Miocene/early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, eastern Tennessee: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 24, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 126. 

Matney, S., 2003, A proposed system for recording the position of skeletal remains using morphological landmarks: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 23, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 76. 

Nave, J.W., and Wallace, S.C., 2003, New technology for an old site: using survey grade GPS and total stations to establish a permanent control network and topographic map of the Pleistocene-age site in Saltville, Virginia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 23, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 82.

Wallace, S.C., 2003, New mustelid from the Gray Fossil Site (Miocene), Washington Co., Tennessee: a new species among many?: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 23, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 107. 

Burdick, K.M., Wallace, S.C., and Nave, J.W., 2002, State of the art GIS applications at the Miocene age fossil site in Gray, Tennessee: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 40.

Nave, J.W., Burdick, K.M., and Wallace, S.C., 2002, New applications of modern land surveying techniques for precise location of Miocene fossils at Gray, Tennessee: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 92.

Wallace, S.C., Nave, J.W., and Burdick, K.M., 2002, Preliminary report on the recently discovered Gray Fossil Site (Miocene), Washington Co., Tennessee: With comments on observed paleopathologies – The advantages of a large sample: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, supplement to no. 3, Abstracts, p. 117.

 

 

 

Papers Presented without Published Abstract

Wallace, S.C., 2006, The Gray Fossil Site & ETSU Center for Excellence in Paleontology: Annual meeting for the Appalachian Branch of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, VA Campus, ETSU.

Wallace, S.C., 2005, The Gray Fossil Site: A Late Miocene Forest Refugium in the Southern Appalachians: Kentucky Paleontological Society, May meeting, Lexington, KY.

Wallace, S.C., 2005, New Species of Eurasian Badger & Lesser Panda from a Late Tertiary Forest Biota in Eastern Tennessee: AZA Eastern Regional Workshop, Knoxville, TN.

Wallace, S.C., 2002, Paleoecological Interpretation of the Gray Fossil Site (Miocene), Washington Co., Tennessee: Keynote speaker for the Tennessee Academy of Science Annual meeting.