Curriculum Vitae

Colin D. Sumrall

Department of Geology

Tulane University

New Orleans LA, 70118

Phone: (504) 865-5198

Fax: (504) 865-5199

csumral@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

Personal

• Born April 25, 1967 in Phoenix, AZ; US citizen.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1996. Ph.D. Dissertation - A Phylogenetic Analysis of Echinodermata Based on Primitive Fossil Taxa.
• M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1991. M.A. Thesis - Functional Morphology in Late Paleozoic Edrioasteroids and its Taxonomic Implications.
• B.S., Arizona State University, 1989.

Professional Experience

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology, Tulane University, January 1997 - present. Physical Geology, Sedimentology/ Stratigraphy.
• Research Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1994.
• Instructor, Physical Science Department, Austin Community College, Riverside Campus, 1994. Historical Geology.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1990-1995. Sedimentary Depositional Processes, Paleobiology, Introduction to Fossils, Physical Geology, Introduction to Field Methods, Field Camp.
• Teaching Assistant, Geology Department, Arizona State University, 1989. Invertebrate Paleontology.

Field Experience

• 1993-1994, Investigated Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician echinoderms and associated fossil-bearing facies in west Texas, the Great Basin, and the southern Rocky Mountains.
• 1991, Investigated Mississippian and Pennsylvanian edrioasteroids throughout the central and eastern United States.
• 1991, Investigated Early Ordovician echinoderms and associated fossil-bearing facies, in the Great Basin.

Outside Funding

• Summer Fieldwork Grant, Geological Society of America, 1991.

Awards

• Outstanding Student Technical Presentation, University of Texas at Austin, 1996.
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, 1996.
• University Fellowships, University of Texas at Austin, 1991, 1994, 1995.
• American Mineralogists Undergraduate Award, 1989.

Publications

Articles

• Sumrall, C. D. In Press. The role of fossils in the phylogenetic reconstruction of Echinodermata. In J. Waters and C. Maples (eds.) Paleontological Society Papers Volume 3, Short Course on Echinoderms. The Paleontological Society, Pittsburgh.
• Sumrall, C. D. and J. Sprinkle. In Press. Phylogenetic analysis of Echinodermata based on primitive fossil taxa. In R. Mooi (ed.) Echinoderms - San Francisco. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
• Sumrall, C. D., J. Sprinkle, and T. E. Guensburg. In Press. Late Cambrian echinoderms from the western United States. Journal of Paleontology.
• Sumrall, C. D. and A. L. Bowsher. 1996. Giganticlavus, a new genus of Pennsylvanian edrioasteroid from North America. Journal of Paleontology, 70(6):986-993.
• Sumrall, C. D. 1996. Late Paleozoic edrioasteroids (Echinodermata) from the North American midcontinent. Journal of Paleontology, 70(6):969-985.
• Sumrall, C. D. and J. Sprinkle. 1995. Plating and pectinirhombs of the Ordovician rhombiferan Plethoschisma. Journal of Paleontology, 69(4):772-778.
• Sumrall, C. D. 1994 (1993). Thecal designs in isorophinid edrioasteroids. Lethaia, 26(4):289-302.
• Sumrall, C. D. 1992. Spiraclavus nacoensis, a new clavate agelacrinitid edrioasteroid from central Arizona. Journal of Paleontology, 66(1):90-98.

Submitted Articles

• Sumrall, C. D. submitted. The life posture of Amecystis inferred from an attached edrioasteroid. Lethaia.

Presented Papers

• Sumrall, C. D., C. A. Brochu, and J. W. Merck, Jr. 1997. Bias introduced into majority rule consensus by labile taxa: Its cause, description, and consequences for bootstrap analysis. Society of Systematic Biologists/Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting, Boulder. (No abstract).
• Sumrall, C. D. and J. Sprinkle. 1996. Phylogenetic analysis of Echinodermata based on primitive fossil taxa. Ninth International Echinoderm Conference, Program and Abstracts, p. 113.
• Sprinkle, J., T. E. Guensburg, and C. D. Sumrall. 1996. Revising the rhombiferan radiation: a new look at morphology, diversity, phylogeny, and paleoecology. Sixth North American Paleontological Convention, Abstracts of Papers, p. 368.
• Sumrall, C. D., C. A. Brochu, and J. W. Merck, Jr. 1996. The effects of multiple primitive states and single taxon outgroups on parsimony-based phylogenetics. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 28(1):65.
• Sumrall, C. D. and J. Sprinkle. 1995. Peristomal bordering plates in fossil echinoderms. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 27(6):A-113.
• Sumrall, C. D. and J. Sprinkle. 1994. Plethoschisma: its back! Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 26(7):A-427.
• Sumrall, C. D. and J. Sprinkle. 1992. Could edrioasteroids move? Fifth North American Paleontological Convention, Abstracts and Program, p. 284.
• Sumrall, C. D. 1991. Plate morphology in stalker edrioasteroids. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 23(5):A-166.
• Sumrall, C. D. and J. Sprinkle. 1990. "Blisters", "stuffers", and "stalkers" - basic designs in Late Paleozoic edrioasteroids. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 22(7):A-34.

Submitted Abstracts

• Sumrall, C. D. and R. L. Parsley. Sumitted. Functional morphology and stereom in the ambulacra and periproct of discocystinid edrioasteroids. Geological Society of America.
• Garbisch, Jon, and C. D. Sumrall. Submitted. New diversity in Pennsylvanian edrioasteroids from North America. Geological Society of America.

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Sumrall, C. D. and J. Sprinkle. In preparation. A revised phylogeny of echinoderms based on primitive fossil taxa. Being prepared for Nature.
• Sumrall, C. D., C. A. Brochu, and J. W. Merck, Jr. In preparation. A case where majority rule consensus and bootstrap analysis are biased. Being prepared for Systematic Biology.
• Sumrall, C. D. and R. F. Lundin. In preparation. A Middle Pennsylvanian ostracode fauna from central Arizona. Being prepared for Journal of Paleontology.

Invited Lectures

• The Role of Fossils in the Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Echinodermata. To be presented at the Paleontological Society Short Course on Echinoderms at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in 1997.
• Getting to the Root of the Problem: Echinoderm Phylogeny Based on Early Paleozoic Fossil Taxa. Presented at the Systematics and Ecology Seminar, University of Kansas, April, 1996.
• An Overview of Fossil Echinoderm Classes. Presented to the Austin Paleontological Society, March, 1993.