Adjunct Professor of Geology,
University of Cincinnati
Director of Science Research & Withrow Farny Curator of Vertebrate
Paleontology, Cincinnati Museum Center
http://www.cincymuseum.org
Office: Cincinnati Museum Center, Geier Collections & Research Center,
1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45203
Phone: +1-513-455-7164
Fax: +1-513-455-7169
e-mail: storrsgw@email.uc.edu
Ph.D. Yale, 1986
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Student and Volunteer Opportunities
Opportunities in vertebrate paleontology exist through the Department
of Geology's affiliation with Cincinnati Museum Center and its award-winning
volunteer program. Local residents and students participate in ongoing
research and curatorial projects ranging from data entry, to specimen
preparation and conservation, to collection of fossils in the field.
A program of study in vertebrate paleontology may be pursued jointly through
the Department of Geology and Cincinnati Museum Center. Independent graduate
study and tutorials are offered and I am able to supervise graduate theses.
CMC's collections are a valuable research and comparative resource available
to UC students.
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My research interests are centered on the
anatomy, evolution, and systematics of fossil marine reptiles, particularly
the Sauropterygia (plesiosaurs, pliosaurs and their stem-group relatives).
I also have continuing projects focusing on other fossil reptile groups,
most notably crocodilians, dinosaurs and Choristodera (champsosaurs, etc.).
I am interested in elucidating the taxonomy and phylogenetic history of
fossil reptiles in general by detailed study of their morphology linked
to computer-assisted data analysis (e.g. PAUP - Phylogenetic Analysis
Using Parsimony). I also have interests in the Paleozoic lower vertebrate
faunas of the Ohio Valley region.
Current field projects include excavations for Mississippian age vertebrates
from a non-marine Chesterian section in central Kentucky; salvage operations
for regional Pleistocene vertebrates; recovery of fish remains from a
variety of marine Devonian settings in Ohio and Kentucky; excavation of
sauropod dinosaurs in the Morrison Formation of Montana and Wyoming; and
a variety of marine vertebrate studies in the U.S. Western Interior.
Representative publications:
Rieppel, Olivier, P. Martin Sander and Glenn W. Storrs. 2002. The skull
of Augustasaurus from the Middle Triassic of northwestern Nevada. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, 3: 577-592.
Spencer, Patrick S. and Glenn W. Storrs. 2002. A reevaluation of small
tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation of Devon,
England. Palaeontology, 45, 3: 447-467.
Farlow, James O., Jack A. Sunderman, Jonathan J. Havens, Anthony L. Swinehart,
J. Alan Holman, Ronald L. Richards, Norton G. Miller, Robert A. Martin,
Robert M. Hunt, Jr., Glenn W. Storrs, B. Brandon Curry, Richard H. Fluegeman,
Mary R. Dawson and Mary E. T. Flint. 2001. The Pike Creek Sinkhole biota,
a diverse Late Tertiary continental fossil assemblage from Grant County,
Indiana. The American Midland Naturalist, 145, 2: 367-378.
Storrs, Glenn W., Maxim S. Arkhangel'skii, and Vladimir M. Efimov. 2000.
Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former Soviet republics.
In: Michael J. Benton, Michael A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii
N. Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Cambridge
University Press, pp. 187-210.
Storrs, Glenn W. and Mikhail B. Efimov. 2000. Mesozoic crocodyliforms
of north-central Eurasia. In: Michael J. Benton, Michael A. Shishkin,
David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs
in Russia and Mongolia, Cambridge University Press, pp. 402-419.
Efimov, Mikhail B. and Glenn W. Storrs. 2000. Choristodera from the Lower
Cretaceous of northern Asia. In: Michael J. Benton, Michael A. Shishkin,
David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs
in Russia and Mongolia, Cambridge University Press. pp. 390-401.
Benton, Michael J., Lars Juul, Glenn W. Storrs, and Peter M. Galton. 2000.
Anatomy and systematics of the prosauropod dinosaur Thecodontosaurus antiquus
from the Upper Triassic of southwest England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
20: 71-201.
Sato, Tamaki and Glenn W. Storrs. 2000. An early polycotylid plesiosaur
(Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan. Journal
of Paleontology, 74, 5: 907-914.
Sumrall, Colin D., Paula T. Work, David L. Meyer, Glenn W. Storrs and
Elizabeth Merritt. 2000. Notice of transfer of the University of Cincinnati
paleontology collections to Cincinnati Museum Center. Journal of Paleontology,
74, 6: 1198.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1999. An examination of Plesiosauria (Diapsida: Sauropterygia)
from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of central North America. University
of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, 11: 1-15.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1999. Tetrapods. In: Andrew Swift and David M. Martill
(eds.), Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group. Palaeontological Association
Field Guide to Fossils No. 9, pp. 223-238.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1999. Placodonts. In: Ronald Singer (ed.) Encyclopedia
of Paleontology, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 919-922.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1999. Dinosaurs as marine reptiles? In: Charles E. Finsley,
Discover Texas Dinosaurs. Gulf Publishing Company, pp. 47-48.
Storrs, Glenn W., and Colin D. Sumrall 1999. Museum File 30: The geological
collections of Cincinnati Museum Center, Ohio. Geology Today, 15, 3: 117-120.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1997. Morphological and taxonomic clarification of the
genus Plesiosaurus. In: Jack M. Callaway and Elizabeth L. Nicholls (eds.),
Ancient Marine Reptiles. Academic Press, pp. 145-190.
Tverdokhlebov, Valetin P., Galina I. Tverdokhlebova, Michael J. Benton,
and Glenn W. Storrs. 1997. First record of footprints of terrestrial vertebrates
from the Upper Permian of the Cis-Urals, Russia. Palaeontology, 40, 1:
157-166.
Storrs, Glenn W., and Michael A. Taylor. 1996. Cranial anatomy of a new
plesiosaur genus from the lowermost Lias (Rhaetian/Hettangian) of Street,
Somerset, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, 3: 403-420.
Storrs, Glenn W., David J. Gower, and Nicholas F. Large. 1996. The diapsid
reptile, Pachystropheus rhaeticus, a probable choristodere from the Rhaetian
of Europe. Palaeontology, 39, 2: 323-349.
Leakey, Meave G., Craig S. Feibel, Raymond L. Bernor, Thure E. Cerling,
John M. Harris, Katherine M. Stewart, Glenn W. Storrs, Alan Walker, Lars
Werdelin, and Alisa J. Winkler. 1996. Lothagam: a record of faunal change
in the late Miocene of East Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
16, 3: 556-570.
Benton, Michael J. and Glenn W. Storrs. 1996. Diversity in the past: comparing
cladistic phylogenies and stratigraphy. In: Michael E. Hochberg, Jean
Clobert, and Robert Barbault (eds.), Aspects of the Genesis and Maintenance
of Biological Diversity. Oxford University Press, Oxford: pp. 19-40.
Grange, Daniel R., Glenn W. Storrs, Simon Carpenter, Steve Etches. 1996.
An important marine vertebrate-bearing locality from the Lower Kimmeridge
Clay (Upper Jurassic) of Westbury, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Geologists'
Association, 107: 107-116.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1995. A juvenile specimen of ?Plesiosaurus sp. from the
Lias (Lower Jurassic, Pliensbachian) near Charmouth, Dorset, England.
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society,
116: 71-76.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1994. Fossil vertebrate faunas of the British Rhaetian
(latest Triassic). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 112: 217-259.
Benton, Michael J., and Glenn W. Storrs. 1994. Testing the quality of
the fossil record: Paleontological knowledge is improving. Geology, 22:
111-114.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1993. Terrestrial components of the Rhaetian (uppermost
Triassic) Westbury Formation of southwest Britain. In: Spencer G. Lucas
and Michael Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic, Transactions of the
International Symposium and Field Trip on the Nonmarine Triassic, New
Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin, 3: 447-451.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1993. The quality of the Triassic sauropterygian fossil
record. Revue de Paléobiologie, Vol. spéc., No. 7, Proceedings,
Second Georges Cuvier Symposium, Montbeliard, August, 1991: 217-228.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1993. Function and phylogeny in sauropterygian (Diapsida)
evolution. In: Peter Dodson and Philip Gingerich (eds.), Functional Morphology
and Evolution, a special volume of the American Journal of Science, 293-A:
63-90.
Storrs, Glenn W. 1993. The systematic position of Silvestrosaurus and
a classification of Triassic sauropterygians (Neodiapsida). Paläontologische
Zeitschrift, 67, 1/2: 177-191.
Storrs, Glenn W., and David J. Gower. 1993. The earliest possible choristodere
(Diapsida) and gaps in the fossil record of semi-aquatic reptiles. Journal
of the Geological Society of London, 150: 1103-1107.
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