Staff Spotlight
Roger W. Portell
Director, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
241 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 273-2110
Email: portell@flmnh.ufl.edu
B.S. Auburn University, 1980
Complete Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
FLMNH Invertebrate Paleontology
Research Interests
Systematics, paleoecology, biogeography, and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic invertebrates of the southeastern USA, Caribbean, and South America with an emphasis on arthropods, echinoderms, and mollusks.
Staff
Sean Roberts - Curatorial Assistant
Email: sroberts@flmnh.ufl.edu
Brian (Alex) Kittle - Curatorial Assistant
Email: bkittle@flmnh.ufl.edu
George Hecht - Curatorial Assistant (part time)
Email: ghecht@flmnh.ufl.edu
Representative Publications
R.W. Portell & S.K. Donovan. 2008. Campanile trevorjacksoni sp. nov.† (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Eocene of Jamaica: At last, a name for the first fossil used in intercontinental biostratigraphic correlation (de la Beche 1827). Geological Journal, 43:542-551.
J.R. Hendricks & R.W. Portell. 2008. Late Eocene Conus (Neogastropoda: Conidae) from Florida, USA. The Nautilus, 122(2):79-93.
S.K. Donovan, R.W. Portell & D.P. Domning. 2007. Contrasting patterns and mechanisms of extinction during the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Jamaica, pp. 247-273. In: W. Renema (ed.). Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands. Springer, 420 p.
G.W. Schmelz & R.W. Portell. 2007. The Epitoniidae (Gastropoda: Ptenoglossa) from the lower Alum Bluff Group (lower to middle Miocene) of Florida, with description of nine new species. The Nautilus, 121(3):105-130.
R.M. Feldmann & R.W. Portell. 2007. First report of Costacopluma Collins and Morris, 1975 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Retroplumidae) from the Eocene of Alabama, U.S.A. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 27(1):90-96.
S.K. Donovan, R.W. Portell & C.J. Veltkamp. 2005. Lower Miocene echinoderms of Jamaica, West Indies. Scripta Geologica, 129:91-135.
R.W. Portell & J.S.H. Collins. 2004. Decapod crustaceans of the Lower Miocene Montpelier Formation, White Limestone Group of Jamaica, pp. 107-124. In: S.K. Donovan (ed.). The Mid-Cainozoic White Limestone Group of Jamaica. Cainozoic Research, 3(1-2).
G.S. Herbert & R.W. Portell. 2004. First Paleontological record of larval brooding in the calyptraeid gastropod genus Crepidula Lamarck, 1799. Journal of Paleontology, 78(2): 424-429.
R.W. Portell, R.L. Turner & J.L. Beerensson. 2003. Occurrence of the Atlantic Ghost Crab Ocypode quadrata from the upper Pleistocene to Holocene Anastasia Formation of Florida. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 23(3):712-722.
R.W. Portell & J.S.H. Collins. 2002. A new species of Montezumella (Crustacea: Decapoda: Cheiragonidae) from the Upper Eocene Ocala Limestone of Florida. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 115(3):594-599.
C.W. Oyen & R.W. Portell. 2001. Diversity patterns and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic echinoderms from Florida. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 166:193-218.
J.S.H. Collins & R.W. Portell. 1998. Decapod, stomatopod and cirripede Crustacea from the Pliocene Bowden shell bed, St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica. In S.K. Donovan (ed.). The Pliocene Bowden shell bed, southeast Jamaica. Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology, 35(1-4):113-127.
R.W. Portell & E.H. Vokes. 1997. A new species of Pterynotus (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Eocene Ocala Limestone of Florida. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, 30(3):203-206.
R.W. Portell, K.S. Schindler & D. Nicol. 1995. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Pleistocene invertebrates from the Leisey Shell Pits, Hillsborough County, Florida, pp. 127-164. In R.C. Hulbert, Jr., G.S. Morgan & S.D. Webb (eds.). Paleontology and geology of the Leisey Shell Pits, early Pleistocene of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 37(pt. I).
W.D. Allmon, G. Rosenberg, R.W. Portell & K.S. Schindler. 1993. Diversity of Atlantic Coastal Plain mollusks since the Pliocene. Science, 260:1626-1629.
L.C. Ivany, R.W. Portell & D.S. Jones. 1990. Animal-plant relationships and paleobiogeography of an Eocene seagrass community from Florida. Palaios, 5(3):244-258.