Rowan Lockwood

Associate Professor

Office: McGlothlin-Street Hall 226
Email: [[rxlock]]
Office Phone: 757 221 2878

Education

• Ph.D., University of Chicago
• M.Sc., University of Bristol, UK
• B.A., Yale University

Research Interests

Invertebrate paleobiology, paleoecology, taphonomy, evolutionary biology, mass extinctions, and morphometrics

Selected Publications

Lockwood, R. 2008. Beyond the Big Five: Extinctions as experiments in the history of life. In From Evolution to Geobiology: Research Questions Driving Paleontology at the Start of a New Century. P. E. Kelley and R. A. Bambach, eds. In press.

Lockwood, R. and L. A. Work* 2006. Quantifying taphonomic bias in molluscan death assemblages from the upper Chesapeake Bay: patterns of shell damage. Palaios 221:442-450. Download Pdf Copy

*Shelton, J., R. Lockwood, and L. M. Bybell. 2006. The effects of the Chesapeake Bay impact on calcareous nannofossil assemblages: patterns from the Watkins School Core, Newport News, Virginia (USA). Journal of Nannoplankton Research 28: 71-80. Download Pdf Copy

Lockwood, R. and L. R. Chastant*. 2006. Quantifying taphonomic bias of compositional fidelity, species richness, and rank abundance in molluscan death assemblages from the upper Chesapeake Bay. Palaios 21: 376-383. Download Pdf Copy

Kosnik, M. A., D. Jablonski, R. Lockwood, and P. M. Novack-Gottshall. 2006. Quantifying molluscan body size in evolutionary and ecological analyses: maximizing the return on data collection efforts. Palaios 21: 588-597. Download Pdf Copy

Lockwood, R. 2005. Body size, extinction events, and the early Cenozoic record of veneroid bivalves: a new role for recoveries. Paleobiology 31: 578-590. Download Pdf Copy

Lockwood, R. 2004. The K/T event and infaunality: morphological and ecological patterns of extinction and recovery in veneroid bivalves. Paleobiology 30: 507-521. Download Pdf Copy

Lockwood, R. 2003. Abundance not linked to survival across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: patterns in North American bivalves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100: 2478-2482. Download Pdf Copy

Swaddle, J. P. and R. Lockwood. 2003. Wingtip shape and flight performance in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris). Ibis. 145:457-464. Download Pdf Copy

Lockwood, R., J. P. Swaddle, and J. M. V. Rayner. 1998. Avian wingtip shape reconsidered: morphological adaptations to migration. Journal of Avian Biology 29: 273-292. Download Pdf Copy

Swaddle, J. P. and R. Lockwood. 1998. Morphological adaptations to predation risk in passerines. Journal of Avian Biology 29: 172-176. Download Pdf Copy

Recent Abstracts

*Fenlon, E. E., R. Lockwood, L. C. Ivany, and J. A. Sessa. 2007. Quantifying the morphology and reconstructing the phylogeny of venericard bivalves along the Gulf Coastal Plain during the Paleocene and Eocene. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39: 30.

*Flannagan, C. K., A. Buhler, R. Lockwood, G. Herbert, P. Harries. E. Oches, and R. Portell. 2007. Effects of sampling on the observed richness and evenness of molluscan assemblages in the Pliocene Pinecrest Beds of Southwest Florida. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39: 85.

Lockwood, R. and S. Barbour Wood. 2007. Exploring the link between rarity and molluscan extinction in the Cenozoic record of the U.S. Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39: 369.

*Oreska, M. P., M. T. Carrano, and R. Lockwood. 2007. Paleoecology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) vertebrate fauna from microvertebrate sites in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39.

*Robinson, E. M. and R. Lockwood. 2007. Ecological effects of Miocene-Pliocene cooling on mollusks from the Eastover and Yorktown Formations of Southeastern Virginia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39: 95.

*Stackhouse, B. L. and R. Lockwood. 2007. Distribution and sub-bottom features of Holocene oyster deposits in the York River, Virginia and the rate of degradation of oyster shell. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39: 95.

*Street, H. P., F. R. O’Keefe, and R. Lockwood. 2007. Description and phylogenetic analysis of cryptocleidoid plesiosaurs based on new material of Tatenectes laramiensis from the Sundance Formation (Wyoming, USA). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39: 30.

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