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Dr Jeffrey D. Stilwell

Qualifications

M.Sc. Purdue Univ., Ph.D. Univ. Otago

Research Interests

  • Evolutionary Patterns of Invertebrates Through the Phanerozoic and the Characteristics of Those Who Survive Major Crises in Earth History

 

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Jeff Stilwell

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Recent publications

Books/Monographs

  • Stilwell, J. D., Zinsmeister, W. J. and Oleinik, A. E. 2004. Early Paleocene Mollusks of Antarctica: Systematics, Paleoecology and Paleobiogeographic significance. Bulletins of American Paleontology Number 367, 89 p.
  • Stilwell, J. D. 2003. The World’s First Shell Collecting Guide from 1821: The Voyager’s Companion, or Shell Collector’s Pilot by John Mawe. Lamb Printers Pty Ltd, Perth, The Western Australian Museum Press, 95 p.

Book Chapters

  • Stilwell, J. D. and Crampton, J. S. In press (Accepted Oct. 2003). Cretaceous
    Mollusca of New Zealand. In D. P. Gordon (ed.) The New Zealand Inventory
    of Biodiversity; Vol. 1 Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, and
    Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A., Maxwell, P.A., Grant-Mackie, J.A., Stilwell, J.D.,
    Willan, R.C., Campbell, H.J., Crampton, J.S., Henderson, R.A., Bradshaw,
    M.A., Waterhouse, J.B. and Pojeta Jr, J. In Press (Accepted Oct. 2003).
    Phylum Mollusca: chitons, clams, tusk shells, snails, squids, and kin. Chapter
    10. In: D. Gordon (ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity; Vol. 1 Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, and Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
  • Trusler, P., Stilwell, J.D. and Vickers-Rich. 2007. Future research directions for further analysis of Kimberella, pp. 181-185. In Vickers-Rich, P. and Komarower, P. (eds.). The Rise and Fall of the Vendian (Ediacaran) Biota. Special Papers of the Geological Society of London 286.

Journal Articles

2008

  • Consoli, C.P. and Stilwell, J.D. Accepted (03/08). Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Takatika Grit, Chatham Islands: anatomy of a condensed, glauconitic, phosphatic, transgressive systems tract. Sedimentary Geology.

2007

  • Stilwell, J.D. 2007. First Late Cretaceous Gastropoda  (Mollusca) from the Takatika Grit, Chatham Islands, Southwest Pacific. New Zealand Geology and Geophysics 50(1), 21-25.
  • Buchanan, L., Consoli, C. J. and Stilwell, J. D. 2007. New Paleocene (late Danian) vertebrates from the Wangaloa Formation, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 50(1), 33-37.
  • Del Rio, C. J., Martínez, S. A., Stilwell, J. D., and Concheyro, A. 2007.  Paleontology of the Danian Cerros Bayos section (La Pampa Province, Argentina). Alcheringa 31, 241-269.

2006

  • Stilwell, J. D. 2006. Trilobites and Linnaeus: the first reconstruction from 1759.
                Archives of Natural History 33(1):100-107.
  • Stilwell, J. D., Consoli, C. P., Sutherland, R., Salisbury, Rich, T. H., Vickers-Rich,
    P. A., Currie, P. J., and Wilson, G. J. 2006. Dinosaur sanctuary on the Chatham Islands, Southwest Pacific: first record of theropods from the K-T boundary Takatika Grit.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 230(3-4):243-250.

2005

  • Consoli, C. P. and Stilwell, J. D. 2005. Late Cretaceous Cephalopoda (Mollusca)
    from the Takatika Grit, Chatham Islands, Southwest Pacific. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 48:389-393.
  • Cook, A. G. and Stilwell, J. D. 2005. Fossil limpet from the Cretaceous of North
    Queensland. Records of the Queensland Museum 51(2):398.
  • Gallagher, S. J., Taylor, D., Apthorpe, M., Stilwell, J. D., Boreham, C. J.,
    Holdgate, G. R., Wallace, M. W., and Quilty, P. G. 2005. Late Cretaceous dysoxia in a southern high latitude siliciclastic succession, the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 223:317-348.
  • Stilwell, J. D. 2005. High-latitude occurrence of the deposit-feeding gastropod
    Calliotropis (Mollusca: Trochidae: Eucyclinae): a new species from the Eocene of Antarctica. Molluscan Research 25(1):9-13.
  • Stilwell, J. D. 2005. A rare Paleocene molluscan faunule from the Kings Park
    Formation, Perth Basin. Alcheringa 29:331-340.

2003

  • Stilwell, J. D. 2003. Macropalaeontology of the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary
    Trochocyathus-Trematotrochus Band, Dilwyn Formation, Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia. Alcheringa 27:245-275.
  • Stilwell, J. D. 2003. Patterns of biodiversity and faunal rebound following the K-T
    boundary extinction event in Austral Palaeocene molluscan faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 195:319-356.
  • Stilwell, J. D. 2003. Diversity, distribution and evolutionary history of the Austral,
    Late Cretaceous to Eocene, gastropod Struthioptera (Stromboidea: Aporrhaidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33(1):315-340[Special issue—J. D. Campbell Memorial Volume]
  • Stilwell, J. D. and Zinsmeister, W. J. 2003. A new gastropod mollusc, Antarctissitys
    austrodema gen. et sp. nov., from the late Maastrichtian of Antarctica and its evolutionary significance. Cretaceous Research 24:111-118.

2002

  • Stilwell, J. D. 2002. History of the geological exploration of Cockburn Island,
    Antarctic Peninsula. Polish Polar Research 23(1):47-73.
  • Stilwell, J. D. and Henderson, R. A. 2002. Description and paleobiogeographic
    significance of a rare Cenomanian molluscan faunule from Bathurst Island, northern Australia. Journal of Paleontology 76(3):447-471.
  • Stilwell, J. D. and Zinsmeister, W. J. 2002.  A new, large acteonid gastropod
    (Mollusca) from the latest Cretaceous of Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology, 76(2):1098-1101.
  • Stilwell, J. D., Harwood, D. M. and Whitehead, J. M. 2002. Mid-Tertiary mollusc-
  • rich clasts from the Battye Glacier Formation, Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science 14(1):69-73.