Mark McMenamin
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Mark A. S. McMenamin (born c. 1957) is an American paleontologist and professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College. He has contributed to the study of the Cambrian explosion and the Ediacaran biota.
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Mark McMenamin | |
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Born | 1957 or 1958 (age 65–66)[1] Oregon, U.S. |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D. Stanford University, B.S. |
Known for | Ediacaran fossils; Hypersea theory; Proterozoic supercontinent Rodinia[2] |
Spouse | Dianna L. Schulte McMenamin |
Awards | Presidential Young Investigator Award Sigma Xi National Lecturer 2011 Irish Education 100 Award [2][3] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Paleontology, Geology |
Institutions | Mount Holyoke College[2] |
He is the author of several books, most recently Deep Time Analysis (2018) and Dynamic Paleontology (2016). His earlier works include The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the Earliest Complex Life (1998), one of the only popular accounts of research on the Ediacaran biota, and Science 101: Geology (2007). He is credited with co-naming several geological formations in Mexico, describing several new fossil genera and species, and naming the Precambrian supercontinent Rodinia[4] and the superocean Mirovia.[5][6] The Cambrian archeocyathid species Markocyathus clementensis was named in his honor in 1989.[7]