Laredo College South Campus 5500 South Zapata Highway Laredo, Texas 78046
Rex Edward Crick Natural Sciences Academic and Advanced Technology Center (C-116)
956-721-5777
Education:
• PhD, University of Rochester, Rochester NY • MSc, University of Kansas • BA, University of Kansas
Teaching Experience/Related Work Experience:
2018-2019 San Jacinto College, Houston TX, Adjunct Professor of Geology 1979-2007 University of Texas at Arlington, Professor of Geology 1978-1979 University of Michigan, Museum of Paleontology, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology
Courses Taught at LCC (within the last five years): GEOL 1301 Earth Sciences I GEOL 1101 Earth Sciences Laboratory I
Publications: 1974 with Teichert, C., Endosiphuncular structures in Ordovician and Silurian cephalopods. Univ. Kansas Paleontol. Contr. 71, 15 pp. 1978 Morphological variations in the ammonite genus Scaphites of the Blue Hill Member, Carlile Shale, Upper Cretaceous, Kansas. Univ. Kansas Paleontol. Contr. 88, 28 pp. 1979 A pteroscaphitid (Cephalopoda, Amonoidea) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of Kansas. Journal of Paleontology, 53, 98-102. _____ with Raup, D. M., Measurement of faunal similarity in paleontology. Journal of Paleontology, 53, 1213-1227. _____ and Curt Teichert, Siphuncular structures in the Devonian nautiloid Archiacoceras from the Eifel of West Germany. Palaeontology, 22, 747-766. 1980 Integration of paleobiogeography and paleogeography: An example of Arenigian nautiloid biogeography. Journal of Paleontology, 54, 1218-1236. 1981 with Raup, D. B., Evolution of single characters in the Jurassic ammonite Kosmoceras. Paleobiology, 7, 200-215. _____ Diversity and evolutionary rates of Cambro-Ordovician nautilopids. Paleobiology, 7, 216-229. 1982 with Raup, D. B., Kosmosceras: evolutionary jumps and sedimentary breaks. Paleobiology, 8, 90-100.
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1983 and Vicki M. Ottensman. Sr, Mg, Ca, and Mn chemistry of skeletal components of a Pennsylvanian and recent nautiloid. Chemicnal Geology 39, 147-163. _____ The practicality of vertical cephalopod shells as paleobathymetric markers. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 94, 1109-1116. _____ and Teichert, Curt, Ordovician endoceroid genus Anthoceras: its occurrence and morphology. Alceringa, 7, 155-162. 1984 and Mann, K. O. and Ward, P. D., The Sr, Mg and Ca chemistry of the skeleton of Nautilus. Geology, 12, 99-102. 1985 and Burkart, B., Chamberlain, J. A., Jr., and Mann, K. O., Chemistry of calcified portions of Nautilus pompilius. Journal of Marine Biolologic Association U.K., 65, 415-420. 1987 and K.O. Mann and J. A. Chamberlain, Jr. Skeletal chemistry of Nautilus and its taxonomic significance. Biochemical Systematics & Ecology, 15, 461-474. 1988 Buoyancy regulation and macroevalution in Nautiloid Cephalopods. Senckenbergiana Lethaea, 69, 13-42. _____ with Brooks B. Ellwood. Paleomagnetism of paleozoic asphaltic deposits in southern Oklahoma, USA. Geophysical Research Letters, 15, 436-429. 1989 Evolution of biomineralization systems within the Cephalopoda, p. 95-102. In Crick, R.E. (ed.) Origin, Evolution, and Modern Aspects of Biomineralization in Animals and Plants. Plenum Publ. Corp., New York. _____ Origin, Evolution and Modern Aspects of Biomineralization in Animals and Plants. Plenum Publ. Corp., New York, 536 pp. 1990 Biogeography of Cambrian-Devonian nautiloid cephalopods: A review. In McKerrow, S., and Scotese, C. (eds.), Paleozoic Biogeography and Paleogeography. The Geological Society of London Memoir, 12, 147-162. 1993 Biogeography of Silurian and Devonian nautiloid cephalopods: evidence for barriers to dispersal and macroevolution. Geobios, M.S. No. 15, 91-105. 1994 Perunautilus quadratus n. gen. et sp. (Cephalopoda, Nautilida) from the Triassic (Norian) of Central Peru. Palaeontographica, 233, 161-167. 1995 and Raymond, A. and Scotese, C. R., (Eds.), Paleobiogeography: Global Change and Evolution. Historical Biology, 10, 117 p. _____ and Quarles van Ufford, A., Late Ordovician (Caradoc-Ashgill) ellesmerocerid Bactroceras latisiphonatum of Irain Jaya and Australia. Alcherina,19, 235-241. 1996 The temporal distribution of Devonian nautiloid cephalopods relative to coeval ammonoid cephalpods and conodonts: examples from the Anti-Atlas of Morocco and the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Proceedings from the 4th International Cephalopod Symposium, Granada, Spain, p. 110-121. 1997 Curt Teichert (1905-1996) - Memorial. AAPG Bulletin, 81, 491-495. _____ Curt Teichert (1905-1996) - Memorial. Journal of Paleontology, 71(4), 750-752 _____ Crick, R.E., Ellwood, B.B., Hassani, A.E., Feist, R., and Hladil, J., MagnetoSusceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) of the Eifelian-Givetian GSSP and associated boundary sequences in north Africa and Europe: Episodes, 20, 167-175. 1999 Ellwood, B.B., Crick, R.E., and El Hassani, A., The MagnetoSusceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) Method Used in Geological Correlation of Devonian Rocks from Anti-Atlas Morocco, AAPG Bulletin, 83, 1119-1134. 2000 Crick, R.E., Ellwood, B.B., Hassani, A.E., and Feist, R., Proposed Magnetostratigraphy Susceptibility Magnetostratotype for the Eifelian-Givetian GSSP (Anti-Atlas, Morocco): Episodes, 23, 93-101. _____ Crick, R.E., Ellwood, B.B., Hladil, J., El Hassani, A., Hrouda, F., and Chlupác, I., Magnetostratigraphy Susceptibility of the Prídolian- Lochkovian (Silurian-Devonian) GSSP (Klonk, Czech Republic) and a Coeval Sequence in Anti-Atlas Morocco: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 167, 73-100. _____ Ellwood, B.B., Crick, R.E., El Hassani, A., Benoist, S., and Young, R., MagnetoSusceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) in Marine Rocks and the Question of Detrital Input Versus Carbonate Productivity: Geology, 28, 1135-1138. 2001 Ellwood, B.B., Crick, R.E., Garcia-Alcalde Fernandez, J.L., Soto, F.M., Truyols-Massoni, M., El Hassani, A., and Kovas, E.J., 2001. Global correlation using magnetic susceptibility data from Lower Devonian rocks, Geology, 29, 583-586. 2002 Crick, R.E., Ellwood, B.B., Feist, R., El Hassani, A., Schindler, E., Dreesen, R., Over, D.J., and Girard, C., Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility of the Frasnian/Famennian boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 181, 67-90
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2003 Ellwood, B.B., Benoist, S.L, El Hassani, A., Wheeler, C., and Crick, R.E., Impart ejecta layer from the Mid-Devonian: Possible connection to global mass extinctions. Science, 300, 1734-1737. 2004 Ellwood, B.B., Benoist, S.L., El Hassani, A., Wheeler, C., Crick, R.E., 2004. Response to Comment on "Impact Ejecta Layer from the Mid-Devonian: Possible Connection to Global Mass Extinctions." Science 303, Technical Comment: 471; 471c, 1-2.
Research Articles in Symposia Volumes and Guidebooks
1979 with Teichert, C., and B. F. Glenister, Biostratigraphy of Devonian nautiloid cephalopods, p. 259-262. In M. R. House, C. T. Scrutton and M. G. Bassett (eds.), The Devonian System, Spec. Papers in Palaeontology, 23. 1982 The mode and tempo of cameral deposit formation: evidence of orthoconic nautiloid physiology and ecology. Proc. 3rd. N. Amer. Paleontol. Conv., Vol. 1:113-118. 1989 Evolution of biomineralization systems within the Cephalopoda. In Crick, R.E. (ed.) Origin, Evolution, and Modern Aspects of Biomineralization in Animals and Plants. Plenum Publishing Co., 95-102. 1990 Cambro-Devonian biogeography of nautiloid cephalopods. In McKerrow, S., and Scotese, C.R. (eds.), Palaeozoic, Paleogeography and Biogeography, Geol. Soc. Mem. 12:147-161. 1993 Biogeography of early and middle Paleozoic nautiloid cephalopods: evidence for varriers to dispersal and evolution. In: Proceedings from the 3rd International Cephalopod Symposium (July, 1990), Lyons, France, Geobios, M.S. No. 14 91-105. 1994 Perunautilus quadratus n. gen. et sp. (Cephalopoda, Nautiloidea, Nautilida) from the Triassic (Norian) of Central Peru. In G. Stanley (ed.) Paleontology and Stratigraphy of early Mesozoic carbonate rocks from Peru. Palaeontographica B. Stuttgart. _____ Integration of biostratigraphy, magnetic susceptibility, and relative sea level change: A new look at high resolution correlation. Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Newsletter 11:59-66. 1995 The biogeographic nature of Paleozoic nautiloid cephalopods. NAPC-V Symposium: Paleogeography: Global Change and Evolution [Crick, Raymond & Scotese (conveners)] Chicago (July, 1992). This and othr contributed papers to appear as a proceedings volume edited by Rex E. Crick & Anne Raymond in two issues of Historical Biology. 1997 Crick, R.E., Ellwood, B.B., El Hassani, A., Feist, R., and Hladil, J., 1997, Magnetosusceptibility event and cyclostratigraphy (MSEC): Its use in characterizing the Eifelian - Givetian boundary sequence, the Kacak-Otomari Event, and the duration of the Eifelian and Givetian, in Brett, C., ed., The Amadeus Grabau Symposium: Cyclicity and Bioevents in the Devonian System: Rochester, New York, University of Rochester, p. 23. 1999 Ellwood, B.B., Crick, R.E., and El Hassani, A., 1999, The Magnetosusceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) Method. UNESCO- IGCP Project 421 & Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Abstracts Volume (Errachidia, Morocco), p. 16. _____ Crick, R.E., Ellwood, B.B., and El Hassani, A., 1999, High-Resolution Chronostratigraphy using the Anti-Atlas MSEC Composite: Comparisons within and outside Gondwana.. UNESCO-IGCP Project 421 & Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Abstracts Volume (Errachidia, Morocco), p. 11-12. _____ Crick, R.E., Ellwood, B.B., and El Hassani, A., 1999, High-Resolution MSEC Chronocorrelation Among Tafilalt Eifelian – Givetian Boundary Sequences. Excursion Guidebook: Part I – Tafilalt and Maider (eastern Anti-Atlas), A. El Hassani & T. Abdelfatah (Eds.), Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy -IGCP 421 Morocco Meeting, April 1999, p. 73-83. _____ Ellwood, B.B., and El Hassani, A., Crick, R.E., 1999, The MSEC Signature for the Latest Pridoli through Dalejan at Jbel Issoumous (Maider Basin). Excursion Guidebook: Part I – Tafilalt and Maider (eastern Anti-Atlas), A. El Hassani & T. Abdelfatah (Eds.), Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy -IGCP 421 Morocco Meeting, April 1999, p. 85-90.
Book Chapters
1988 and K.O. Mann. Biomineralization and systematic implications. In Saunders, W.B. & N.H. Landman (eds.) Nautilus: The biology and Paleobiology of a Living fossil. Plenum Press (in press). 1989 Evolution of biomineralization systems within the Cephalopoda. In Crick, R.E. (ed.) Origin, Evolution, and Modern Aspects of Biomineralization in Animals and Plants. Plenum Publishing Co., 95-102..
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1990 Cambro-Devonian biogeography of nautiloid cephalopods. In McKerrow, S. and Scotese, C.R. (eds.), Palaeozoic, Paleogeography and Biogeography, Geol. Soc. Mem. 12:147-161.
Abstracts and Notes: National and International Meetings
1978 A probabilistic and multivariate method of paleobiogeographic analysis: an alternative approach. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Northeastern Section Prog. 9:38. _____ Zoogeography of the Devonian Nautiloidea. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Annual Mtg. Prog. 10:384. 1979 Gierlowski, E. H., Devonian phytogeography: its significance to the reconstruction of paleogeography. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer. Northcentral section Prog. 10:230. 1980 The practical value of vertically preserved cephalopods: evidence from the Fort Worth limestone (Albian) of north-central Texas. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Annual Mts. Prog. 12:408. 1981 and Ottensman, V. M., The biochemistry of some Pennsylvanian nautiloids: implications for the physiochemistry of the Cephalopoda. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Mtg. Prog. 13:482. 1982 The mode and tempo of cameral deposit formation: evidence of orthoconic nautiloid physiology and ecology. Abst., Third N. Amer. Paleontological Conv. Jour. Paleontol. 56 (Pt. II of III): 7. _____ The taxonomic significance of cameral deposits of orthoconic nautiloid cephalopods. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Annual Mtg. Prog. 14:469. 1983 Stratigraphy and diversity of Cambro-Ordovician nautiloids. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Ann. Mtg. Prog. 15:550. _____ and Mann, K. O., Chamberlain, J. A., Jr., and Burkart, B., Shell formation and other aspects of biomineralization in Nautilus. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Ann. Mtg. Prog. 15:635. _____ with Papenguth, H. W., Successive stages of diagenesis of a complex molluscan allochem. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Ann. Mtg. Prog. 15:658. 1984 The microstructure and inorganic and organic chemistry of cameral deposits of Carboniferous nautiloid cephalopods. Symposium on Invertebrate Microstructure and Chemistry, XXVII International Geological Congress, Moscow. V. I:248. _____ The modelling of distributions of fossil faunas to produce qualified paleogeographics. Symposium on Mathematical Models of Geological Processes, XXVII International Geological Congress, Moscow. v. IX (2):404. _____ The adaptive and evolutionary significance of buoyancy regulation within Paleozoic nautiloid cephalopods. Geol. Soc. Amer., Ann. Mtg. Prog 16:479. 1986 Evolution of biomineralization systems within the Cephalopoda, Abst. Fifth International Symposium on Biomineralization, Arlington, 19. _____ Ontogenetic and environment related changes in physiochemical systems of extand and extinct cephalopods, Abst. Fifth International Symposium on Biomineralization, Arlington, 20. 1988 Biogeography of Cambrian-Devonian nautiloid cephalopods. Abst. Palaeozoic Biogeography and Palaeogeography Symposium, p. 27. _____ The influence of buoyancy regulation on the macroevolution of nautiloid cephalopods. Geol. Soc. Amer., Am. Mtg. Prog. 20: A49. 1990 Paleobiogeography of Siluro-Devonian nautiloid cephalopods: Faunal interchange among Gondwana, Laurentia, Baltica and intervening terranes. G.S.A. Abst. Northeastern Sec. _____ Biogeography of Silurian and Devonian nautiloid cephalopods: evidence for barriers to dispersal and macroevolution. Abst. Vol., 3rd International Cephalopod Symposium, Lyons, France. _____ The biogeographic potential of nautiloid cephalopods: real and perceived. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Annual Mtg. Prog. A 22. 1991 Nautiloid cephalopod evolution, ecology, and dispersal: Evidence from paleobiogeographic analysis. Abst. Geol. Soc. Amer., Annual Mtg. Prog. 23: A 161. 1992 The biogeographic nature of Paleozoic nautiloid cephalopods. Paleobiogeography: Global Change and Evolution Symposium, Fifth North American Paleontological Convention, Chicago, Abst. and Prog: 75.
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1994 and Ellwood, B. B., and El Hassani, A., Sea-level fluctuations and sequence stratigraphy for the Devonian of Anti-Atlas Morocco: Geol. soc. Amer. Ann. Mtg. Abst. Prg., v. 26 (7), p. A430. 1995 and Ellwood, B. B., Ortibal forcing timescale for the Late Devonian-Early Carvoniferous (Frasnian-Tournaisian): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs - 1995 Annual Meeting (New Orleans), v. 27, no. 6, p. A-332. 1996 Magnetic susceptibility and orbital forcing cycles: one route to high-resolution cyclostratigraphy and “floating” timescales. Sixth North American Paleontological Convention Abstracts of Papers. The Paleontological Society Spec. Pub. 8:89. 1997 Ellwood, B.B., and Crick, R.E., 1997, The magnetosusceptibility event and cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) method applied to Devonian marine sequences from Africa and Europe, First International Conference on North Gondwanan Mid-Palaeozoic Biodynamics, IGCP Project Nr. 421: Vienna, Austria, p. 13. 1999 Ellwood, B.B., Crick, R.E., and El Hassani, A., 1999, The Magnetosusceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) Method. UNESCO- IGCP Project 421 & SDS Abstracts Volume (Errachidia, Morocco), p. 16. _____ Crick, R.E., Ellwood, B.B., and El Hassani, A., 1999, High-Resolution Chronostratigraphy using the Anti-Atlas MSEC Composite: Comparisons within and outside Gondwana.. UNESCO-IGCP Project 421 & SDS Abstracts Volume (Errachidia, Morocco), p. 11-12. _____ Ellwood, B.B. and Crick, R.E., 1999. Application of the Magnetostratigraphic MSEC (MagnetoSusceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy) Method in Chronocorrelation, EOS, Trans. AGU, 80, p. F296-297. _____ Ellwood, B.B. and Crick, R.E., 1999. High resolution correlation within the Woodford Shale (Upper Devonian) using magnetosusceptibility event and cyclostratigraphy (MSEC): in the Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian Geology and Petroleum in the Southern Midcontinent, Workshop Volume, Norman, Oklahoma, p. 10, INVITED. 2000 Ellwood, B.B. and Crick, R.E., 2000. The MagnetoSusceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) Method Used in High-Resolution Chronocorrelation, Annual AAPG Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, p. A46. 2001 Ellwood, B.B., Benoist, S.L., Wheeler, C.W., and Crick, R.E., 2001, Magnetic Susceptibility Variations and Global Correlations of Marine Strata: Empirical Examples, EOS, Trans. AGU, 82, INVITED. _____ Benoist, S.L., Ellwood, B.B., Crick, R.E., and El Hassani, A., 2001. Compilation of a Devonian biostratigraphic composite standard section and its use as a calibration tool for magnetic susceptibility event and cyclostratigraphy data from Morocco, North Africa. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 33, No. 4, October 2001. 2002 Ellwood, B.B., Crick, R.E. and Benoist, S.L., 2002. A TALE OF TWO BOLIDES: COMPARING THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE (K-T) AND NEWLY IDENTIFIED MIDDLE DEVONIAN EIFELIAN-GIVETIAN IMPACTS. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 34, No. 6, September 2002.
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