Other

Non-peer reviewed publications

Hegna, T.A. & R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2007. Trilobite publications: Statistics for the year 2006. Trilobite Papers 19:4-7.

Lerosey-Aubril, R. & T.A. Hegna. 2006. Trilobite publication statistics. Trilobite Papers 18:3-6.


Book reviews

Hegna, T.A. 2021. Book review of Gass, K.C., J. Kluessendorf, D.G. Mikulic, and C.E. Brett. 2019. Fossils of the Milwaukee Formation: A Diverse Middle Devonian Biota from Wisconsin, USA. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, UK. 222 pgs. Priscum 26(1):26.

Hegna, T.A. 2021. Book review of Charbonnier, S., D. Audo, A. Garassino, M. Hyžný. 2017. Fossil Crustacea of Lebanon.  Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Publications Scientifiques, 210:1-252. Priscum 26(1): 13.

Hegna, T.A. 2018. Book review of Fraser, N. C. and Sues, H.-D. (eds.). 2017. Terrestrial Conservation Lagerstätten: Windows into the Evolution of Life on Land. Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh. 356 pgs. Priscum. Summer 2018. 25(1): 13-14.

Hegna, T.A. 2018. Book review of  Bonnan, M. F. 2016. The Bare Bones: An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton. Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 508 pp. Priscum. Summer 2018. 25(1): 31.

Hegna, T.A. 2017. Book review of Isotalo, P.A. 2015. Ordovician Trilobites of Southern Ontario, Canada and the Surrounding Region. Siri Scientific Press; Manchester, UK. 224pg. Priscum, Fall, 2017.

Hegna, T.A. 2016. Book review of  Mohibullah, M., M. Williams, and J.A. Zalasiewicz. 2014. Late Ordovician Ostracods of the Girvan District, South-West Scotland. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London: pgs. 1-40, pls. 1-6. (publ. no 640, part of vol. 167 for 2013). Priscum, Feb. 2016.

Hegna, T.A. 2016. Book review of Charbonnier, S., A. Garassino, G. Schweigert, & M. Simpson. 2013. A Worldwide Review of Fossil and Extant Glypheid and Litogastrid Lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Glypheoidea). Memoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 28. Publications Scientifique du Muséum, Paris. 304 p.  Priscum, Feb. 2016.

Hegna, T.A. 2015. Book review of Coram, R.A. & J.E. Jepson. 2012. Fossil Insects of the Purbeck Limestone Group of Southern England: Palaeoentomology from the Dawn of the Cretaceous. Monograph Series Volume 3. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, UK, 144 pp.  Priscum, Jan. 2015.

Hegna, T.A. 2013. Book review of Pietsch, T.W. 2012. Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 384pp. Priscum, Jan. 2013.

Hegna, T.A. 2013. Book Review of Selden, P. and J. Nudds. 2012. Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems. 2nd ed. Manson Publishing Ltd., London, 288 p. Priscum, June 2013.


Invited lectures

Hegna, T.A. upcoming. Mining for paleontological data in non-English language publications: tools and best practices. Paleobiology Database Summer Short Course, Washington, DC, July 2024.

Hegna, T.A. 2024. Tales Told by Trilobites. Geological Society of Minnesota March Meeting, March 11th, 2024

Hegna, T.A. 2024. Tales Told by Trilobites. Denver Museum of Nature and Science Earth Science Colloquium, Denver, CO. March 7th, 2024.

Hegna, T.A. 2023. Geological Critical Thinking: When does a hypothesis become a conspiracy theory? Buffalo Geological Society November Meeting. Nov. 3, 2023.

Hegna, T.A. 2023. Tales Told by Trilobites. Rochester Academy of Sciences, Fossil Section October Meeting, Rochester, NY. October 3, 2023.

Hegna, T.A. 2023. Geological Critical Thinking: Confronting Earth Science Myths & Conspiracies and How to Avoid Confirmation Bias in Your Everyday Practice. Buffalo Association of Professional Geologists (BAPG) April Dinner Meeting. April, 2023.

Hegna, T.A. 2022. Species, Vague Boundaries, and Biodiversity: Reframing Woodger's Paradox. William T. and Charlotte N. Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award Ceremony Lecture, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY.

Hegna, T.A. 2020. Insights from Pyrite: Trilobite Reproduction. Penn-Dixie Science Nights, Blasdell, NY.

Hegna, T.A. 2019. How did trilobites have sex? MidAmerica Paleontological Society Fossil Show, April, 2019. Iowa City, IA.

Hegna, T.A. 2018. The fossil record of branchiopod crustaceans. 9th International Crustacean Congress, Washington, DC.

Hegna, T.A. 2018. How did trilobites have sex? Burpee Museum of Natural History PaleoFest, Rockford, IL. March 2-4, 2018.

Hegna, T.A., R.R. Gaines, J. Ortega-Hernández, P. Van Roy, R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2017. The phylogenetic placement of the arthropods from the Cambrian Weeks Formation. International Workshop on Evolution of Cambrian Arthropods. 1-6 Sept., Xi'an, China.

Hegna, T.A. 2013. Pancrustacea and the Paleozoic Conquest of Land. Invited Departmental Seminar at the University of Illinois–Chicago. March 21st, 2013. Chicago, IL.


Chaired conference sessions

Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting, (Hong Kong), 2019: "Fossil and Modern Clam Shrimp" (With D.C. Rogers)

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, (Indianapolis, IN), 2018: "Paleontology, Evolution, and Development" (with S. Tennakoon).

North Central Geological Society of America Meeting (Champaign, IL), April 2016: "The Contribution of Taphonomy for Understanding the Fossil Record."

Geological Society of America annual meeting (Denver, CO) 2013: "Unlocking Lilliput: New Approaches to Microscopy in Paleontology" (with K. Leo Pullin).

Geological Society of America annual meeting (Charlotte, NC) 2012: "The Origins of Arthropod Diversity: Phylogenetic Insights from the Living and the Dead (I & II)" (with Dr. Jo Wolfe).


Press coverage:

https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/why-do-spiders-have-8-legs


https://www.livescience.com/what-is-largest-arachnid 


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/science/trilobites-sex-claspers.html (link to pdf of story

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-life-of-one-of-earth-rsquo-s-earliest-animals-exposed/ 


https://www.livescience.com/fossil-fairy-shrimp-reproduction 

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/100-millionyearold-fairy-shrimp-fossil-suggests-it-could-make-babies-all-on-its-own/ 

https://www.fredonia.edu/news/articles/fredonia-student-faculty-identify-new-species-female-only-fossil-fairy-shrimp#:~:text=The%20article%2C%20published%20in%20Alcheringa,about%20115%20million%20years%20old). 


https://www.fredonia.edu/news/articles/argentinian-paleontologist-conducting-research-fredonia-professor-students 


http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=12873


http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130615/NEWS/130619467#sthash.sJhvijVm.gbpl


http://www.livescience.com/28196-ancient-trilobites-featured-spotted-camouflage.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130327-trilobite-spots-marine-paleontology-science/

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v495/n7442/full/495412c.html


http://www.nature.com/articles/n-11997808

http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/wow-fossilised-trilobite-eggs


http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=14839