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Overview

Spencer G. Lucas is affiliated with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in the United States. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on paleontology. They have authored 294 publications in this field, including significant contributions to subfields such as Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered in their work encompass Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Spencer G. Lucas has published research papers in various academic journals and venues. Notable papers include:

  • The Late Triassic Extinction at the Norian/Rhaetian boundary: Biotic evidence and geochemical signature (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • The Artinskian Warming Event: an Euramerican change in climate and the terrestrial biota during the early Permian (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Uplands, lowlands, and climate: Taphonomic megabiases and the apparent rise of a xeromorphic, drought-tolerant flora during the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition (2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • The environmental implications of upper Paleozoic plant-fossil assemblages with mixtures of wetland and drought-tolerant taxa in tropical Pangea (2021, Geobios)
  • Transition from Late Jurassic rifting to middle Cretaceous dynamic foreland, southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico (2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Spencer G. Lucas include Adrian P. Hunt, Ashu Khosla, William A. DiMichele, Omkar Verma, and Hendrik Klein.

Key venues where they have published regularly include the Proceedings volume of the annual spring meeting, Geological Society London Special Publications, Historical Biology, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and New Mexico Geology.

Their book publications primarily appear through Springer Nature, Columbia University Press, and Dialética eBooks. Notable books include "Microbiota from the Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeocene Boundary Transition in the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India" (2023), "Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Eggs and Eggshells of Peninsular India" (2020), "Dinosaurs" (2022), and "UFMG Pesquisa Egressos: volume II" (2024).

Best Publications

  • Assessing the record and causes of Late Triassic extinctions

    L.H. Tanner;S.G. Lucas;M.G. Chapman

  • Tetrapod Ichnofacies: A New Paradigm

    Adrian P. Hunt;Spencer G. Lucas

  • Late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic continental biostratigraphy — Links to the Standard Global Chronostratigraphic Scale

    Joerg W. Schneider;Joerg W. Schneider;Spencer G. Lucas;Frank Scholze;Sebastian Voigt

  • Adelobasileus from the Upper Triassic of West Texas: the oldest mammal

    Spencer G. Lucas;Zhexi Luo

  • Global Permian tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology

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  • Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and C-isotopes of the Permian–Triassic non-marine sequence at Dalongkou and Lucaogou, Xinjiang Province, China

    Ian Metcalfe;C B Foster;S.A. Afonin;Robert Nicoll

  • Late Triassic dinosaursfrom the western United States

    Adrian P. Hunt;Spencer G. Lucas;Andrew B. Heckert;Robert M. Sullivan

  • A new aetosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of Texas and the phylogeny of aetosaurs

    Andrew B. Heckert;Spencer G. Lucas

  • Alamosaurus and the sauropod hiatus in the Cretaceous of the North American Western Interior

    Spencer G. Lucas;Adrian P. Hunt

  • Triassic ammonoid biostratigraphy: an overview

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  • Palaeoecology of an Early Permian playa lake trace fossil assemblage from Castle Peak, Texas, USA

    Nicholas J. Minter;Karl Krainer;Spencer G. Lucas;Simon J. Braddy

  • THE KIRTLANDIAN LAND-VERTEBRATE "AGE"—FAUNAL COMPOSITION, TEMPORAL POSITION AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION IN THE NONMARINE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

    Robert M. Sullivan;Spencer G. Lucas

  • The Chuska erg: Paleogeomorphic and paleoclimatic implications of an Oligocene sand sea on the Colorado Plateau

    Steven M. Cather;Sean D. Connell;Richard M. Chamberlin;William C. McIntosh

  • Selachians from the Greenhorn Cyclothem ("Middle" Cretaceous: Cenomanian-Turonian), Black Mesa, Arizona, and the Paleogeographic Distribution of Late Cretaceous Selachians

    Thomas E. Williamson;James I. Kirkland;Spencer G. Lucas

  • Tetrapod footprints – their use in biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Triassic

    Hendrik Klein;Spencer G. Lucas

  • Tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Triassic-Jurassic transition on the southern Colorado Plateau, USA

    Spencer G. Lucas;Lawrence H. Tanner

  • The Late Triassic timescale: Age and correlation of the Carnian–Norian boundary

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  • A thin-shelled reptile from the Late Triassic of North America and the origin of the turtle shell

    Walter G Joyce;Spencer G Lucas;Torsten M Scheyer;Andrew B Heckert

  • Non-Marine Permian Biostratigraphy and Biochronology

    Spencer G. Lucas;Giuseppe Cassinis;Joerg W. Schneider

  • The nonmarine Triassic–Jurassic boundary in the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America

    S.G. Lucas;L.H. Tanner

  • Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronology and correlation of the German Buntsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation

    Spencer G. Lucas;Rainer R. Schoch

  • Timing and magnitude of tetrapod extinctions across the Permo-Triassic boundary

    Spencer G. Lucas

  • SELACHIANS FROM THE GREENHORN CYCLOTHEM ("MIDDLE" CRETACEOUS: CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN),

    Thomas E. Williamson;James I. Kirkland;Spencer G. Lucas

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Karl Krainer
Karl Krainer University of Innsbruck
Martin G. Lockley
Martin G. Lockley University of Colorado Denver
Guillermo E. Alvarado
Guillermo E. Alvarado University of Costa Rica
Howard J. Falcon-Lang
Howard J. Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway University of London
Hans Kerp
Hans Kerp University of Münster
Daniel Vachard
Daniel Vachard University of Lille
Cindy V. Looy
Cindy V. Looy University of California, Berkeley
John W. Geissman
John W. Geissman The University of Texas at Dallas
Shu-zhong Shen
Shu-zhong Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences

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