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Quinn, D.P., Idzikowski, C.R., and Peters, S.E., 2023, Building a multi‐scale, collaborative, and time‐integrated digital crust: The next stage of the Macrostrat data system: Geoscience Data Journal, v. 11, p. 11–26, doi:10.1002/gdj3.189.

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Peters, S.E., Husson, J.M., and Czaplewski, J., 2018, Macrostrat: A Platform for Geological Data Integration and Deep‐Time Earth Crust Research: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 19, p. 1393–1409, doi:10.1029/2018gc007467.

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Farrell, Ú.C. et al., 2026, The Sedimentary geochemistry and paleoenvironments project phase 2 data release: An open data resource for the study of Earth’s environmental history: Chemical Geology, p. 123311, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2026.123311.

Gearty, W., 2026, deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals: Big Earth Data, v. 10, p. 1–17, doi:10.1080/20964471.2025.2537516.

Liu, C., Hou, D., Xiang, J., Yang, C., Cui, X., Wang, Z., Liu, L., and Miao, Z., 2026, LandslideAgent with Multimodal LandslideBench: A Domain-Rule-Augmented Agent for Autonomous Landslide Identification and Analysis:, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2606.18661.

Gan, T., Gilleaudeau, G.J., Pedersen, M.G., Doerrler, A.D., Maksimenko, V., Grazhdankin, D.V., Hellmann, J.L., Nana Yobo, L., Xiao, S., and Liu, X.-M., 2026, Continental weathering as a driver of the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion: Communications Earth & Environment,.

Na, L., Li, Q., Kocsis, Á.T., and Kiessling, W., 2026, From radiation to provinces: spatial scaling of Cambrian diversity:

Jeon, J., Li, Q.-J., and Lee, J.-H., 2025, Preservation bias obscures gradual Ordovician reef evolution: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 122, p. e2511406122, doi:10.1073/pnas.2511406122.

Hammarlund, E.U. et al., 2025, Benthic diel oxygen variability and stress as potential drivers for animal diversification in the Neoproterozoic-Palaeozoic: Nature Communications, v. 16, doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57345-0.

Lovelace, D.M., and Kufner, A.M., 2025, Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA): Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 203, p. zlae153, doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae153.

Boulila, S., Peters, S.E., Müller, R.D., Zaffos, A., Farkaš, J., and Haq, B.U., 2025, A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity: Communications Earth & Environment, v. 6, doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02370-6.

Jones, L.A., Dean, C.D., Gearty, W., and Allen, B.J., 2024, rmacrostrat: An R package for accessing and retrieving data from the Macrostrat geological database: Geosphere, v. 20, p. 1456–1467, doi:10.1130/ges02815.1.

Smiley, T.M., Bahadori, A., Rasbury, E.T., Holt, W.E., and Badgley, C., 2024, Tectonic extension and paleoelevation influence mammalian diversity dynamics in the Basin and Range Province of western North America: Science Advances, v. 10, doi:10.1126/sciadv.adn6842.

Gazdewich, S., Hauck, T., and Husson, J., 2024, Authigenic Carbonate Burial Within the Late Devonian Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and Its Impact on the Global Carbon Cycle: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 25, doi:10.1029/2023gc011376.

Segessenman, D.C., and Peters, S.E., 2023, Macrostratigraphy of the Ediacaran System in North America, in Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, Geological Society of America, p. 399–424, doi:10.1130/2022.1220(21).

Husson, J.M., and Coogan, L.A., 2023, River chemistry reveals a large decrease in dolomite abundance across the Phanerozoic: Geochemical Perspectives Letters, v. 26, p. 1–6, doi:10.7185/geochemlet.2316.

Tasistro-Hart, A.R., and Macdonald, F.A., 2023, Phanerozoic flooding of North America and the Great Unconformity: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 120, doi:10.1073/pnas.2309084120.

Walton, C.R., Hao, J., Huang, F., Jenner, F.E., Williams, H., Zerkle, A.L., Lipp, A., Hazen, R.M., Peters, S.E., and Shorttle, O., 2023, Evolution of the crustal phosphorus reservoir: Science Advances, v. 9, doi:10.1126/sciadv.ade6923.

Wang, J., Tarhan, L.G., Jacobson, A.D., Oehlert, A.M., and Planavsky, N.J., 2023, The evolution of the marine carbonate factory: Nature, v. 615, p. 265–269, doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05654-5.

Balseiro, D., and Powell, M.G., 2023, Relative oversampling of carbonate rocks in the North American marine fossil record: Paleobiology, v. 49, p. 733–746, doi:10.1017/pab.2023.16.

Peters, S.E., Quinn, D.P., Husson, J.M., and Gaines, R.R., 2022, Macrostratigraphy: Insights into Cyclic and Secular Evolution of the Earth-Life System: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 50, p. 419–449, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-032320-081427.

Peters, S.E., Walton, C.R., Husson, J.M., Quinn, D.P., Shorttle, O., Keller, C.B., and Gaines, R.R., 2021, Igneous rock area and age in continental crust: Geology, v. 49, p. 1235–1239, doi:10.1130/g49037.1.

Key, M.M., Wyse Jackson, P.N., and Reid, C.M., 2021, Trepostome bryozoans buck the trend and ignore calcite-aragonite seas: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, v. 102, p. 253–263, doi:10.1007/s12549-021-00507-x.

Davis Barnes, B., Husson, J.M., and Peters, S.E., 2020, Authigenic carbonate burial in the Late Devonian–Early Mississippian Bakken Formation (Williston Basin, USA) (N. Tosca, Ed.): Sedimentology, v. 67, p. 2065–2094, doi:10.1111/sed.12695.

Balseiro, D., and Powell, M.G., 2019, Carbonate collapse and the late Paleozoic ice age marine biodiversity crisis: Geology, v. 48, p. 118–122, doi:10.1130/g46858.1.

Schachat, S.R., Labandeira, C.C., Saltzman, M.R., Cramer, B.D., Payne, J.L., and Boyce, C.K., 2018, Phanerozoic pO₂ and the early evolution of terrestrial animals: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v. 285, p. 20172631, doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.2631.

Husson, J.M., and Peters, S.E., 2018, Nature of the sedimentary rock record and its implications for Earth system evolution (T. W. Lyons, M. L. Droser, K. V. Lau, & S. M. Porter, Eds.): Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, v. 2, p. 125–136, doi:10.1042/etls20170152.

Keller, C.B., Husson, J.M., Mitchell, R.N., Bottke, W.F., Gernon, T.M., Boehnke, P., Bell, E.A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., and Peters, S.E., 2018, Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 116, p. 1136–1145, doi:10.1073/pnas.1804350116.

Peters, S.E., and Husson, J.M., 2018, We need a global comprehensive stratigraphic database: here’s a start (L. Birgenheier & H. Harper, Eds.): The Sedimentary Record, v. 16, p. 4–9, doi:10.2110/sedred.2018.1.4.

Peters, S.E., Husson, J.M., and Wilcots, J., 2017, The rise and fall of stromatolites in shallow marine environments: Geology, v. 45, p. 487–490, doi:10.1130/g38931.1.

Husson, J.M., and Peters, S.E., 2017, Atmospheric oxygenation driven by unsteady growth of the continental sedimentary reservoir: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 460, p. 68–75, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.012.

Chan, M.A., Peters, S.E., and Tikoff, B., 2016, The Future of Field Geology, Open Data Sharing and CyberTechnology in Earth Science: The Sedimentary Record, v. 14, p. 4–10, doi:10.2110/sedred.2016.1.4.

Heavens, N.G., 2015, Injecting Climate Modeling into Deep Time Studies: Ideas for Nearly Every Project (P. E. Isaacson & I. P. Montañez, Eds.): The Sedimentary Record, v. 13, p. 4–10, doi:10.2110/sedred.2015.4.4.

Carroll, A.R., 2015, Geofuels: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139047685.

Fan, Y. et al., 2014, DigitalCrust – a 4D data system of material properties for transforming research on crustal fluid flow: Geofluids, v. 15, p. 372–379, doi:10.1111/gfl.12114.

Benson, R.B.J., Mannion, P.D., Butler, R.J., Upchurch, P., Goswami, A., and Evans, S.E., 2013, Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 372, p. 88–107, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.028.

Finnegan, S., Heim, N.A., Peters, S.E., and Fischer, W.W., 2012, Climate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinction: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 109, p. 6829–6834, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117039109.

Halevy, I., Peters, S.E., and Fischer, W.W., 2012, Sulfate Burial Constraints on the Phanerozoic Sulfur Cycle: Science, v. 337, p. 331–334, doi:10.1126/science.1220224.

Heim, N.A., and Peters, S.E., 2011, Regional Environmental Breadth Predicts Geographic Range and Longevity in Fossil Marine Genera (S. T. Turvey, Ed.): PLoS ONE, v. 6, p. e18946, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018946.

Peters, S.E., and Heim, N.A., 2011, Macrostratigraphy and macroevolution in marine environments: testing the common-cause hypothesis: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 358, p. 95–104, doi:10.1144/sp358.7.

Meyers, S.R., and Peters, S.E., 2011, A 56million year rhythm in North American sedimentation during the Phanerozoic: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 303, p. 174–180, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.044.

Heim, N.A., and Peters, S.E., 2010, Covariation in macrostratigraphic and macroevolutionary patterns in the marine record of North America: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 620–630, doi:10.1130/b30215.1.

Peters, S.E., and Heim, N.A., 2010, The geological completeness of paleontological sampling in North America: Paleobiology, v. 36, p. 61–79, doi:10.1666/0094-8373-36.1.61.

McGowan, A.J., and Smith, A.B., 2008, Are global Phanerozoic marine diversity curves truly global? A study of the relationship between regional rock records and global Phanerozoic marine diversity: Paleobiology, v. 34, p. 80–103, doi:10.1666/07019.1.

Peters, S.E., and Ausich, W.I., 2008, A sampling-adjusted macroevolutionary history for Ordovician-Early Silurian crinoids: Paleobiology, v. 34, p. 104–116, doi:10.1666/07035.1.

Peters, S.E., 2007, The problem with the Paleozoic: Paleobiology, v. 33, p. 165–181, doi:10.1666/06067.1.

SMITH, A.B., 2007, Marine diversity through the Phanerozoic: problems and prospects: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 164, p. 731–745, doi:10.1144/0016/76492006-184.

Peters, S.E., 2005, Geologic constraints on the macroevolutionary history of marine animals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 102, p. 12326–12331, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502616102.

Flament, N., and Dhungana, S., 2026, The Deep Earth Origin of the Great Unconformity:

Maslov, A.V., 2026, Average chemical composition of sandy and clay rocks of large structural zones of continents of different ages on various discriminant diagrams: Litologiâ i poleznye iskopaemye, p. 3–19.

Husson, J.M., and Peters, S.E., 2026, Shifting carbonate burial between oceanic and continental crust across Earth history: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 677, p. 119810.

Capel, E., Monnet, C., and Cascales-Miñana, B., 2026, Towards an improved assessment of global plant diversity in deep time: further insights from the Palaeozoic fossil record: Historical Biology, v. 38, p. 1272–1282, doi:10.1080/08912963.2025.2568087.

Edmonsond, S., and Dyer, B., 2026, Timing and magnitude of the Lomagundi–Jatuli carbon isotope excursion: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 123, p. e2512767123, doi:10.1073/pnas.2512767123.

Dean, C.D., Chiarenza, A.A., Doser, J.W., Farnsworth, A., Jones, L.A., Lyster, S.J., Outhwaite, C.L., Valdes, P.J., Butler, R.J., and Mannion, P.D., 2025, The structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record in North America: Current Biology, v. 35, p. 1973- 1988.e6, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.025.

Thompson, J.R., Dean, C.D., Ford, M., and Ewin, T.A.M., 2025, Taphonomic controls on a multi‐element marine skeletal fossil record: Palaeontology, v. 68, p. e70008, doi:10.1111/pala.70008.

Segessenman, D.C., and Peters, S.E., 2025, Continental-scale carbonate sedimentation and environmental correlates of the Shuram-Wonoka excursion: Precambrian Research, v. 427, p. 107875, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107875.

Walton, C.R., and Shorttle, O., 2024, Phanerozoic biological reworking of the continental carbonate rock reservoir: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 632, p. 118640, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118640.

Howes, B., Mehra, A., Geyman, E., Wilcots, J., Manzuk, R., Deutsch, C., and Maloof, A., 2024, The where, when, and how of ooid formation: What ooids tell us about ancient seawater chemistry: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 637, p. 118697, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118697.

Evans, S.D., Smith, E.F., Vayda, P., Nelson, L.L., and Xiao, S., 2024, The Ediacara Biota of the Wood Canyon formation: Latest Precambrian macrofossils and sedimentary structures from the southern Great Basin: Global and Planetary Change, v. 241, p. 104547, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104547.

Capel, E., Monnet, C., Cleal, C.J., Xue, J., Servais, T., and Cascales‐Miñana, B., 2023, The effect of geological biases on our perception of early land plant radiation (B. Bomfleur, Ed.): Palaeontology, v. 66, doi:10.1111/pala.12644.

Boulila, S., Peters, S.E., Müller, R.D., Haq, B.U., and Hara, N., 2023, Earth’s interior dynamics drive marine fossil diversity cycles of tens of millions of years: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 120, doi:10.1073/pnas.2221149120.

Sessa, J.A., Fraass, A.J., LeVay, L.J., Jamson, K.M., and Peters, S.E., 2023, The Extending Ocean Drilling Pursuits (eODP) Project: Synthesizing Scientific Ocean Drilling Data: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 24, doi:10.1029/2022gc010655.

Ye, S., and Peters, S.E., 2023, Bedrock geological map predictions for Phanerozoic fossil occurrences: Paleobiology, v. 49, p. 394–413, doi:10.1017/pab.2022.46.

Segessenman, D.C., and Peters, S.E., 2023, Transgression–regression cycles drive correlations in Ediacaran–Cambrian rock and fossil records: Paleobiology, v. 50, p. 150–163, doi:10.1017/pab.2023.31.

Quinn, D.P., Idzikowski, C.R., and Peters, S.E., 2023, Building a multi‐scale, collaborative, and time‐integrated digital crust: The next stage of the Macrostrat data system: Geoscience Data Journal, v. 11, p. 11–26, doi:10.1002/gdj3.189.

Emmings, J.F., Poulton, S.W., Walsh, J., Leeming, K.A., Ross, I., and Peters, S.E., 2022, Pyrite mega-analysis reveals modes of anoxia through geological time: Science Advances, v. 8, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abj5687.

Chen, G., Cheng, Q., Peters, S.E., Spencer, C.J., and Zhao, M., 2022, Feedback between surface and deep processes: Insight from time series analysis of sedimentary record: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 579, p. 117352, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117352.

Loughney, K.M., Badgley, C., Bahadori, A., Holt, W.E., and Rasbury, E.T., 2021, Tectonic influence on Cenozoic mammal richness and sedimentation history of the Basin and Range, western North America: Science Advances, v. 7, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abh4470.

Lipp, A.G. et al., 2021, The composition and weathering of the continents over geologic time: Geochemical Perspectives Letters, p. 21–26, doi:10.7185/geochemlet.2109.

Close, R.A., Benson, R.B.J., Saupe, E.E., Clapham, M.E., and Butler, R.J., 2020, The spatial structure of Phanerozoic marine animal diversity: Science, v. 368, p. 420–424, doi:10.1126/science.aay8309.

Keating-Bitonti, C.R., and Peters, S.E., 2019, Influence of increasing carbonate saturation in Atlantic bottom water during the late Miocene: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 518, p. 134–142, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.006.

Cohen, P.A., Lockwood, R., and Peters, S., 2018, Integrating Macrostrat and Rockd into Undergraduate Earth Science Teaching: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781108681445.

Isson, T.T., and Planavsky, N.J., 2018, Reverse weathering as a long-term stabilizer of marine pH and planetary climate: Nature, v. 560, p. 471–475, doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0408-4.

Peters, S.E., Husson, J.M., and Czaplewski, J., 2018, Macrostrat: A Platform for Geological Data Integration and Deep‐Time Earth Crust Research: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 19, p. 1393–1409, doi:10.1029/2018gc007467.

Zaffos, A., Finnegan, S., and Peters, S.E., 2017, Plate tectonic regulation of global marine animal diversity: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 114, p. 5653–5658, doi:10.1073/pnas.1702297114.

Schott, R., 2017, Rockd: Geology at your fingertips in a mobile world: Bulletin of the Eastern Section of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, v. 67, p. 1–4.

Peters, S.E., and Husson, J.M., 2017, Sediment cycling on continental and oceanic crust: Geology, v. 45, p. 323–326, doi:10.1130/g38861.1.

Nelsen, M.P., DiMichele, W.A., Peters, S.E., and Boyce, C.K., 2016, Delayed fungal evolution did not cause the Paleozoic peak in coal production: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 113, p. 2442–2447, doi:10.1073/pnas.1517943113.

Thomson, T.J., and Droser, M.L., 2015, Swimming reptiles make their mark in the Early Triassic: Delayed ecologic recovery increased the preservation potential of vertebrate swim tracks: Geology, v. 43, p. 215–218, doi:10.1130/g36332.1.

Fraass, A.J., Kelly, D.C., and Peters, S.E., 2015, Macroevolutionary History of the Planktic Foraminifera: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 43, p. 139–166, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-060614-105059.

Rook, D.L., Heim, N.A., and Marcot, J., 2013, Contrasting patterns and connections of rock and biotic diversity in the marine and non-marine fossil records of North America: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 372, p. 123–129, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.006.

Peters, S.E., Kelly, D.C., and Fraass, A.J., 2013, Oceanographic controls on the diversity and extinction of planktonic foraminifera: Nature, v. 493, p. 398–401, doi:10.1038/nature11815.

Peters, S.E., and Gaines, R.R., 2012, Formation of the ‘Great Unconformity’ as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion: Nature, v. 484, p. 363–366, doi:10.1038/nature10969.

Finnegan, S., Peters, S.E., and Fischer, W.W., 2011, Late Ordovician-Early Silurian selective extinction patterns in Laurentia and their relationship to climate change, in Gutiérrez-Marco, J.C., Rábano, I., and Garcia-Bellido, D. eds., Ordovician of the World, Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 14, p. 155–159.

Melott, A.L., and Bambach, R.K., 2011, A ubiquitous ∼62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil biodiversity. I. Documentation: Paleobiology, v. 37, p. 92–112, doi:10.1666/09054.1.

Hannisdal, B., and Peters, S.E., 2011, Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution and Marine Biodiversity: Science, v. 334, p. 1121–1124, doi:10.1126/science.1210695.

Peters, S.E., and Heim, N.A., 2011, Stratigraphic distribution of marine fossils in North America: Geology, v. 39, p. 259–262, doi:10.1130/g31442.1.

Butler, R.J., Benson, R.B.J., Carrano, M.T., Mannion, P.D., and Upchurch, P., 2010, Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the ‘common cause’ hypothesis in the terrestrial realm: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v. 278, p. 1165–1170, doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1754.

Peters, S.E., 2008, Macrostratigraphy and Its Promise for Paleobiology: The Paleontological Society Papers, v. 14, p. 205–231, doi:10.1017/s1089332600001698.

Marx, F.G., 2008, Marine mammals through time: when less is more in studying palaeodiversity: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v. 276, p. 887–892, doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1473.

Peters, S.E., 2008, Environmental determinants of extinction selectivity in the fossil record: Nature, v. 454, p. 626–629, doi:10.1038/nature07032.

Mayhew, P.J., Jenkins, G.B., and Benton, T.G., 2007, A long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v. 275, p. 47–53, doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1302.

Peters, S.E., 2006, Macrostratigraphy of North America: The Journal of Geology, v. 114, p. 391–412, doi:10.1086/504176.

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