Dr Marc E. H. Jones

	Marc Jones is a BBSRC funded postdoctoral fellow studying functional morphology of the amniote skull (BBSRC skull mechanics project). He completed his PhD in 2006 on “Skull evolution and functional morphology in Sphenodon and other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria)"
	Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7698 (Int: 37698)

Profile
1997-2001 M.Sci Palaeobiology. Earth Sciences, UCL
2002-2002 Curatorial Assistant. National Museum Cardiff
2002-2006 PhD Vertebrate Palaeontology. Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL
2005-2006 Lab teaching assistant. Birkbeck, University of London
2007-2007 Teaching administrator. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2007 Postdoctoral fellow. Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL


Prizes and awards won:
2002 Poster Prize, 1st. Palaeontological Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, UK
2003 Poster Prize, 2nd. Centre for Ecology and Evolution workshop, London, UK
2004 Poster Prize, 1st. Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver, USA (http://www.vertpaleo.org)

Teaching
Marc currently provides lectures for GEOL2008 Vertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution and BIOL3018 Vertebrate Life and Evolution and assist with dissection room demonstration for ANAT 2050.

Recent and current non-UCL collaborators:
Neil Curtis (University of Hull, UK), Mehran Moazen (University of Hull, UK), Mike Fagan (University of Hull, UK), Paul O'Higgins (Hull and York Medical School, UK), A. Kristopher Lappin (California State Polytechnic University, USA), Jules Kieser (University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ), David Krause (Stony Brook, USA), Rainer Schoch (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany), Emily Rayfield (University of Bristol, UK), Richard Butler (Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany), Alan Tennyson (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ), Yuan Wang (IVPP, Beijing, China), Trevor Worthy (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia).

Funding
At present, Marc is primarily funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. However, in recent years he has also successfully obtained over £10,000 in small grants from a variety of funding bodies including the Palaeontological Association, British Council, UCL Graduate School, UCL Bogue, Amphibia Tree, Synthesys and the Nuffield Foundation.

Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles:

• Jones MEH, Evans SE and Sigogneau-Russell D. 2003. Cretaceous frogs from Morocco. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 72: 65–97.
• Wang Y, Jones MEH, Evans SE. 2007. A juvenile frog from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research 28: 235–244. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2006.07.003 Appendix [pdf: 26kb]
• Wang Y. Evans SE, Jones MEH. 2007. An aggregation of lizard skeletons from the Lower Cretaceous of China. Senkenbergiana lethaea 87: 109–118.
• Evans SE, Jones MEH, Krause DW. 2008. A giant frog with South American affinities in the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. PNAS 105: 2951–-2956 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707599105
• Jones MEH. 2008. Skull shape and feeding strategy in Sphenodon and other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). Journal of Morphology. 269: 945–-966. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10634
• Moazen M, Curtis N, O'Higgins P, Jones MEH, Evans SE, Fagan MJ, 2009. Assessment of the role of sutures in a lizard skull: a computer modelling study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276(1654): 39–-46. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0863
• Anquetin J, Barrett PM, Jones MEH, Moore-Fay S, Evans SE. 2009. A new stem turtle from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland: new insights into the evolution and palaeoecology of basal turtles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 879–886. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1429
• Jones MEH, Tennyson AJD, Worthy JP, Evans SE, Worthy TH. 2009.A sphenodontine (Rhynchocephalia) from the Miocene of New Zealand and palaeobiogeography of the tuatara (Sphenodon). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 1385–1390 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1785
• Zhang G, Wang Y, Jones MEH, Evans SE. 2009. A new Early Cretaceous salamander (Regalerpeton weichangensis gen. et sp. nov.) from the Huajiying Formation of northeastern China. Cretaceous Research 30: 551–558.DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.10.004
• Jones MEH, Curtis N, O'Higgins P, Fagan M, Evans SE. 2009. Head and neck muscles associated with feeding in Sphenodon (Reptilia: Lepidsauria: Rhynchocephalia). Palaeontologia Electronica 12 (2, 7A): 1–56. Weblink
• Jones MEH, Lappin AK. 2009. Bite-force performance of the last rhynchocephalian (Lepidosauria: Sphenodon). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 39(3): 71–83 Weblink
• Curtis N, Jones MEH, Evans SE, O’Higgins P, Fagan MJ. In press. Predicting muscle activation patterns from motion and anatomy: modelling the skull of Sphenodon. Interface DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0139
  

Peer reviewed book chapters:

• Jones MEH. 2006. Tooth diversity and function in the Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). In Barrett PM, Evans SE, eds. Ninth International symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota. London, UK: Natural History Museum. 55–58. Full chapter [pdf: 1431kb]
• Evans SE, Barrett PM, Hilton J, Butler R, Jones MEH, Liang MM, Parish J, Rayfield EJ, Sigogneau-Russell D and Underwood C. 2006. The Middle Jurrasic vertebrate assemblage of Skye, Scotland. In Barrett PM, Evans SE, eds. Ninth international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota. London, UK: Natural History Museum. 36–39. Full chapter [pdf: 5334kb]
• Jones MEH. 2006. The Jurassic clevosaurs from China. In Harris JD, Lucas S, Kirkland J, Milner ARC, eds. The Triassic/Jurassic terrestrial transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37 548–562. Weblink
• Evans SE, Jones MEH. In press. The origins, early history and diversification of lepidosauromorph reptiles. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India. 23 pages.
• Jones MEH. 2009. Dentary tooth shape in Sphenodon and its fossil relatives (Diapsida: Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia). In Koppe T, Meyer G, Alt KW, eds. Interdisciplinary Dental Morphology, Frontiers of Oral Biology (vol 13). Griefswald, Germany; Karger. 9-15.
• Kieser JA, Tkatchenko T, Dean MC, Jones MEH, Duncan W, Nelson NJ. 2009. Microstructure of dental hard tissue and bone in the tuatara dentary, Sphenodon punctatus (Diapsida: Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia). In Koppe T, Meyer G, Alt KW, eds. Interdisciplinary Dental Morphology, Frontiers of Oral Biology (vol 13). Griefswald, Germany; Karger. 80-85.

Extended abstracts

• Jones MEH, Evans SE. 2009. The Early Cretaceous Herpetofauna of Anoual Morocco. In Buscalioni ÁD, Martínez MF, eds. Abstracts of the 10th international meeting of Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Teruel. Spain, Madrid: UA Ediciones. 113–115.

Non-peer reviewed and informal articles:

• Jones MEH. 2003. 1st London Evolutionary Research Network conference. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 52: 45. (http://www.palass.org)
• Jones MEH. 2004. 47th Lyell meeting: dinosaur palaeobiology (meeting report). Palaeontological Association Newsletter 55: 65–67. (http://www.palass.org)
• Jones MEH. 2005. Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). Chester zoo web page (http://www.chesterzoo.org/AnimalsandPlants/Reptiles/Tuatara.aspx).
• Jones MEH. 2005. Erecting a database of known UK Sphenodon (Tuatara) material. Natural Sciences Collections Associations Newsletter 5: 34.
• Jones MEH. 2007. Geometric morphometric analysis of variation in Sphenodon ‘sub-fossil’ material. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 65: 95–99. (http://www.palass.org)
• Jones MEH and Ren X. 2008. Craniogenesis: The development evolution of the head (meeting report).Palaeontological Association Newsletter 68: 47–49. (http://www.palass.org)
• Jones MEH. 2008. CEE modern functional anatomy workshop (meeting report). Palaeontological Association Newsletter 69: 37–42. (http://www.palass.org)
• Jones MEH. 2009. Muscle activity in the tuatara mirrored by a computer model. SRARNZ notes 36: 5. (SRARNZ)
• Jones MEH. 2009. The First pre-Pleistocene tuatara fossil relative from New Zealand. SRARNZ notes 36: 5–6. (SRARNZ)
  

Selected abstracts:

• Jones MEH, Evans SE and Ruth B. 2002. Ontogenetic variation in the frog ilium and its impact on classification. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 51: 130.
• Jones MEH. 2004. Exploring skull evolution in the Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology S24: 76–77. Poster [pdf: 226kb]
• Smith AGW, Jones MEH and Evans SE. 2004. Hyperossified megafrog from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar: a new size record for the Mesozoic. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology S24: 113–114.
• Evans SE, Barrett PM, Hilton J, Jones MEH, Parish J, Rayfield E. 2005. The Middle Jurassic vertebrate assemblage of Skye, Scotland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology S25: 54–55.
• Evans SE, Barrett PM, Hilton J, Butler R, Jones MEH, Liang MM, Parish J, Rayfield EJ, Sigogneau-Russell D and Underwood C. 2006. In Barrett PM, Evans SE, eds. Ninth international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota. London, UK: Natural History Museum. 157.
• Jones MEH. 2006. Tooth diversity and function in the Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). In Barrett PM, Evans SE, eds. Ninth international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota. London, UK: Natural History Museum. 163.
• Evans SE, Jones MEH. 2007. Early Cretaceous terrestrial lepidosaurs from the Mediterranean region and their palaeobiogeography. Premier congrès Mediterranéen D’Herpétologie, Marrakech - Morocco. Programme and Abstracts book. Université Cadi Ayyad. 40–41.
• Jones MEH. 2007. Evolution and diversification of feeding apparatus in the Rhynchocephalia (Reptilia: Lepidosauria). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27S: 97.
• Jones MEH. 2007. Cranial suture morphology of the lepidosaur Sphenodon (Diapsida: Rhynchocephalia) and implications for functional morphology. Journal of Morphology 268: 1090–1091.
• Jones MEH, Evans SE. 2007. The diversification of skulls and feeding apparatus in the Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). Palaeontological Association Newsletter 66S: 38–-39. (http://www.palass.org)
• Evans SE, Jones MEH, Matsumoto R, Upchurch P, Wang Y. 2008. Reptiles and amphibians from the Early Cretaceous Jehol biota of China: palaeoenvironmental palaeobiological implications. UCL China, programme and abstracts: 38. Poster [pdf: 132kb]
• Kieser J, Tkatchenko T, Dean CM, Jones MEH, Duncan W, Nelson N. 2008. Microstructure and growth of bone and dental tissues in Sphenodon (Diapsida: Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia). In Koppe T, Alt KW, Meyer G. 2008. The 14th International Symposium on Dental Morphology , programme and abstracts. Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald. P3.
• Jones MEH. 2008. Correspondence between tooth morphology and skull shape in Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). In Koppe T, Alt KW, Meyer G. 2008. The 14th International Symposium on Dental Morphology, programme and abstracts. Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald. O6.
• Curtis N, Evans SE, Jones MEH, Shi JF, Fagan MJ. 2008. Predicting muscle forces and activation patterns during mastication: a multi-body computer modelling study of Sphenodon punctatus (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia).Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28S: 68.
• Jones MEH, Worthy TH, Tennyson AJD, Evans SE. 2008.The first pre-Pleistocene record of a tuatara (Sphenodon)-like animal from New Zealand and implications for the Oligocene drowning. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28S: 97–98.
• Moazen M, Curtis N, Evans SE, Jones MEH, Fagan MJ. 2008. The role of cranial sutures in a lizard skull: a Finite Element Analysis investigation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28S: 117.
  

Copies of all publications are available upon request.

Selected field work experience:

1998 Dorset and Cornwall, UK.
1998 Yorkshire Coast, UK. Included Scarborough, Speeton Clay, Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay.
1999 Palaeozoic Welsh Basin: Ludlow, Meeting House Quarry, Clarach Cove and Rheader Gorge.
2002 Palaeozoic fish localities in South East Australia (IPC), New South Wales, Australia. Included Grenfell, Canowindra and Wee Jasper.
2003 Early Cretaceous Las Hoyas lagerstätte, near Cuenca, Castilla de Mancha, Spain (3 weeks).
2003 Isle of Wight, UK. LERN fieldtrip. Included the Yaverland, Hanover Point and Whitecliff.
2004 Yorkshire Coast, UK. LERN fieldtrip.
2004 Middle Jurassic Elgol microvertebrate site (Kilmaluag Formation), Isle of Skye, Scotland (3 weeks).
2005 Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China.
2005 Late Triassic terrestrial localities of Arizona, USA.

Other academic activities:

The London Evolutionary Research Network (LERN) http://londonevolution.net/
In Autumn 2002 Marc formed a committee of 8 students from 4 different universities to establish LERN, a society that aims to improve communication between students involved in evolutionary related research in London. It providing them with opportunities to present talks to peer audiences and spend time together on fieldtrips. I was chairman of LERN, from its establishment until December 2004. During this time, we obtained funding from a variety of sources, established a mailing list, contributed to its website, and helped to organise over 20 talks from senior academics, 12 talks from students, 2 conferences and 2 fieldtrips. The society remains active with a new committee, continually expanding membership, and growing international reputation.

Marc holding a live tuatara at Dallas Zoo, 2007.
Photo taken by Bradley Lawrence.

The skeleton of Brachiosaurus altithorax
standing outside the of Field Museum, Chicago, USA. 2007.

Marc on a field trip to Petrified Forest National Park, USA,
with host Bill Parker (Petrified Forest National Park). 2005.

Marc with Jason Hilton (University of Birmingham)
carrying out fieldwork on Skye in Scotland, UK. 2004.

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