Cambrian
Ordovician		 TRILOBITE PEOPLE DIRECTORY
PATERSON, John R.
PROFILE
Name: PATERSON, John R.
Category:  Professional
Address:    Division of Earth Sciences,
                   School of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources Management,
                   University of New England,
                   Armidale, NSW 2351
                   AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 2 6773 2101
Fax:   ---
Email: jpater20@une.edu.au
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Area(s) of research: Systematics - Biostratigraphy - Palaeoecology - Taphonomy - Palaeobiology - Palaeobiogeography
Group(s) of interest: Agnostida - Asaphida - Corynexochida - Phacopida - Ptychopariida - Redlichiida
Period(s): Cambrian - Ordovician
Field area(s): Australia (South Australia - New South Wales) 
Current projects: 1) Systematics and biostratigraphy of early Cambrian trilobites (+ other biota) from South Australia - 2) Phylogeny, palaeoecology, taphonomy, and palaeobiogeography of early Cambrian trilobites (especially East Gondwana) - 3) Arthropods (+ other biota) from the early Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, Kangaroo Island, South Australia - 4) Gregarious behaviour of trilobites - 5) Palaeoecology and body patterning in emuelloid trilobites.
MOST SIGNIFICANT WORKS ON TRILOBITES & THEIR RELATIVES (last 3 years only)
9. Paterson, J.R. & Brock, G.A., 2007. Early Cambrian trilobites from Angorichina, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, with a new assemblage from the Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone. Journal of Paleontology, 81(1): 116-142.
8. Jago, J.B., Zang, W.-L., Sun, X.-W., Brock, G.A., Paterson, J.R. & Skovsted, C.B. 2006. A review of the Cambrian biostratigraphy of South Australia. Palaeoworld, 15(3-4): 406-423.
7. Paterson, J.R. 2006. Prosopiscus (Ordovician; Trilobita) from the Rowena Formation, western New South Wales. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 32: 347-352.
6. Paterson, J.R. & Jago, J.B. 2006. New trilobites from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte at Big Gully, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 32: 43-57.
5. Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A. & Paterson, J.R. 2006. Bivalved arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Mernmerna Formation of South Australia and their implications for the identification of Cambrian “small shelly fossils”. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 32: 7-41.
4. Paterson, J.R. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2006. The Early Cambrian trilobite family Emuellidae Pocock, 1970: systematic position and revision of Australian species. Journal of Paleontology, 80(3): 496-513.
3. Jago, J.B., Zang, W.-L., Sun, X.-W., Brock, G.A. & Paterson, J.R. 2005. A review of the Cambrian biostratigraphy of South Australia. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 22 (sup.): 72-74.
2. Paterson, J.R. 2005. Systematics of the Cambrian trilobite family Nepeidae, with revision of Australian species. Palaeontology, 48(3): 479-517.
1. Paterson, J.R. 2005. Revision of Discomesites and Estaingia (Trilobita) from the Lower Cambrian Cymbric Vale Formation, western New South Wales: taxonomic, biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 126: 81-93.
Last update
Jan., 31st 2007