Education

B.Sc. (Honours), Geology & Biology, University of Victoria, 2004
Thesis: Early Late Ordovician conodonts from the Mithaka Formation, Georgina Basin, central Australia

Research

I have been working on two projects dealing with late Ordovician conodonts. The Mithaka conodonts (my honours thesis) dealt with systematic paleontology of the Mithaka Fm. I was particularly interested in the implications of faunal endemism and provincialism in Australia on the global conodont paleobiogeographic regions.

The second project dealt with end-Ordovician conodonts from Missouri and Illinois. These conodonts came from a Midcontinental sequence straddling the Ordovician - Silurian boundary. I was particularly interested in determining if the Hirnantian (Fauna 13) fauna was present, as this fauna is lacking in many North American sequences. This work may alter current interpretation of the timing of extinctions within different fossil groups (e.g. trilobites/brachiopods and conodonts).

Kuhn, T.S. and Barnes, C.R. Submitted. End Ordovician conodonts from the Edgewood Group, central North America. Journal of Paleontology.

Kuhn, T.S. and Barnes, C.R. In press. Ordovician conodonts from the Mithaka Formation (Georgina Basin, Australia). Regional and paleobiogeographical implications. Geologica-Acta.