Jaelyn J. Eberle Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Colorado Museum Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1996 B.S., University of Saskatchewan, 1991 E-mail:Jaelyn.Eberle@Colorado.edu Phone: 303 492 8069

fossil vertebrate-bearing Eureka Sound Group exposures cropping out on central Ellesmere Island (about 79 degrees N. lat.)

Research Interests Vertebrate Paleontology, Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary mammalian biostratigraphy, phylogenetics, and evolution in the Rocky Mountain region; Paleogene High Arctic vertebrate evolution, paleobiogeography, and paleoclimate.

vertebrate paleontologist Malcolm McKenna (Research Associate with CU Museum) taking notes/prospecting in the Eureka Sound Group on central Ellesmer

Recent Publications

• Eberle, J. J., 2006, Early Eocene brontotheriidae (Perissodactyla) from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic – implications for brontothere origins and high-latitude dispersal: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (2): 381-386.
• Worley-Georg, M. P. and Eberle, J. J., 2006, New additions to the Chadronian mammalian Fauna, Florissant Formation, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (3): 685-696.
• Eberle, J. J., 2005, A new 'tapir' from Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada - Implications for Northern High-latitude Palaeobiogeography and Tapir Palaeobiology: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 227 (4): 311-322.
• Cifelli, R. L., Eberle, J. J., Lofgren, D. L., Lillegraven, J. A., and Clemens, W. A., Jr., 2004, Mammalian Biochronology of the Latest Cretaceous in North America, In Woodburne, M.O. (ed.) Cenozoic Mammals of North America, University of California Press, p. 21-42.
• Rose, K. D., Eberle, J. J., and McKenna, M. C., 2004, Arcticanodon dawsonae, a primitive new palaeanodont from the Lower Eocene of Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41: 757-763.
• Eberle, J. J., 2003, Puercan mammalian systematics and biostratigraphy in the Denver Formation, Denver Basin, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Geology, 38: 143-169.
• Eberle, J. J., and McKenna, M. C., 2002, Early Eocene Leptictida, Pantolesta, Creodonta, Carnivora, and Mesonychidae (Mammalia) from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, p. 899-910.
• Eberle, J. J., 1999, Bridging the transition between Didelphodonts and Taeniodonts: Journal of Paleontology, 73, p. 936-944.
• Eberle, J. J., and Storer, J.E., 1999, Northernmost record of brontotheres, Axel Heiberg Island, Canada -- Implications for age of the Buchanan Lake Formation and brontothere paleobiology: Journal of Paleontology, 73, p. 979-983.
• Lillegraven, J. A., and Eberle, J. J., 1999, Transitions in nonmarine Lancian through Puercan vertebrates in southern Wyoming: a mammalian celebration: Journal of Paleontology, 73, p. 691-710.
• Harrison, J. C., Mayr, U., McNeil, D. H., Sweet, A. R., McIntyre, D. J., Eberle, J. J., Harington, C. R., Chalmers, J., Dam, G., and Hansen, H. N., 1999, Correlation of Cenozoic sequences of the Canadian Arctic region and Greenland; implications for the tectonic history of northern North America: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 47, p. 223-254.
• Eberle, J. J., and Lillegraven, J. A., 1998, A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia: Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, p. 3-47.
• Eberle, J. J., and Lillegraven, J. A., 1998, A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: Eutheria and paleogeographic/biostratigraphic summaries: Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, p. 49-117.
• Eberle, J. J. , and Storer, J. E., 1995, Herpetotherium valens (Lambe), a didelphid marsupial from the Calf Creek local fauna (Chadronian), Saskatchewan: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15, p. 785-794.

Published Abstracts

• Eberle, J., Humphrey, J., and Hackett, L., 2006, Oxygen isotope estimates of Mean Annual Temperature for an early Eocene, terrestrial environment in the Canadian High Arctic. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7.
• *Lloyd, K. and Eberle, J. J., 2006, The late Eocene mammalian fauna of the Florissant Formation, central Colorado, including the discovery of a new insectivoran. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 26 (supplement to no. 3)
• Eberle, J. J., 2005, Early Eocene Brontotheriidae (Perissodactyla) from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic – Implications for brontothere origins and high-latitude dispersal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 25 (supplement to no. 3).
• *Burger, B. and Eberle, J. J., 2005, Mammalian faunal change in the Paleocene-Eocene boundary spanning Debeque Formation, northern Piceance Creek Basin, western Colorado: Preliminary study of fossil ungulates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 25 (supplement to no. 3).
• *Hackett, L., Humphrey, J., and Eberle, J. J., 2005, Oxygen isotope analysis of biogenic phosphate: An application to the Early Eocene. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Program.
• Chin, K., Bloch, J.D., Sweet, A.R., Eberle, J.J., Cumbaa, S.L. and *Tweet, J.S. 2005. Patterns of energy flow in a Late Cretaceous high Arctic marine community from Devon Island, Nunavut. Abstract volume, North American Paleontological Convention, June 19-26, 2005, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Eberle, J. J., 2004, An Arctic ‘tapir’ and implications for northern high-latitude paleobiogeography: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 24 (supplement to no. 3).
• Bloch, J.D., Chin, K., Sweet, A.R., Eberle, J.J., and Cumbaa, S.L. 2004. Terminal Late Cretaceous regression on the southeast margin of the Sverdrup Basin: shale and bentonite petrology of the upper Kanguk Formation, Devon Island, Nunavut. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Program. vol 36.
• Chin, K., Bloch, J.D., *Tweet, J.S., Eberle, J.J., and Cumbaa, S.L. 2004. Benthic-pelagic coupling in the Upper Cretaceous High Arctic; evidence from a suite of unusual polar coprolites. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Program. vol 36.
  Eberle, J. J., Dawson, M., Lee, C., Riediger, C., and Hutchison, J. H., 2003, Towards a refined vertebrate biostratigraphy for Eocene strata of the Eureka Sound Group, Canadian High Arctic: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 23 (supplement to no. 3), p. 47A.
• Eberle, J. J., Johnson, K., Raynolds, R., Hicks, J., and Nichols, D., 2002, New discoveries of Puercan mammals in the Denver Basin, Colorado: Revisions to local Puercan mammalian biostratigraphy that incorporate paleomagnetic and palynological zonations: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22 (supplement to no. 3), p. 50A.
• Nichols, D. J., Fleming, R. F., Barclay, R. S., Eberle, J. J., Betterton, W. J., Hicks, J. F., and Johnson, K. R., 2002, Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Denver Basin, Colorado and the most complete K-T boundary section known in nonmarine rocks: Programme & Abstracts, Joint Meeting of AASP-BMS-NAMS, 11th-13th September 2002, University College, London (unpaginated).

Courses Offered Historical Geology; GEOL 1020 Vertebrate Paleontology; GEOL 5700 Paleontology Practicum; MUSM 5914

Thsi Eotitanops tooth is an early Eocene brontothere (the northernmost of its kind) from Ellesmere

Thuliadanta is an early Eocene tapir (the oldest and northernmost tapir known), also from Ellesmere

Selected Recent Professional Society Work

Associate Editor for Palaios (April 2006 – present)    
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Member-At-Large, Executive Committee (Nov 2004 – present)
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Chair, Membership Committee (2000-2004)
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Romer Prize Committee (2002 – present)
Member, Host Committee, 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Research Associate, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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