Dr. Troy A. Dexter

Post Doctoral Associate

Invertebrate Paleontology
288 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(325) 273 1947
Email: tdexter@flmnh.ufl.edu

Ph.D., 2011, Virginia Tech
M.S., 2006, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Research Interests

Predation, parasitism, morphometrics, functional morphology, and growth rates in fossil and modern echinoderms; stable isotope geochemistry of mollusk biominerals; time averaging and stratigraphic paleobiology in mollusks assemblages.

Recent Publications

Dexter, T.A., Kowalewski, M., and Read, J.F., 2009. Distinguishing Milankovitch-driven processes in the rock record from stochasticity using computer-simulated stratigraphy. Journal of Geology 117: 349-361.

Dexter, T.A., Sumrall, C.D., and McKinney, M.L. 2009. Allometric strategies for increasing respiratory surface area in the Mississippian blastoid Pentremites. Lethaia 42: 127-137.