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Scientific Research

The McWane Collection is open to scientific researchers and students currently advised by researchers.

Significant aspects of the McWane Collection include:

Hundreds of cataloged Late Cretaceous mosasaurs, dinosaurs, turtles, birds, and marine and flying reptiles
Thousands of cataloged Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic chondrichthyans and bony fishes
The world’s largest collection of Pennsylvanian vertebrate and invertebrate ichnofossils and plants from Alabama’s famed Union Chapel Mine
The state’s largest collection of Late Pleistocene mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and freshwater fishes
Collections of Paleogene and Neogene mammals
Extensive osteology comparative collection consisting of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes
Thousands of Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic invertebrates

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Research

Type Specimens Housed at McWane Science Center

Sharks & Rays

MSC 2984.1 – Cretalamna bryanti Ebersole and Ehret, 2018; Mooreville Chalk (lower Campanian), Dallas County, AL – Holotype
MSC 35048 – Pseudaetobatus belli Cicimurri and Ebersole, 2015; Tallahatta Formation (lower Eocene), Dale County, AL – Holotype
MSC 35054 – Pseudaetobatus belli Cicimurri and Ebersole, 2015; Tallahatta Formation (lower Eocene), Dale County, AL – Paratype
MSC 35058 – Pseudaetobatus belli Cicimurri and Ebersole, 2015; Tallahatta Formation (lower Eocene), Dale County, AL – Paratype
MSC 35059 – Pseudaetobatus belli Cicimurri and Ebersole, 2015; Tallahatta Formation (lower Eocene), Dale County, AL – Paratype
MSC 35062 – Pseudaetobatus belli Cicimurri and Ebersole, 2015; Tallahatta Formation (lower Eocene), Dale County, AL – Paratype
MSC 39036 – Carcharhinus mancinae Ebersole et al., 2019; Gosport Sand (middle Eocene), Clarke County, AL – Holotype
MSC 39037 – Carcharhinus mancinae Ebersole et al., 2019; Gosport Sand (middle Eocene), Clarke County, AL – Paratype
MSC 39038 – Carcharhinus mancinae Ebersole et al., 2019; Gosport Sand (middle Eocene), Clarke County, AL – Paratype
MSC 39039 – Carcharhinus mancinae Ebersole et al., 2019; Gosport Sand (middle Eocene), Clarke County, AL – Paratype
MSC 39040 – Carcharhinus mancinae Ebersole et al., 2019; Gosport Sand (middle Eocene), Clarke County, AL – Paratype
MSC 39041 – Carcharhinus mancinae Ebersole et al., 2019; Gosport Sand (middle Eocene), Clarke County, AL – Paratype

MSC 42412 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Holotype
MSC 42405 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42406 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42407 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42408 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42409 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42410 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42411 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42413 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42416 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype
MSC 42432 – Mennerotodus mackayi Cicimurri et al., 2020; Pine Barren Member (lower Paleocene), Lowndes County, AL – Paratype

Trace Fossils

MSC 8206 (UCM 364) – Nanopus reidiae Haubold et al., 2005; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Paratype
MSC 8224 (UCM 311) – Nanopus reidiae Haubold et al., 2005; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Paratype
MSC 9042 – Kouphichnium aspodon Aldrich, 1930; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Lectoparatype
MSC 9433 – Kouphichnium aspodon Aldrich, 1930; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Lectoparatype
MSC 38454 – Kouphichnium aspodon Aldrich, 1930; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Lectoparatype
MSC 38456 – Kouphichnium aspodon Aldrich, 1930; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Lectoparatype
MSC 9324 – Kouphichnium minkinensis King et al., 2019; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Paratype
MSC 13952.1 – Kouphichnium atkinsoni King et al., 2019; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Lectoparatype

Birds

ACC 92.35 – Halimornis thompsoni Chiappe et al. 2002; Mooreville Chalk (lower Campanian), Greene County, AL – Holotype

Dinosaurs

MSC 7949 – Eotrachodon orientalis Prieto-Márquez et al. 2016; Mooreville Chalk (upper Santonian), Montgomery County, AL – Holotype
MSC 6670 – Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis Carr et al., 2005; Demopolis Chalk (upper Campanian), Montgomery County, AL – Holotype

Insects

MSC 9334 – Camptodiapha atkinsoni Beckemeyer and Engel, 2011; Pottsville Formation (lower Pennsylvanian), Walker County, AL – Holotype

Turtles

MSC 35984 – Asmodochelys parhami Gentry et al., 2019; “Muldrow” Member of the Demopolis Chalk, Wilcox County, AL – Holotype
MSC 40935 – Asmodochelys parhami Gentry et al., 2019; Bluffport Marl Member of the Demopolis Chalk, Sumter County, AL – Paratype

Bony Fishes

MSC 43416 – Centropristis priaboniana Nolf and Stringer, 2003; Tullos Member (upper Eocene), Caldwell Parish, LA – Paratype

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications by Year

2024

Ebersole, J.A., D.J. Cicimurri, L.M. Stallworth, and A.D. Gentry. 2024. Preliminary report on the fishes (Chondrichthyes & Teleostei) from the lower Oligocene (Rupelian) Red Bluff Clay at site AMo-9, Monroe County, Alabama, USA. Palaeo Vertebrate 1–24. https://doi.org/10.18563/pv.2.e2
Mohr, R.C., T.S. Tobin, and E.M. Tompkins (2024). Morphometric analysis of the Late Cretaceous Placenticeras of Alabama, USA: sexual dimorphism, allometry, and implications for taxonomy. Paleobiology 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.3
Ebersole, J.A., D.J. Cicimurri, and T. L. Harrell. 2024. A new species of Palaeohypotodus Glückman, 1964 (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from the lower Paleocene (Danian) Porters Creek Formation, Wilcox County, Alabama, USA. Fossil Record 27(1): 11-134.
Ebersole, J.A., D.J. Cicimurri, & S.M. Ebersole. 2024. Additions to the Pliocene fish assemblage (Chondrichthyes; Osteichthyes) from Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA. Paleoichthys 8:1-20

2023

Stringer, G.L., J.A. Ebersole, J.E. Starnes, & S.M. Ebersole. 2023. Additions to the Pliocene fish otolith assemblage from site AMb-2 on Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA, and their taxonomic and paleoecologic implications. Paleoichthys 7:1-29.
Ebersole, J.A., A.T. Kelosky, B.L. Huerta-Beltrán, D.J. Cicimurri, & J.M. Drymon. 2023. Observations on heterodonty within the dentition of Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson, 1836), from the northern Gulf of Mexico, USA, with implications on the fossil record. Peer J. 11:e15142
Kiernan, C.R., and J.A. Ebersole. 2023. Two new plioplatecarpine mosasaurs (Mosasauridae; Plioplatecarpinae) of the genus Ectenosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. PaleoBios 40(13):1–28.

2022

Tsogtbaatar, C., T. Cullen, G. Phillips, R. Rolke, and L.E. Zanno. 2022. Large-bodied ornithomimosaurs inhabited Appalachia during the Late Cretaceous of North America. PloS One 17(10): e0266648. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266648
Gentry, A.D., C.R. Kiernan, and J.F. Parham. 2022. A large non-marine turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and a review of North American “Macrobaenids.” The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25054
Cicimurri, D.J., J.L. Knight, and J.A. Ebersole. 2022. Early Oligocene (Rupelian) fishes (Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes) from the Ashley Formation (Cooper Group) of South Carolina, USA. Paleobios 39:1-38.
Ebersole, J.A., S.V. Solonin, D.J. Cicimurri, M.S. Arkhangelsky, and N.V. Martynovich. 2022. Marine fishes (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Rybushka Formation near Beloe Ozero, Saratov Oblast, Russia. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 128(2):369-409. https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/16954
Fuelling, L.J., S.J. Jacquemin, G.L. Stringer, A.J. Smith, and C.N. Ciampaglio. 2022. Phylogeography and biogeography of the ubiquitous and unique sciaenid genus Aplodinotus in North America. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2054713
Stringer, G.L., D. Parmley, and A. Quinn. 2022. Eocene teleostean otoliths, including a new taxon, from the Clinchfield Formation (Bartonian) in Georgia, USA, with biostratigraphic, biogeographic, and paleoecologic implications. Palaeovertebrata 45(1):1-20. doi: 10.18563/pv.45.1.e1

2021

Cicimurri, D.J. and J.A. Ebersole. 2021. New Paleogene elasmobranch (Chondrichthyes) records from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States, including a new species of Carcharhinus de Blainville, 1816. Cainozoic Research 21(2): 147-164.
Gentry, A.D. and J.A. Ebersole. 2021. The first occurrence of the stem turtle Naomichelys from the Later Cretaceous of eastern North America. Historical Biology, https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.1962855
Rana, R.S., R. Patel, D.J. Cicimurri, and J.A. Ebersole. 2021. Additions to the elasmobranch assemblage from the Bandah Formation (middle Eocene, Bartonian) Jaisalmer District, Rajasthan, India, and the palaeobiogeographic implications of the fauna. Palaeovertebrata 44(2):e1. doi: 10.18563/pv.44.2.e1.
Ebersole, J.A., D.J. Cicimurri, and G.L. Stringer. 2021. Marine fishes (Elasmobranchii, Teleostei) from the Glendon Limestone Member of the Byram Formation (Oligocene, Rupelian) at site AWa-9, Washington County, Alabama, USA, including a new species of gobiid (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae). Acta Geologica Polonica 71(4):481-518. https://doi.org/10.24425/agp.2020.134561
Joyce, W.G., J. Anquetin, E-A. Cadena, J. Claude, I.G. Danilov, S.W. Evers, G.S. Ferreira, A.D. Gentry, G.L. Georgalis, T.R. Lyson, A. Peréez-Garcia, M. Rabi, J. Sterli, N.S. Vitek, and J.F. Parham. 2021. A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140:5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-020-00211-x

2017

Ebersole, J.A., S.M. Ebersole, and D.J. Cicimurri. 2017. The occurrence of early Pleistocene marine fish remains from the Gulf Coast of Mobile County, Alabama, USA. Palaeodiversity 10(1): 97-115. https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v10.a6.

2016

Gentry, A.D. 2016. New material of the Late Cretaceous marine turtle Ctenochelys acris Zangerl, 1953 and a phylogenetic reassessment of the ‘toxochelyid’-grade taxa. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1-22, doi: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1217087.
Jiménez-Huidobro, P., T. R. Simõesa, and M. W. Caldwell. 2016. Re-characterization of Tylosaurus nepaeolicus (Cope, 1874) and Tylosaurus kansasensis Everhart, 2005: Ontogeny or sympatry? Cretaceous Research, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.04.008.
Prieto-Márquez, A., G. M. Erickson, and J. A. Ebersole. 2016. Anatomy and Osteohistology of the Basal Hadrosaurid Dinosaur Eotrachodon from the uppermost Santonian (Cretaceous) of Southern Appalachia. PeerJ, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1872
Jacquemin S.J, J. A. Ebersole, W. C. Dickinson, and C. N. Ciampaglio. (2016). Late Pleistocene fishes of the Tennessee River Basin: an analysis of a late Pleistocene freshwater fish fauna from Bell Cave (site ACb-2) in Colbert County, Alabama, USA. PeerJ, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1648
Jacquemin, S. J., D. J. Cicimurri, J. A. Ebersole, M. Jones, Z. Whetstone, and C. N. Ciampaglio. 2016. Quantifying heterodonty in the late Devonian (Upper Famennian) sharks Cladoselache and Ctenacanthus from the Ohio Shale, USA. PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 13(1):1-20.
Prieto-Márquez, A., G. M. Erickson, and J. A. Ebersole. 2016. A primitive hadrosaurid from southeastern North America and the origin and early evolution of ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1054495.

2015

Gingerich, P.D. 2015. New partial skeleton and relative brain size in the late Eocene Archaeocete Zygorhiza kochii (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Pachuta Marl of Alabama, with a note on contemporaneous Pontogeneus brachyspondylus. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 32(10):161-188.
Cicimurri, D.J., and J.A. Ebersole. 2015. Paleocene chimaeroid fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) from the eastern United States, including two new species of Callorhinchus. PaleoBios 32:1-29.
Cicimurri, D. J., and J. A. Ebersole. 2015. Two new species of Pseudaetobatus Cappetta, 1986 (Batoidea: Myliobatidae) from the southeastern United States. Palaeontologica Electronica 18.1.15A:1-17.
D’Emic, M.D., K.M. Smith, and Z.T. Ansley. 2015. Unusual histology and morphology of the ribs of mosasaurs (squamata). Palaeontology 2015:1-10.
Rothschild, B., and M.J. Everhart. 2015. Co-ossification of vertebrae in mosasaurs (Squamata, Mosasauridae); evidence of habitat interactions and susceptibility to bone disease. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 118(3-4):265-275.
Ikejiri, T., and S.G. Lucas. 2015. Osteology and taxonomy of Mosasaurus conodon Cope 1881 from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 94(1):39-54.

2014

Ebersole, J. A., B. Bizzoco, K. Reed, and S. Jones. 2014. Preliminary Investigation of Sloss Quarters at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark (1-JE-488), Jefferson County, Alabama. On file at the Alabama Historical Commission, Montgomery, Tracking No. 12-0699. 41 pp.
Cicimurri, D. J., and J. A. Ebersole. 2014. Late Cretaceous chimaeroids (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) from Alabama, USA. PaleoBios 31(2):1-14.
Ehret, D. J., and J. A. Ebersole. 2014. Occurrence of the megatoothed sharks (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) in Alabama, USA. PeerJ 2:3625; DOI 10.7717/peerj.625.
Ikejiri, T., and S. G. Lucas. 2014. Osteology and taxonomy of Mosasaurus conodon Cope 1881 from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, p. 1-16.
Jasinski, S. E., and S. C. Wallace. 2014. Investigation into the paleobiology of Dasypus bellus using geometric morphometrics and variation of the calcaneus. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 21(3):285-298.
Rodriguez, S., and D. C. Kopaska-Merkel. 2014. Mississippian rugose corals from Alabama: a review. Journal of Paleontology 88(5):829-850.

2013

Ciampagalio, C. N., D. J. Cicimurri, J. A. Ebersole, and K. E. Runyon. 2013. A note on Late Cretaceous fish taxa recovered from stream gravels at site AGr-43 in Greene County, Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31:84-97.
Ebersole, J. A., and L. S. Dean. 2013. The history of Late Cretaceous vertebrate research in Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(1):4-45.
Ebersole, J. A., and T. Ikejiri (eds). 2013a. Contributions to Alabama Cretaceous Paleontology. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(1):1-113.
Friedman. M. K., K. Shimada, M. J. Everhart, K. J. Irwin, B. S. Grandstaff, ad J. D. Stewart. 2013. Geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the Late Cretaceous suspension-feeding bony fish Bonnerichthys gladius (Teleostei, Pachycormiformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(1):35-47.
Ikejiri, T., J. A. Ebersole, S. M. Ebersole, and H. B. Blewitt. 2013. An overview of Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(1):46-71.
Jasinski, S. E. 2013. Review of the fossil Trionychidae (Testudines) from Alabama, including the oldest record of trionychid turtles from Eastern North America. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(2).
Loewen, M. A., R. B. Irmis, J. J. W. Sertich, P. J. Currie, and S. D. Sampson. 2013. Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans. PlosOne 8(11).
Loewen, M. A., R. B. Irmis, J. J. W. Sertich, P. J. Currie, and S. D. Sampson. 2013. Supplemental to: Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans. PlosOne 8(11).
Schein, J. P., D. C. Parris, J. C. Poole, and K. J. Lacovara. 2013. A nearly complete skull of Enchodus ferox (Actinopterygii, Aulopiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Ripley Formation of Lowndes County, Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(1):78-83.
Shimada, K. 2013. Chondrichthyan origin for the fossil record of the Tselfatiiform Osteichthyan fish, Thryptodus zitteli Loomis, from the Upper Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk of Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(1):72-77.
Uhen, M. D. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(2):1-45.

2012

Houssaye, A., and N. Bardet. 2012. Rib and vertebral micro-anatomical characteristics of hydropelvic mosasauroids. Lethaia 45:200-209.
Houssaye, A., and P. L. Tafforeau. 2012. What vertebral microanatomy reveals about the ecology of juvenile mosasaurs (Reptila, Squamata). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):1042-1048.
Jovanelly, T. J., and L. Lane. 2012. Comparison of the functional morphology of Appalachiosaurus and Albertosaurus. The Open Geology Journal 6:65-71.
Konishi, T., J. Lindgren, M. W. Caldwell, and L. Chiappe. 2012. Platecarpus tympaniticus (Squamata, Mosasauridae): Osteology of an exceptionally preserved specimen and its insights into the acquisition of a streamlined body shape in mosasaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(6):1313-1327.

2011

Beckenmeyer, R. J., and M. S. Engel. 2011. Upper Carboniferous insects from the Pottsville Formation of Northern Alabama (Insecta: Ephemeropterida, Palaeodictyopterida, Odonatoptera). Scientific Papers: Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas 44:1-19.
Ebersole, J. A., and S. M. Ebersole. 2011. Late Pleistocene Mammals of Alabama: a comprehensive faunal review with 21 previously unreported taxa. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 28:1-66.
Ebersole, S. M., and J. L. King. 2011. A review of non-avian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 28:81-93.
Konishi, T., and M. W. Caldwell. 2011. Two new Plioplatecarpine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) genera from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, and a global phylogenetic analysis of Pleioplatecarpines. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(4):754-783.
Parham, J. F., and J. A. Ebersole (eds). 2011. Paleontology papers in honor of Douglas E. Jones. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 28:1-93.

2010

Konishi, T., M. W. Caldwell, and G. L. Bell. 2010. Redescription of the holotype of Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope, 1869 (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae), and its implications for the alpha taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1410-1421.
Semken, H. A., Jr., R. W. Graham, and T. W. Stafford, Jr. 2010. AMS 14C analysis of Late Pleistocene non–analog faunal components from 21 cave deposits in southeastern North America. Quaternary International 217(1–2):240–255.

2009

Konishi, T., and M. W. Caldwell. 2009. New material of the mosasaur Plioplatecarpus nichollsae Cuthbertson et al., 2007, clarifies problematic features of the holotype specimen. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2):417-436.
Shimada, K. 2009. The first associated teeth of the Late Cretaceous anacoracid shark, Pseudocorax laevis (Leriche), from the Mooreville Chalk of Alabama. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 112(3/4):164-168.

2007

Pellegrini, R. 2007. Skeletochronology of the limb elements of mosasaurs (Squamata; Mosasauridae). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110(1/2):83-99.
Schein, J. P., and R. D. Lewis. 2007. Actinopterygian fishes from Upper Cretaceous rocks in Alabama, with emphasis on the Teleostean genus Enchodus. Paludicola 6(2):41-86.
Shimada, K., and D. D. Brereton. 2007. The Late Cretaceous Lamniform shark, Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz), from the Mooreville Chalk of Alabama. Paludicola 6(3):105-110.

2008

Konishi, T. 2008. Southernmost occurrence of Platecarpus planifrons (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Tombigbee Sand Member (Middle Santonian) of Alabama, USA, and a revised biostratigraphy of the genus. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting 2008.

2005

Carr, T. D., T. E. Williamson, and D. R. Schwimmer. 2005. A new genus and species of Tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous (Middle Campanian) Demopolis Formation of Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):119-143.
Lindgren, J., and M. Siverson. 2005. Halisaurus sternbergi, a small mosasaur with an intercontinental distribution. Journal of Paleontology 79(4):763-773.

2003

McDonald, H. G. 2003. Sloth remains from North American caves and associated karst features; pp. 1–16 in B. W. Schubert, J. I. Mead, and R. W. Graham (eds.), Ice Age cave faunas of North America, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.

2002

Chiappe, L. M., J. P. Lamb, Jr., and G. P. Ericson. 2002. New Enantiornithine bird from the marine Upper Cretaceous of Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):170-174.
Kiernan, C. R. 2002. Stratigraphic distribution and habitat segregation of mosasaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of western and central Alabama, with an historical review of Alabama mosasaur discoveries. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22:91–103.
Parmalee, P. W., and R. W. Graham. 2002. Additional records of the giant beaver, Castoroides, from the Mid–South: Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina. pp. 65–71. In: R.J. Emry (ed.), Cenozoic mammals of land and sea: tributes to the career of Clayton E. Ray. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 374.

1999

Daly, E. 1999. A middle Eocene Zygorhiza specimen from Mississippi (Cetacea, Archaeoceti). Mississippi Geology 20(2):21-31

1998

Hooks, G. E., III. 1998. Systematic revision of the Protostegidae, with a redescription of Calcarichelys gemma Zangerl, 1953. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18:85–98.
Sheldon, A., and G. L. Bell, Jr. 1998. Paedomorphosis in mosasauroidea (Squamata): evidence from fossil bone microstructure. Paludicola 2: 190–205.

1997

Bell, G. L., Jr. 1997. Chapter 11 – A phylogenetic revision of North American and Adriatic Mosasauroidea. In: Callaway JM, Nicholls EL, editors. Ancient Marine Reptiles. San Diego. 293–332.
Sheldon, A. 1997. Chapter 12 – Ecological implications of mosasaur bone microstructure. In: Callaway JM, Nicholls EL, editors. Ancient Marine Reptiles. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 333–354.

1996

Sheldon, A., and J. E. Donachy. 1996. Histological and biochemical analysis of bone from four genera of mosasaurs. Bulletin de l’Institut océanographique 14: 369–375.

1995

Holman, J. A. 1995. Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles in North America. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics. Oxford University Press, New York, 256 pp.

1992

Kiernan, C. R. 1992. Clidastes Cope, 1868 (Reptilia, Sauria): proposed designation of Clidastes propython Cope, 1869 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49:137–139.
Lively, R. S., G. L. Bell, Jr., and J. P. Lamb. 1992. Uranium–series dates from travertines associated with a Late Pleistocene megafauna in ACb–3, Alabama. Southeastern Geology 33(1):1–8.
Parmalee, P. W. 1992. A Late Pleistocene avifauna from northwestern Alabama. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 36:307–318.

1990

Holman, J. A., G. Bell, and J. Lamb. 1990. A Late Pleistocene herpetofauna from Bell Cave, Alabama. Herpetological Journal 1:521–529.
Martin, R. A., and R. H. Prince. 1990. Variation and evolutionary trends in the dentition of Late Pleistocene Microtus pennsylvanicus from three levels in Bell Cave, Alabama. Historical Biology 4:117–129.

1989

Churcher, C. S., P. W. Parmalee, G. L. Bell, Jr., and J. P. Lamb, Jr. 1989. Caribou from the Late Pleistocene of northwestern Alabama. Canadian Journal of Zoology 67:1210–1216.
Martin, L. D. and B. M. Rothschild. 1989. Paleopathology and diving mosasaurs. American Scientist 77(3):460-467.

1988

King, D. T., J. P. King, G. L. Bell, Jr., J. P. Lamb, Jr., J. L. Dobie, and D. R. Womochel. 1988. Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Turnipseed dinosaur site in the Upper Cretaceous Demopolis Chalk of Montgomery County, Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 59:34–48.
Wright, K. R. 1988. The first record of Clidastes liodontus (Squamata, Mosasuridae) from the Eastern United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(3):343-345.

1986

Bell, G. L., Jr. 1986. A pycnodont fish from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 60:1120–1126.
Bell, G. L., Jr., and M. A. Sheldon. 1986. Description of a very young mosasaur from Greene County, Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Sciences 57:76–83.
Waters, J. A. and G. L. Bell, Jr. 1986. A new occurrence of Granatocrinus granulatus (Roemer) from the Fort Payne Chert of Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 60(1):177-180.

Non-Refereed Publications

Field, D.J., M. Hanson, D.A. Burnham, L.E. Wilson, K.J. Super, J.A. Ebersole, and B.A.S. Bhullar. 2019. Exceptional Mesozoic fossils reveal the mosaic assembly of the crown bird skull. Journal of Morphology, Supplemental, 12th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, July 21-25, Prague, Czech Republic, S121
Ehret, D.J., and J.A. Ebersole. 2017. New Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) genus of lamniform shark from the Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, USA. Abstracts, Technical Session II, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 77th Annual Meeting, p. 107.
Burns, M.E., and J.A. Ebersole. 2016a. Juvenile Appalachian nodosaur material (Nodosauridae, Ankylosauridae) from the lower Campanian lower Mooreville Chalk of Alabama. Abstracts and Posters Session IV, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 76th Annual Meeting.
Burns, M.E., and J.A. Ebersole. 2016. New Appalachian armored dinosaur material (Nodosauridae, Ankylosauria) from the Maastrichtian Ripley Formation of Alabama. Abstract, Paper No. 22-5, The Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section, 65th Annual Meeting.
Jacquemin, S. J., J. A. Ebersole, D.J. Cicimurri, C.N. Ciampagalio, M. Jones, and Z. Whetstone. 2016. Quantifying heterodonty in the late Devonian (upper Famennian) sharks Cladoseleche and Ctenacanthus from the Ohio Shale, USA. The Geological Society of America, North-Central Meeting, April 18-19, 2016; Abstracts and Posters, Session No. 22.
Ehret, D. J., and J.A. Ebersole. 2016. Recent paleontological research and discoveries in Alabama, USA. The Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section Meeting, March 31-April 1, 2016; Abstracts and Programs
Ehret, D. J., T. L. Harrell, Jr. and J. A. Ebersole. 2015. Feeding traces on Pteranodon longiceps (Reptilia: Pterosauria) bones from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Mooreville Chalk. Abstracts, Poster Session IV, 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, Texas, p. 120.
Ehret, D. J., and J. A. Ebersole. 2014. Occurrence of the megatoothed sharks (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) in Alabama, USA. Abstracts, 7th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Vertebrate Paleontology, Jackson, Mississippi.
Ebersole, J. A. 2014. Nodosaur. Encyclopedia of Alabama. Published online January 13, 2014. http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-3553.
Gentry, A. D. 2014. New stem-Chelonioid material from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and the taxonomic validity of the genus Ctenochelys (Testudines: Toxochelys). Posters with Abstracts, 7th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Vertebrate Paleontology, Jackson, Mississippi.
Prieto-Marquez, A. P., G. M. Erickson, and J. A. Ebersole. 2014. A new hadrosaurid from Appalachia and the evolution of the facial skeleton in ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, Technical Session XIV:201.
Lively, J. R. 2013. Eocene Gyrolithes-Thalassinoides ichnocoenoses from Alabama and Peru: implications for marine vertebrate taphonomy. Poster presented at the Geological Society of America annual conference, 2013.
Lacefield, J. 2013. Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks: A Guide to the State’s Ancient Life and Landscapes, 2nd Edition. Alabama Museum of Natural History, Tuscaloosa. 276 pp.
Brochu, C. A., R. K. Denton, Jr., B. S. Grandstaff, and D. C. Parris. 2012. Southern northern crocodiles: Borealosuchus from the Campanian of Alabama and the early biogeographic history of crocodilians in North America. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts with Programs 2012:68-69.
Brudatte, S. L., Chioniere, J. N., R. B. Benson, T. D. Carr, and M. A. Norell. 2012. Theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Eastern North America; Anatomy, systematics, biogeography an new information from historic specimens. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts with Programs 2012:70.
Ruez, D. R. 2008. Ice–Age mammals of Alabama and the state’s paleobiogeographical position. Earth Science Posters Abstracts, Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 29(2):117.
Ruez, D. R. 2008. Ice–Age mammals of Alabama and the state’s paleobiogeographical position. Alabama Academy of Sciences, Section III, Earth Sciences, Poster 9.
Shaver, W., B. Schubert, and S. Wallace. 2006. The cave of sloths: a description of the Megalonyx jeffersonii remains from ACb–3 Cave, Colbert County, Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3, Supplement):124.
Lamb, J. P., Jr. 2001. Dinosaur egg with embryo from the Cretaceous (Campanian) Mooreville Chalk Formation, Alabama. Abstracts, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):70-71A.
Lamb, J. P., Jr. 1998. Lophorhothon, and Iguanodontian, not a Hadrosaur. Abstracts, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):58A.
Lamb, J. P., Jr. 1997. A Late Cretaceous land bridge in the Gulf of Mexico Basin. Abstracts, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):59A.
Lamb, J. P., Jr. 1997. Marsh was right: Ichthyornis had a beak! Abstracts, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):59A.
Lamb, J. P., Jr. 1996. Ankylosauria from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama. Abstracts, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Hooks, G. E., III. 1995. A new specimen of Calcarichelys gemma from the Mooreville Chalk (Campanian) of Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(3):35A-36A.
Sheldon, A. M. 1994. Ecological implications of mosasaur bone microstructure. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3):45A.
Lamb, J. P., Jr., L. M. Chiappe, and P. G. P. Ericson. 1993. A marine Enantionithine from the Cretaceous of Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts 13(3):45A.
Lamb, J. P., Jr., G. L. Bell, A. K. Rindsberg. 1991. The Catoma Creek scrap fauna (Late Cretaceous) from Montgomery County, Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(3, Supplement), Abstracts of Papers.
Lamb, J. P., Jr. 1989. Functional hearing in mosasaurs reassessed. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 60(3): Abstracts.
Meylan, P. A. 1988. The potential contribution of the collections of the Red Mountain Museum to a science center in the City of Birmingham. A report to the office of the Mayor.
Bell, G. L. Jr., and J. P. Lamb. 1987. Additional investigations in northwest Alabama caves. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 58(3):99.
Bell, G. L., Jr., and J. P. Lamb. 1987. Paleolog. Unpublished manuscript on file at McWane Science Center, Birmingham, Alabama, 6 pp.
Rothschild, B. M., L. D. Martin, G. Bell, and J. Lamb. 1987. Avascular necrosis in Cretaceous reptiles. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(3) Supplement, Abstracts of Papers.
Sheldon, A. M. 1987. Juvenile mosasaurs from the Mooreville Chalk of Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(3):25A.
Bell, G. L., Jr. 1985. Vertebrate faunal zones in the Upper Cretaceous of west central Alabama. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 17(2):80.
Bell, G. L., Jr. 1985. Ground sloths from a cave near Tuscumbia. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 17(2):80.
Bell, G. L., Jr. 1985. Stratigraphy and fauna within latest Wisconsinan deposits in Bell Cave, northwest Alabama; pg. 8- in Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section, 34th annual meeting, Abstracts and Programs. Geological Society of America 17(2):80.

Thesis & Dissertations

McCormack, L. Borealosuchus (Crocodylia) from the early Campanian Mooreville Chalk reveals new insights into the Late Cretaceous fauna of Alabama and the origin of crocodylian lineages. 2019. MS Thesis, University of Iowa.
Grass, A. D. 2014. Inferring lifestyle and locomotor habits of extinct sloths through scapula morphology and implications for convergent evolution in extant sloths. PhD Dissertation, University of Iowa, 123 pp.
Carlisle, C. N. 2013. Archaeology after the field: assessment of the Josselyn Collection at the University of Alabama Birmingham. MS Thesis, Department of Archaeology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. 81 pp.
Holte, S. E. 2012. Description of Jefferson’s Ground Sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) from ACB-3 cave, Colbert County, Alabama, with comments on ontogeny, taphonomy, pathology, and paleoecology. Thesis, East Tennessee State University, 180 pp.
Konishi, T. 2009. Systematics of Plioplatecarpinae (Squamata: Mosasauridae). PhD Dissertation, University of Alberta.
Hooks, G. E., III. 1995. Redescription of the Protostegid Turtle Calcarichelys gemma Zangerl, 1953 and Systematic Revision of the Protostegididae using Cladistic Analysis. MS Thesis, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 68 pp.
Sheldon, A. 1995. Ontogeny, ecology and evolution of North American mosasaurids (Clidastes, Platecarpus and Tylosaurus): evidence from bone microstructure. Unpublished MS Thesis, University of Rochester, New York.
Shannon, S. W. 1975. Selected Alabama Mosasaurs. Unpublished MS Thesis, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 77 pp.

Contact Information

The Collections Department at McWane Science Center is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and study of Alabama’s rich resources in the fields of paleontology, geology, archaeology, and zoology. The McWane Collection is open to scientific researchers and students currently advised by researchers.

Jun Ebersole
Director of Collections
McWane Science Center
200 19th Street North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
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