Resources: Bibliography of St. Catherines and Georgia Sea Turtles

Anderson, S. 1981. The raccoon (Procyon lotor) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, U.S.A.: nesting sea turtles and foraging raccoon. The American Museum Novitiates, 2713: 1-9.

Billes, A. & J. Fretey , 2001. Nest Morphology in the Leatherback Turtle. Marine Turtle Newsletter 92:7-9.

Bishop, G. A., R. H. Hayes, B. K. Meyer, H. E. Rollins, F. k J. Rich, D. H. Thomas, and R. K. Vance . . 2007. Transgressive barrier island features of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Fieldtrips, 2007 Annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, p. x-xx.

Bishop, G. A. and N. A. Marsh. 1994. The 1992 St. Catherines Sea Turtle Program: Nest validation by beach stratigraphy, p. 22-24, In Schroeder, B. A. and B. E. Witherington (compilers), Proceedings of the thirteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, NOAA Technical Memorandum MNFS-SEFSC 341.

Bishop, G.A . 1975. Traces of Predation. In the Study of Trace Fossils, R.W. Frey (ed.), Chapter 13. Springer-Verlag, pp. 261-281.

Bishop, G. A. 1990. Modeling heavy mineral accumulation on an evolving barrier island on the southerastern coast. Chancellor's Special Funding Initiative, 12 p.

Bishop, G. A. and E. C. Bishop. 1992. Distribution of Ghost Shrimp, North Beach, St. Catherines Island, Georgia. American Museum of Natural History, Novitiates No 3042: 1-17.

Bishop, G. A. and N. A. Brannen. 1993. Ecology and paleoecology of Georgia Ghost Shrimp, p. 19-29, In K. M. Farrell, C. W. Hoffman, and V. J. Henry, Jr (eds.), Geomorphology and Facies Relationships of Quarternary Barrier Island Complexes near St. Marys, Georgia. Georgia Geological Society Guidebooks 13(1).

Bishop, G. A. and N. A. Marsh. 1994. The 1992 St. Catherines Sea Turtle Program: Nest validation by beach stratigraphy, p. 22-24, In Schroeder, B. A. and B. E. Witherington (compilers), Proceedings of the thirteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, NOAA Technical Memorandum MNFS-SEFSC 341.

Bishop, G. A. and N. Brannen Marsh. 1995. Computer utilization in the St. Catherines Sea Turtle Conservation Program. University System of Georgia; Annual Computing Conference; 1995 Rock Eagle Proceedings: 2-11.

Bishop, G. A. and N. B. Marsh . 1999. Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat Assessment: A Rapid, Integrated, Technological Approach. Ahead of the Curve, Proceedings of the University System of Georgia Rock Eagle Conference.

Bishop, G.A., N.B. Marsh, J. Barron, F.L. Pirkle, R.S.U. Smith. 1997. A Cretaceous sea turtle nest, Fox Hills Formation, Elbert Co., CO. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 29(6):104.

Bishop, G.A., N. A. Brannen Marsh, and F. L. Pirkle . 2000. Fossilized Cretaceous Sea Turtle Nest from Colorado. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Conservation and Biology, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-443: 101-103.

Bishop, G. A., and A. B. Williams. 2005. Taphonomy and Preservation of Burrowing Thalassinidean Shrimps. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(1): 218-236.

Booth, R.K., F.J. Rich, and G.A. Bishop.  1999.  Palynology and depositional history of Late Pleistocene and Holocene coastal sediments from St. Catherines Island, Georgia, USA.  Palynology 23: 67-86.

Booth, R.K., F.J. Rich, G.A. Bishop, and N.A. Brannen.  1999.  Evolution of a freshwater barrier-island marsh in coastal Georgia, USA.  Wetlands 19: 570-577.

Booth, R.K. & F.J. Rich. 1999. Identification and paleoecological implications of a Late Pleistocene pteridophyte-dominated assemblage preserved in brown peat from St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Castanea 64: 120-129.

Booth, RK; Rich, FJ; Bishop, GA; Brannen, NA. 1999. Evolution of a freshwater barrier-island marsh in coastal Georgia, USA Wetlands 19(3): 570-577.

Brannen, N. A., Jeff Carter, Mike Harris, Charles Maley, Royce Hayes, Brad Winn, and Gale Bishop. 1993. Handbook for Sea Turtle Interns, Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Ga.), 78 p.

Brannen, N. A. and G. A. Bishop. 1993. Nesting traces of the Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta (Linne), St. Catherines Island, Georgia: Implications for the fossil record, p. 30-36, In K. M. Farrell, C. W. Hoffman, and V. J. Henry, Jr (eds.), Geomorphology and Facies Relationships of Quarternary Barrier Island Complexes near St. Marys, Georgia. Georgia Geological Society.

Brinkman, D., M. Hart, H. Jamniczky and M. Colbert . 2006. Nichollsemys baieri gen. et sp. nov, a Primitive Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Campanian of North America. Paludicola 5:111-124.

Bromley, R. G., Pemberton, S. G., and Rahmani, R. A. 1984, A Cretaceous woodground--The Teredolites ichnofacies: Journal of Paleontology, v. 58, p. 488-498.

Caldwell, D. K., A. Carr, and L. H. Ogren. 1959. The Atlantic loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta caretta (L.), in America. I. Nesting and migration of the Atlantic loggerhead turtle. Fla. State Mus. Biol. Bull. 4(10): 295-308.

Christens, E. 1990. Nest emergence lag in loggerhead sea turtles. Journal of Herpetology, 24(4): 400-402.

Coile, N. C. and S. B. Jones, Jr. 1988.Checklist of the vascular flora of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Novitates, No. 2920: 1-14.

Darrell, J. H., II, N. A. Brannen, and G. A. Bishop. 1993. The Beach, p. 16-18, In K. M. Farrell, C. W. Hoffman, and V. J. Henry, Jr (eds.), Geomorphology and Facies Relationships of Quarternary Barrier Island Complexes near St. Marys, Georgia. Georgia Geological Society Guidebooks 13(1).

Davis, R. E and R. Dolan. 1993. Nor'easters. American Scientist, 81: 428-439.

Derstler, K. 1992. Preliminary report on Brigitta, the Vienna specimen of Archelon.

Frazier, N. B. l983. Survivorship of adult female loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, nesting on Little Cumberland Island, Georgia, U.S.A. Herpetologica, 39 (4): 436-447.

Frey, R. W., and S. G. Pemberton. 1987. The Psilonichnus ichnoconose, and its relationship to adjacent marine and nonmarine ichnocoenoses along the Georgia coast. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 35(3): 333-357.

Frick, M., K. Williams, & M. Robinson. 1998. Epibionts associated with nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in Georgia. Herpetological Review, 29, 211–214.

Frick, M. G., & C. K. Slay. 2000. Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle). Epizoan. Herpetological Review 31 (2): 102-3.

Frick, M.G., Williams, K.L., Markesteyn, E.J., Pfaller, J.B. & Frick, R.E., 2004a. New records and observations of epibionts from loggerhead sea turtles. Southeastern Naturalist, 3, 613–620.

Frick, M.G., Williams, K.L., Bolten, A.B., Bjorndal, K.A. & Martins, H.R., 2004b. Diet and fecundity of Columbus crabs, Planes minutus, associated with oceanic-stage loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, and inanimate flotsam. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 24, 350–355.

Goodfriend, G.A., and H. B. Rollins. 1998. Recent barrier beach retreat in Georgia: Dating exhumed salt marshes by aspartic acid racemization and post-bomb radiocarbon. Journal of Coastal Research 14(3): 960-969.

Gaffney, E. S. 1990. The Comparative Osteology of the Triassic Turtle Proganochelys. Bull. of the Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist. 194: 263 pp.

Gould, S. J. 1989. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 347 p.

Hailman, J. P. and A. M. Elowson. 1992. Ethogram of the nesting female loggerhead (Caretta caretta). Herpetologica 48(1): 1-30.

Hart, M. M. 2004. Toxochelys: Taxonomic comparison and stratigraphic during the Campanian Lower Pierre Shale of South Dakota. Masters Thesis, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 109 p.

Hayes, R. B., N. B. Marsh, and G. A. Bishop . 1995. Sea Turtle Nest Depredation by a feral Hog; A learned behavior, p. 129-134, In J. A. Keinath, D. E. Baranard, J. A. Musick, and B. A. Bell (compilers), Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, NOAA Technical Memorandum MNFS-SEFSC 387.

Hirayama, R. 1998. Oldest known sea turtle. Appl. Opt. 392, 705–708.

Hooks III, G. E. 1998 Systematic revision of the Protostagidae, with a redescription of Calcar icheys gemma Zangerl, 1953. J. Vert. Paleo. 18, 85–98.

Hopkins, S. R., T. M. Murphy, K. B. Stansell, and P. M. Wilkinson. 1978. Biotic and abiotic factors affecting nest mortality in the Atlantic loggerhead turtle. Proc. Ann. Conf. Southeastern Assoc. Game & Fish Commissioners 32: 213-223.

Kear, B. P. 2003. Cretaceous marine reptiles of Australia: a review of taxonomy and distribution. Cretaceous Research 24: 277–303.

Kear , B. P., W. E. Boles , and E. T. Smith . 2003. Unusual gut contents in a Cretaceous ichthyosaur. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (Suppl. ) 270 , S206–S208.

Kear, B. P. 2006. First gut contents in a Cretaceous sea turtle. Biol. Lett. (2006) 2, 113–115 [Published online 2 November 2005].

Kear. B. P, and M. S. Y. Lee, 2006. A primitive protostegid from Australia and early sea turtle evolution. Biology Letters 2: 116–119.

Knell, M. J. 2004.Taphonomy and ichnology of sea turtles from the Cretaceous Interior Seaway of South Dakota. Masters Thesis, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 100 p.

Lehman, T. M., and S. L. Tomlinson. 2004. Terlinguachelys fischbecki, a new genus and species of sea turtle (Chelonioidea: Protostegidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 78: 1163–1178.

LeBuff, C. R. 1990.The loggerhead turtle in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Caretta Research, Inc.

Lenz, R. J. l99l. Wandering with the sea turtles: the struggle to save the ancient nomads from extinction. Georgia Wildlife, Fall: 10-16.

Linsley, D.L, G. A. Bishop, and H. B. Rollins. (In Press) Stratigraphy and geologic evolution of St. Catherines Island , Georgia. In Aboriginal Settlement Patterns on St. Catherines Island: A First Approximation. Editor David Hurst Thomas.

Linsley, D. M. 1993. Depositional environments of St. Catherines Island: Their relationship to late Quaternary seal-level change and application to late Paleozoic cyclic stratigraphy. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, PA, 186 pp.

Marsh, N. A. and G. A. Bishop. 1994. The St. Catherines Sea Turtle Program: Modeling Effective Science Education through Conservation and Research Partnerships, p. 214-215, In Sigma Xi, Proceedings of the Forum on Scientists, Educators, and National Standards: Action at the Local Level, April 14-15, 1994 (Atlanta), 245 p.

Marsh, N. B. and G. A. Bishop. 1998. Web Resources for Heavy mineral sands: A model for relevant science education. in F. J. Rich and G. A. Bishop, eds., Geology and Natural History of the Okefenokee Swamp and Trail Ridge, Southeastern Georgia-Northern Florida, Georgia. 33ed Annual Georgia Geological Society Field Trip. Guidebook 18(1): 90-94.

Mast, S. O. 1911. Behavior of the loggerhead turtle in depositing its eggs. Pap. Tortugas Lab., Carnegie Instit. Washington 3:63-67.

Magnuson, J. J., J. A. Bjorndal, W. D. DuPaul, G. L. Graham, D. W. Owens, C. H. Peterson, P. C. H. Pritchard, J. I. Richardson, G. E. Saul, and C. W. West. 1990. Decline of sea turtles: causes and prevention. National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., USA.

Morris, R. W. and H. B. Rollins. 1977. Observations on intertidal organism associations of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. 1. General description and paleoecological implications. Bull. Am. Museum Natural History 159: 87-128.

McGehee, M. A. 1979. Factors affecting the hatching success of loggerhead sea turtles eggs (Caretta caretta ), M.S. thesis, University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Mrosovsky, N. l988. Pivotal temperatures for loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) from northern and southern nesting beaches. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 66: 661-669.

National Marine Fisheries Service and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1991. Recovery plan for U.S. population of loggerhead sea turtle. National Marine Fisheries Service, Washington, D.C., 64 p.

Oertel, G. F. 1974. A sedimentary framework of the substrates adjacent to Georgia tidal inlets. Contribution 269. University of Georgia Marine Institrute.

Pinckney, J. 1990. Correlation analysis of adult female, egg, and hatchling sizes in the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (L.), nesting at Kiawah Island, South Carolina. Bulletin of Marine Science, 47(3): 670-679.

Prezant, R. S., R. B. Toll, H. B. Rollins, and E. J. Chapman. 2002. Marine macroinvertebrate diversity of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. . American Museum of Natural History, New York, Novitates , No. 3367, 31p.

Rodrigues S. de Almeida & R. M. Shimizu, 1995.As Praias Arenosas, Série   Ecossistemas Brasileiros, Instituto de Biociéncias da Universidade de São Paulo.

Rollins, Harold B., M. Carothers, and J. Donahue. 1979. Transgression, Regression and Fossil Community Succession. Lethaia 12(1): 89-104.

Shadroui, J. M. 1990. Aeolian transport in a small dune field on St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 122: 48-64.

Shimada, K. and G.E. Hooks III. 2004. Shark-bitten protostegid turtles from the upper  cretaceous Mooreville Chalk, Alabama. J. Paleontology 78:205-210.

Stoneburner, D. L. and J. I. Richardson. 1981. Observations on the role of temperature in loggerhead nest site selection. Copeia 1981: 238-241

Stancyk, S. E. 1982. Non-human predators of sea turtles and their control. Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles, K. A. Bjorndal, editor. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pages 39-152.

Thomas, D. H. 1978. St. Catherines: An Island in Time, Georgia History and Culture Series, Georgia Endowment for the Humanities, 82 p.

Thomas, D H. 1980. The Interdisciplinary Approach to Archaeology: A View from St. Catherines Island, Georgia, pp. 135-142. In James D. Howard, Chester B. DePratter, and Robert F. Frey (eds.), Excursions in Southeastern Geology: The Archaeology-Geology of the Coast. Guidebook 20, 1980 Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.

Thomas, D. H. 1983. Finding a Lost Spanish Mission. Close-Up 14(2):44-51.

Thomas, D. H. 1987. The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: 1. Search and Discovery. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 63(2): 47-161.

Thomas, D. H. 1988a. St. Catherines: An Island in Time. Georgia History and Culture Series. Atlanta: Georgia Endowment for the Humanities. 83 pp.

Thomas, D. H., G. D. Jones, R. S. Durham, and C. S. Larsen. 1978. The Anthropology of St. Catherines Island: 1. The Natural and Cultural History. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 55(2): 155-248.

Thomas, D. H, E. G. Garrison, and J. G. Baker. 1985. Magnetic Prospection and the Discovery of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale. Journal of Field Archaeology 12(3): 299-313.

Thurman, H. V and A. J. Trujillo. 2003. Introductory Oceanography (10th Edition), Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, N.J.; 624 p.

Weems, R. E. 1988. Paleocene turtles from the Aquia and Brightseat Formations, with a discussion of their bearing on sea turtle evolution and phylogeny. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(1): 109-145.

Weems, R. E. 1974. Middle Miocene sea turtles (Syllomus, Procolpochelys, Psephophorus) from the Calvert Formation Journal of Paleontology; 48(2): 279-303.

Wieland, G. R. 1896.Archelon ischyros: a new gigantic cryptodire testudinate from the Fort Pierre Cretaceous of South Dakota. American Journal of Science 4 Series ,  2:399-412,  pl. v.

Wieland, G. R. 1898.The Protostegan plastron. American Journal of Science 4 Series , 5:15-20, with pl. ii.

Wieland, G. R. 1900.The skull, pelvis, and probable relationships of the huge turtles of the genus Archelon from the Fort Pierre Cretaceous of South Dakota. American Journal of Science 4 ser, 9(52):237-251, with pl. i.

Wieland, G. R. 1900.Some observations on certain well-marked stages in the evolution of the testudinate humerus. American Journal of Science. 4th Series, 9(54):413-424.

Wieland, G. R. 1902.  Notes on the Cretaceous turtles, Toxochelys and Archelon, with a classification of the marine Testudinata.  American Journal of Science, Series 4, 14:95-108, 2 text-figs.

Wieland, G. R. 1906. The osteology of Protostega. Carnegie Museum Memoirs 2:279–298.

Wieland, G. R. 1909. Revision of the Protostegidae. American Journal of Science 27:101–130.

Wiffen, J. 1981. The first Late Cretaceous turtles from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 24(2): 293-299.

Witherington, Blair. 1992. Crawl identification for Florida Index Beach Surveys. Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, University of Florida, 5 p.

Witherington, B. E., K. A. Bjorndal, and C. M. McCabe. 1990. Temporal pattern of nocturnal emergence of loggerhead turtle hatchlings from natural nests. Copeia, 4: 1165-1168.

Zangerl, R. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma formation of Alabama, Part IV, the turtles of the family Toxochelyidae. Fieldiana; Geology Memoirs 3(4): 137 - 277.

Zangerl, R. and W. D. Turnbull. 1955. Procolpochelys grandaeva (Leidy): An early ca=rettine sea turtle). Fieldiana, Zoology 37:345-382.

Zangerl, R. and R. E. Sloan. 1960. A new description of Desmatochelys lowi (Williston). A primitive cheloniid sea turtle from the Cretaceous of South Dakota. Fieldiana, Geology Memoirs 14:7-40.

Zangerl, R. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, Part V, an advanced cheloniid sea turtle. Fieldiana, Geology Memoirs 3:283– 312.

Zangerl, R. 1980. Patterns of phylogenic differentiation  in the  toxochelyid and chelonid sea turtles.  American Zoologist 20:585-596. 

Zug, G. R. 2001. The Turtles of the Lee Creek Mine. (Pliocene: North Carolina). In Clayton E. Ray and David J. Bohaska (eds.), Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, III. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90:203-218.