Jaelyn J. Eberle

Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences
Curator of Fossil Vertebrates, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History University of Colorado at Boulder

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; 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., Fricke, H.C., Humphrey, J.D., Hackett, L., Newbrey, M.G., and Hutchison, J.H., 2010, Seasonal variability in Arctic temperatures during early Eocene time. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 296: 481-486.

Ballantyne, A.P., Greenwood, D.R., Sinninghe Damste, J.S., Csank, A.Z., Eberle, J.J., and Rybczynski, N., 2010, Significantly higher Arctic surface temperatures during the Pliocene indicated by multiple independent proxies. Geology 38: 603-606.

Olesiak, S.E.*, Sponheimer, M., Eberle, J.J., Oyen, M.L., and Ferguson, V.L., 2010, Nanomechanical properties of bone: insights into diagenesis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 289: 25-32.

Eberle, J., Fricke, H., and Humphrey, J., 2009, Lower Latitude Mammals as Year-Round Residents in Eocene Arctic forests. Geology 37 (6): 499-502.

Olesiak, S.E.*, Sponheimer, M., Eberle, J.J., and Ferguson, V.L., 2009, The Contribution of Crystallinity to Tissue-level Properties in Modern and Fossilized Bone, in Mechanics of Biological and Biomedical Materials, edited by K. Katti, C. Hellmich, U.G.K. Wegst, R. Narayan (Material Research Society Proceedings Volume 1132E, Warrendale, PA, 2009), 1132-Z01-06.

Lloyd, K.J.* and Eberle, J.J., 2008. A new talpid from the late Eocene of North America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (3): 539-543.

Lloyd, K.J.*, Worley-Georg*, M.P., and Eberle, J.J., 2008, The Chadronian mammalian fauna of the Florissant Formation, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado. Geological Society of America Special Paper 435: 117-126.

Chin, K., Bloch, J.D., Sweet, R.R., Tweet, J.S., Eberle, J.J., Cumbaa, S.L., Witkowski, J., and Harwood, D.M., 2008, Life in a Temperate Polar Sea: A Unique Taphonomic Window on the Structure of a Late Cretaceous Arctic Marine Ecosystem. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 2675-2685.

Eberle, J.J. and McKenna, M.C., 2007. The Indefatigable Mary Dawson: Arctic Pioneer: Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 39: 7-17.

Olesiak, S.E.*, Oyen, M., Sponheimer, M., Eberle, J.J. and Ferguson, V.L., 2007, Ultrastructural mechanical and material characterization of fossilized bone, in Mechanics of Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials, edited by C. Viney, K. Katti, C. Hellmich, U. Wegst (Material Research Society Proceedings Volume 975E, Warrendale, PA, 2007), 0975-DD03-09.

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: 899-910.

Courses Offered

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

This Eotitanops tooth is an early Eocene
brontothere (the northernmost of its kind)
from Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada

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

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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