Timothy Scott Myers, Ph.D. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275-0395 214-883-2904 [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT

Research Curator, Shuler Museum of Paleontology, Southern Methodist University Apr. 2012–present

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University Jan. 2010–Mar. 2012

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Geology (December 2009) – Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Dissertation: Late Jurassic paleoclimate of Europe and Africa

M.S. Geology (August 2004) – University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Thesis: Taphonomy of the Mother’s Day Quarry: Implications for gregarious behavior in sauropod dinosaurs

B.S. Geology; B.A. Anthropology (May 2002) – Rice University, Houston, TX

PUBLICATIONS

Myers, T.S. 2010. Earliest occurrence of the Pteranodontidae (Archosauria: Pterosauria) in North America: New material from the Austin Group of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 84(6): 1071– 1081.

Myers, T.S. 2010. A new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Eagle Ford Group of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1): 280–287.

Myers, T.S. and A.R. Fiorillo. 2009. Evidence for gregarious behavior and age segregation in sauropod dinosaurs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 274: 96–104.

Myers, T.S. and G.W. Storrs. 2007. Taphonomy of the Mother's Day Quarry, Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, south-central Montana, USA. PALAIOS 22: 651–666.

Myers, T.S., Tabor, N.J., and Jacobs, L.L. 2011. Late Jurassic paleoclimate of Central Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 311: 111–125.

Myers, T.S., Tabor, N.J., Jacobs, L.L., and Mateus, O. in press. Late Jurassic palaeoclimate of Portugal: Comparison with the Western U.S. Sedimentology.

Tabor, N.J., Myers, T.S., Gulbranson, E., Rasmussen, C., and Sheldon, N.D. in press. Carbon stable isotope composition of modern calcareous soil profiles in California: implications for CO2 reconstructions from calcareous paleosols. SEPM Special Publication, New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology.

Thomas, S.G., Tabor, N.J., Yang, W., Myers, T.S., Yang, Y. and Wang, D. 2011. Palaeosol stratigraphy across the Permian-Triassic boundary, Bogda Mountains, NW China: Implications for palaeoenvironmental transition through Earth’s largest mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 308: 41–64.

SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS

Andres, B., Myers, T.S., and Conway, J. in review. Lone Star Pterosaurs. Submitted to Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Myers, T.S., Tabor, N.J., Jacobs, L.L., and Mateus, O. in review. Estimating soil pCO2 using paleosol carbonates: implications for the relationship between primary productivity and faunal richness in ancient terrestrial ecosystems. Submitted to Paleobiology.

ABSTRACTS

Tabor, N.J., Myers, T.S., Mack, G.H., Renne, P.R., Mundil, R., Geissman, J.W., Looy, C.V. 2011. “Ochoan” Quartermaster Formation of North Texas, USA, Part I: Litho- and Chemostratigraphy. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 43(5).

Tabor, N.J. and Myers, T.S. 2011. Climatic context of “Olson’s Gap.” 12th International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates, Dallas.

Myers, T.S., Tabor, N.J. and Jacobs, L.L. 2010. Correlated faunal richness and primary productivity in Late Jurassic terrestrial environments. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, 42: 175.

Myers, T.S. 2009. Late Jurassic paleoclimate of Central Africa. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, 41: 242.

Myers, T.S. 2006. Upper Jurassic paleoclimate of Portugal reconstructed from paleosols. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 38: 472.

Myers, T.S. 2004. Evidence for age segregation in a herd of diplodocid sauropods. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Denver, 24: 97A.

Myers, T.S. 2003. Catastrophic mass mortality of a herd of young diplodocid sauropods from the Morrison Formation of Montana. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, 35: 496.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Richards-Goodell Teaching Excellence Award 2007 Roy M. Huffington Graduate Fellowship 2004–2007

CURRENT AND PAST FUNDING

Geological Society of America Student Grant ($1400) 2008 Paleontological Society Student Grant ($750) 2008 Institute for the Study of Earth and Man Grant ($1000) 2006 Jurassic Foundation Grant ($2500) 2005 Western Interior Paleontological Society Grant ($500) 2005 Jurassic Foundation Grant ($1200) 2003 AMNH Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant ($1737) 2003 Sigma Xi Grant ($300) 2003

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Northwestern China – Southern Methodist University July 2007 Portugal – Southern Methodist University Mar./Nov. 2006 U.S. Western Interior – Southern Methodist University June–July 2006 New Mexico – Southern Methodist University Feb. 2006 Montana – Cincinnati Museum Center Aug. 2002/2003 New Mexico – University of New Mexico June–July 2000

SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL REVIEWS

Facies GSA Bulletin PALAIOS

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

2011 – Dallas ABC News 2010 – National Geographic News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Dallas CBS News 2009 – Discovery News

PUBLIC LECTURES

April 2010 – Texas pterosaurs and the Late Cretaceous pterosaur transition in North America April 2003 – Fossil evidence for sauropod herding: Implications of the Mother’s Day Site

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Evolution and Life History (GEOL 1308), Southern Methodist University Fall 2008–2009 Vertebrate Anatomy Laboratory (BIOL 5166), Southern Methodist University Spring 2006–2009 Geology for Engineers Laboratory (GEOL 372), University of Cincinnati Spring 2004 Archaeological Field Techniques (ANTH 362), Rice University Spring 2000–2001