Geosciences Department
Brendan Anderson

Brendan M. Anderson

Job Title
Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences
F.W. Olin Center 317
Pronouns
he/him/his

Areas of expertise

Paleobiology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Macroevolution, Marine Invertebrates

Research interests

I am interested in macroevolution and how the interactions between an organism’s physical and biotic environment, development, and resultant morphologies lead to long term evolutionary consequences. I am especially interested in phylogenetic paleoecology in gastropods, with particular expertise in Turritellidae.

Teaching interests

Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of New York, Conservation Paleobiology, Environmental Geology

GEO 201: Stratigraphy And Depositional Environments of New York

Publications

Aghi, K. Anderson, B.M., Castellano, B.M., Cunningham, A. Delano, M., Dickinson, E.S., von Diezmann, L., Forslund-Startceva, S.K., Grijseels, D.M., Groh, S.S., Guthman, E.M., Jayasinghe, I., Johnston, J., Long, S., McLaughlin, J.S., McLaughlin, M., Miyagi, M. Rajaraman, B. Sancheznieto, F., Scheim, A.I., Sun, S.D., Titmuss, F.D., Walsh, R.J., Weinberg, Z.Y. 2024. Commentary: Rigorous science demands support of transgender scientists. Cell. 187: 1327-1334. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.021

Friend, D.S., Anderson, B.M., and Allmon, W.D. 2024. The hollow newel state in gastropods: When snail shells are open-axis. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 90: eyae001.

Anderson, B.M. and Allmon, W.D. 2023. Phylogeny and systematics of fossil and Recent Vermicularia (Caenogastropoda: Turritellidae). Malacologia. 66: 1-59.

Friend, D.S., Anderson, B.M., Altier, E., Sang, S., Petsios, E., Portell, R.W., and Allmon, W.D. 2023. Systematics and phylogeny of Plio-Pleistocene species of Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from Florida and the Atlantic coastal plain. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 402: 1-74.

Pietsch, C., Gigliotti, M., Anderson, B.M., and Allmon, W.D. 2023. Patterns and processes in the history of body size in turritelline gastropods, Jurassic-to-Recent. Paleobiology. 49: 621-641. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2023.7

Anderson, B.M., Herleman, K.C., Ebey, C., and Haas, D. 2022. Consider the following: A pilot study of the effects of an educational television program on viewer perceptions of anthropogenic climate change and ocean acidification. Journal of Geoscience Education. 70: 437-459. DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2021.1949693

Friend, D.S., Anderson, B.M., and Allmon, W.D. 2021. Geographic contingency, not species sorting, dominates macroevolutionary dynamics in an extinct clade of neogastropods (Volutispina; Volutidae). Paleobiology. Phylogenetic Paleoecology special issue. 47: 236-250. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2020.60.

Pietsch, C., Anderson, B.M., Maistros, L.M., Paladino, E.U, and Allmon, W.D. 2021. Convergent and parallel evolution of extreme parietal callusing in diverse Cenozoic gastropod clades. Paleobiology. Phylogenetic Paleoecology special issue. 47: 337-362. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2020.33

Shin, C.P., Allmon, W.D., Anderson, B.M., Kelly, B.T., Hiscock, K., and Shin, P.K.S. 2020. Distribution and abundance of turritelline gastropods (Cerithioida: Turritellidae) in Hong Kong: Implications for a characteristic fossil assemblage. Journal of the marine biological association of the United Kingdom. DOI:

10.1017/S0025315420001204.

Scholz, S.R., Petersen, S.V., Escobar, J., Jaramillo, C., Hendy, A.J.W., Allmon, W.D., Curtis, J.H., Anderson, B.M., Hoyos, N., Restrepo, J.C., and Perez, N. 2020. Isotope sclerochronology indicates enhanced precipitation seasonality in northern Colombia during the mid-Miocene climatic optimum. Geology. 48: 668-672 DOI:

10.1130/G47235.1

Anderson, B.M. and Allmon, W.D. 2020. High calcification rates and inferred metabolic trade-offs in the largest turritellid gastropod, Turritella abrupta (Neogene). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 544: 109623 DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109623.

Sang, S., Friend, D.S., Allmon, W D., and Anderson, B.M. 2019. Protoconch enlargement in western Atlantic turritelline gastropod species following the closure of the Central American Seaway. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 5309-5323. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5120

Anderson, B.M. and Allmon, W.D. 2018 When domes are spandrels: On septation in turritellids and other gastropods. Paleobiology. 44 (3): 444-459.

Johnson, E.H., Anderson, B.M., and Allmon, W.D. 2017. What can we learn from all those pieces? Obtaining data on drilling predation from fragmented high-spired gastropod shells. Palaios. 32 (5): 271-277.

Anderson, B. M., Hendy, A., Johnson, E.H., and Allmon, W.D. 2017. Paleoecology and paleoenvironmental implications of turritelline gastropod dominated assemblages from the Gatun Formation (Upper Miocene) of Panama. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 470: 132-146.

Anderson, B. M., A. Moore, G. Lewis, and W. D. Allmon. 2014. Fossils of the Western US. Pages 81-124, in: The Teacher-Friendly Guide to the Earth Science of the Western US, M. D. Lucas, R. M. Ross, & A. N. Swaby (eds). Paleontological Research Institution (Special Publication 47), Ithaca, NY.

Rothschild, B. M., Martin, L.D., Anderson, B., Olcott Marshall, A., and Marshall, C.P. 2013. Raman spectroscopic documentation of Oligocene bladder stone. Naturwissenschaften 100: 8 789-794.

Anderson, B. M., Pisani, D., Miller, A.I., and Peterson, K.J. 2011. The environmental affinities of marine higher taxa and possible biases in their first appearances in the fossil record. Geology 39: 971-974.

Field areas

Bermuda, Panama, California, Florida