Links
Links, from the
Geological Society of America, website
searched January
2020 for items containing the
phrase "Gray Fossil Site". These do
not come up readily on Google searches:
2011 Winn A. Ketchum USING GIS TO
ANALYZE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND TAPHONOMIC
PROCESSES OF THE EXTINCT TAPIR TAPIRUS
POLKENSIS AT THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE, GRAY,
TENNESSEE
2006 Steven C. Wallace Paleontology,
Paleoecology, and Paleoenvironments of the
Gray Fossil Site, Gray, Tennessee
2006 Blaine W. Schuber ON THE
IDENTIFICATION OF FOSSIL SALAMANDERS AND
SNAKES: A CASE STUDY FROM THE MIO-PLIOCENE
GRAY FOSSIL SITE OF TENNESSEE
2018 Joshua Xavier Samuels NEW MAMMALS
FROM THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE IN TENNESSEE;
PALEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS AND A REFINED
AGE ESTIMATE FOR THE SITE
2011 Aaron R. Abernethy FIRST RECORD
OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN A FOSSIL TAPIR (T.
POLKENSIS) FROM THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE,
NORTHEASTERN TN, USA
2006 Hope A. Sheets A PALEOECOLOGY
COMPARISON STUDY OF ANURANS FROM THE GRAY
FOSSIL SITE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, TN, AND THE
PIPE CREEK SINKHOLE, GRANT COUNTY, IN
2006 Larisa R. Grawe
DeSantis EVIDENCE OF A
FOREST REFUGIUM AT A NEOGENE FOSSIL SITE,
GRAY, TN
2006 Michael J. Whitelaw STRATIGRAPHY
AND PALYNOLOGY OF THE MIO-PLIOCENE GRAY
FOSSIL SITE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, EAST
TENNESSEE
2001 S. Christopher Whisner
THE POSSIBLE
LINK BETWEEN EAST-WEST TRENDING FAULTS IN THE
VALLEY AND RIDGE PROVINCE OF EASTERN
TENNESSEE AND THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE
2005 Larisa R. DeSantis ANOMALOUS
PALEOECOLOGY OF A NEOGENE FOSSIL SITE, GRAY,
TN, USA: UTILIZING STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSES TO
INTERPRET CANOPY DENSITY
2018 Sarah W. Keenan RECONSTRUCTING
NUTRIENT HOTSPOTS IN TIME: INSIGHTS FROM THE
GRAY FOSSIL SITE, TENNESSEE
2010 Diana Ochoa-Lozano FLORAL
COMPOSITION AND PALEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
OF A LATE NEOGENE FLORA FROM THE GRAY FOSSIL
SITE, NORTHEASTERN TN: RESULTS FROM POLLEN
ANALYSIS
2018 R. Davis Gunnin A NEW GENUS OF
SALAMANDER (PLETHODONTIDAE, DESMOGNATHINI)
FROM THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE OF TENNESSEE
2008 Kate J. McGinnis Independent
Sedimentological Studies on Fluvial and
Lacustrine Sediments from the Gray Fossil
Site Sinkhole, Northeastern TN
2018 Chris Widga MASTODONS,
VERTEBRATE TAPHONOMY AND NUTRIENT CYCLING AT
THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE
2011 Michael J. Whitelaw THE GRAY
FOSSIL SITE, NORTHEASTERN TENNESSEE: MULTIPLE
DEPOCENTERS, MULTIPLE ASSEMBLAGE AGES
2018 Michael L. Jones A
SEDIMENTOLOGICAL CASE FOR ALLIGATOR
GASTROLITHS AT THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE, EAST
TENNESSEE
2018 Julia A. Schap POPULATION
MESOWEAR ANALYSIS OFTAPIRUS
POLKENSISFROM THE GRAY
FOSSIL SITE, TENNESSEE
2018 Emily M.B. Simpson ESTIMATING
TEMPERATURE AT GRAY FOSSIL SITE FROM THE
PALEOBOTANICAL RECORD
2019 Elizabeth J. Hermsen PASSIONFLOWER-LIKE
SEEDS (PASSIFLOROIDESPERMA) FROM THE
PLIOCENE GRAY FOSSIL SITE OF EASTERN NORTH
AMERICA AND THEIR BIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS
2008 Mohamed K. Zobaa SITE, EASTERN
TENNESSEE: ITS ROLE IN UNDERSTANDING THE
BASIN FILL HISTORYPALYNOLOGY OF THE GRAY
FOSSIL
2017 Michael L. Jones A
SEDIMENTOLOGICAL CASE FOR ORNITHOGENIC
GASTROLITHS AT THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE, EAST
TENNESSEE
2019 William E. Odom III AN INDEPENDENT
CONSTRAINT ON THE AGE OF THE GRAY FOSSIL
SITE, TN USING COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE BURIAL
DATING ON A 35-M-DEEP CORE
2005 Michael J. Whitelaw MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY
OF THE MIO-PLIOCENE GRAY FOSSIL SITE,
WASHINGTON COUNTY, EAST TENNESSEE
2007 Kevin L. Mickus HIGH
RESOLUTION GRAVITY STUDY OF THE GRAY FOSSIL
SITE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
2008 Aaron Jacob Shunk Multiple Proxy
Evidence from Paleosols for Abrupt Late
Neogene Warming at the Gray Fossil Site,
Northeastern TN, USA
2003 Aaron J. Shunk EVIDENCE FOR
ABRUPT LATEST MIOCENE-EARLIEST PLIOCENE
CLIMATE SHIFT RECORDED BY SINKHOLE PALEOLAKE
AT GRAY FOSSIL SITE, NORTHEASTERN TENNESSEE
2008 Cynthia M. Liutkus Sedimentologic
and Stratigraphic Investigations into the
Origin and Fill History of a Tertiary
Sinkhole Lake: Gray Fossil Site, TN
2006 Steven C. Wallace A NEW
POPULATION OFTELEOCERAS(MAMMALIA:
RHINOCEROTIDAE) FROM THE SOUTHERN
APPALACHIANS (GRAY, TENNESSEE)
2003 Ervan G. Garrison GEOARCHAEOLOGY
& PALEONTOLOGY OF GRAY'S REEF NATIONAL
MARINE SANCTUARY
2011 Sandy Ebersole Significant
Fossil Sites in the Southeast: Why They Are
Important and How They Contribute to Our
Knowledge of the Fossil Record II
2013 Shannon A. MahanAN OSL
GEOCHRONOLOGIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE ZIEGLER
RESERVOIR FOSSIL SITE, SNOWMASS VILLAGE,
COLORADO
2002 Mary G. Chapman INVESTIGATING
CAUSES OF WIDESPREAD WILDFIRE AND ASSOCIATED
DINOSAUR DEATHS IN THE UPPER TRIASSIC SNYDER
QUARRY SITE OF NEW MEXICO: PRELIMINARY
RESULTS
2006 A.K. Anderson TAPHONOMY AND
PALEOENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE RED CANYON
RANCH DINOSAUR SITE, UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON
FORMATION, SHELL, WYOMING
2007 Randolph P. Steinen AN EXPLORATION
OF THE OCCURRENCE AND PRESERVATION OFEUBRONTES, THE STATE
FOSSIL, WITHIN JURASSIC EAST BERLIN FORMATION
LACUSTRINE CYCLES - CONNECTICUT GEOLOGICAL
AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY (CGNHS) MAPPING
DURING ACTIVE EXCAVATION
2011 Matthew L. Gibson AGING THE
FOSSIL DWARF TAPIR, TAPIRUS POLKENSIS, BASED
ON COMPARISONS TO EXTANT TAPIR DENTAL
ERUPTION AND WEAR
2011 Daniel J. Glessing SURFICIAL
GEOLOGY OF A LATE PLEISTOCENE
PROBOSCIDEAN-TUSK SITE NEAR SHESEQUIN,
BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, WITH REFERENCE
TO SOME MAMMOTH/MASTODON OCCURRENCES IN
NEARBY AREAS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK
2005 David R. Schwimmer Exceptional
Biotas and Fossil Preservation in the
Southeast
2010 David A. Franzi A CHAMPLAIN
SEA PHOCID SEAL FOSSIL FROM THE CHAMPLAIN
LOWLAND AT PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK
2010 Karanina E. ScheelA
SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF AN
UNCONSOLIDATED AIR-FALL ASH BED AT ASHFALL
FOSSIL BEDS, NEBRASKA
2018 Selina R. Cole D12.
Paleontological Potpourri
2006 Richard C. Hulbert Jr PHYLOGENETIC
RELATIONSHIPS AND MORPHOLOGY OFTAPIRUS
POLKENSIS(OLSEN) FROM
THE LATE NEOGENE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED
STATES
2018 D12.
Paleontological Potpourri (Posters)
2008 Bonnie L. Parks CONSTRUCTION
OF A SCIENCE CURRICULUM FOR THE NATURAL
HISTORY MUSEUM
2018 Rebecca L. Freeman Taphonomy: The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2006 Heather L. Petcovic Sigma Gamma
Epsilon Student Research (Posters)
2006 Robert A. Bahn OCCURRENCE OF
THE GIANT ICE AGE BISON,BISON
LATIFRONS, FROM LATE
PLEISTOCENE COASTAL GEORGIA
2005 Tom Olszewski Paleontology
(Posters) I
2019 Matthew E. Clapham D17.
Paleontology: Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
(Posters)
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Previous
links
Gray Fossil Site
Museum, opened Aug 31, 2007; Splash
page https://visithandson.org/
"Official"
version of this site, placed on the Tennessee
State server February 26, 2001. Originally a
"mirror" of this one, but with
official State links, it has been radically
restructured multiple times. The one here at Graysite1.net
now has much more information. https://www.tn.gov/environment/program-areas/tennessee-geological-survey/geology-redirect/gray-fossil-site-in-tennessee.html
Local Knoxville paper, ran
series of articles, June and July, 2000. Use
search button on left, for "fossil"
or "Gray Site." Articles kept
online for 30 days. http://www.knoxnews.com/
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/, search for "fossil" to
get recent articles.
2013 status from Johnson
City Press; good photo gallery.
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/article/113529/red-panda-beaver-horse-camel-specimens-all-part-of-fossil-site-dig-season
Photos, early
activities, newsletter: http://s261953682.onlinehome.us/graysitefriends/index.html
Information and
conservation status of living tapirs.
http://www.tapirs.org/
Modern tapirs,
information on all aspects of these animals,
and their endangered status worldwide. http://www.tapirback.com/tapirgal/
Tapir morphology
and evolution. http://digimorph.org/resources/tapirs.phtml
Stable isotope
geochemistry and Teleoceras
habitat. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/11/001120073119.htm
University of Michigan's
Animal Diversity Website:
Tapirs; details of skull for
the Brazilian Tapir includes rotating view;
link "technical characters" shows
enlargement.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/perissodactyla/tapiridae.html
Rhinos; http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/perissodactyla/rhinocerotidae.html
Mustelids; (weasels, otters,
skunks, badgers,...) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/carnivora/mustelidae.html
Thomas Farm,
Florida: The most significant
vertebrate site in eastern North America,
probable sinkhole. Early Miocene horses,
reptiles, bats, many others. Discovered 1931.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fossilhall/FLPaleo/ThomasFarm/ThomasFarm.htm
Possible analogous feature,
the Mammoth Site, near Hot
Springs, South Dakota: http://www.mammothsite.com/. Geological explanation: http://www.mammothsite.com/geology/
Fossil preparation
and conservation. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/resources/prep.htm