Judith  Schiebout 

Associate Professor
Associate Curator

Bachelor's Degree(s): University of Texas, 1968

Master's Degree: University of Texas, 1970

PhD: University of Texas, 1973

Phone: (225) 578-2717

Fax: (225) 578-2302

E-mail: jschie@lsu.edu

Office: 354 Howe-Russell Building

Area of Interest

Paleoecology and vertebrate paleontology, particularly the biostratigraphy and paleogeography of southern North America in the Tertiary; early and middle Tertiary mammals; the Cretaceous-Tertiary and Paleocene-Eocene transition, especially in Big Bend, west Texas; Louisiana fossil vertebrates; fluvial deposition.

A current major interest is the Miocene (Middle of the Age of Mammals) in Louisiana. A ten year project has yielded a diverse fauna of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine vertebrates, including rhinos, giant camels, whales, and gomphotheres.

Selected Publications

2008. White, P. D. and J.A. Schiebout. Paleogene paleosols and changes in pedogenesis during the initial Eocene thermal maximum: Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin 120 (11), 1347-1361.

2008. Schiebout, J.A., P.D. White, and G.S. Boardman.  Taphonomic Issues Relating to Concentrations of Pedogenic Nodules and Vertebrates in the Paleocene and Miocene Gulf Coastal Plain: Examples from Texas and Louisiana,  p. 17-30 in  J, Sankey and S. Baszio (eds), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages:  Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiology. Indiana University Press,  296 pp.

2007. Tong, Y. S. , Ting, S. Y., Meng, J., Li, Q., Wang,  Y. Q., Schiebout, J. A., Koch, P. L., Clyde, W., C. and G. J. Bowen. Ganungulates xincunliensis, an artiodactyl-like mammal (Ungulata,  Mammalia) from the Paleocene, Chijiang basin, Jiangxi, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, vol. 45 (4): 278-286.

2006. Schiebout, J.A., J. H.Wrenn, Suyin Ting, J. L. Hill, M. D. Hagge, M. J. Williams, G. S. Boardman, and B. B. Ellwood. Miocene Vertebrate Fossils Recovered from the Pascagoula Formation in Southeastern Louisiana, Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc. Trans. v.56, p. 745-760.

2005 Sankey, J.T., B.R. Standhardt, and J.A. Schiebout. Theropod teeth from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, Texas (27 pp, 6 figs, 5 tables). p.127-152 in Carnivorous Dinosaurs, K. Carpenter (ed), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2005. Ting, Suyin, Yuanqing Wang, Judith A. Schiebout, Paul Koch, William Clyde, Gabrial Bowen Yuan Wang, New early Eocene mammalian fossils from the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. No 36, p.291-301.