Publications

Many of these publications are available open-access as preprints or at the Oxford Research Archive. If you have trouble finding a PDF of any article, please email me (antell [at] geog.ucla.edu) or make a request through Researchgate and I'll send a copy.

In Review

Benson, R.B.J., Close, R.A., Antell, G.T., Whittaker, R., Valdes, P., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D.J., Shen, S., Fan, J., & Saupe, E.E. (in review). "Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic." Palaeontology.

Mathes, G.H, Reddin, C.J., Kiessling, W., Antell, G.T., Saupe, E.E., & Steinbauer, M.J. (in review). "Spatially heterogenous responses of planktonic foraminifera assemblages over 700,000 years of climate change." Global Ecology & Biogeography.

Peer-Reviewed Papers

[8] Antell, G.T., Benson, R.B.J., & Saupe, E.E. (2024). "Spatial standardization of taxon occurrence data—a call to action." Paleobiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.36

[7] Makarkin, V.N, Antell, G.T., & Archibald, B. (2022). “A revision of Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) from the late Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado, with description of new species.” Zootaxa. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5133.3.1

[6] Antell, G.T., & Saupe, E.E. (2021). “Bottom-up controls, ecological revolutions and diversification in the oceans through time.” Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.069

[5] Antell, G.T., Fenton, I.S., Valdes, P.J., & Saupe, E. E. (2021) "Thermal niches of planktonic foraminifera are static throughout glacial-interglacial climate change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Press release: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-04-27-researchers-find-climate-change-impacts-plankton-key-marine-food-source

[4] Darroch, S.A.F., Casey, M., Antell, G.T., Sweeney, A., & Saupe, E.E. (2020) "High preservation potential of geographic range size distributions in deep time." American Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1086/710176

[3] Antell, G.T., Kiessling, W., Aberhan, M., & Saupe, E.E. (2020) "Marine biodiversity and geographic distributions are independent on large scales." Current Biology, 30(1): 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.065

Press release: https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/news/species-that-survive-mass-extinction-events-do-not-take-over-the-space-of-fallen-competitors

[2] Antell, G.T. (2018) “Digitization reveals and remediates challenges to research on dispersed museum collections from Florissant fossil beds, Colorado.” In: Rosenberg G and Clary R (eds) Museums at the forefront of the history and philosophy of geology: History made, history in the making. Boulder, Colorado. Geological Society of America special papers, 535: 301-309.

[1] Antell, G.T., & Kathirithamby, J. (2016) “The first twisted-wing parasitoids (Insecta: Strepsiptera) from the Early Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado.” Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 57(2): 165-174. https://doi.org/10.3374/014.057.0204

Other writing

Antell, G.T. (2021) PhD thesis: Macroecological consequences of biotic and abiotic factors in marine ecosystems through time. University of Oxford. Open access permalink: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:80ddc218-cb58-4599-b6be-c54e0b42cfe4. Advised by E.E. Saupe and defended January 2022 with no corrections.

Greene, S., Antell, G.T., et al. (2021) “Safety and belonging in the field: a checklist for educators.” EarthArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/X53P6H.

Antell, G.T. (2023) "Why I changed my name, according to the rules of Latin taxonomy." Transformations blog, International Society of Nonbinary Scientists.

Antell, G.T. (2021) “All colours of pride.” Rainbow Research blog series, journal of Methods in Ecology & Evolution. https://methodsblog.com/2021/06/28.

Fernando, B. & Antell, G.T. “Recommendations for improving racial equality, diversity, and inclusion in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.” Public report (2021). News article: https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/2020/06 PDF: https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/BAME-EDI-Report.pdf

Conference talks (presenter)

[16] Antell, G.T. "Time-series relationships across trophic levels and temporal scales in the Santa Barbara Basin, California." Ocean Sciences Meeting. New Orleans, LA, 23 February 2024.

[15] Antell, G.T., Benson, R.B.J., & Saupe, E.E. "A new R package to spatially subsample taxon occurrences for fair comparisons of biodiversity across time, clades, and environments." 6th International Palaeontological Congress. Khon Kaen, Thailand, November 2022.

[14] Antell, G.T., Benson, R.B.J., & Saupe, E.E. "Spatial standardization tools for fair comparisons of biodiversity across time, clades, and environments." Geological Society of America; session co-chair. Denver, CO, 10 October 2022.

[13] Antell, G.T. & Saupe, E.E. “Rate and mode of thermal niche evolution across and within lineages of Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera”. Geological Society of America, Future Leaders in Paleontology awarded session. Portland, OR, 10 October 2021.

[12] Antell, G.T., Fenton, I.S., Valdes, P.J., & Saupe, E. E. “Planktonic foraminifera conserved environmental niches across 700,000 years of glacial–interglacial climate change”. Crossing the Palaeontology-Ecology Gap. Berlin (virtual), 8 September 2021.

[11] Antell, G.T., Fenton, I.S., Valdes, P.J., & Saupe, E. E. "Thermal niches of planktonic foraminifera are static throughout glacial-interglacial climate change." Geological Society of America, Future Leaders in Paleontology awarded session. 1st place student talk, Geobiology & Geomicrobiology division. Virtual conference, 26 October 2020.

[10] Antell, G.T., Kiessling, W., Aberhan, M., & Saupe, E.E. "No patterns of ecological release in brachiopod and bivalve distributions over the Phanerozoic." North American Paleontological Convention, 1st place student talk. Riverside, CA, 27 June 2019.

[9] Antell, G.T. “Game of Biomes: The contest for world domination after biotic catastrophe”. Oxford Geology Group, Palaeontology Symposium, invited student speaker. Oxford, UK, 16 March 2019.

[8] Antell, G.T., Kiessling, W., Aberhan, M., & Saupe, E.E. “Geographic distributions of benthic invertebrate species are diversity-dependent across the Phanerozoic”. Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap (CPEG), commended student talk. Leeds, UK, 30 August 2018.

[7] Antell, G.T., Kiessling, W., Aberhan, M., & Saupe, E.E. "Geographic distributions of benthic invertebrate species are diversity-dependent across the Phanerozoic." 5th International Palaeontological Conference. Paris, France, 10 July 2018.

[6] Antell, G.T. “Exoskeletons in the closet: new fossil insect species from the drawers of the Yale Peabody Museum.” Yale Peabody Museum 150th Anniversary Symposium, one of 10 invited alumni speakers. New Haven, CT, 5 Nov 2016.

[5] Antell, G.T. & Meyer, H. “Fossils from the frontier: Decades of museum influence on the paleontology of the Florissant fossil beds, Colorado.” Geological Society of America. Denver, CO, 23 Sep 2016.

[4] Antell, G.T. & Mertes, K.J. “Niche partitioning in East African Hornbills along behavioral, dietary, movement, and habitat axes.” Ecological Society of America. Fort Lauderdale, FL, 10 Aug 2016.

[3] Antell, G.T. "A coexistence story: East African Hornbill niche partitioning." Pierson College Mellon Forum. New Haven, CT, 2 Feb 2016.

[2] Antell, G.T. “An old twist on a new problem: Inferring the paleodistribution of the parasite Caenocholax (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) from a new fossil discovery.” Geological Society of America. Baltimore, MD, 1 Nov 2015.

[1] Antell, G.T. “Stone flies and rock crawlers: Fossil insects from the Eocene.” Connecticut Entomological Society, 1st place student speed talk. Storrs, CT, 17 Apr 2015.