Dr. Mark Puckett
Professor
Bio
Dr. Mark Puckett specializes in using microfossils to date rocks and provide paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic information. For example, studies of the ostracods of the Caribbean region showed that Jamaica was attached to Mexico 65 million years ago. I'm currently using a computer system (CONOP) to combine information from many measured sections into a single chronostratigraphic framework, focusing on the 20 million years prior to the Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction event. There's more than a lifetime of work in this field, so graduate students are welcome!
- PHD - University of Alabama (1992)
- MS - Mississippi State University (1987)
- BS - University of Southern Mississippi (1983)
Physical Geology
Climate Change: Past, Present, Future
Stratigraphy
Invertebrate Paleontology
Paleoecology
Marine Micropaleontology
- New Taxa of Marine Ostracods (Anticytherideinae, n. subfam.) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) of Mississippi and Alabama, U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain, Micropaleontology, 2022
- High male sexual investment as a driver of extinction in fossil ostracods, Nature Geoscience, 2018,
- New species and genera of Ostracoda from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Jamaica, Micropaleontology, 2012
- Santonian-Maastrichtian planktonic foraminiferal and ostracode biostratigraphy of the northern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA, Stratigraphy, 2005
- 35 Million Years Down the Chickasawhay
This is a 30-minute documentary on the geology of part of the Chickasawhay River.
- Geological Society of America
- North American Micropaleontological Section-SEPM
- Spanish (Professional Working)
- Russian (Elementary)