Education | Contact Information | Research Interests | Research Activities | Research Publications

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 1976.

Contact Information 

Department of Geological Sciences
209 Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315

email: clams@email.unc.edu

telephone: (919) 962-0685

fax: (919) 966-4519

Research Interests

• Invertebrate paleontology. 
• Ecology, evolution and taxonomy of the Mollusca. 
• biocalcification. 
• endolithic communities. 
• biostratigraphy.

Research Activities

• Evolutionary studies of molluscan shell microstructure and marine ecology and paleoecology. 
• Mineralogical evolution of the Bivalvia. 
• Modern and fossil endolithic communities. 
• Coastal Plain biostratigraphy.
• Triassic vertebrate paleontology. An article on this aspect of Dr. Carter's research appears in the latest issue of Endeavors magazine 

I am currently working on a monographic revision of the class Bivalvia using new data of shell and ligament microstructure for well- preserved Devonian-Recent taxa. With an adjunct appointment to Biology and Marine Sciences, my students come from all three departments.

Selected Research Publications

Carter, J.G., 1978, Ecology and evolution of the Gastrochaenacea (Mollusca, Bivalvia), with notes on the evolution of the endolithic habitat: Yale University Peabody Museum Bulletin 41, 92 p. 

 

Carter, J.G., 1980, Environmental and biological controls of bivalve shell mineralogy and microstructure, Chapter 2, in Rhoads, D.C., and Lutz, R.A., eds., Skeletal Growth of Aquatic Organisms: Plenum Press. 

 

Carter, J.G., 1990, Evolutionary significance of shell microstructure in the Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia and Isofilibranchia, in Carter, J. G., ed., Skeletal Biomineraliztion, Patterns, Processes and Evolutionary Trends: Van Nostrand Reinhold and Co., New York, p. 135-412. 

 

Barrera, Enriquetta, Tevesz, M.J.S., and Carter, J.G., 1990, Variations in oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions and microstructure of the shell of Adamussium Colbecki (Bivalvia). Palaios, 5: 149-159. 

 

Rossbach, T.J., and Carter, J.G., 1991, Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Lower River Bend formation at the Martin Marietta Quarry, New Bern, North Carolina. Journal of Paleontology, 65: 80-118. 

 

Carter, J.G., Barrera, E., and Tevesz, M.J.S., 1997, Thermal potentiation and mineralogical evolution in the Bivalvia (Mollusca): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Salt Lake City, UT, v. 29, n. 6, p. 101.

 

Campbell, D.C., Hoekstra, K.J., and Carter, J.G., in press, 18s ribosomal DNA and bivalve evolution. First International Symposium on Bivalve Evolution, Calgary, Canada, 14 ms pages.

 
Carter, J.G., Barrera, E., and Tevesz, M.J.S., 1998, Thermal potentiation and mineralogical evolution in the Bivalvia (Mollusa): Journal of Paleontology, Nov., 1998.