Roger Lansing Grande

Roger Lansing "Lance" Grande (born February 16, 1951), U.S. biologist and paleoichthyologist.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Grande, L. 1979 Eohiodon falcatus, a new species of hiodontid (Pisces) from the late Early Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology vol. 53: 103–111. Reference page.
Feldman, R.M., Grande, L., Birkhimer, C., Hannibal, J.T. & McCoy, D. 1981. Decapod fauna of the Green River Formation (Eocene) of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 55: 788–799.

Grande, L. 1982. A revision of the fossil genus †Diplomystus, with comments on the interrelationships of clupeomorph fishes. American Museum Novitates 2728: 1–34. PDF. Reference page.
Grande, L. 1982. A revision of the fossil genus †Knightia, with a description of a new genus from the Green River Formation (Teleostei, Clupeidae). American Museum Novitates 2731, pp. 1–22. Reference page.
Grande, L., Eastman, J. & Cavender, T. 1982. Amyzon gosiutensis, a new catostomid fish from the Green River Formation. Copeia no. 3, pp. 523–532.

Grande, L. 1985. Recent and fossil clupeomorph fishes with materials for revision of the subgroups of clupeoids. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 181: 231–272. Reference page.
Grande, L. & G. Nelson 1985. Interrelationships of fossil and recent anchovies (Teleostei: Engrauloidea) and a description of a new species from the Miocene of Cyprus. American Museum Novitates 2826, pp. 1–16. Handle and PDF link. Reference page.

Grande, L. 1986. The first articulated teleost described from Cretaceous freshwater deposits of North America. Palaeontology vol. 29, part 2, pp. 365–371.

Grande, L. 1987. Redescription of †Hypsidoris farsonensis (Teleostei: Siluriformes) with a reassessment of its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 24–54.
Grande, L. & Chatterjee, S. 1987. New Cretaceous fish fossils from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeontology vol. 30, part 4, pp. 829–837, London.

Grande, L. 1988. A well preserved paracanthopterygian fish (Teleostei) from freshwater Middle Paleocene deposits of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology vol. 8: 117–130.

Ward, D.J. & Grande, L. 1991. Chimaeroid fishes from Seymour Island, Antarctica (Holocephali: Chondrichthys). Antarctic Science 3(3): 323–330. ResearchGate Reference page.
Grande, L. & Bemis, W. 1991. Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of fossil and Recent paddlefishes (Polyodontidae) with comments on the interrelationships of Acipenseriformes. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 1 (supplement to vol. 11, no. 1, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology) pp. i–viii, 1–121.

Grande, L. & Bemis, W. 1996. Interrelationships of Acipenseriformes, with comments on "Chondrostei". Pp. 85–115 in Stiassny, M., Parenti, L. & Johnson, D (eds.) Interrelationships of Fishes. Reference page.

Grande, L. & Bemis, W.E. 1998. A comprehensive phylogenetic study of amiid fishes (Amiidae) based on comparative skeletal anatomy: an empirical search for interconnected patterns of natural history. Soc. Vert. Paleont. Mem. (Suppl. J. Vert. Paleont.) 4: 1–690. Reference page.
Grande, L.. & Pinna, M. de, 1998. Description of a second species of the catfish †Hypsidoris, and a reevaluation of the genus and family †Hypsidoridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3): 451–474.
Forey, P. & Grande, L. 1998. An African twin to the Brazilian †Calamopleurus (Actinopterygii: Amiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 123: 179–195.
Rieppel, O. & Grande, L. 1998. A well-preserved fossil amphiumid from the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 700–708.

Grande, L. 1999. The first †Esox (Esocidae: Teleostei) from the Green River Formation, and a brief review of esocid fishes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2): 271–292.
Grande, L. & Grande, T. 1999. A new species of †Notogoneus (Teleostei: Gonorynchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana, and the poor Cretaceous record of freshwater fishes from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(4): 612–622.

Carvalho, M.R., Maisey, J.G. & Grande, L. 2004. Freshwater stingrays of the Green River Formation of Wyoming (Early Eocene), with the description of a new genus and species and an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 284: 1–136.

Grande, L., & Hilton, E.J. 2006. An exquisitely preserved fossil sturgeon (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae: gen. et sp. nov.) from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana. Memoir 4, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 80: 1–40.

Conrad, J.L., Rieppel, O. & Grande, L. 2007. A Green River (Eocene) polychrotid (Squamata: Reptilia) and a re-examination of iguanian systematics. Journal of Paleontology 81: 1365–1373.

Hilton, E.J. & Grande, L. 2008. Fossil Mooneyes (Teleostei: Hiodontiformes, Hiodontidae) from the Eocene of western North America, with a reassessment of their taxonomy. In Calvin L., Longbottom A., and Richter, M. (eds.) Fishes and the Break-up of Pangaea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 295, 221–251.
Brito, P.M., Yabumoto, Y. & Grande, L. 2008. New amiid fish from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28: 1–7.

Grande, L. & Hilton, E.J. 2009. A replacement name for Psammorhynchus Grande and Hilton, 2006 (Actinopterygii, Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae). Journal of Paleontology 83: 317–318.

Grande, L. 2010. An empirical synthetic pattern study of gars (Lepisosteiformes) and closely related species, based mostly on skeletal anatomy. The resurrection of Holostei. Copeia 2A: 1–863. Abstract. Reference page.
Hilton, E., Grande, L. & Bemis, W.E. 2011. Skeletal anatomy of the shortnose sturgeon, Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur, 1818, and the systematics of sturgeons (Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae). Fieldiana, Life and Earth Sciences no. 3: 1–185.

Ksepka, D.T., Clarke, J.A. & Grande, L. 2011. Stem Parrots (Aves, Halcyornithidae) From the Green River Formation and a Morphological Phylogeny of Pan-psittaciformes. Journal of Paleontology 85: 835–854.
Yabumoto, Y. & Grande, L. 2013. A New Miocene Amiid Fish, Amia godai from Kani, Gifu, Central Japan. Paleontological Research 17(2): 113–126. DOI: 10.2517/1342-8144-17.2.113 Reference page.

Grande, L. 2013. The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time. University of Chicago Press, 440 pp.
Smith, N., Grande, L., & Clarke, J.L. 2013. A new species of Threskiornithidae-like bird (Aves, Ciconiiformes) from the Green River Formation (Eocene) of Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33: 363–381.
Ksepka, D.T., Clarke, J.A., Nesbitt, S.J. & Grande, L. 2013. Fossil Evidence of Wing Shape in a Stem Relative of Swifts and Hummingbirds (Aves, Panapodiformes). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2013: 1–8.
Henrici, A.C.; Báez, A.M. & Grande, L. 2013. Aerugoamnis paulus, new genus and new species (Anura: Anomocoela): first reported anuran from the early Eocene (Wasatchian) Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation, Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 81(4): 295–309. DOI: 10.2992/007.081.0402 Reference page.