Philip D. Gingerich

GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THESIS TOPICS

Ph.D. students

Kenneth D. Rose (1979: Geological Sciences) "The Clarkforkian land-mammal 'age' and mammalian faunal composition across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary"

David W. Krause (1982: Geological Sciences) "Evolutionary history and paleobiology of early Cenozoic Multituberculata (Mammalia), with emphasis on the family Ptilodontidae"

Neil A. Wells (1984: Geological Sciences) "Marine and continental sedimentation in the early Cenozoic Kohat Basin and adjacent northwestern Indo-Pakistan"

Gregg F. Gunnell (1986: Anthropology) "Evolutionary history of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, Primates?) and the relationship of Plesiadapiformes to Primates"

J. G. M. Thewissen (1989: Geological Sciences) "Evolution of Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra)"

Xiaoyuan Zhou (1995: Geological Sciences) "Evolution of Paleocene-Eocene Mesonychidae (Mammalia, Mesonychia)"

Mark D. Uhen (1996: Geological Sciences) "Dorudon atrox (Mammalia, Cetacea) : form, function, and phylogenetic  relationships of an archaeocete from the late middle Eocene of Egypt"

William C. Clyde (1997: Geological Sciences) "Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary" 

Jonathan I. Bloch (2001: Geological Sciences) "Mammalian paleontology of freshwater limestones from the Paleocene-Eocene of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming"

Ross Secord (2004: Geological Sciences) "Biostratigraphy, faunal turnover, and climate change through the late Tiffanian and early Clarkforkian of the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming"

Iyad S. Zalmout (in progress: Geological Sciences) Dissertation on Eocene Sirenia

Aaron R. Wood (in progress: Geological Sciences)

Ryan Bebej (in progress: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

 

M.Sc. students

Harvey A. Deutsch (1978: Geological Sciences) "Systematics and evolution of early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clark’s Fork basin, Wyoming"

William S. Bartels (1981: Geological Sciences) "Reptilian fauna of the Clarkforkian land-mammal age (Paleocene-Eocene) in western North America"

Dale A. Winkler (1981: Geological Sciences) "Paleontology and taphonomy of an early Eocene mammalian fauna in the Clarks Fork Basin, northwestern Wyoming (U.S.A.)"

Amanda J. Alexander (1982: Geological Sciences) "Sedimentology and taphonomy of a Middle Clarkforkian (Early Eocene) fossil vertebrate locality, Fort Union Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming"

Logan D. Ivy (1982: Geological Sciences) "Systematics and biostratigraphy of the earliest North American Rodentia (Mammalia), latest Paleocene and early Eocene of the Clark’s Fork Basin, Wyoming"

Victor E. Torres-Roldan (1983: Geological Sciences) "Summary of Eocene stratigraphy at the base of Jim Mountain, North Fork of the Shoshone River, northwestern Wyoming"

Paul L. Koch (1989: Geological Sciences) "Clinical variation in mammals : implications for the study of chronoclines"

Mark D. Uhen (1992: Geological Sciences) "Evolution of Coryphodon (Mammalia, Pantodonta) in the late Paleocene and early Eocene of northwestern Wyoming"

William C. Clyde (1993: Geological Sciences) "Chronology of the Wasatchian land-mammal age (early Eocene) magnetostratigraphic results from the McCullough Peaks section, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Jonathan I. Bloch (1995: Geological Sciences) "Systematics and cranial anatomy of late Paleocene Carpolestes (Mammalia, Proprimates)"

Holly Severson (1999: Biology)– no thesis required

Iyad S. Zalmout (2001: Geological Sciences) "Postcranial skeletons of Protosiren from Egypt and Pakistan, and their bearing on locomotion in early Sirenia (Mammalia)"

Tawny A. Seaton (Geological Sciences)

Thomas P. Eiting (2006: Geological Sciences)

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