Carl W. Stock


Professor


B.A. 1967, Hartwick College;
M.A. 1974, State University of New York at Binghamton;
Ph.D. 1977, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
E-mail: cstock@geo.ua.edu

Research Interests

Research centers on the paleontology of stromatoporoids, including taxonomy, evolution, paleoecology, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. More specifically, this research involves five projects. The first is a study of the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian stromatoporoids of the Appalachians. Most work on stromatoporoids of this age in New York has been completed, and more is in progress. Stromatoporoids from similar age rocks of Virginia have also been studied. In addition studies have begun on Upper Silurian stromatoporoids of Alabama and Tennessee, and Lower Devonian stromatoporoids of Maine. The second area is an outgrowth of the first, in that it includes the paleobiogeography of stromatoporoids during the entire Early Devonian. A third area involves the study of Upper Devonian stromatoporoids from Iowa, the only area east of the Rockies where a good sequence of stromatoporoid-bearing strata of this age is exposed -- this is now expanding to a study of Upper Devonian stramatoporoid evolution and biogeography worldwide. The fourth area consists of participation in the revision of the stromatoporoid portion of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. The newest area of investigation involves a study of the Early Silurian recovery of stromatoporoids, following the end-Ordovician mass extinction; included are collections from Alabama, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, and New York, combined with data from Canada and Europe.

Student theses completed have involved Upper Silurian to Lower Devonian stromatoporoids from a bioherm complex in Virginia, Lower Silurian tabulate and heliolitid corals of Alabama, Middle Ordovician brachiopods of Alabama, Middle Ordovician bioherms of Alabama, Upper Silurian stromatoporoids of New York, Upper Devonian stromatoporoids of Iowa, and mid-Mississippian conodonts of Alabama. A dissertation completed centers on Permian reef paleoecology in New Mexico. A master's thesis in progress involves the study of Lower Silurian stromatoporoids in Ohio.

Professional Activities

Professor Stock has served as chairman of the Southeastern Section of the Paleontological Society, as a technical editor of the Journal of Paleontology, and as Secretary of the Paleontological Society. He is now a Councilor of the International Association for the Study of Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera.

Recent Presentations

2003 Stock, C. W., and J. A. Burry-Stock, Originations and extinctions of stromatoporoid genera and their role in the Frasnian-Famennian extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, n. 6, p. 385

2002 Stock, C. W., and J. A. Burry-Stock, Co-occurrence of the stromatoporoid Habrostroma centrotum (Girty) in the Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) of the Old World and Eastern Americas Realms: selective breaching of the Laurussian barrier. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, n. 6, p. 315.

2002 Stock, C. W., and J. A. Burry-Stock, A paleobiogeographic leak across North America during the Early Devonian (Lochkovian) documented by stromatoporoids. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, n. 2, p. A-117.

2001 Stock, C. W., and J. A. Burry-Stock, Differentiating between species of the stromatoporoid Habrostroma from the Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) of North America. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, n.6, p. A-377.

2001 Stock, C. W., and H. Nestor, Centers of origination of early Silurian (Llandovery) stromatoporoids. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, n. 2, p. A-57.

Representative Publications

2001, Stock, C. W., Stromatoporoidea, 1926-2000: Journal of Paleotology, v. 75, p. 1079-1089.

2001, Crow, C. J., Brande, S., Turner, M. E., Stock, C. W., and Benson, D. J., Random sampling of carbonate mounds: an example from the Upper Ordovician of Alabama: Sedimentary Geology, v. 145, p. 173-187.

2001, Stock, C. W., and Burry-Stock, J. A., A multivariant analysis of two contemporaneous species of the stromatoporoid Habrostroma from the Lower Devonian of New York, USA: Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum, n. 1, p. 274-279.

2001, Nestor, H., and Stock, C. W., Recovery of the stromatoporoid fauna from the end-Ordovician mass extinction: Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum, n. 1, p. 329-337.

1999, Stearn, C. W., Webby, B. D., Nestor, H., and Stock, C. W., Revision and terminology of Palaeozoic stromatoporoids: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 44, p. 1-70.

1998, Stock, C. W., and Burry-Stock, J. A., Two new genera of Upper Silurian actinostromatid stromatoporoids: Journal of Paleontology, v. 72, p. 190-201.

1997, Stock, C. W., Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) Stromatoporoidea from the Coeymans Formation of central New York: Journal of Paleontology, v. 71, p. 539-553.

1997, Stock, C. W., Paleobiogeographical range of North American Devonian stromatoporoids: the roles of global and regional controls: Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, vol. 92, p. 279-286.

1994, Stock, C. W., Stromatoporoid paleobiogeography of the Eastern Americas Realm during the Lochkovian Age (Early Devonian), p. 23-27: In: Sponges in Time and Space, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

1994, Stock, C. W., Origin, evolution, and classification of the stromatoporoid order Actinostromatida: Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, v. 172, p. 355-363.

1992, Stock, C. W., St. Jean, J., Wood, R. A., and Otte, L. J., Annotated checklist of post-Devonian "stromatoporoid" genera and their type species: Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, v. 21, n. 1.2, 22 p.

1991, Stock, C. W., Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) Stromatoporoidea from the Manlius Formation of New York: Journal of Paleontology, v. 65, p. 897-911.

1990, Stock, C. W., Biogeography of the Devonian stromatoporoids: Geological Society (London) Memoir 12, p. 257-265.

1989, Stock, C. W., Microreticulate microstructure in the Stromatoporoidea: Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir 8, p. 149-155.

1988, Stock, C. W., Lower Devonian (Gedinnian) Stromatoporoidea of New York: redescription of the type specimens of Girty (1895): Journal of Paleontology, v. 62, p. 8-21.

1986, Benson, D. J., and Stock, C. W., (editors), Depositional history of the Middle Ordovician of the Alabama Appalachians: 23rd Annual Field Trip of Alabama Geological Society, 120 p.

1986, Stock, C. W., and Holmes, A. E., Upper Silurian/Lower Devonian Stromatoporoidea from the Keyser Formation at Mustoe, Highland County, west-central Virginia: Journal of Paleontology, v. 60, p. 555-580.

1984, Stock, C. W., The function of tube-pillars in the Ordovician stromatoporoid Cliefdenella inferred by analogy with the Recent sclerosponge Calcifibrospongia: Palaeontographica Americana, n. 54, p. 349-353.

1984, Stock, C. W., Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Stromatoporoidea of north-central Iowa: Redescription of the type specimens of Hall and Whitfield (1873): Journal of Paleontology, v. 58, p. 773-788.

1982, Stock, C. W., Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Stromatoporoidea of north-central Iowa: Mason City Member of the Shell Rock Formation: Journal of Paleontology, v. 56, p. 654-679.

1981, Stock, C. W., Cliefdenella alaskaensis n. sp. (Stromatoporoidea) from the Middle/Upper Ordovician of central Alaska: Journal of Paleontology, v. 55, p. 998-1005.

1979, Stock, C. W., Upper Silurian (Pridoli) Stromatoporoidea of New York: Bulletins of American Paleontology, v. 76, p. 289-389