OSU Distinguished Professor

B.A., Harvard U 1948, M.S. 1949, Ph.D., 1953

E-Mail: boucota@bcc.orst.edu, Phone: 541-737-5366, FAX: 541-737-0501, Address: Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-2914.

I teach Paleobiology (Z 427/Z 527) and Biogeography (Z 581/Z 481) and share teaching in Evolution (BI 445/Bi 545).

My research areas in marine benthic community paleoecology; historical biogeography; behavioral evidence from the fossil record; integration of the evolutionary evidence from the fossil record; ecology; biogeography and taxonomy of Paleozoic gastropods and brachiopods.

See also, further description of my work and a more extended list of references in: OSU Research database.

Representative Recent Publications:

1990, Evolutionary Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution: Elsevier, 725 pp.

1994, The ontogenies of Prorensselaeria and Nanothyris (Brachiopoda: Devonian): Implications for the phylogeny of the terebratuloids: Journal of Paleontology, 68:1002-1025.

1996, (with H.E. Kaiser) Specialization and Extinction: Cope's Law Revisited: Historical Biology 11:247-265.

2001.  (with Jane Gray) A critique of Phanerozoic climatic models involving changes in the CO2 content of the atmosphere.  Earth-Science Reviews 1216: (in press)