Paul Copper

Paul Copper (1940 – ), palaeontologist.

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Copper, P. 1964. European Mid-Devonian correlations. Nature 204(4956): 363–364, fig. 1–2.

Copper, P. 1965. Unusual structures in Devonian Atrypidae from England. Palaeontology 8: 358–373, 2 pl.
Copper, P. 1965. A new Middle Devonian atrypid brachiopod from the Eifel. Senckenbergiana lethaea 46: 309–325.

Copper, P. 1966. European Mid-Devonian correlations. Nature 209: 982–984.
Copper, P. 1966. The Atrypa zonata brachiopod group in the Eifel, Germany. Senckenbergiana lethaea 47(1): 1–55, 7 pl.

Copper, P. 1967. Brachidial structures of some Devonian atrypid brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 41(5): 1176–1183, pl. 155–156.
Copper, P. 1967. Morphology and distribution of Kerpina Struve (Devonian Atrypida). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 41: 73–85, pl. 7–8.
Copper, P. 1967. Spinatrypa and Spinatrypina (Devonian Brachiopoda). Palaeontology 10(3): 489–523, pl. 76–83.
Copper, P. 1967. Atrypa (Planatrypa) a new Devonian brachiopod species-group. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen 128(3): 229–243, pl. 21–23.
Copper, P. 1967. Frasnian Atrypidae (Bergisches Land, Germany). Palaeontographica. Abteilung A 126: 116–140, pl. 19–27.

Copper, P. 1973. The type species of Lissatrypa (Silurian Brachiopoda). Journal of Paleontology 47(1): 70–76, pl. 1–2.
Copper, P. 1973. New Siluro-Devonian atrypoid brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 47(3): 484–500, 3 pl.
Copper, P. 1973. Bifida and Kayseria (Brachiopoda) and their affinity. Palaeontology 16(1): 117–138, pl. 4–7.

Copper, P. 1977. The late Silurian genus Atrypoidea. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 99: 10–26, 6 fig.
Copper, P. 1977. Zygospira and some related Ordovician and Silurian atrypoid brachiopods. Palaeontology 20(2): 295–335, pl. 37–40.

Copper, P. 1978. Devonian atrypids from western and northern Canada. Special Paper - Geological Association of Canada 18: 289–331, 7 pl.

Copper, P. 1982. Early Silurian atrypoids from Manitoulin Island and Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. Journal of Paleontology 56(3): 680–702, 3 pl.

Copper, P. & Hou, H.F. 1986. The Early Devonian atrypoid brachiopod Tibetatrypa n. gen. from Xizang (Tibet, China). Journal of Paleontology 60(2): 286–292, 6 fig.
Copper, P. 1986. Evolution of the earliest smooth spire-bearing atrypoids (Brachiopoda: Lissatrypidae, Ordovician–Silurian). Palaeontology 29: 827–866, pl.73–75.
Copper, P. 1986. Filter-feeding and evolution in early spire-bearing brachiopods. In P.R. Racheboeuf & C.C. Emig, eds., Les Brachiopodes fossiles et actuels. Biostratigraphie du Paléozoïque 4: 219–230.

Copper, P., Hünicken, M.A. & Benedetto, J.L. 1988.The Silurian brachiopod Australina from the Malvinokaffric faunal province. Journal of Paleontology 62(4): 531–538.

Copper, P. & Chen, Y.R. 1995. Invertina, a new Middle Devonian atrypid brachiopod genus from South China. Journal of Paleontology 69(2): 251–256.
Copper, P. 1995. Five new genera of Late Ordovician–early Silurian brachiopods from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada. Journal of Paleontology 69(5): 846–862.

Copper, P. & Gourvennec, R. 1996. Evolution of the spire-bearing brachiopods (Ordovician–Jurassic). In Paul Copper & J. Jin, eds., Brachiopods: Proceedings of the Third International Brachiopod Congress,Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 2–5 September 1995. A.A. Balkema. Rotterdam. p. 81–88.
Copper, P. 1996. Davidsonia and Rugodavidsonia (new genus), cryptic Devonian atrypid brachiopods from Europe and South China. Journal of Paleontology 70(4): 588–602.
Copper, P. 1996. New and revised genera of Wenlock-Ludlow atrypids (Silurian Brachiopoda) from Gotland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Journal of Paleontology 70(6): 913–923.

Copper, P. 2001. Glassia Davidson, 1881 (Brachiopoda): proposed designation of G. elongata Davidson, 1881 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58(4): 1–3.