Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Ph.D.
1. Larval morphology and systematics
2. Influences on the evolutionary history
3. Evolution of trilobite tagmosis and body plan
II. The Late Devonian extinction events
1. Influences of developmental strategies on the survivorship of Proetoidea during the Hangenberg event
2. Evolution of development associated to the post-Kellwasser recolonization of benthic shelf habitats
III. Morphofunctional anatomy of trilobites
1. Morphology of the hypostome/glabella complex and evolution of feeding habits (1) during ontogeny and (2) through time
2. Modalities of the ocular complex regression(/loss) in Late Devonian proetoid trilobites
3. Functions of enigmatic structures of the larval cuticle
IV. Evolution of the diversity and disparity of post-Devonian trilobites
1. Exploitation of ecological niches and associated adaptive convergences
2. Regulation of the synthesis and articulation of post-cephalic segments in the Phillipsiidae
3. Permian biocrises and the extinction of trilobites
2001-2004: Ph.D. (French State fellowship) - University Montpellier II:
"Etude du developpement des trilobites proetoides : implications systematiques, paleoecologiques et morpho-fonctionnelles".
2000-2001: DEA ("Ms degree") Paleontology, Paleobiology and Phylogeny - University Montpellier II:
"Morphogenese d'un trilobite Cyrtosymboline : interpretations phylogenetiques et ethologiques".
1999-2000: Maitrise Earth and Planetary Sciences - University Rennes I
1998-1999: Licence Biology - University Rennes I
1996-1998: DEUG Natural History - University of Caen
1995: Baccalaureat Sciences
2004-2005: Attache Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche - University Montpellier II
2001-2004: Moniteur de l'enseignement supérieur - University Montpellier II
2004-2005: Invertebrate Paleontology, History of Life and Earth
2001-2006: Invertebrate Palaeontology, Initiation to Geology, Fieldtrips in the Montagne Noire with undergraduated students.
09/2002: Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous outcrops of Germany (Thuringia, Harz Mountains).
2001-2003: Devonian (Pic du Bissou, Tourière, La Serre, Mont-Perroux) and Lower Carboniferous (Puech de la Suque) outcrops of the Montagne Noire, France.
07/2005: Upper Devonian outcrops in the Canning Basin, Australia.
06/2005: Upper Devonian outcrops of the Canning Basin, Australia.
2. Feist, R., Klapper, G. & R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2003. Conodont based trilobite biozonation in the Late Devonian off-shore Realm. GSA annual meeting, Seattle. Abstract
3. Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2004. Discovery of Famennian and Early Carboniferous trilobite larvae: implications for the systematics of proetoids. PalAss annual meeting, Lille. Abstract
4. Feist, R. & R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2006. Rappel de l'importance scientifique du patrimoine paléontologique marocains: exemple des trilobites dévoniens. Rencontre pour la valorisation et la préservation du patrimoine paléontologique, Marrakech. Abstract
5. Feist, R., P., Morzadec & R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2007. Palaeogeographic constraints and facies control of trilobite communities between Avalonia and N-Gondwana margins during the Devonian. First International Palaeobiogeography Symposium, Paris. Abstract
2. Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2007. Biogeography of Permian trilobites: a review. First International Palaeobiogeography Symposium, Paris. Abstract gif version
3. Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2008. Trilobites biogeography and Permian biochores. Fourth International Conference on Trilobites (Trilo08), Toledo. gif version
2. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. and R. FEIST. 2005. Post-protaspid ontogeny of the blind cyrtosymboline Helioproetus (Trilobita) from the late Famennian of Thuringia, Germany. Senckenbergiana Lethaea, 85(1): 119-130. Abstract
3. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. & R. FEIST. 2005. Ontogeny of a new cyrtosymboline trilobite from the Famennian of Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 50(3): 449-464. Abstract full version (pdf)
4. FEIST, R. & LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. 2005. The type species of Cyrtosymbole and the oldest (Famennian) cyrtosymboline trilobites. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 50(3): 465-475. Abstract full version (pdf)
5. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. 2006. Ontogeny of Drevermannia and the origin of blindness in Late Devonian proetoid trilobites. Geological Magazine, 143(1): 83-104. Abstract full version (pdf)
6. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. & R. Feist. 2006. Late ontogeny and hypostomal condition of a new cyrtosymboline trilobite from the Famennian of Morocco. Palaeontology, 49(5): 1053-1068. Abstract
7. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. 2007. Early Devonian calymenid larvae (Trilobita) from the Bissounel Formation (Montagne Noire, France). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 178 (3): 197-200. Abstract
8. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R., R., FEIST & B.D.E. CHATTERTON. 2008. The ontogeny and systematics of the otarionine trilobite Otarionella from the Devonian of the Montagne Noire, France and the Maider, Morocco. Geological Magazine, 145(1): 55-71. Abstract
9. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. 2008. Trilobite biogeography and Permian biochores. In I.Rabano, R. Gozalo and D. Garcia-Bellido (Eds.), Advances in trilobite research, 225-228. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, nº 9. Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana, Madrid, 2008. pdf version
10. FEIST, R. & R. LEROSEY-AUBRIL. 2008. Assessing the hypothesis of a third tagma in scutelluid trilobites: arguments from ontogenetic, functional, and evolutionary perspectives. In I.Rabano, R. Gozalo and D. Garcia-Bellido (Eds.), Advances in trilobite research, 127-133. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, nº 9. Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana, Madrid, 2008. pdf version
11. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. & K.J. McNAMARA. 2008. The median cephalic organ of trilobites. In I.Rabano, R. Gozalo and D. Garcia-Bellido (Eds.), Advances in trilobite research, 229-235. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, nº 9. Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana, Madrid, 2008. pdf version
12. FEIST, R., K.J., McNAMARA, C., CRONIER & R. LEROSEY-AUBRIL. in press. Patterns of extinction and recovery of phacopid trilobites during the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction event, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Geological Magazine.
13. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. & L. ANGIOLINI. submitted. First description of Permian trilobites from Turkey, with comments on the enrollment in Late Paleozoic trilobites.
2. Feist, R., Klapper, G. and R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2003. Conodont based trilobite biozonation in the Late Devonian off-shore Realm. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 35, N°6, September 2003: 385. Full version
2. Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2004. 2003 GSA annual meeting. Geochronique, 89: 7.
3. Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2004. An Inca trilobite from Chile: when Palaeontology meets Archaeology or the story of a fake. Trilobite Papers, 16: 17-19. Full version Version completa
4. Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2004. Etude du developpement des trilobite proetoides: implications systematiques, paleoecologiques et morpho-fonctionnelles. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University Montpellier II
5. Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2005. Adaptations larvaires et strategies de developpement. Pour la Science, 331:65.
6. Lerosey-Aubril, R. & T. Hegna. 2006. Trilobite publications: statistics for the year 2005. Trilobite Papers, 18: 3-6. pdf version
7. Hegna, T. & R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2007. Trilobite publications: statistics for the year 2006. Trilobite Papers, 19: 4-7. pdf version
