David R. Schwimmer Recent Publications:

• Schwimmer, D.R., (2006) Megalocoelacanthus dobiei:  morphological, range, and ecological description of the youngest fossil coelacanth. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26 (Supplement to 3):  122A.
• Schwimmer, D. R. and Montante W. M., (In Press), Exceptional Fossil Preservation in the Conasauga Formation, Middle Cambrian, Northwestern Georgia. Palaios, vol. 49: 7pl.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (2006). Paleontology of the Coastal Plain Province. New Georgia Encyclopedia, http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=/ScienceMedicine/EarthSciences/Paleontology&id=h-3166.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (2006). Review of Scott, E. C., (2004). Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. American Paleontologist, vol. 14(1): 18-19.
• Carr, T. D., Williamson, T. E. and Schwimmer D. R., (2005). A new genus and species of tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous (middle) Campanian Demopolis Formation of Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 25(1): 116-140.
• Schwimmer, D. R., Bingham, P.S. and Knight, T., (2005). An Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) nonmarine deposit in eastern USA - with fossil feathers. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 25 (Supplement to 3): 112A.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (2005). Exceptional Preservation in nonexceptional conditions: Conasauga Formation, Middle Cambrian, western Georgia. Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Meeting Geological Society of America, vol. 37 (2): 3.
• Montante, W. M. and Schwimmer, D. R., (2005). Brachiopods of the Conasauga Formation, Middle Cambrian of Northwestern Georgia, Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Meeting Geological Society of America, vol. 37 (2): 12.
• Knight, T. and Schwimmer, D. R., (2005). Anatomy of the skull and braincase of a new Deinosuchus rugosus specimen from the Blufftown Formation, Russell County, Alabama. Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Meeting Geological Society of America, vol. 37 (2): 12.
• Kiernan, C.R., and Schwimmer, D. R., (2004). A velociraptorine tooth from Alabama and its paleogeographic implications. The Mosasaur, vol. 7: 89-93.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (2004). Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of the eastern Gulf Coast, and their relationships with Atlantic Coast taxa. Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern/Northeastern Meeting Geological Society of America, vol. 36(2): 117.
• Schwimmer, D. R., and Williams, G. D. III, (2003). New fossil of the largest known coelacanth, from the Late Cretaceous of Southeastern USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 23 (Supplement to 3): 95A.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (2003). Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of eastern North America - how and when did they cross the Western Interior Seaway? Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Meeting Geological Society of America, vol. 35(2): 17.
• Schwimmer, D.R. and Montante, W. M., (2002). Exceptional fossil preservation in the Conasauga Formation, Middle Cambrian of Western Georgia. Abstracts with Programs, National Meeting Geological Society of America, vol. 34(6): 81.
• Schwimmer, D.R., (2002). King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana: 220 p.
• Schwimmer, D. R., Hooks, G. E., III, and Johnson, B., (2002). Revised taxonomy, age, and geographic range of the large lamniform shark Cretodus semiplicatus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 22, no. 3: 704-707.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (2000). The Conasauga Formation in Georgia as a Middle Cambrian Lagerstätte: GSA Abstracts with Programs, vol. 32, no. 2: A-72.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (1999). Creation Science logic and rhetoric, and some responses: in W.L. Manger, (ed.) The Evolution-Creation Controversy II: Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Geological Education. The Paleontology Society Papers, vol. 5: 105-118.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (1999). On the size of the giant crocodylian Deinosuchus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol.19(3A): 76A.
• Hooks, G. E.,  Schwimmer, D.R, and Williams, G. D., (1999). Synonymy of the pycnodont Phacodus punctatus Dixon, 1850, and its occurrence in the Late Cretaceous of the southeastern United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 19(3): 588-590.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (1999). Global Warming: Facts, Myths and Politics. Fernbank Museum Magazine, vol. 24(2): 10-15.
• Schwimmer, D. R., Stewart, J.D., and Williams, G. D., (1997). Scavenging by sharks of the genus Squalicorax in the late Cretaceous of North America: Palaios, vol. 12(1): 71-83. 
• Schwimmer, D. R., Stewart, J. D., and Williams, G. D., (1997). Xiphactinus vetus and the distribution of Xiphactinus species in the eastern United States: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 17(3): 610-615.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (1997). Late Cretaceous dinosaurs in eastern USA: a taphonomic and biogeographic model of occurrences. Dinofest International Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia: 203-211.
• Schwimmer, D. R., and Williams, G. D., (1996). New Specimens of Deinosuchus rugosus, and further insights into chelonivory by Late Cretaceous eusuchian crocodiles. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 16(Supplement to 3): 64A.
• Schwimmer, D. R., (1995). Vertebrate teeth as Biostratigraphic range-zone fossils in the Upper Cretaceous of the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains. Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Meeting Geological Society of America, vol. 27(2):  86.
• Schwimmer, D. R. and Frazier, W. J., (1994). Comment on "Lake-sediment record of late Holocene hurricane activities from coastal Alabama." Geology, vol. 22(3): 285.
• Schwimmer, D. R. and Williams,  G. D., (1994). Vertebrate-based Upper Cretaceous Biostratigraphy for the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 14 (supplement to 3): 45A.
• Schwimmer, D. R., Stewart, J.D., and Williams, G. D., (1994). Giant fossil coelacanths from the Late Cretaceous of eastern USA. Geology, vol. 22: 503-506.
• Schwimmer, D. R., Williams,G. D., Dobie, J. L., and  Siesser, W. G., (1993). Upper Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Blufftown Formation, western Georgia and eastern Alabama. Journal of Paleontology, vol. 67(2): 288-296.

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