Jonathan Adrain, Professor
Trying to find anything presentable to chair a GSA paleo session in, 2023.
Francesc Pérez-Peris, Postdoctoral Researcher
Publications:
Adrain, J.M., Westrop, S.R., Landing, E., Karim, T.S., Losso, S.R., Ng, R.Y., Bradley, A.B. & Pérez-Peris, F. (in press) Trilobite biostratigraphy of the upper Skullrockian Stage (Lower Ordovician; lower Tremadocian) on the northern Laurentian margin, western United States. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs.
Pérez-Peris, F., Adrain, J.M. & Allison C. Daley (in press) Ordovician paleobiogeography of the Suborder Cheirurina (Trilobita). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Laibl, L., Drage, H.B., Pérez-Peris, F., Schöder, S., Saleh, F. & Daley, A.C. 2023. Babies from the Fezouata Biota: Early developmental trilobite stages and their adaptation to high latitudes. Geobios, 81 31–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.06.005
Laibl L. Saleh, F. and Pérez-Peris F. 2023. Drifting with trilobites: The invasion of early post-embryonic trilobite stages to the pelagic realm. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 111403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111403
Adrain, J.M. & Pérez-Peris, F. (2023) Funeralaspis n. gen.: a new odontopleurine trilobite from the early Middle Ordovician (Dapingian) of Death Valley, eastern California, USA, and the classification of Ordovician odontopleurines. Zootaxa, 5336, 509–529.
Pérez-Peris, F., Laibl, L., Vidal, M. and Daley A. 2021. Systematics, morphology, and appendages of Anacheirurus (Pilekiinae, Trilobita) from the Fezouata Shale and the early diversification of Cheiruridae. Acta Palaetonologica Polonica, 66 (4): 857–877. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00902.2021
Adrain, J. M. and Pérez-Peris, F. 2021. Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) cheirurid trilobites from the Table Cove Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada. Zootaxa, 5041(1): 1–73. https://doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5041.1.1
Esteve, J., Marcé-Nogué, J., Pérez-Peris, F. and Rayfield, E. 2021. Cephalic biomechanics underpins the evolutionary success of trilobites. Palaeontology, 64: 519-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12541
Pérez-Peris, F., Laibl, L., Lustri, L., Gueriau, P., Antcliffe, J., Bath Enright, O. and Daley, A. 2021. A new nektaspid euarthropod from the Lower Ordovician strata of Morocco. Geological Magazine, 158(3): 509-517. https://doi.org/10.1017/S001675682000062X
Saleh, F., Vidal, M., Laibl, L., Sansjofre, P., Gueriau, P., Pérez-Peris, F., Lustri, L., Lucas, V., Lefebvre, B., Pittet, B., El Hariri, K. and Daley, A. 2021. Large trilobites in a stress-free Early Ordovician environment. Geological Magazine, 158(2): 261-270. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756820000448
Saleh, F., Antcliffe, J. B., Lefebvre, B., Pittet, B., Laibl, L., Pérez-Peris, F., Lustri, L., Gueriau, P. and Daley, A. C. 2020. Taphonomic bias in exceptionally preserved biotas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 529: 115873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115873
Titouan Camus, PhD Student
Ryan Shanks, PhD Student
Publications:
Shanks, R.E., and Selden, P.A., 2022, First trigonotarbid arachnids from the Pennsylvanian of Indiana and Oklahoma. Journal of Paleontology, p. 1-9.
Joshua Laird, PhD Student
Publications:
Laird, J. D., and Belanger, C. L. 2018. Quantifying successional change and ecological similarity among Cretaceous and modern cold-seep faunas. Paleobiology, 45:114–135.
Sebastien Mure-Ravaud, MS Student
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Publications:
Melim, L. A., Mure-Ravaud, S. R., Hegna, T. H., Bellott, B. J., and Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2022. Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50496.1
Andrew Studzinski, MS Student
Ethan Bley, MS Student (formerly OUR Fellow)
Past Students
Rebecca DeKoster (MS 2021)
Currently PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Alex Bradley (MS 2020)
Reuben Ng (MS 2019)
Currently PhD candidate, University of Chicago.
Sarah Losso (MS 2018)
Currently PhD candidate, Harvard University
Talia Karim (PhD 2009)
Currently Collections Manager of Invertebrate Paleontology, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Tin-Wai Ng (PhD 2009)
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Science Education, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
Charles Monson (MS 2009)
Currently Illinois State Geological Survey
Tom Hegna (MS 2006)
Currently Assistant Professor, SUNY Fredonia
Lab group, circa 2005. L-R: Tom Hegna, Charles Monson, Tin-Wai Ng, Talia Karim.
Dave Schultz (MS 2002)
Currently Vice President, Senior Project Manager at Vieau Associates, Minneapolis-St. Paul
Jad Bean (MS 2002)