I'm a PhD candidate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. My main topic of interest is the 'Great Old World Biotic Interchange' - a faunal exchange event that took place between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary (some 34 Ma). I also have a somewhat tangentially related interest in fossil primates, and this has led to work on carpolestids (a family of plesiadapiforms), and parapithecids (a stem anthropoid clade).
Mattingly, S., Sanisidro, O., Beard, K.C., 2017. A new species of Carpolestes (Mammalia, Plesiadapoidea) from the late Paleocene of southern Wyoming: assessing changes in size and shape during the evolution of a key anatomical feature. Historical Biology.
B.S. (Biology), Eastern Kentucky University, 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Fall 2017
Graduate Research Assistant - Fall 2015, Spring 2017
Human Anatomy Observation Lab - Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Summer 2017, Fall 2017.
Two summer field seasons in the Washakie and Bison Basins of Wyoming to collect Paleocene mammal fossils (2015 and 2017).
Two summer field expeditions in Jordan, Montana, to help excavate a late Cretaceous T. rex specimen.
Duke Lemur Center - Division of Fossil Primates (Summer 2017)
Mattingly, S., Sanisidro, O., Beard, K.C., 2017. A new species of Carpolestes (Mammalia, Plesiadapoidea) from the late Paleocene of southern Wyoming: assessing changes in size and shape during the evolution of a key anatomical feature. Historical Biology.