Southern Connecticut State University Paleontology

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

·   Archosaur systematics and evolution 

·   Functional morphology of basal archosaurs

·   Comparative physiology and the origin of endothermy

·   Origin and evolution of crocodile-line archosaurs

·   Convergent evolution in vertebrates

·   Mesozoic paleoecology/paleobiogeography

RESEARCH AND FIELD WORK EXPERIENCE

Fieldwork collaborating with Dr.'s Jeffrey Martz, Axel Hungerbühler and Mike Knell in the Chinle Formation  of northeastern Arizona. May-June 2015-Present.

Fieldwork collaborating with Dr. Jeffrey Martz in the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park and surrounding areas. June 2009 - 2014.

Postdoctoral researcher in Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University. August 2007 - August 2008.

Research assistant in Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University. Field work in various areas of the Southwest including the Dockum Group, western Texas and New Mexico, Chinle Formation in Arizona, Colorado and Utah. September 2003 - August 2007.

Assistant lab manager/research assistant in Paleontology Division of the Museum of Texas Tech University. Fossil preparation and casting, field work in the Dockum Group, western Texas, September 1999 - February 2004.

Field technician, Dinamation International Society, Devil's Canyon Learning Center, Morrison and Cedar Mountain Formations in western Colorado and Utah, June - August 1997, June - August 1999.

          EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Biology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 

M.S. degree in Museum Science, Paleontology, and Education, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 

B.A. degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.  

          PUBLICATIONS

Weinbaum, J.C. The postcranial skeleton of Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Paracrocodylomorpha), from the Upper Triassic of the United States. 2013. In: Nesbitt, S.J., Desojo, J. B. & Irmis, R. B. (eds). Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and their Kin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 379.

Nesbitt, S. J., Brusatte, S. L., Desojo, J. B., Liparini, A., De Franca M. A. G., Weinbaum, J. C. & Gower, D. J. 2013. Rauisuchia. In: Nesbitt, S. J., Desojo, J. B. & Irmis, R. B. (eds). Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and their kin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 379.

Martz, J.W., B. Mueller, S.J. Nesbitt, M.R. Stocker, W.G. Parker, N. Fraser, M. Atanassov, N. Fraser, J.C. Weinbaum, and J. Lehane. 2013. A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of southern Garza County, West Texas. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103; 339-364.

Nesbitt, S.J., A.H. Turner and J.C. Weinbaum. 2013. A survey of skeletal elements in the orbit of Pseudosuchia and the origin of the crocodylian palpebral. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 103; 365-381.

Weinbaum, J.C. 2011. The skull of Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Paracrocodyliformes) from the Upper Triassic of the United States. PaleoBios 30(1): 18-44.

Weinbaum, J.C. and Hungerbühler, A. 2007. A revision of Poposaurus gracilis (Archosauria: Suchia) based on two new specimens from the Late Triassic of the southwestern U.S. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81(2): 131-145.

          PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

Huxley, R., Knell, M, Weinbaum, J. Use of microvertebrate fossils in determining depositional environment of the Sonsela Member, Chinle Formation, Arizona. 2019. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No.

Weinbaum, J., Martz, J., Knell, M., Hungerbühler, A., M’Sadoques, J. A new productive bonebed of the aetosaur Typothorax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 36, Supplement (3) 2016.

Weinbaum, J. and Hungerbühler, A. New crocodylomorph fossils from the latest Triassic of eastern New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 35, Supplement (3) 2015.

Quattro, M., Hungerbühler, A., Martz, J., M’Sadoques, J., Weinbaum, J. New pseudopalatine phytosaur specimens from the Sonsela Member of the Chinle Formation of northeastern Arizona indicate increased Revueltian phytosaur diversity. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 35, Supplement (3) 2015.

Martz, J.W., B. Mueller, S.J. Nesbitt, M.R. Stocker, W.G. Parker, N. Fraser, M. Atanassov, N. Fraser, J.C. Weinbaum, and J. Lehane. A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of southern Garza County, West Texas. Geological Society of America. Vol. 45, (3) 2013.

Weinbaum, J.C. and Martz, J.W. A new fossil locality in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation of northeastern Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 30, Supplement (3) 2010.

Weinbaum, J.C. A reassessment of the systematics of rauisuchids and poposaurids (Archosauria: Crurotarsi). Integrative and Comparative Biology. Vol. 45, (6) 2006.

Weinbaum, J.C. The skull of Postosuchus kirkpatricki and its significance for a relationship with crocodylomorphs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol.24, Supplement (3) 2004.

Weinbaum, J.C. and Hungerbühler, A. Two new specimens of the crurotarsan archosaur Poposaurus from the Tecovas Formation of West Texas and the Chinle Formation of eastern Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol.23, Supplement (3) 2003.

Weinbaum, J.C. New insights on the anatomy of Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Crurotarsi). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol.22, Supplement (3) 2002.

Novak, S., Weinbaum, J., Peyer, K., Carter, J. A New Specimen of Postosuchus from the Late Triassic Newark Supergroup: Deep River Basin, North Carolina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol.22, Supplement (3) 2002.

Weinbaum, J.C.  Pelvis morphology of Texas rauisuchids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol.21, Supplement (3) 2001.

Weinbaum, J.C. Late Triassic poposaur biochronology in North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol.20, Supplement (3) 2000.