Dr. James I. (Jim) Mead-QSP Director





	Jim I. Mead Presently, Jim Mead is a Professor of the Department of Geology, Director of the Quaternary Sciences Program, adjunct professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, adjunct Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum of Northern Arizona, and Book Editor for the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Major research interests include bovid evolution in North America, lizard evolution in arid North America and Australia, and the development of North American faunas of the most recent 5 million years. Jim is Director of NAU's Laboratory of Quaternary Paleontology. Active Research Projects Neotropical environments and fauna of Térapa, northern Sonora, Mexico Modern and fossil dragons (Agamidae, Squamata) of Western Australia Cranial morphology of lizards Dispersal and evolution of bovids (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) in North America and NE Asia Assemblages and taphonomy of Herring Park Cave, South Park, Colorado Faunas and environments of the Colorado Plateau Current Students Chaired Marci Hollenshead, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, modern and Pleistocene Egernid skinks of Western Australia. Jeff Meyers, MS, Quaternary Sciences Program, modern and fossil Martes of the Great Basin. Caitilin McCracken, MS, Quaternary Sciences Program, modern and fossil Sauromalus. H. David Dyer, MS, Quaternary Sciences Program, Irvingtonian mollusks from Porcupine Cave, Colorado. Previous Students Chaired or Co-chaired Withers, Kim Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of Forty-Mile Canyon and Willow Gulch, in the Central Colorado Plateau. 1989 Hadly, Elizabeth A. Late Holocene Mammalian Fauna of Lamar Cave and its Implications for Ecosystem Dynamics in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1990 Bell, Christopher J. A Rancholabrean Mammalian Fauna from Cathedral Cave, White Pine County, Nevada.1991 Hill, Deborah Was the Dire Wolf a Bone Crusher? A Morphological Comparison of Canis dirus and the Extant Bone Crushing Hyaena, Crocuta crocuta. 1991 McVickar, Janet L. Holocene Vegetation Change at Cowboy Cave, Southeastern Utah, and its Effect Upon Human Subsistence. 1991 Salas, David E. The Population Biology of Coreopsis gigantea on Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Park. 1991 Sankey, Julia T. A Late Blancan-Early Irvingtonian Vertebrate Fauna and Magnetostratigraphy from the Upper Glenns Ferry and Lower Bruneau Formations, near Murphy, Southwestern Idaho. 1992 Lawler, Mark C. (co-chaired) Morphological Variation and Allometric Trends of Late Pleistocene Bighorn Sheep of Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming. 1992 Force, Chris Late Quaternary Neotoma Biogeography of the Western Grand Canyon. 1992 Murray, Lyndon K. Faunal Description and Taphonomy of Dinosaur Cave in the Western Snake River Plain of Idaho. 1992 Ruddell, Michael W. Microevolution of Canis dirus from Rancho La Brea Los Angeles, California. 1993 Middleton, Ray T. Effect of Weathering on Microvertebrates with an Overview of Vertebral Taphonomy. 1993 Glennon, Jennifer Late Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna and Taphonomy from Screaming Neotoma Cave, Southern Colorado Plateau, Eastern Arizona. 1994 Manganaro, Carol A. Graveyard Cave: A Holocene Faunal Record from the Black Hills of South Dakota. 1994 Nittmann, R. Shawn Late Quaternary Mollusks and Environments from Pinacate Alcove, Arches National Park, Utah. 1994 Dryer, James D. (co-chair) Late Pleistocene Vegetation Change at Stanton's Cave, Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 1994 Hall, Brook E. (co-chair) A Fossil Rodent Fauna from the Maricopa Tar Seep, Kern County, California. 1995 Blackford, Lisa C. Postcranial Skeletal Analysis of the Pleistocene Deer, Navahoceros Fricki (Cervidae). 1995 Pederson, Joel L. (co-chair) Late Holocene Geochronology and Paleoclimate of Lake Canyon, Utah. 1996 Wolf, Stuart A. A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey in the Alcoves of Willow Gulch, Escalante River Basin, Utah. 1996 Pajak III, Alois F. The Upper Unnamed Sandstone and the Irvingtonian General Kearney Local Fauan, Riverside County, California. 1997 Schubert, Blaine W. Paleontology and Paleoecology of a Terminal Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna, Little Beaver Cave, Central Ozarks, Missouri. 1997 Coats, Larry L. Middle to Late Wisconsin Vegetation Change in Little Nankoweap, Grand Canyon, AZ. 1997 Osterhaudt, Joni A. Review of Quaternary Lagomorpha of the Great Basin and Snake Creek Burial Cave, Nevada. 1999 Jass, Christopher N. Mid- to Late-Holocene Mammalian Fauna and Site Taphonomy of Bighorn Cave, Black Mountains, Arizona. 2000 Snyder, Della K. Modern and Fossil Terrestrial Gastropods of Santa Cruz Island, Northern Channel Islands, California. 2000 Hallman, Peter R. Paleobiological Assessment of Late Pleistocene Mollusks from Desert Dry Lake, Lincoln County, Nevada. 2002 Hollenshead, Marci Late Pleistocene to Holocene Reptiles from Mineral Hill Cave, North-Central Nevada. 2002 Gensler, Phil Late Irvingtonian (mid-pleistocene) vertebrate fauna from Ash Wash, Coyote Badlands, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California. 2002 Carpenter, Mary Late Pleistocene aves, chiroptera, perissodactyla, and artiiodactyla from Rampart Cave, Grand Canyon, Arizona. 2003 Kropf, Manny The extinct Shrub-Ox (Euceratherium collinum) and its late Quaternary environment on the Colorado Plateau. 2005 Palevich, Meg Dental and cranial elements of canids from Snake Creek Burial Cave, White Pine County, Nevada. 2005 George Varhalmi cranial morphology of anguid lizards. 2006 Publications 2000-2006 († = sole or senior author) In Press/Accepted for Press † The molluscs of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. JIM. Chapter 4 in Murry Springs: A Clovis Site with Multiple Activity Areas in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. Edited by CV Haynes and B B Huckell, Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona 71. † Tropical Marsh and savanna environment during the late Pleistocene in northeastern Sonora, México. JIM, A. Baez, S.L. Swift, M.C. Carpenter, M. Hollenshead, N.J. Czaplewski, D.W. Steadman, J. Bright, and J. Arroyo-Cabrales Southwestern Naturalist. † Late Pleistocene vertebrate records from North America. Elsevier Press. † A mid-Holocene fauna from Bear Den Cave, Sequoia National Park, California. JIM, T. W. McGinnis, and J. E. Keeley. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy. 2006 † Plio-Pleistocene Crocodylus (Crocodylia) from southwestern Costa Rica. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 41 (1):1-7. JIM, R. Cubero , A.L. Valerio, S.L. Swift, C. Laurito and L. D. Gomez. 2005 † New species of Sinocapra (Bovidae, Caprinae) from the Lower Pliocene Panaca Formation, Nevada (USA). Palaeontologia Electronica 8(1):11A:1-20 JIM and L. Taylor. A late Pleistocene fauna from the southern Colorado Plateau, Navajo County, Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist 50:363-374. Murray, C. J. Bell, T. Dolan, and JIM. † Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) amphibians and reptiles of Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 29: 137-152 † Rancholabrean (Late Pleistocene) Mammals and localities of Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:139-180. JIM, NJ Czaplewski, L.D. Agenbroad. Middle Cenozoic vertebrate localities and faunas in Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:104-116. E.H. Lindsay and JIM. 2004 † Middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonnian) Ochotona (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae) from Porcupine Cave, Colorado. Pp. 155-163 in Biodiversity response to climate change in the Middle Pleistocene: the Porcupine Cave fauna from Colorado; U of Ca Press , JIM, Erbajeva, and Swift. † Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) Artiodactyla (Mammalia) from Porcupine Cave, Colorado. Pp. 280-292 in Biodiversity response to climate change in the Middle Pleistocene: the Porcupine Cave fauna from Colorado; U of Ca Press. JIM and L. Taylor. Synopsis of the herpetofauna from Porcupine Cave. Pp. 117-126 in Biodiversity response to climate change in the Middle Pleistocene: the Porcupine Cave fauna from Colorado; U of Ca Press. C. J. Bell, J. Head, and JIM. † Late Pleistocene salamander (Caudata; Plethodontidae) from Santa Rosa Island, Northern Channel Islands, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 103:47-56. JIM, Swift, Agenbroad. † Canyon Dwellers during the Ice Age and Since. Grand Canyon River Guides. Boatman's Quarterly Review 17(2): 36-38. [NOT Peer reviewed] Exceptional record of mid-Pleistocene vertebrates helps differentiate climatic from anthropogenic ecosystem perturbations. Proceedings US Natl. Acad. Sci. 101 (25): 9297-9302. A. D. Barnosky, C. J. Bell, S. D. Emslie, H. T. Goodwin, JIM, C. A. Repenning, E. Scott, and B. Shabel. † Ice Age Horses of Arizona and Sonora. Archaeology Southwest 18(3):2. NOT Peer reviewed. † Bison and Bos from Protohistoric and Historic Arizona. The Kiva 70(2):183-193. JIM and C. Johnson. Capricornis crispus. Mammalian Species 750:1-10. C. Jass and JIM. 2003 A late Pleistocene roadrunner (Geococcyx) from Kartchner Caverns State Park, southeastern Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist 48(3):402-410. M. Carpenter (student) and JIM. Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America. Book edited by B. Schubert, JIM and R. Graham. University of Indiana Press. † Recent additions to the Pleistocene Vertebrate Record of the Grand Canyon. JIM, L.C. Coats, and B. Schubert. Chapter in book Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America edited by B. Schubert, JIM, and R. Graham. University of Indiana Press. Molecular caving. Current Biology 13(18):R693-R695. M. Hofreiter, JIM, P. Martin, and H. N. Poinar. 2002 Late Pleistocene mollusks from the southern Black Hills, South Dakota. Western North American Naturalist 62:129-140. C. N. Jass, JIM, A. D. Morrison, and L. D. Agenbroad. † New extinct mekosuchine crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific. Copeia 2002:632-641. Late Quaternary spring-fed deposits of the Grand Canyon and their implications for deep lava-dammed lakes. Quaternary Research 58:329-340. D. S. Kaufmann, G. OíBrien, JIM, J. Bright, and P. Umhoefer. 2001 † Pliocene amphibians and reptiles from Clark County, Nevada. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Science100(1):1-11. JIM and C. J. Bell † The first fossil record of the spotted bat, Euderma maculata, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist 46:380-383. JIM and D. Mikesic. 2000 Harringtonís extinct mountain goat (Oreamnos harringtoni Stock 1936) from Muskox Cave, New Mexico. Texas Journal of Science 52:121-132. C.N. Jass, JIM, and L.E. Logan † Skeleton of Mustela macrodon (extinct sea mink) of North America. Quaternary Research 53:247-262. JIM, A. Spiess, and K. Sobolik. Middle and late Wisconsin paleobotanic and paleoclimatic records from the southern Colorado Plateau, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology 155:31-58. S. Anderson, J. Betancourt, JIM, R. Hevly and D. Adam.