Leif Tapanila
Assistant Professor, ISU
Curator of Geology, IMNH

Email:   tapaleif@isu.edu
Selected Publications    Email me for reprints/PDFs: tapaleif@isu.edu
2009
Tapanila, L., FossilPlot 2.0
2008
Tapanila, L. and Ekdale A.A. (Editors), Sixth International Bioerosion Workshop, Program and Abstracts, July 13-20, 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah, 68 p.
2008
Tapanila, L., and Jisuo, J. (Editors), Special Issue: Dynamic Reef and Shelly Communities of the Paleozoic: A Tribute to the Research Career of Paul Copper. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45(2).
2008
Wisshak M., and Tapanila, L. (Editors), Current Developments in Bioerosion. Erlangen Earth Conference Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. 500 p.
2008
Tapanila, L., Direct evidence of ancient symbiosis using trace fossils: In: Kelley, P.H., and Bambach R.K. (eds.), From Evolution to Geobiology: Research Questions Driving Paleontology at the Start of a New Century, Paleontological Society Short Course, October 4, 2008. Paleontological Society Papers, Volume 14, 271-287.
2008
Roberts, E.M., Tapanila, L., Mijal, B., Taphonomy and sedimentology of storm-generated continental shell beds: a case example from the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin. Journal of Geology, 116, 462-479.
2008
Tapanila, L. and Ebbestad, J.O.R., Benthic island community on the back of a snail: Silurian, Anticosti Island, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45(2), 203-211.
2008
Tapanila, L., The endolithic guild: an ecological framework for residential cavities in hard substrates: In: Wisshak M., and Tapanila, L (Editors), Current Developments in Bioerosion. Erlangen Earth Conference Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. p. 3-20.
2008
Tapanila, L., The medium is the message: imaging a complex microboring (Pyrodendrina cupra n. igen. and isp.) from the early Paleozoic of Anticosti Island, Canada: In: Wisshak M., and Tapanila, L (Editors), Current Developments in Bioerosion. Erlangen Earth Conference Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. p. 123-146.
2008
Tapanila, L., Conference review: A review of the Fourth International Bioerosion Workshop: Ichnos 15, 1-4.
2008
Tapanila, L., Roberts, E.M., Bouaré, M.L., Sissoko, F., and O'Leary, M.A., Phosphate taphonomy of bone and coprolite conglomerates: a case study from the Eocene of Mali, NW Africa: Palaios 23, 139-152. [with issue's cover photo]
2007
Tapanila, L., FossilPlot, an Excel-based computer application for teaching stratigraphic paleontology using the Sepkoski Compendium of fossil marine genera: Journal of Geoscience Education 55(2), 133-137.
2007
Gaffney, E.S., Roberts, E.M., Sissoko, F., Bouaré, M., Tapanila, L., and O'Leary, M.A, Acleistochelys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelmedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Paleocene of Mali: American Museum Novitates 3549(1), 1-24.
2007
Tapanila, L., and Ekdale, A.A., Chapter 19: Early history of symbiosis in living substrates: trace-fossil evidence from the marine record. In: W. Miller III (Ed.), Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems, Prospects. Elsevier, pp. 339-349.
2006
O'Leary, M.A., Roberts, E.M., Bouaré, M., Sissoko, F., Tapanila, L., Malian Paenungulata (Mammalia: Placentalia): new African afrotheres from the early Eocene: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(4), 981-988.
2006
Schönberg, C.H.L., and Tapanila, L., Bioerosion research before and after 1996 – a discussion on what has changed since the First International Bioerosion Workshop: Ichnos 13, 99-102.
2006
Schönberg, C.H.L., and Tapanila, L., The bioeroding sponge Aka paratypica, a modern tracemaking analogue for the Paleozoic ichnogenus Entobia devonica: Ichnos 13, 147-157.
2006
Tapanila, L., Macroborings and bioclaustrations in a Late Devonian reef above the Alamo Impact Breccia, Nevada, USA: Ichnos 13, 129-134.
2006
Tapanila, L., Devonian Entobia borings from Nevada, with a revision of Topsentopsis: Journal of Paleontology 80, 760-767.
2006
Tapanila, L., and Holmer, L.E., Endosymbiosis in Ordovician-Silurian corals and stromatoporoids: a new lingulid and its trace from eastern Canada: Journal of Paleontology 80, 750-759.
2006
Roberts, E.M., and Tapanila, L., A new social insect nest from the Late Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: Journal of Paleontology 80, 768-774.
2005
Tapanila, L., Pro Paleontology: Priscum 14, 2-3.
2005
Tapanila, L., Palaeoecology and diversity of endosymbionts in Palaeozoic marine invertebrates: trace fossil evidence: Lethaia 38, 89-99.
2005
Ebbestad, J.O.R., and Tapanila, L., Non-predatory borings in Phanerotrema (Gastropoda, Early Silurian), Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 221, 325-341.
2004
Tapanila, L., The earliest Helicosalpinx from Canada and the global expansion of commensalism in Late Ordovician sarcinulid corals (Tabulata): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 215, 99-110.
2004
Tapanila, L., Roberts, E.M., Bouaré, M.L., Sissoko, F., and O'Leary, M.A., Bivalve borings in phosphatic coprolites and bone, Cretaceous-Paleogene, northeastern Mali: Palaios 19, 565-573.
2004
Tapanila, L., Copper, P., and Edinger, E., Environmental and substrate control on Paleozoic bioerosion in corals and stromatoporoids, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: Palaios 19, 292-306.
2003
Lamond, R.E., and Tapanila, L., Embedment cavities in lacustrine stromatolites: evidence of animal interactions from Cenozoic carbonates in U.S.A. and Kenya: Palaios 18, 444-452.
2002
Tapanila, L., A new endosymbiont in Late Ordovician tabulate corals from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: Ichnos 9, 109-116.
2002
Tapanila, L., and Copper, P., Endolithic trace fossils in Ordovician-Silurian corals and stromatoporoids, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: Acta Geologica Hispanica 37, 15-20.
2001
Tapanila, L., Bioerosion in Late Ordovician and Early Silurian tropical carbonate settings of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada: Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis – Laurentian University, 152 p.