Jonathan Adrain, Associate Professor
At Ibex Section D (very top of section, on crest of southern House Range), Tule Valley, western Utah, Summer 2008. The cairn is a landmark used by shepherds.
Current Students
Neo McAdams - MS Student
At Ibex Section H 93.4 m, Tule Valley, western Utah, Summer 2008.
- McAdams, N.E.B. & Adrain, J.M. (2009) Heckethornia, a new genus of dimeropygid trilobites from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian; Tulean and Blackhillsian) of the Great Basin, western USA. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences,
- McAdams, N.E.B. & Adrain, J.M. (2009) New pliomerid trilobite genus Lemureops from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian; Tulean, Blackhillsian) of western Utah, USA. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists,
- Adrain, J.M., McAdams, N.E.B. & Westrop, S.R. (2009) Trilobite biostratigraphy and revised bases of the Tulean and Blackhillsian Stages of the Ibexian Series, Lower Ordovician, western United States. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists,
- McAdams, N.E.B. & Adrain, J.M. (2008) A new genus of dimeropygid trilobites from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) of western Utah, USA. In: Rábano, I. & Garcia-Bellido, D. (Eds.), A new genus of dimeropygid trilobites from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) of western Utah, USA. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 9, 251-252.
Past Students
Talia Karim (PhD 2009)
Currently Collections Manager, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas
- Karim, T.S. (2009) Late Ordovician trilobites from northwest Iran and their biogeographical affinities. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 99, 101-124. (for 2008)
- Karim, T.S. (2008) Olenid-dominated trilobite fauna from the Shallow Bay Formation (Cow Head Group), Cambrian-Ordovician boundary interval, western Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 407-425.
Tin-Wai Ng (PhD 2009)
- Westrop, S.R., Eoff, J.D., Ng, T.-W., Dengler, A.A. & Adrain, J.M. (2008) Classification of the Late Cambrian (Steptoean) trilobite genera Cheilocephalus Berkey, 1898 and Oligometopus Resser, 1936 from Laurentia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 725-744.
Charles Monson (MS 2009)
Tom Hegna (MS 2006)
Thesis Title: Systematics of Late Cambrian (Sunwaptan) trilobites from the St. Charles Formation, southeastern Idaho
Currently PhD candidate, Yale University
Tom’s Yale Web Page
Lab group, circa 2005. L-R: Tom Hegna, Charles Monson, Tin-Wai Ng, Talia Karim.
Dave Schultz (MS 2002)
Jad Bean (MS 2002)