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Roger A. Cooper

Roger A. Cooper

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
6963
World Ranking
7675
National Ranking
46

Overview

Roger A. Cooper is affiliated with GNS Science in New Zealand and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including:

  • Paleontology
  • Geophysics
  • Oceanography

Cooper's research covers a range of main topics such as:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

The scientist has published in several academic venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Paleobiology

Notable recent papers include:

  • Evolution of the East Gondwana convergent margin in Antarctica, southern Australia and New Zealand from the Neoproterozoic to latest Devonian (2021), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Ephemeral species in the fossil record? Synchronous coupling of macroevolutionary dynamics in mid-Paleozoic zooplankton (2020), published in Paleobiology

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • R. A. Glen
  • James S. Crampton
  • Michael Foote
  • Peter M. Sadler

Best Publications

  • The Cambrian Period

    Shanchi Peng;Loren E. Babcock;Per Ahlberg

  • Stratigraphic framework and time slices

    Barry D Webby;Roger A Cooper;Stig M Bergström;Florentin Paris

  • Reconnaissance sandstone geochemistry, provenance, and tectonic setting of the lower Paleozoic terranes of the West Coast and Nelson, New Zealand

    B. P. Roser;R. A. Cooper;S. Nathan;A. J. Tulloch

  • The Ordovician Period

    R.A. Cooper;P.M. Sadler

  • The New Zealand biota: Historical background and new research

    Roger A. Cooper;Philip R. Millener

  • Global Stratotype Section and Point for base of the Ordovician System

    R. A. Cooper;G. S. Nowlan;S. H. Williams

  • The Silurian Period

    M. J. Melchin;R. A. Cooper;P. M. Sadler

  • The Oligocene bottleneck and New Zealand biota: genetic record of a past environmental crisis

    Alan Cooper;Roger A. Cooper

  • Estimating the Rock Volume Bias in Paleobiodiversity Studies

    James S. Crampton;Alan G. Beu;Roger A. Cooper;Craig M. Jones

  • The Ordovician graptolite sequence of Australasia

    A.H.M. Vandenberg;R.A. Cooper

  • Rise and fall of species occupancy in Cenozoic fossil mollusks.

    Michael Foote;James S. Crampton;Alan G. Beu;Bruce A. Marshall

  • The Ordovician graptolites of Spitsbergen

    R A Cooper;R A Fortey

  • Early Paleozoic terranes of New Zealand

    R. A. Cooper

  • Early Palaeozoic terranes in New Zealand and their relationship to the Lachlan Fold Belt

    R.A Cooper;A.J Tulloch

  • High-resolution, early Paleozoic (Ordovician-Silurian) time scales

    Peter M. Sadler;Roger A. Cooper;Michael Melchin

  • Latitudinal and depth zonation of early Ordovician graptolites

    Roger A. Cooper;Richard A. Fortey;Kristina Lindholm

  • Completeness of the fossil record: Estimating losses due to small body size

    Roger A. Cooper;Phillip A. Maxwell;James S. Crampton;Alan G. Beu

  • New Zealand Geological Timescale NZGT 2015/1

    JI Raine;AG Beu;AF Boyes;HJ Campbell

  • Graptoloid evolutionary rates track Ordovician–Silurian global climate change

    Roger A. Cooper;Peter M. Sadler;Axel Munnecke;James S. Crampton

  • Greenhouse−icehouse transition in the Late Ordovician marks a step change in extinction regime in the marine plankton

    James S. Crampton;James S. Crampton;Roger A. Cooper;Peter M. Sadler;Michael Foote

  • On the bidirectional relationship between geographic range and taxonomic duration

    Michael Foote;James S. Crampton;Alan G. Beu;Roger A. Cooper

  • Ecostratigraphy, zonation and global correlation of earliest Ordovician planktic graptolites

    Roger A. Cooper

  • A precise worldwide correlation of early Ordovician graptolite sequences

    R. A. Cooper;K. Lindholm

  • Palaeoecology of the Graptoloidea

    R. A. Cooper;S. Rigby;David Loydell;Denis E. B. Bates

  • The Cambrian arc complex of the Takaka Terrane, New Zealand: An integrated stratigraphical, paleontological and geochemical approach

    Carsten Münker;Roger Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

James S. Crampton
James S. Crampton Victoria University of Wellington
Peter M. Sadler
Peter M. Sadler University of California, Riverside
Michael J. Melchin
Michael J. Melchin St. Francis Xavier University
Christopher J. Hollis
Christopher J. Hollis Victoria University of Wellington
Loren E. Babcock
Loren E. Babcock The Ohio State University
Stig M. Bergström
Stig M. Bergström The Ohio State University
Carsten Münker
Carsten Münker University of Cologne
Geoffrey Playford
Geoffrey Playford University of Queensland
Richard A. Fortey
Richard A. Fortey Natural History Museum
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum

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