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Olsen, P. E. and Rainforth, E., 2000, The Early Jurassic ornithischian dinosaurian ichnite Anomoepus. in LeTourneau, P. M. and Olsen, P. E. (eds.), Aspects of Triassic-Jurassic Geoscience: Columbia University Press (in press).
Olsen, P. E. and Rainforth, E., Szajna, M. J., Hartline, B. W., and Kent, D. V., 2000, The rise of dinosaurian dominance through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic: Tetrapod footprint evidence from Eastern North America (Newark Supergroup). In Prep. for Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology,
Rainforth, E. C., 2000, A reevaluation of the early Jurassic ichnogenus Otozoum.In Prep, for Palaeontology.
1998:
Olsen, P. E. and Huber, P., 1998, The oldest Late Triassic footprint assemblage from North America (Pekin Formation, Deep River basin, North Carolina, USA). Southestern Geology, v. 38, no. 2, p. 77-90.
Olsen, P. E., Smith, J. B., and McDonald, N. G., 1998, Type material of the type species of the classic theropod footprint genera Eubrontes, Anchisauripus, and Grallator (Early Jurassic, Hartford and Deerfield basins, Connecticut and Massachusetts, USA). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 18, no. 3, p. 586-601. Request a reprint of this paper
1996:
Fraser, N. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1996, A new dinosauromorph ichnogenus from the Triassic of Virginia. Jeffersoniana, no. 7, p. 1-17.
LeTourneau, P. M. and Olsen, P. E. (eds.), 1996, Aspects of Triassic-Jurassic Rift Basin Geoscience: Abstracts. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Miscellaneous Reports 1, 57 pp.
1995:
Olsen, P. E., 1995, Paleontology and paleoenvironments of Early Jurassic age strata in the Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park (New Jersey, USA). in Baker, J. E. B., Field Guide and Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of New Jersey, Geological Association of New Jersey, William Patterson College, Patterson, NJ., p. 156-190. Download a pdf of a facsimile of this paper (! +26 MB !)
1994:
Olsen, P. E. and Johansson, A. K., 1994, Field guide to Late Triassic tetrapod sites in Virginia and North Carolina (Culpeper, Richmond, and Dan River Basins, Newark Supergroup): in Sues, H. D. and Fraser, N. (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, in Fraser, N. C. and Sues, H. D. (eds.), Cambridge University Press, p. 408-430.
1992:
Olsen, P. E., McDonald, N. G., Huber, P., and Cornet, B., 1992, Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Deerfield rift basin (Triassic-Jurassic, Newark Supergroup), Massachusetts: in Robinson, P. and Brady, J. B. (eds.) Guidebook for Field Trips in the Connecticut Valley Region of Massachusetts and Adjacent States (vol. 2), New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference 84th Annual Meeting, Contribution no. 66, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, p. 488-535.
1989:
Olsen, P. E. and Flynn, J., 1989, Field guide to the vertebrate paleontology of Late Triassic rocks in the southwestern Newark Basin (Newark Supergroup, New Jersey and Pennsylvania). The Mosasaur, 4, 1-35.
Olsen, P. E., Schlische, R. W., and Gore, P. J. W. (and others), 1989, Field Guide to the Tectonics, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Newark Supergroup, eastern North America. International Geological Congress, Guidebooks for Field Trips T351, 174 p.
Padian, K. and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Ratite footprints and the stance and gait of Mesozoic Theropods: In Gillette, D. D. and Lockley, M. G. (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, pp. 231-242.
1988:
Olsen, P. E., 1988, Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of the Continental Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America: In ed. W. Manspeizer, Triassic-Jurassic Rifting and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 185-230.
Olsen, P. E., Van Houten, F., and others, 1988, Field guide to the Late Triassic portion of the Newark basin section in the Delaware Valley, New Jersey: in Husch, J. M. and Hozic, M. J. (eds.), Geology of the Newark Basin, Field Guide and Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of New Jersey, Geological Association of New Jersey, Rider College, Lawrenceville, p. 233-289.
1986:
Olsen, P. E. and Baird, D., 1986, The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic Biostratigraphy: In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 61-87.
Olsen, P. E. and Padian, K., 1986, Earliest records of Batrachopus from the Southwest U.S., and a revision of some Early Mesozoic crocodilomorph ichnogenera: In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 259-273.
Olsen, P. E. and Sues, H.-D., 1986, Correlation of the continental Late Triassic and Early Jurassic sediments, and patterns of the Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod transition: In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 321-351.
1985:
Cornet, B. and Olsen, P. E., 1985, A summary of the biostratigraphy of the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America, with comments on early Mesozoic provinciality: In R. Weber (ed.) Symposio Sobre Flores del Triasico Tardio st Fitografia y Paleoecologia, Memoria. Proc. II) Latin-American Congress on Paleontology (1984), Instituto de Geologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, p. 67-81.
1984:
Olsen, P. E. and Galton, P.M., 1984, A review of the reptile and amphibian assemblages from the Stormberg of southern Africa, with special emphasis on the footprints and the age of the Stormberg: Palaeontologia africana, Haughton Memorial Volume, p. 92-116.
Padian, K. and Olsen, P. E., 1984, The fossil trackway Pteraichnus: not pterosaurian, but crocodilian: Jour. Paleo., v. 58, p. 178-184.
Padian, K. and Olsen, P. E., 1984, Footprints of the Komodo Dragon and the trackways of fossil reptiles: Copeia, 1984, p. 662-671.
1975-1982:
Olsen, P. E., 1980, Comparison of the vertebrate assemblages from the Newark and Hartford basins (Early Mesozoic, Newark Supergroup) of eastern North America: In Jacobs, L. L. (ed.), Aspects of Vertebrate History. Flagstaff, Museum of Northern Arizona Press, p. 35-53.
Olsen, P. E., Remington, C. L., Cornet, B., and Thomson, K. S., 1978, Cyclic change in Late Triassic lacustrine communities: Science, v. 201, p. 729-733.
Olsen, P. E. and Galton, P.M., 1977, Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod extinctions: are they real? Science, v. 197, p. 983-986.
Olsen, P. E., 1975, The Microstratigraphy of the Roseland Quarry (Early
Jurassic, Newark Supergroup, New Jersey): Open File Report, Essex County
Park Commission, Newark, New Jersey, 84 p.
Gilfillian, A. M. and Olsen, P. E., 2000, The coelacanth Diplurus longicaudatus as the origin of the large coprolites occurring in the Triassic-Jurassic lacustrine strata of Eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.32, no. 1, p. A-20.
Olsen, P. E., 2000, Cyclostratigraphic controls on the duration and correlation of the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction and associated basalts. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 1, p. A-63.
Olsen, P. E., 1995, Climate change and the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinctions. EOS, supplement, v. 76, no. 17, p. S186.
Olsen, P. E., 1995, A new approach for recognizing track makers. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27., p. 86.
Olsen, P. E., 1986, How did the small ornithischian trackmaker of Anomoepus walk? In Gillette, D. D. (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, abstracts with program. New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque.
Olsen, P. E., 1983, Relationship between biostratigraphic subdivisions and igneous activity in the Newark Supergroup. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 2, p. 93.
Olsen, P. E., Fowell, S., Cornet, B., and Witte, W. K., 1991, Calibration of a Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Time Scale Based on Orbitally Induced Lake Cycles. International Geological Congress, Abstracts 1990, 2, 2-547-548.
Olsen, P. E. and Baird, D., 1986, Milford revisited: with notes on a new ichnofaunule from the Norian of New Jersey. First International Symposium Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, New Mexico Museum of Natural History.
Olsen, P. E., Baird, D., 1982, Early Jurassic vertebrate assemblages from the McCoy Brook Fm. of the Fundy Group (Newark Supergroup, Nova Scotia, Can.). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 14, no. 1-2, p. 70
Olsen, P. E. and Cornet, B., 1988, The Triassic-Jurassic boundary in eastern North America. Global Catastrophes in Earth History. Lunar and Planetary Institute - National Academy of Sciences, Symposium, Snowbird, p. 135-136.
Olsen, P. E. and Cornet, B., 1988, Evidence for early Mesozoic mass extinctions in eastern North American rift deposits (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup. IGCP Project 199, Rare Events in Geology, Berrichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (Wien), v. 15, p. 20.
Olsen, P. E., Cornet, B., and McDonald, 1989, Cyclostratigraphy of the Chicopee Fish Bed and adjacent strata: implications for the palynostratigraphy of the Portland Formation (Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 21, no. 2, p. 56.
Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., 1999, Comparison of the tectonostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Triassic-Jurassic Fundy (Nova Scotia) and Argana (Morocco) rift basins. Deuxièm Réunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias, GMPT-2, Marrakech, 24-26 novembre 1999, Résumés, (Groupe Marocain Permien et du Trias, Université Cadi Ayyad, Faculté des Sciences - Semlalia, Département de Gélogie), p. 32.
Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., 1998, The rise of dinosaurian dominance through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic: tetrapod footprint evidence from eastern North America. The Dinofest Symposium, Abstracts, p. 43.
Olsen, P. E., Shubin, N. H., and Anders, M. H., 1986, New vertebrate data from eastern North America (Newark Supergroup) suggest a catastrophic end to the Triassic. S.E.P.M. Abstracts, 1986.
Olsen, P. E., Sues, H. D., and Kent, D. V., 1999, Constraining the timing and magnitude of the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction in continental ecosystems. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 80, no. 46, p. F. 50.
Padian, K., and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Baird's two axioms of vertebrate paleontology. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Newsletter, 1989.
Rainforth, E.C. 2002. Ornithichnology: the ichnotaxonomic legacy of Edward Hitchcock and the status of the grallatorid ichnogenera Grallator, Anchisauripus and Eubrontes. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 34, in press. (Invited abstract.)
Rainforth, E.C. 2002. Tails of saurischian dinosaurs in the Early Jurassic of the Newark Supergroup (eastern North America). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 34, in press.
Silvestri, S. M., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1991, Analysis of deformed tetrapod footprints from the Jacksonwald syncline of the Newark basin: Implications for the Triassic-Jurassic extinctions: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 23(1), p. 127.
Silvestri, SM., and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Ichnostratigraphy of the Jacksonwald Syncline: the last 7 million years of the Triassic. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 21(2), p. 66.
Silvestri, SM., and Olsen, P. E., 1988 Uniquely preserved trackway of the reptile ichnotaxon Rhynchosauroides hyperbates Baird from the Late Triassic of Arcola, Pa., associated forms, and significance to Carnian-Norian tetrapod extinctions. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., 20(1), 70.