1101 Valley Life Sciences Bldg.
Museum of Paleontology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
tel. 510-643-9745
fax. 510-642-1822
email mark@berkeley.edu
The University of California Museum of Paleontology houses the largest collection of fossils on any University campus in the world. I am responsible for the management and operations of the Museum's collections and preparation labs. Together with a staff of five Museum Scientists, we share primary responsibility for the Museum's fossil vertebrate, invertebrate, paleobotanical, microfossil collections, and shared molecular lab. Museum Scientists participate in all aspects of Museum operations, including research, field work, public programs, outreach, exhibits, and student training in museum and field studies. Like the faculty, Museum Scientists have advanced degrees and do independent research.
My field and laboratory research is focused on Upper Cretaceous faunas of the Western Interior and the Mesozoic of Ethiopia. Since 1978, I have led and participated in field studies in the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek and Judith River Formations of Montana. I spent three field seasons on the North Slope of Alaska collecting dinosaurs and Mesozoic mammals in the late 1980's under a joint project with the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks. In 1993, together with colleagues from Harvard University and Providence College, we initiated an ongoing investigation of Mesozoic sediments in the Blue Nile Gorge and Tigray Province, Ethiopia. Dr. William Clemens and I were awarded an NSF International Programs grant (NSF-INT 9507819) to continue research, museum and field studies of Mesozoic continental vertebrate faunas of Ethiopia in 1995-96. We recovered the first confirmed record of theropod dinosaurs from Ethiopia, as well as new records of crocodilians, turtles, and fish. Preliminary results were presented at the 1996 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meetings at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Field work in Ethiopia continued in 1998 and most recently in January, 2008. Plans for continuing field work and research are ongoing.
Current research projects include: Studies of pachycephalosaur cranial morphology, histology and behavior; Ontogeny and cranial variation in Triceratops; Stable isotope biogeochemistry of Cretaceous and Tertiary faunas; The effect of the burial environment on the stable isotope biogeochemistry of fossil bone and teeth; Eocene marine mammals from Israel and their biostratigraphic significance.
Archibald, J.D., W. A. Clemens, K. Padian, T. Rowe, N. Macleod, P. M. Barrett, A. Gale, P. Holroyd, H.-D. Sues, N. C. Arens, J. R. Horner, G. P. Wilson, M. B. Goodwin, C. A. Brochu, D. L. Lofgren, S. H. Hurlbert, J. H. Hartman, D. A. Eberth, P. B. Wignall, P. J. Currie, A. Weil, G. V. R. Prasad, L. Dingus, V. Courtillot, A. Milner, A. Milner, S. Bajpai, D. J. Ward, and A. Sahni. 2010. Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes. Science. 328: 973
Goodwin, M.B. 2010. California's first dino! Dig Magazine. 12(6):14-17
Goodwin, M.B. 2010. Look at me now! Dig Magazine. 12(6):18-21.
Goodwin, M.B. 2010. Take a closer look: how Triceratops grew its horns and why! Dig Magazine. 12(6):8-12.
Schott, R., D. Evans, M. B. Goodwin, C. Brown, N. Longrich. 2010. Cranial ontogeny in Stegoceras and the evolution of cranial doming and ornamentation in Pachycephalosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Program and Abstracts 70th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 159(A).
Goodwin, M.B. and J.R. Horner. 2010. Historical Collecting Bias and the Fossil Record of Triceratops in Montana. pp. 551-563 in M.J. Ryan, B.J. Chinnery-Allgeier, and D.A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press.
Goodwin, M.B., T. Deméré, P. Holroyd, R. Wilson, and S. Dowker. 2009. Unusual preservation of fossil baleen (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Miocene of California, USA: Comparative morphology and stable isotope evidence for seasonality and growth. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):107A.
Horner, J.R and M.B. Goodwin. 2009. Extreme Cranial Ontogeny in the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7626. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007626
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Schott, R., D. Evans, M. B. Goodwin, C. Brown, N. Longrich. 2010. Cranial ontogeny in Stegoceras and the evolution of cranial doming and ornamentation in Pachycephalosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Program and Abstracts 70th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 159(A).
Schott, R.K., D.C. Evans, T.E. Williamson, T.D. Carr, and M.B. Goodwin. 2009. The anatomy and systematics of Colepiocephale lambei (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):771-786.
Schweitzer, M H., R. Avci, T. Collier, M. B. Goodwin. 2008. Microscopic, chemical and molecular methods for examining fossil preservation. Comptes Rendu Palevol 7:159-184.
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Goodwin, M. B. and P. A. Holroyd. 2008. Fractionation in fossil bioapatite: phylogeny as a confounding factor. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):85A
Horner, J.R. and M.B.Goodwin. 2008. Ontogeny of cranial epi-ossifications in Triceratops. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28(1):134-144.
Andersen, D.W., M.B. Goodwin, N.C. Shostak, C.M. Wentworth, and J.C. Tinsley. 2008. A newly discovered mammoth in San Jose, California, poses a stratigraphic puzzle. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 40(1):59.
Goodwin, M.B. and W.A. Clemens. Mesozoic continental vertebrates from the Northwestern Plateau, Ethiopia. International conference on paleoanthropology, paleontology, and archaeology in Ethiopia. Jan. 12-14, 2008. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Program with abstracts, pp. 18.
Clemens, W.A., M.B. Goodwin, J.H. Hutchison, C.R. Schaff, C.B. Wood, and M.W. Colbert. 2007. First record of a Jurassic mammal (?"Peramura") from Ethiopia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(3):433-439.
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Goodwin, M.B., P.G. Grant, G. Bench, and P. Holroyd. 2007. Elemental composition and diagenetic alteration of dinosaur bone: Distinguishing micron-scale spatial and compositional heterogeneity using PIXE. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253:458-476. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.06.017.
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Hall, L. and M. Goodwin. 2007. A preliminary analysis of dinosaur teeth from the Mugher Mudstone of Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):86A.
Horner, J., M.B. Goodwin, and H. Woodward. 2007. Synonomy consequences of dinosaur cranial ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):92A.
Horner, J. R. and M. B. Goodwin. 2006. Major cranial changes during Triceratops ontogeny. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 273:2757-2761.
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Goodwin, M. B., W. A. Clemens, J. R. Horner, and K. Padian. 2006. The smallest known Triceratops skull: New observations on ceratopsid cranial anatomy and ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26(1):103:112.
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Longinelli, I., H.-R. Wenk, L. Lutterotti, and M. Goodwin. 2005. Texture analysis from synchrotron diffraction images with the Rietveld method: dinosaur tendon and salmon scale. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 12(354-360).
Goodwin, M. B. and J. R. Horner. 2004. Cranial histology of Pachycephalosaurs
(Ornithischia: Marginocephalia) reveals transitory structures inconsistent with
head-butting behavior. Paleobiology 30(2): 253-267.
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Goodwin, M. B. and W. A. Clemens, J. H. Hutchison, C. B. Wood, M. S. Zavada, A. Kemp, C.J. Duffin, and C. R. Schaff. 1999. Mesozoic continental vertebtrates with associated palynostratigraphic dates from the northwestern Ethiopia plateau. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(4): 728-741.
Goodwin, M. B., Domning, D. P., Lipps, J. H., and Benjamini, C. 1998. The first record of an Eocene (Lutetian) marine mammal from Israel. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(4): 813-815.
Warren, A., Yates, Y. M., Damiani, R. J., Goodwin, M. B., Wood, C. B., and Schaff, C. R. 1998. The first temnospondyl amphibian (Stereospondyli: Capitosauroidea) from Ethiopia. Neues Jahrbuch for geologie und palaontologie, Monatshefte 11: 694-704.
Goodwin, M. B., Buchholtz, E. A., and Johnson, R. E., 1998. Cranial anatomy and diagnosis of Stygimoloch spinifer (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) with comments on cranial display structures in agonistic behavior. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2): 363-375.
Goodwin, Mark B. and Chaney, D.S., 1994. Molding and casting: techniques and materials (Ch. 10), In Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques, ed. by P. Leiggi and P. May, Cambridge Univ. Press, 344 pp.
Horner, J.R., Varricchio, D.J. and Goodwin, M.B., 1992. Marine transgressions and the evolution of Cretaceous dinosaurs. Nature, 358, 59-61.
Goodwin, M.B., 1990. Morphometric landmarks of pachycephalosaurid cranial material from the Judith River Formation of northcentral Montana. In, Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Ch. 14, K. Carpenter and P. Currie, eds.
Goodwin, M.B. and Deino, A.L., 1989. The first radiometric ages from the Judith River Formation (Late Cretaceous), Hill County, Montana. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 26, 1384-1391.
Goodwin, M. B., M. Colbert, and T. Rowe. 2004. High-resolution computed tomography of the type Ornatotholus browni (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) confirms its early ontogenetic stage and synonomy with Stegoceras. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):65A.
Goodwin, M. B. 2003. Carbon isotope analysis and mineralization in fossil and modern mysticete whale baleen plates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):56A.
Goodwin, M. B. 2002. Stable isotopes and dinosaur endothermy: effects of the burial environment on hadrosaur biogeochemistry. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):59A.
Goodwin, M. B. and J. R. Horner. 2001. How Triceratops got its horns: new from a growth series on cranial morphology and ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):56A.
Goodwin, M. B. 2000. A new analytical tool for assessing the diagenetic alteration of dinosaur bone. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):45A.
Goodwin, M.B. and J. R. Horner. 1999. Cranial morphology, histology, and ontogeny of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs: the "battering-ram" hypotheses takes a hit. IV European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology Proceedings Programme and Abstracts p. 48, Albarracin, Spain.
Goodwin, Mark B., Clemens, W.A., Schaff, C.R., and Wood, C.B., 1996. New occurrences of Mesozoic vertebrates from the upper Blue Nile Gorge, Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(3):38A.
Goodwin, Mark B., 1996. Construction of an internally supported, free standing cast of Tyrannosaurus rex. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(3):38A.
Goodwin, Mark B. and Johnson, R.E., 1995. A new skull of the pachycephalosaur Stygimoloch casts doubt on head butting behavior. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15(3):32A.
Wood, C.B., Goodwin, M.B., Schaff, C.S. and Assefa, G., 1993. First Mesozoic vertebrates from the Ethiopian Plateau, Blue Nile Gorge Region, East Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 13(3):63A.