William A. Oliver

William Albert Oliver Jr. (1926–2005), palaeontologist.

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• 1951. Middle Devonian coral beds of central New York. American Journal of Science 249: 705–728.

• 1954. Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone (Devonian) in central New York. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 65: 621–652.

• 1956. Biostromes and bioherms of the Onondaga Limestone in eastern New York. New York State Museum and Science Service, Circular 45: 5–23.
• 1956. Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone in eastern New York. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 67: 1441–1474.

• 1958. Significance of external form in some Onondagan rugose corals. Journal of Paleontology 32 (5), 815–837.

• 1960. Rugose corals from reef limestones in the Lower Devonian of New York. Journal of Paleontology 34: 59–100.
• 1960. Coral faunas in the Onondaga Limestone of New York. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 400-B, 172–174.
• 1960. Devonian rugose corals from northern Maine. US Geological Survey, Bulletin 1111-A, 1–23.

• & Quinn, A.W. 1962. Pennsylvanian rocks of New England. In: Branson, C.C. (Ed.), Pennsylvanian System in the United States. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, pp. 60–73.
• 1962. Silurian rugose corals from the Lake Témiscouata area, Quebec. Silurian corals from Maine and Quebec. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 430-B, 11–19.
• 1962. A new Kodonophyllum and associated rugose corals from the Lake Matapedia area, Quebec. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 430-C, 21–31.

• 1963. Redescription of three species of corals from the Lockport Dolomite in New York. Shorter Contributions to General Geology. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 414-G, 1–9.

• 1964. A new species of the rugose coral genus Nalivkinella from the Middle Devonian of eastern Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 38: 866–876.
• 1964. New occurrences of the rugose coral Rhizophyllum in North America. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 475-D, 149–158.
• 1964. The Devonian colonial coral genus Billingsastraea and its earliest known species. Contributions to Paleontology. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 483-B, 1–4.

• 1966. Description of dimorphism in Striatopora flexuosa Hall. Palaeontology 9: 448–454.

• 1967. Stratigraphy of the Bois Blanc Formation in New York. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 584-A, 8 pp.
• & Simmons, G.C. 1967. Otter Creek coral bed and its fauna, east-central Kentucky. Contributions to Stratigraphy. US Geological Survey, Bulletin 1244-F, 13 pp.

• , deWitt, W., Jr., Denison, J.M., Hoskins, D.M. & Huddle, J.W. 1968. Devonian of the Appalachian Basin, United States. International Symposium on the Devonian System, Calgary, Canada, Proceedings Volume 1, 1001–1040.
• 1968. Succession of rugose coral faunas in the Lower and Middle Devonian of eastern North America. International Symposium on the Devonian System, Calgary, Canada, Proceedings Volume 2, 733–744.
• 1968. Some aspects of colony development in corals. Journal of Paleontology 42,16–34.

• & Galle, A. 1971. Rugose corals from the Upper Konĕprusy Limestone (Lower Devonian) in Bohemia. Journal of Geological Sciences. Palaeontology 14: 36–106.
• & Galle, A. 1971. “Calceola” (=Rhizophyllum) and “Billingsastraea” (=Iowaphyllum) in Bohemia. Bulletin of the Geological Survey Prague 46: 209–216.
• 1971. The coral fauna and age of the Famine Limestone in Quebec. Paleozoic perspectives: a paleontological tribute to G. Arthur Cooper. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 3: 193–201.

• 1973. Devonian coral endemism in eastern North America and its bearing on palaeogeography. Special Papers in Palaeontology 12: 318–319.
• & W.H. Easton 1973. The Devonian tetracoral Acinophyllum stokesi (Milne-Edwards and Haime), 1851. Journal of Paleontology 47: 915–918.

• 1974. Classification and new genera of noncystimorph colonial rugose corals from the Onesquethaw Stage in New York and adjacent areas. Journal of Research, US Geological Survey 2: 165–174.

• 1975. Endemism and evolution of Late Silurian to Middle Devonian rugose corals in Eastern North America. Ancient Cnidaria 2: 148–160.
• 1975. A gastropod enclosed in a skeleton of a Devonian rugose coral. Journal of Paleontology 49: 153–159.
• 1975. Unusual growth in a rugose coral. Lethaia 8: 85–88.
• 1975. Dimorphism in Two new genera of Devonian tabulate corals. Contributions to Paleontology. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 743-D, 1–11.
• , Merriam, C.W. & Churkin, M. 1975. Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 823-B: B13-B44. Reference page. 

• & Sorauf, J.E. 1976. Septal carinae and microstructure in Middle Devonian Heliophyllum (Rugosa) from New York State. Journal of Paleontology 50: 331–343.
• 1976. Biogeography of Devonian Rugose Corals. Journal of Paleontology 50: 365–373.
• 1976. Noncystimorph Colonial Rugose Corals of the Onesquethaw and Lower Cazenovia Stages (Lower and Middle Devonian) in New York and Adjacent areas. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 869: 1–156.

• & Johnson, J.G. 1977. Notes on Upper Silurian and Devonian coral zones in the Great Basin. University of California, Riverside Campus Museum Contribution 4, 107–111.
• & Johnson, J.G. 1977. Silurian and Devonian coral zones in the Great Basin, Nevada, and California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 88: 1462–1468.
• 1977. Tabellaephyllum Stumm is a Michelinia (Carboniferous, Tabulata). Journal of Paleontology 51: 422–423.
• 1977. Biogeography of Late Silurian and Devonian rugose corals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 22: 85–135.
• 1977. Devonian rugose coral assemblages in the United States. Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 89: 167–174.

• 1978. Iowaphyllum (rugose coral) from the Upper Devonian of Arizona. Journal of Research, US Geological Survey 6: 797–805.

• & Pedder, A.E.H. 1979. Rugose corals in Devonian stratigraphical correlation. In: House, M.R., Scrutton, C.T., Bassett, M.G. (Eds.), The Devonian System. A Palaeontological Association International Symposium. Special Papers in Palaeontology 23. The Palaeontological Association, London, pp. 233–248.
• 1979. Sponges they are not. Paleobiology 5: 188–190.
• & Pedder, A.E.H. 1979. Biogeography of Late Silurian and Devonian rugose corals in North America. In: Gray, J., Boucot, A.J. (Eds.), Historical Biogeography, Plate Tectonics and the Changing Environment. Oregon State University Press, pp. 131–145.

• 1980. Corals in the Malvinokaffric Realm. Muensterische Forschungen zur Geologie und Palaeontologie 52: 13–27.
• 1980. The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals. Paleobiology 6: 146–160.

• & Klapper, G. 1981. Devonian Stratigraphy of New York; Part 1, text, and Part 2, stop descriptions. International Union of Geological Sciences, Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy, Washington, DC, (Pt. 1) 105 pp. and (Pt. 2) 69 pp.
• 1981. The Middle Devonian rugose coral Prismatophyllum conjunctum (Davis) and the age of the “Columbus” Limestone at Ingersoll, Ontario. Geological Society of America Bulletin 92: 873–877.

• & Pedder, A.E.H. 1982. Stauromatidium and Stauromatidiidae, new genus and family of Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian rugose corals. Bulletin - Geological Survey of Canada 352, 43 pp.

• & Sorauf, J.E. 1983. Silurian and Devonian Corals and Stromatoporoids of New York. Field Trip guide, Fourth International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria, 180 pp.
• 1983. Symbioses of Devonian rugose corals. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 1: 5–12.

• & Pedder, A.E.H. 1984. Devonian rugose coral biostratigraphy with special reference to the Lower-Middle Devonian boundary. Current Research, Pt. A. Paper - Geological Survey of Canada 84–1A, 449–452.
• 1984. (Eds. Oliver, W.A. Jr., Sando, W.J., Cairns, S.D., Coates, A.G., Macintyre, I.G., Bayer, F.M. & Sorauf, J.E.) Recent Advances in the Paleobiology and Geology of the Cnidaria. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria (and Archaeocyathids and Stromatoporoids) held in Washington, DC, USA, August 1983. Palaeontographica Americana 54, 557 pp.

• , Kirchgasser, W.T. & Rickard, L.V. 1985. Devonian Series boundaries in Eastern United States. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 75: 233–260.

• , Boucot, A.J., Brett, C.E. & Blodgett, R.B. 1986. Devonian faunas of the Sainte-Hélène Island breccia, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 23: 2047–2056. Reference page. 

• 1987. Middle Devonian coral faunules from Illinois and their bearing on biogeography. Shorter Contributions to Paleontology and Stratigraphy. US Geological Survey, Bulletin 1690-D, 9 pp.

• & Sorauf, J.E. 1988. Heliophyllum Hall and Charisphyllum, n. gen. (Devonian rugose corals) of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain). Trabajos de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo 17: 3–17.
• 1988. An early Middle Devonian coral faunule from the Needmore Shale in south-central Pennsylvania and adjacent areas of West Virginia and Virginia. Shorter Contributions to Paleontology and Stratigraphy. US Geological Survey, Bulletin 1860-C, 1–11.

• 1989. Origins, migrations, and extinctions of Devonian Rugosa on the North American Plate. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 8: 231–237.
• 1989. Bowenelasma (Rugose coral) from the Emsian and early Eifelian (?) (Devonian) of New York. Shorter Contributions to Paleontology and Stratigraphy. US Geological Survey, Bulletin 1860-D, 6 pp.

• 1990. Rugose coral distribution as a test of Devonian palaeogeographic maps. In: McKerrow, W.S., Scotese, C.R. (Eds.), Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography. Geological Society Memoir 12, 267–275.
• 1990. Extinctions and migrations of Devonian rugose corals in the Eastern Americas Realm. Lethaia 23: 167–178.

• & Chlupáč, I. 1991. Defining the Devonian: 1979–89. Lethaia 24: 119–122.

• 1992. Corals from the Turkey Creek Limestone (Lower Devonian), Southern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 143: 137–159.

• 1993. Origins and relationships of Devonian Rugosa endemic to the Eastern Americas Realm. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 164: 131–140.
• 1993. The Siphonophrentidae (Rugose Corals, Devonian) of Eastern North America. US Geological Survey, Bulletin 2024, Shorter Contributions to Paleontology and Stratigraphy, 1992, Chapter B, B1–B32.

• & Sorauf, J.E. 1994. Branching Heliophyllum (Devonian Rugose Corals) from New York and Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 68: 1183–1201.
• & Pedder, A.E.H. 1994. Crises in the Devonian history of the rugose corals. Paleobiology 20: 178–190.
• & Hecht, W.S. 1994. Well-preserved favositid corals in the Oriskany Sandstone (Lower Devonian) of New York. New York State Museum, Bulletin 481: 265–287.

• & Klapper, G. 1995. The Detroit River Group is Middle Devonian: Discussion on “Early Devonian age of the Detroit River Group, inferred from Arctic stromatoporoids”. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 32: 1070–1073.
• , Pedder, A.E.H., Weiland, R.J. & van Ufford, A.Q. 1995. Middle Palaeozoic corals from the southern slope of the Central Ranges of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Alcheringa 19: 1–15.

• , Sorauf, J.E. & Brett, C.E. 1996. A unique occurrence of Endophyllum (Rugose coral; Devonian) in Eastern North America: An ecological and biogeographical puzzle. Journal of Paleontology 70 (1), 46–56. Reference page. 

• 1997. Evolutionary relationships of the Zaphrentidae and Craspedophyllidae (rugose corals, Devonian) in eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 321: 317–325.
• 1997. Origins and relationships of colonial Heliophyllum in the upper Middle Devonian (Givetian) of New York. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (Sección Geológica) 91: 53–60.
• 1997. Ptenophyllids in Eastern North America. Coral Research Bulletin 5: 203–209.

• 1998. Nomenclatural problems of Breviphrentis Stumm, 1949 and Contophrentis new genus (Devonian rugose corals). Journal of Paleontology 72 (5), 932–934.

• 1999. The principal Pridolian and Lochkovian rugose coral assemblages or communities in eastern North America. In: Boucot, A.J., Lawson, J.D. (Eds.), Paleocommunities: A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press, pp. 800–805.

• 2000. Stage boundary recognition in the Eastern Americas Realm based on rugose corals. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 220: 57–63.

• 2001. Anomalous occurrence of a colonial rugose coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Rugosa) in a Devonian Black Shale, Central New York. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10: 233–241.
• 2001. The origin of “Spongophylloides” in eastern North America. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 1: 77–85.

• & Sorauf, J.E. 2002. The genus Heliophyllum (Anthozoa, Rugosa) in the Upper Middle Devonian (Givetian) of New York. Bulletins of American paleontology 362: 3–72.

• 2007. Zaphrentis and the Zaphrentidae (Devonian: Anthozoa, Rugosa). Bulletins of American paleontology 373: 3–46.