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Broadhead, T.W. and C.D. Sumrall. 2003. Heterochrony and paedomorphic development of Sprinkleocystis ektopios, new genus and species (Rhombifera, Glyptocystida) from the Middle Ordovician (Carodoc) of Tennessee. Journal of Paleontology, 77(1):113–120.

Brochu, C.A., H.N. Bryant, J.M. Theodor, M.A. O'Leary, J. Adrain, and C.D. Sumrall. 2001. Modern phylogenetics in paleontology: Comments on Vermeij. Paleobiology, 27(1):174–176.

Brochu, C.A, and C.D. Sumrall. 2001. Phylogenetic nomenclature and paleontology. Journal of Paleontology, 75(4):754–757.

Lundin, R.F. and C.D. Sumrall. 1999. Ostracodes from the Naco Formation (Upper Carboniferous) at the Kohl Ranch locality, central Arizona. Journal of Paleontology, 73(3):454–460.

Storrs, G.W. and C.D. Sumrall. 1999. Museum file 30: The geological collections at Cincinnati Museum Center, Ohio. Geology Today, 15(3):117–120.

Sumrall, C.D. 1992. Spiraclavus nacoensis, a new clavate agelacrinitid edrioasteroid from central Arizona. Journal of Paleontology, 66(1):90–98.

Sumrall, C.D. 1993. Thecal designs in isorophinid edrioasteroids. Lethaia, 26(4):289–302.

Sumrall, C.D. 1996. Late Paleozoic edrioasteroids (Echinodermata) from the North American midcontinent. Journal of Paleontology, 70(6):969–985.

Sumrall, C.D. 1997. The role of fossils in the phylogenetic reconstruction of Echinodermata, p. 267–288. In J. A. Waters and C. G. Maples (eds.) Paleontological Society Papers Volume 3, Geobiology of Echinoderms. The Paleontological Society, Pittsburgh.

Sumrall, C.D. 1998. Fossils of Ohio (Book Review). Geotimes, 43(11):51.

Sumrall, C.D. 2000. The biological implications of an edrioasteroid attached to a pleurocystitid rhombiferan. Journal of Paleontology, 74(1):67–71.

Sumrall, C.D. 2001. Paleoecology of two new edrioasteroids from a Mississippian hardground in Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology, 75(1):136–146.

Sumrall, C.D. 2002. A new species of Anartiocystis (Callocystitida Glyptocystida) from the Brassfield Formation of central Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology, 76(5):918–920.

Sumrall, C.D. and A.L. Bowsher. 1996. Giganticlavus, a new genus of Pennsylvanian edrioasteroid from North America. Journal of Paleontology, 70(6):986–993.

Sumrall, C.D. and C.E. Brett. 2002. A revision of Novacystis hawkesi, (Lower Silurian: Glyptocystitida, Echinodermata) and the phylogeny of early callocystitids. Journal of Paleontology, 76(4):733–740.

Sumrall, C.D., C.E. Brett, P.T. Work, and D.L. Meyer. 1999. Taphonomy and paleoecology of an edrioasteroid encrusted hardground in the lower Bellevue Formation at Maysville, Kentucky. p. 123–131. In T.J. Algeo and C.E. Brett (eds.) Sequence, Cycle & Event Stratigraphy of Upper Ordovician & Silurian Strata of the Cincinnati Arch Region. Kentucky Geological Survey Guidebook 1, Series XII, 2001).

Sumrall, C.D. and C.A. Brochu. Resolution, sampling, higher taxa and assumptions in stratocladistic analysis—comments on Bodenbender and Fisher. Journal of Paleontology.

Sumrall, C.D., C.A. Brochu, and J.W. Merck Jr. 2001. Global lability, regional resolution, and majority rule consensus bias. In A.B. Smith and L.E. Park (eds.), Beyond phylogenetic reconstruction: Tree–based approaches to paleontological questions. Special issue of Paleobiology, 27(2):254–261.

Sumrall, C.D. and D.T. Carlson. 2000. Suture modification by pectinirhomb growth in Lepadocystis decorus, a new species of callocystitid glyptocystitid rhombiferan (Echinodermata) from Illinois. Journal of Paleontology, 74(3):487–491.

Sumrall, C.D., J. Garbisch, and J.P. Pope. 2000. The systematics of postibullinid edrioasteroids. Journal of Paleontology, 74(1):72–83.

Sumrall, C.D. and R.L. Parsley. 2003. An interpretation of functional morphology in discocystinid edrioasteroids based on isolated plate morphology and surface stereom. Palaeontology, 46(1)1–26.

Sumrall, C.D. and G.A. Schumacher. 2002. Cheirocystis fultonensis, a new glyptocystitid rhombiferan from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch. Journal of Paleontology, 76(5):843–851.

Sumrall, C.D. and J. Sprinkle. 1995. Plating and pectinirhombs of the Ordovician rhombiferan Plethoschisma. Journal of Paleontology, 69(4):772–778.

Sumrall, C.D. and J. Sprinkle. 1998. Phylogenetic analysis of Echinodermata based on primitive fossil taxa. p. 81–87. In R. Mooi and M. Tilford (eds.) Echinoderms–San Francisco. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Sumrall, C.D. and J. Sprinkle. 1999. Ponticulocarpus, a new cornute–grade stylophoran from the Middle Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah. Journal of Paleontology, 73(5):886–891.

Sumrall, C.D. and J. Sprinkle. 1999. Early ontogeny of the glyptocystitid rhombiferan Lepadocystis moorei. p. 409–414. In M.D.C. Carnevali and F. Bonasoro (eds.) Echinoderm Research 1998. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Sumrall, C.D., J. Sprinkle, and T.E. Guensburg. 1997. Systematics and paleoecology of Late Cambrian echinoderms from the western United States. Journal of Paleontology, 71(6):1091–1109.

Sumrall, C.D., J. Sprinkle, and T.E. Guensburg. 2001. Comparison of flattened blastozoan Echinoderms: insights from the new Early Ordovician eocrinoid Haimacystis rozhnovi. Journal of Paleontology, 75(5):985–992.

Sumrall, C.D., P.T. Work, D.L. Meyer, G.W. Storrs, and E. Merritt. 2000. Notice of transfer of The University of Cincinnati paleontological collections to Cincinnati Museum Center. Journal of Paleontology, 74(6):1198.

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Colin Sumrall

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
1412 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
Phone: (865) 974-0400
Email: csumrall@utk.edu


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