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Paul A. Selden is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing notably on paleontology and related fields.

Selden's primary subfields of study include Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. Their work covers a range of topics including Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Fossil Insects in Amber, Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, Subterranean Biodiversity and Taxonomy, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Frequent co-authors in Selden's collaborations are:

  • Dong Ren
  • Matthew R. Downen
  • Jason A. Dunlop
  • Yujing Li
  • Xiangbo Guo

Selden has published multiple papers in prominent venues. Some recent papers include:

  • "Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding 'Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data': Myanmar amber" (2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift)
  • "Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding 'Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data': the importance of private collections" (2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift)
  • "Maternal care in Mid-Cretaceous lagonomegopid spiders" (2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Early Devonian (Lochkovian) eurypterids from the Yunnan province of southwest China" (2022, Geological Magazine)
  • "New occurrence of the Guanshan Lagerstätte (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) in the Kunming area, Yunnan, southwest China, with records of new taxa" (2020, Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology)

Selden frequently publishes in journals such as the Journal of Paleontology, Paläontologische Zeitschrift, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Palaeoworld, and Cretaceous Research.

Best Publications

  • Land animals in the silurian: arachnids and myriapods from shropshire, England.

    Andrew J. Jeram;Paul A. Selden;Dianne Edwards

  • A spider and other arachnids from the Devonian of New York, and reinterpretations of Devonian Araneae

    Paul A. Selden;William A. Shear;Patricia M. Bonamo

  • Evolution of fossil ecosystems

    Paul A. Selden;John R. Nudds

  • Functional morphology of the prosoma of Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer) (Chelicerata: Eurypterida)

    Paul A. Selden

  • Orb-web weaving spiders in the early Cretaceous

    Paul A. Selden

  • Coprolites as evidence for plant-animal interaction in Siluro-Devonian terrestrial ecosystems

    Dianne Edwards;Paul A. Selden;John B. Richardson;Lindsey Axe

  • Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order.

    Paul A. Selden;William A. Shear;Mark D. Sutton

  • Opisthosomal fusion and phylogeny of Palaeozoic Xiphosura

    Lyall I. Anderson;Paul A. Selden

  • Geochemical characteristics of Jurassic coal and significance for the evolution of the environment, Yanqi Basin, China

    Huang Diying;André Nel;Shen Yanbin;Paul A. Selden

  • Epigeic spiders as ecological indicators of conservation value for peat bogs

    Alan G. Scott;Geoff S. Oxford;Paul A. Selden

  • Cretaceous African life captured in amber

    Alexander R Schmidt;Vincent Perrichot;Matthias Svojtka;Ken B. Anderson

  • Crustaceans from bitumen clast in Carboniferous glacial diamictite extend fossil record of copepods.

    Paul A. Selden;Paul A. Selden;Rony Huys;Michael H. Stephenson;Alan P. Heward

  • A Triassic mygalomorph spider from the northern Vosges, France

    Paul A. Selden;Jean-Claude Gall

  • 3 Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems

    William A. Shear;Paul A. Selden

  • A restudy of the Burgess Shale (Cambrian) arthropod Emeraldella brocki and reassessment of its affinities

    Martin Stein;Paul A. Selden

  • Calibrating the chelicerate clock: a paleontological reply to Jeyaprakash and Hoy

    Jason A. Dunlop;Paul A. Selden;Paul A. Selden

  • Palaeophysiology of terrestrialisation in the Chelicerata

    Paul A. Selden;Andrew J. Jeram

  • The development of early terrestrial ecosystems

    Dianne Edwards;Paul A. Selden

  • Tracking a medically important spider: climate change, ecological niche modeling, and the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa).

    Erin E. Saupe;Monica Papes;Paul A. Selden;Paul A. Selden;Richard S. Vetter

  • Centiped legs (Arthropoda, Chilopoda, Scutigeromorpha) from the Silurian and Devonian of Britain and the Devonian of North America

    William A. Shear;Andrew J. Jeram;Paul A. Selden

  • RESISTANCE OF SPIDERS TO CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY EXTINCTION EVENTS

    David Penney;C. Philip Wheater;Paul A. Selden

  • THE OLDEST LINYPHIID SPIDER, IN LOWER CRETACEOUS LEBANESE AMBER (ARANEAE, LINYPHIIDAE, LINYPHIINAE)

    David Penney;Paul A. Selden

  • Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”: Myanmar amber

    Joachim T. Haug;Dany Azar;Andrew Ross;Jacek Szwedo

Frequent Co-Authors

Dong Ren
Dong Ren Capital Normal University
Chungkun Shih
Chungkun Shih National Museum of Natural History
William A. Shear
William A. Shear American Museum of Natural History
Dianne Edwards
Dianne Edwards Cardiff University
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum
Vincent Perrichot
Vincent Perrichot University of Rennes
Christian Klug
Christian Klug University of Zurich
Hans Kerp
Hans Kerp University of Münster
Rodney M. Feldmann
Rodney M. Feldmann Kent State University

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