T. Markham Puckett is currently an Assistant Research Geologist in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. He received a B.S. in Biology and Geology at the University of Southern Mississippi, an M.S. in Geology at Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Alabama. Mark also worked at the Geological Survey of Alabama for 9 years. Mark's research has focused on the taxonomy, paleoecology, and biostratigraphy of ostracodes, particularly Upper Cretaceous ostracodes.

These studies, coupled with planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy, formed the basis for interpretations of the sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Mississippi-Alabama region. Mark has also worked recently on petroleum systems modeling of Mesozoic strata in the northern Gulf of Mexico region.

Copyright: Palaeontologia Electronica, 15 April 2000