William Joseph Sanders

William Joseph Sanders, U.S. vertebrate paleontologist.

• Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

Taxon names authored

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• 10 taxon names authored by William Joseph Sanders

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of William Joseph Sanders

Publications

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1997

• Gingerich, P.D., Arif, M.M., Bhatti, M.A., Anwar, M. & Sanders, W.J. 1997. Basilosaurus drazindai and Basiloterus hussaini, new archaeoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene Drazinda Formation, with a revised interpretation of ages of whale-bearing strata in the Kirthar Group of the Sulaiman Range, Punjab (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(2): 55–81. Handle Reference page. 

2001

• Shoshani, J., Sanders, W.J. & Tassy, P. 2001. Elephants and other Proboscideans: a summary of recent findings and new taxonomic suggestions. Pp. 676–679. In: Cavarretta, G., Gioia, P., Mussi, M. & Palombo, M.R. (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Congress of La Terra degli Elefanti, The World of Elephants. Roma: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. PDF Reference page. 

2004

• Sanders, W.J., Kappelman, J. & Rasmussen, D.T. 2004. New large-bodied mammals from the late Oligocene site of Chilga, Ethiopia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3): 365–392. Online Reference page. 

2006

• Shoshani, J., Walter, R.C., Abraha, M., Berhe, S., Tassy, P., Sanders, W.J., Marchant, G.H., Libsekal, Y., Ghirmani, T. & Zinner, D. 2006. A proboscidean from the late Oligocene of Eritrea, a ‘‘missing link’’ between early Elephantiformes and Elephantimorpha, and biogeographic implications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(46): 17296–17301. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0603689103 Reference page. 

2009

• Gingerich, P.D., ul-Haq, Munir, von Koenigswald, W., Sanders, W.J., Smith, B.H. & Zalmout, I.S. 2009. New Protocetid Whale from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan: Birth on Land, Precocial Development, and Sexual Dimorphism. PLoS ONE 4(2): e4366. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004366 Reference page.