Publications — Johnny Waters

Publications (Since 2010)

Edited Volumes

Suttner, T.J., Kido, E., Königshof, P. Waters, J.A., and Davis, L. (eds) 2015 (2016). Planet Earth in Deep Time: Paleozoic Series - Devonian and Carboniferous. 263 pages. 201 figures. ISBN 978-3-510-65335-5. Schweizerbart Scientific Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany.

Mu, X.N., Lin, J.P., Waters, J.A. and Ausich, W.I. 2015 (eds). Fossil echinoderm studies in China and other countries: historical and new perspectives. Palaeoworld 24(4):361-522.

Zamora, S., J. J. Álvaro, M. Arbizu, J.Colmenar, Jorge Esteve, E.Fernández-Martínez, L. P. Fernández, J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, J. L. Suárez Andrés, E. Villas and J. A. Waters. 2015. Field Trip: Palaeozoic Echinoderms from North Spain. Progress in Echinoderm Palaeontology. Zaragoza, Spain. June 14-21, 2015. Progress in Echinoderm Paleobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-78961-7

Kido, E., Waters, J. A., Ariunchimeg, Ya, Sersmaa, G., da Silva, A.C., Whalen, M.T., Suttner, T. J. and Königshof, P. (eds), 2014. IGCP 596 & IGCP 580 Joint Meeting and Field- Workshop, International Symposium in Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, 5-18 August 2014 – Berichte des Institutes für Erdwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 19: 1-65.

Kido, E., Suttner, T. J., Königshof, P. and Waters, J. A. (eds), 2013. IGCP 596, Mid-Paleozoic climate and biodiversity: Proceedings of the Opening Meeting in Graz, Austria (September 19-24, 2011). – Bulletin of Geosciences, 88 (2): 219-482.

Journal Articles

Alvarez-Armada, N., Bauer, J. E., Waters, J. A., and Rahman, I. A. 2022. In Press. The oldest evidence of brooding in a Devonian blastoid reveals the evolution of new reproductive strategies in early echinoderms. Papers in Palaeontology.

Sumrall. C. D., Sheffield, S. L., Bauer, J. E., Thompson, J. R. and Waters, J. A. 2022. In Press. A review and evaluation of homology hypotheses in echinoderm paleobiology. Elements of Paleontology.

Meyer, D. L. and Waters, J. A. 2022. Food Availability as a trigger for the age of crinoids: Evidence from the present and the past. T. K. Baumiller Volume. Contributions from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. 34(4):34-53.

Bauer, J.E., Sheffield, S.L., Waters, J.A. and Sumrall, C.D., 2022. Echinoderm model systems, homology, and phylogenetic inference: Comment and reply to Paul (2021). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 67(2):465-468.

Waters, J. A. and W. I. Ausich. 2021. Gennaeocrinus tariatensis, A New Emsian (Devonian) Monobathrid Crinoid from the Tarvagatay Terrane of Mongolia. Journal of Paleontology. 96(3):1-7.

Ariuntogos, M., Königshof, P., Waters, J.A., Carmichael, S.K., Sermaa, G., Udchachon, H., Udchchon, A., Ariunchimeg, Ya. 2021. The Mandalovoo - Gurvansayhan terranes in the southern Gobi of Mongolia: New insights from the Bayan Khoshuu Ruins section. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 101:755–780.

Ariuntogos, M., Königshof, P., Hartenfels, S., Jansen, U., Nazik, A., Carmichael, S.K., Waters, J.A., Sersmaa, G., Crônier, C., Ariunchimeg, Ya., Pascall, O., Dombrowski, A. 2021. The Hushoot Shiveetiin gol section (Baruunhuurai Terrane, Mongolia): Sedimentology and facies from a Late Devonian island arc setting. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 101:663-687.

Nazik, A., Königshof, P., Ariuntogos, A., Waters, J.A., Carmichael, S.K. 2021. Ostracode assemblage of the Late Devonian Hushoot Shiveetiin gol island arc section (Baruunhuurai Terrane, western Mongolia). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 101:689-706.

Waters, J.A., Waters, J.W., Königshof, P., Carmichael, S.K. and Ariuntogos, M. 2021. Famennian Crinoids and Blastoids (Echinodermata) from Mongolia. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 101:725-740.

Crônier, C., Ariuntogos, M., Königshof, P., Waters, J.A., Carmichael, S.K. 2021. Late Devonian (Famennian) phacopid trilobites from western Mongolia. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 101:707-723.

S. K. Carmichael, Waters, J.A., Peter Koenigsof, Thomas Suttner, Erika Kido. 2019. Looking for the Kellwasser Event in all the ”wrong” places: how does paleogeographic and paleoenvironmental bias limit our knowledge? Global and Planetary Change. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.102984

Olivia Paschall, Sarah K. Carmichael, Waters, J.A. Peter Königshof, Phuong H. Ta, Toshifumi Komatsu. 2019. The Hangenberg Event in Vietnam: sustained ocean anoxia with a volcanic trigger? Global and Planetary Change. 175:64-81.

J. E. Bauer, J. A. Waters, C. D. Sumrall. 2019. Reevaluation of Macurdablastus with Implications for the Origins of Eublastoidea. Palaeontology, 62(6): 1003–1013

Suttner, T. J, Kido, E., Ariunchimeg, Ya., Sersmaa, G., Waters, J. A., Carmichael, S. K., Batchelor, C .J., Ariuntogos, M., Hušková, A., Slavík, L., Valenzuela-Ríos, J. I., Liao, J.-C. & Gatovsky, Y. A. 2019. Conodonts from Late Devonian island arc settings (Baruunhuurai Terrane, western Mongolia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 549-109099.

S. K. Donovan, J. A. Waters and M. Pankowski. 2018. Form and function of the strangest crinoid stem: Devonian of Morocco. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 137:205-210.

J. A. Waters and C. Klug. 2018. Devonian (Emsian, Givetian) Blastoids and Crinoids from the Tafilalt, Morocco. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie. 290/1-3;291-299.

J. A. Waters, L. E. White, C. D. Sumrall, and B. K. Nguyen. 2017. A new model of respiration in blastoid (Echinodermata) hydrospires based CFD simulations of virtual 3D models. Journal of Paleontology. 91(4):662-671.

J. E. Bauer, C. D. Sumrall, and J. A. Waters. 2017. Hydrospire morphology and implications for blastoid phylogeny. Journal of Paleontology. 91(4):847-857.

P. Königshof, K. Narkiewicz, P. T. Hoa, S. K. Carmichael, J. A. Waters. 2017. Events in the mid- Paleozoic: Examples from the eastern Paleotethys (Si Phai section, NE Vietnam). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. Special Issue. 97(3):481–496.

P. Königshof, S. K. Carmichael, J. A. Waters, U. Jansen, A. Bahrami, I. Boncheva, M. Yazdi. 2017. Palaeoenvironmental study of the Palaeotethys Ocean: The Givetian-Frasnian boundary of a shallow-marine environment using combined facies analysis and geochemistry (Zefreh Section/Central Iran). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 97:517–540.

Pachall, O. C. and J. A. Waters. 2017. Estimated Predation Rate of the Stalked Bourgueticrinid (Crinoidea) Democrinus from Roatán, Honduras. Geological Journal. 52: 727–732.

Donovan, S.K., G.D. Webster and J.A. Waters. 2016. A last peak in diversity: The stalked echinoderms of the Permian of Timor. Geology Today. A joint publication of Geological Society of London; Geologists’ Association, Wiley. 32(5):179-185.

Rahman, I.A., Waters, J.A.,Sumrall, C.D., Astolfo A. 2015. Early post-metamorphic, Carboniferous blastoid reveals the evolution and development of the digestive system in echinoderms. Biology Letters 20150776.

Lin, J.P., W. I. Ausich, J. A. Waters. 2015. Fossil Echinoderm Studies in China and other countries: Historical and new perspectives. in Lin, J.P., Waters, J.A. and Ausich, W.I. 2015 (eds). Fossil echinoderm studies in China and other countries: historical and new perspectives. Palaeoworld 24(4):361-362.

Waters, J.A. 2015. The Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Blastoidea: What Have We Learned in the Past 29 Years. S. Zamora & I. Rábano (eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology.Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. ISBN: 978-84- 7840-961-7. p.189-192.

Waters, J.A., C.D. Sumrall, L.E. White and B.K. Nguyen. 2015. Advancing Phylogenetic Inference in the Blastoidea (Echinodermata): Virtual 3D Reconstructions of the Internal Anatomy. S. Zamora & I. Rábano (eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-7840-961-7. p.193-197.

Bauer, J.E., C. D. Sumrall, and J. A. Waters. 2015. Classifying Blastoids Through Hydrospire Morphology. S. Zamora & I. Rábano (eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology.Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. ISBN: 978-84- 7840-961-7. p.33-37.

Andres, J. L. S., Arbizu, M., Waters, J. A., and Zamora, S. 2015. Devonian echinoderms from Arnao (Asturias): Clay vs hard ground pelmatozoan communities. p. 273- 279. Zamora, S., J., J. Álvaro, M.Arbizu, J.Colmenar, Jorge Esteve, E.Fernández-Martínez, L. P. Fernández, J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, J. L. Suárez Andrés, E. Villas and J. A. Waters. 2015. Field Trip: Palaeozoic Echinoderms from North Spain. Progress in Echinoderm Palaeontology. Zaragoza, Spain. June 14-21, 2015. Progress in Echinoderm Paleobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-7840-961-7

Fernandez-Martinez, E, Fernandez, L. P., Waters, J. A., and Zamora, S. 2015. Devonian echinoderms from the southern Cantabrian zone: Blastoid vs crinoid communities. p. 261- 272. Zamora, S., J. J. Álvaro, M.Arbizu, J.Colmenar, Jorge Esteve, E.Fernández-Martínez, L. P. Fernández, J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, J. L. Suárez Andrés, E. Villas and J. A. Waters. 2015. Field Trip: Palaeozoic Echinoderms from North Spain. Progress in Echinoderm Palaeontology. Zaragoza, Spain. June 14-21, 2015. Progress in Echinoderm Paleobiology. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 19. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-7840- 961-7

Carmichael, S.K., Waters, J.A., Batchelor, C.J., Coleman, D., Suttner, T.J., Kido, E., Moore, L.M., Chadimova, L., 2015. Climate instability and tipping points in the Late Devonian: Detection of the Hangenberg Event in an open oceanic island arc in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research. 32:213-31.

P. Königshof, A. C. Da Silva, T. J. Suttner, E. Kido, J. A. Waters, S. K. Carmichael, U. Jansen, D. Pas, and S. Spassov. 2015. Shallow water facies setting around the Kačák Event - a multi- disciplinary approach. Becker, R. T., Konigshof,P.& Brett, C. E. (eds)Devonian Climate, Sea Level and Evolutionary Events.Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 423:171-199.

Carmichael, S. K., J. A. Waters, T. J. Suttner, E. Kido, and A. A. DeReuil. 2014. A New Model for the Kellwasser Anoxia Events (Late Devonian): Shallow Water Anoxia in an Open Oceanic Setting in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 399:394-403

2014 Suttner, T. J., E. Kido, X. Q Chen, R. Mawson, J. A. Waters, J. Frýda, D. Mathieson, P. D. Molloy, J. Pickett, G. D. Webster and B. Frýdová. 2013. Stratigraphy and facies development of the marine Late Devonian near the Boulongour Reservoir, northwest Xinjiang, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 80:101-118.

Kido, E., T. J. Suttner, J. A. Waters, Ariunchimeg Yarinpil, Sersmaa Gonchigdorj, J. W. Atwood, and G. D. Webster. 2013. Devonian deposits of the Baruunhuurai Terrane, western Mongolia (IGCP 596 Field Workshop). Episodes. 36(4):1-13.

Sprinkle, J. T. and J. A. Waters. 2013. New, ridged, conical blastoid from the Permian of Timor. Journal of Paleontology. 87(6):1071-1076.

Kido E., Suttner, T.J., Koningshof P., Waters, J. A. 2013. Editorial preface: IGCP 596, Mid- Paleozoic climate and biodiversity: Proceedings of the Opening Meeting in Graz, Austria (September 19–24, 2011). Bulletin of Geosciences, 88(2):219 - 221.

Klug, C., K. De Baets, C. J. Naglik, and J. A. Waters. 2012. A new species of Tiaracrinus from the latest Emsian of Morocco and its phylogeny. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 59(1):135-45.

Sumrall, C. D. and J. A. Waters. 2012. Universal Elemental Homology in Glyptocystitoids, Hemicosmitoids, Coronoids and Blastoids: Steps Toward Echinoderm Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Derived Blastozoa. Journal of Paleontology. 86(6):956-972.

Waters, J. A. and G. D. Webster. 2012. The Paleogeography of Pennsylvanian Crinoids and Blastoids. in J.A. Talent (ed.), Earth and Life, International Year of Planet Earth, p.831-847.

Waters, J. A., H.F. Hou, J. X. Wang and C. G. Maples. 2011. Redescription of two genera of blastoids from China. Palaeoworld 20:290-295.

Webster, G. D, C. G. Maples, M. Yazdi, S. Marcus, and J. A. Waters. 2011. Early Pennsylvanian, Bashkirian, echinoderms from eastern Iran, a potential transitional fauna between Laurentia / Avalonia and the Paleotethys, and a Permian cromyocrinid from central Iran. Palaeobiodiversity Palaeoenvironments. 91;1-61.