Staff Spotlight
Dr. S. David Webb
Distinguished Research Curator Emeritus, Vertebrate Paleontology
224 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 392-1721
Email: webb@flmnh.ufl.edu
Ph.D. Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, l964
Research Interests
Evolutionary history of vertebrate life, with special emphasis on large land mammals such as camels, ruminants, ground sloths, horses and elephants. Historical Biogeography especially the Great American Interchange. Late Pleistocene extinctions of large mammals and the earliest human cultures in the New World.
Representative Publications
1974 Pleistocene Mammals of Florida, University of Florida Presses
1977 Evolution of Savanna Vertebrates in the New World. Part I: North America. Ann. Rev. Ecol. and Syst., 8:355-380 and 1978 Part II: South America and the Great Interchange, 9:393-426.
1981 (with Bruce J. MacFadden and Jon A. Baskin). Geology and Paleontology of the Love Bone Bed from the late Miocene of Florida. Amer. Jour. Sci. 281:513-544.
1984 Ten-million years of Mammal Extinctions in North America. pp. 189-210 in Quaternary Extinctions, (Paul Martin and R. Klein, eds.), Univ. Arizona Press.
1985 The Great American Biotic Interchange, F.G. Stehli and S.D. Webb, eds. (Plenum Press); 536 pp.
1987 (with R.H. Tedford et al.). Faunal Succession and Biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs in North America. pp. 153-210) in Cenozoic Mammals of North America, Geochronology and Biostratigraphy, M.O. Woodburne, ed. Univ. Calif. Press.
1990 A Biogeographic History of Florida, pp. 70-100, in J. Ewel and R. Myers (eds.), Ecosystems of Florida, U. of Central Florida Press, Orlando, FL, 795 pp.
1992 Webb, S.D. A brief History of New World Proboscidea with emphasis on their adaptations and interactions with man, in J. Fox, C. Smith and K. Wilkins (eds.) Mammoths, Mastodons, and Human interactions, U. of Texas Press, Austin, ca. 30 pp.
1994 Paleontology and Geology of the Leisey Shell Pits, Early Pleistocene of Florida, R.C. Hulbert, Jr., G.S. Morgan and S.D. Webb, eds. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Biological Sciences, vol. 37 (2 parts) 660 pp.
1995 Webb, S.D. and N.D. Opdyke, Global Climatic Influence on Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas, pages 184-208. Effects of Past Global Change on Life, Studies in Geophysics, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
2000 Webb, S. D. Evolutionary history of New World Cervidae. Pp. 38-64 in E. Vrba and G. Schaller (eds.), Antelopes, Deer, and Relatives: Fossil Record Behavioral Ecology, Systematics and Conservation. Yale University Press, New Haven.