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 | Dr. Judith A. Schiebout
Curator
Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Email: jschie@lsu.edu
Telephone: 225-578-2717 |
Bio:
My father was in the Air Force, so I traveled a lot as a child. Both parents were educators and both encouraged reading and intellectual curiosity. I loved ancient animals from when I first read of them, and was intrigued by the works of Roy Chapman Andrews. In high school in central Texas, I hunted fossils with my Dad. My college mentor was John A. Wilson at the University of Texas at Austin. “Doc” Wilson started me on research on the Paleocene in Big Bend, west Texas. After earning my Ph.D., I taught at the University of Northern Colorado, California State Sonoma, and San Diego State University, before coming to LSU in 1976.
Research Interests:
I am a vertebrate paleontologist whose research emphases include: paleoecology and vertebrate paleontology, particularly the biostratigraphy and paleogeography of southern North America and China in the Tertiary; early and middle Tertiary mammals; the Cretaceous-Tertiary and Paleocene-Eocene transition; Louisiana fossil vertebrates, particularly in the Miocene; and fluvial deposition. Dr. Ting came to the US over 25 years ago as a visiting scholar (later a Ph.D. candidate and an employee) and added an Asian emphasis to LSU VP efforts. I have a particular interest in locating more fossils in the heavily vegetated state of Louisiana, despite its lack of outcrops.
Courses
I have developed and now teach two freshman science courses:
Geology 1066, Dinosaurs, Catastrophes, and Extinctions (every other year).
WGS 1001, Evolution of Sex and Gender (yearly).
Geology 4111, Vertebrate Paleontology (every other year).
I also teach seminars such as: Seminar on Species Concepts and Species in the Fossil Record, Seminar on Critical Intervals and Transitions in the History of Life, teach research courses and advise graduate students.
I advise students in the Chancellor's Future Leaders in Research Program.
Public lectures
I present a lecture for schools and other groups, entitled, “ Why Dinosaurs Didn’t Live in Louisiana, Although We Have a Single Dinosaur Fossil, but Giant Camels did: the Parade of Ancient Life in our State” for the Speaking of Science Program. To schedule a lecture, contact the SoS office at ofp@regents.state.la.us.
Selected Publications
West Texas Cretaceous and early Tertiary:
1974. Schiebout, J. A. Vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology of Paleocene Black Peaks Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas, Tex. Mem. Mus. Bull. 24, 87 pp.
1981. Schiebout, J. A. and S. Y. Ting. Factors governing early Tertiary fossil mammal distribution. Proceedings International Symposium Concept and Method in Paleontology, Barcelona, Spain, p. 259-265.
1983. Rapp, S.D., B.J. MacFadden and J. A. Schiebout. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of the early Tertiary Black Peaks Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas. Journal of Geology, v. 91, p. 555-572.
1987. Schiebout, J. A., C. A. Rigsby, C. D. Rapp, J. A. Hartnell, and B. R. Standhardt. Stratigraphy of Late Cretaceous, Paleocene, and early Eocene rocks of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Journal of Geology, v. 95, no. 3,
pp. 359-375.
2003 White, P. D., Schiebout, J A., Paleogene paleosols of Big Bend National Park, Texas, in Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., Thomas, E., eds., Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special 369, p. 537-550
2003 White, P. D., Schiebout, J A., Paleogene paleosols of Big Bend National Park, Texas, in Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., Thomas, E., eds., Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special 369, p. 537-550
2005 Sankey, J.T., B.R. Standhardt, and J.A. Schiebout. Theropod teeth from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, Texas (27 pp, 6 figs, 5 tables). p.127-152 in Carnivorous Dinosaurs, K. Carpenter (ed), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2008. White, P. D. and J.A. Schiebout. Paleogene paleosols and changes in pedogenesis during the initial Eocene thermal maximum: Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin 120 (11), 1347-1361.
Louisiana and east Texas:
1986. Schiebout, J. A. and W. van den Bold (eds.), Montgomery Landing site, marine Eocene (Jackson) of central Louisiana, Proceedings of Symposium, 1986 GCAGS Annual Meeting, 238 p.
1997. Schiebout, J. A. Paleofaunal survey, collecting, processing, and documentation at two locations on Fort Polk, Louisiana. Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. Open-file report, 93 p.
2001. Schiebout, J. A. and S. Ting, Paleofaunal survey, collecting, processing, and documentation at locations in the Castor Creek Member, Miocene Fleming Formation, Fort Polk, Louisiana. Corps of Engineers, Fort
Worth District. Open-file report, 95 p.
2002. Schiebout, J. A. , S. Ting, D. R. Wilhite, and P.D. White. Paleofaunal and Paleoenvironmental Research on Miocene Fossil Site TVOR SE on Fort Polk, Louisiana, with Continued Survey, Collection, Processing,and Documentation of other Miocene localities on the Post. Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. Open-file report, 42 p.
2004. Schiebout, J. A., S. Ting, Michael Williams, Grant Boardman, Wulf Gose, D. R. Wilhite, P.D. White, and Brandon Kilbourne. Paleofaunal & Environmental Research on Miocene Fossil Sites TVOR SE and TVOR S on Fort Polk, Louisiana, with Continued Survey, Collection, Processing, and Documentation of other Miocene localities. Louisiana. Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. Open-file report, 56 p.
1994. Schiebout, J. A., Fossil vertebrates from the Castor Creek Member, Fleming Formation, western Louisiana. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc. Trans. v. 44, p. 675-680.
1996. Schiebout, J. A., A Miocene hedgehog (Mammalia: Erinaceidae) from Fort Polk in western Louisiana, Occas. Papers LSU Mus. Nat. Science. v. 70, p. 1-9.
1997. Schiebout, J. A., The Fort Polk Miocene microvertebrate sites compared to those from east Texas, The Texas Journal of Science, v. 49, no.1, p. 23-32.
1998. Schiebout, J. A. , Suyin Ting, and J. T. Sankey, Microvertebrate concentrations in pedogenic nodule conglomerates: recognizing the rocks and recovering and interpreting the fossils. Palaeontologia Electronica, 1(2): 54p., 2 MB. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/paleo/1998_2/schiebt/issue2.htm
1998. Schiebout, J. A. and S. Ting, Miocene terrestrial microvertebrates recovered from conglomerate rich in pedogenic nodules, Fleming Formation near Coldspring, Texas. Texas Journal of Science, v. 50(3):199- 204.
2003. M. J. Williams and J. A. Schiebout, Correlation and Paleoenvironments of Fleming Formation Vertebrate Fossil Sites in Louisiana and Texas. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc. Trans. v. 53, p. 859-865.
2003. Boardman, G. S.,J. A. Schiebout, and J. Wrenn, How many species of the fossil rodent Copemys occur at a single prolific screening site in the Miocene, Fleming Formation at Fort Polk, Louisiana? Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc. Trans. v. 53, p. 78-85.
2006. Schiebout, J.A., J. H.Wrenn, Suyin Ting, J. L. Hill, M. D. Hagge, M. J. Williams, G. S. Boardman, and B. B. Ellwood. Miocene Vertebrate Fossils Recovered from the Pascagoula Formation in Southeastern Louisiana, Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc. Trans. v.56, p. 745-760.
2008. Schiebout, J.A., P.D. White, and G.S. Boardman. Taphonomic Issues Relating to Concentrations of Pedogenic Nodules and Vertebrates in the Paleocene and Miocene Gulf Coastal Plain: Examples from Texas and Louisiana, p. 17-30 in J, Sankey and S. Baszio (eds), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiology. Indiana University Press, 296 pp.
Asian Early Cenozoic:
1982. Ting, S.Y., J. A. Schiebout and M. C. Chow. Morphological diversity of early Tertiary pantodonts: a new tapir-like pantodont from China. Third N. American Paleo. Convention. Proc. v.1, p. 547-550.
1987. Ting, Su-yin, J. A. Schiebout, and M. C. Chow. A skull of Panto-lambodon, North China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Mammalia, Pantodonta) from Ningxia. v. 7, p. 155-161.
1995. Meng, Jin, Su-yin Ting, and J. A. Schiebout, The cranial morphology of an early Eocene didymoconid (Mammalia, Insectivora). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. v. 14, no. 4, p. 534-551.
1996. Ting, Su-yin, J. A. Schiebout, and Zheng Jiajian, New pantodont records from South China, Palaeovertebrata, v. 25 (2-4). p. 125-132.
2004 Ting, Suyin, Yuanqing Wang, Judith A. Schiebout, Paul Koch, William Clyde, Gabrial Bowen, Yuan Wang, Pilgrimage Across the Asian Paleocene/Eocene Boundary: New Finds from Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
2005. Ting, Suyin, Yuanqing Wang, Judith A. Schiebout, Paul Koch, William Clyde, Gabrial Bowen Yuan Wang, New early Eocene mammalian fossils from the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. No 36, p.291-301.
2007. Tong, Y. S. , Ting, S. Y., Meng, J., Li, Q., Wang, Y. Q., Schiebout, J. A., Koch, P. L., Clyde, W., C. and G. J. Bowen. Ganungulates xincunliensis, an artiodactyl-like mammal (Ungulata, Mammalia) from the
Paleocene, Chijiang basin, Jiangxi, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, vol. 45 (4): 278-286. |
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