Dr Jon Todd

Dr Jon Todd

Senior Curator in Charge

ORCID: 0000-0002-0433-1611
Department: Earth Sciences
Division: ES Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology
Specialisms: Molluscan systematics, species radiations, marine macroecology, palaeodiversity, shell morphology and characters, bioimmuration
  • Phone: 2079425683

Summary

I am a systematist with focal taxa including aquatic molluscs and soft-bodied bryozoans. My current research interests lie in integrating data from living and extinct taxa to:

a) Determine the taxonomy, systematic relationships and patterns of diversification of species-rich clades of snails;

1) marine snails including Polystira (Neotropics) and other turrid genera, and

2) freshwater snails of the East African rift (Lavigeria, Paramelania, Melanoides).

b) Examine diversity and macroecological change in marine molluscan communities in the Cenozoic and their relationship to key episodes of environmental change. My focal times and regions are:

1) Neogene of Central America - the role of the uplift of the Isthmus of Panama,

2) Neogene of the South East Asian marine diversity hotspot - origins and maintenance, and

3) Paleogene of NW Europe: the PETM event.

c) Determine the systematic informativeness of molluscan shell characters through a range of hierarchical levels

Qualifications

Degrees

  • PhD, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, 1989 - 1993
  • BSc (Joint Hons) Biology and Geology, University of London, United Kingdom, 1982 - 1985

Employment history

Academic

  • Researcher/Curator, Natural History Museum, Palaeontology, United Kingdom, 1997 - 2014
  • Postdoctoral researcher, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Dept Geology, Switzerland, 1994 - 1997
  • Curator of invertebrates (temporary), Natural History Museum, Palaeontology, United Kingdom, 1993 - 1994

Highlighted publications

  • Peijnenburg KTCA, Janssen AW, Wall-Palmer D, Goetze E, Maas AE, Todd JA, Marlétaz F (2020) The origin and diversification of pteropods precede past perturbations in the Earth’s carbon cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (41) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences : 25609 - 25617. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920918117
  • Evans D, Sagoo N, Renema W, Cotton LJ, Müller W, Todd JA, Saraswati PK, Stassen P, Ziegler M, Pearson PN, Valdes PJ, Affek HP (2018) Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope-Mg/Ca thermometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (6) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences : 1174 - 1179. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714744115
  • Thomson SA, Pyle RL, Ahyong ST, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Ammirati J, Araya JF, Ascher JS, Audisio TL, Azevedo-Santos VM, Bailly N, Baker WJ, Balke M, Barclay MVL, Barrett RL, Benine RC, Bickerstaff JRM, Bouchard P, Bour R, Bourgoin T, Boyko CB, Breure ASH, Brothers DJ, Byng JW, Campbell D, Ceríaco LMP, Cernák I, Cerretti P, Chang C-H, Cho S, Copus JM, Costello MJ, Cseh A, Csuzdi C, Culham A, D’Elía G, D’Udekem d’Acoz C, Daneliya ME, Dekker R, Dickinson EC, Dickinson TA, Van Dijk PP, Dijkstra K-DB, Dima B, Dmitriev DA, Duistermaat L, Dumbacher JP, Eiserhardt WL, Ekrem T, Evenhuis NL, Faille A, Fernández-Triana JL, Fiesler E, Fishbein M, Fordham BG, Freitas AVL, Friol NR, Fritz U, Frøslev T, Funk VA, Gaimari SD, Garbino GST, Garraffoni ARS, Geml J, Gill AC, Gray A, Grazziotin FG, Greenslade P, Gutiérrez EE, Harvey MS, Hazevoet CJ, He K, He X, Helfer S, Helgen KM, Van Heteren AH, Hita Garcia F, Holstein N, Horváth MK, Hovenkamp PH, Hwang WS, Hyvönen J, Islam MB, Iverson JB, Ivie MA, Jaafar Z, Jackson MD, Jayat JP, Johnson NF, Kaiser H, Klitgård BB, Knapp DG, Kojima J-I, Kõljalg U, Kontschán J, Krell F-T, Krisai-Greilhuber I, Kullander S, Latella L, Lattke JE, Lencioni V, Lewis GP, Lhano MG, Lujan NK, Luksenburg JA, Mariaux J, Marinho-Filho J, Marshall CJ, Mate JF, McDonough MM, Michel E, Miranda VFO, Mitroiu M-D, Molinari J, Monks S, Moore AJ, Moratelli R, Murányi D, Nakano T, Nikolaeva S, Noyes J, Ohl M, Oleas NH, Orrell T, Páll-Gergely B, Pape T, Papp V, Parenti LR, Patterson D, Pavlinov IY, Pine RH, Poczai P, Prado J, Prathapan D, Rabeler RK, Randall JE, Rheindt FE, Rhodin AGJ, Rodríguez SM, Rogers DC, Roque FDO, Rowe KC, Ruedas LA, Salazar-Bravo J, Salvador RB, Sangster G, Sarmiento CE, Schigel DS, Schmidt S, Schueler FW, Segers H, Snow N, Souza-Dias PGB, Stals R, Stenroos S, Stone RD, Sturm CF, Štys P, Teta P, Thomas DC, Timm RM, Tindall BJ, Todd JA, Triebel D, Valdecasas AG, Vizzini A, Vorontsova MS, De Vos JM, Wagner P, Watling L, Weakley A, Welter-Schultes F, Whitmore D, Wilding N, Will K, Williams J, Wilson K, Winston JE, Wüster W, Yanega D, Yeates DK, Zaher H, Zhang G, Zhang Z-Q, Zhou H-Z (2018) Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLOS Biology, (3) Public Library of Science (PLoS) : e2005075 - e2005075. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075
  • Todd JA, Parfitt S (2017) British Cenozoic Fossils (Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary). Todd JA, Parfitt S (Eds).Natural History Museum, London: London. : 1 - 136.
  • O’Dea A, Lessios HA, Coates AG, Eytan RI, Restrepo-Moreno SA, Cione AL, Collins LS, De Queiroz A, Farris DW, Norris RD, Stallard RF, Woodburne MO, Aguilera O, Aubry M-P, Berggren WA, Budd AF, Cozzuol MA, Coppard SE, Duque-Caro H, Finnegan S, Gasparini GM, Grossman EL, Johnson KG, Keigwin LD, Knowlton N, Leigh EG, Leonard-Pingel JS, Marko PB, Pyenson ND, Rachello-Dolmen PG, Soibelzon E, Soibelzon L, Todd JA, Vermeij GJ, Jackson JBC (2016) Formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Science Advances, (8) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600883
  • Reich S, Di Martino E, Todd JA, Wesselingh FP, Renema W (2015) Indirect paleo-seagrass indicators (IPSIs): A review. Earth-Science Reviews, Elsevier BV : 161 - 186. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.01.009
  • TODD JA, RAWLINGS TA (2014) A review of the Polystira clade—the Neotropic’s largest marine gastropod radiation (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae sensu stricto). Zootaxa, (5) Magnolia Press : 445 - 491. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.5.5
  • Todd JA, Johnson KG (2013) Dissecting a Marine Snail Species Radiation (Conoidea: Turridae: <I>Polystira</I>) Over 12 Million Years in the Southwestern Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine Science, (4) Bulletin of Marine Science : 877 - 904. doi: 10.5343/bms.2012.1083
  • Genner MJ, Todd JA, Michel E, Erpenbeck D, Jimoh A, Joyce DA, Piechocki A, Pointier J-P (2007) Amassing diversity in an ancient lake: evolution of a morphologically diverse parthenogenetic gastropod assemblage in Lake Malawi. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, (3) : 517 - 530. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03171.x
  • Johnson KG, Todd JA, Jackson JBC (2007) Coral reef development drives molluscan diversity increase at local and regional scales in the late Neogene and Quaternary of the southwestern Caribbean. Paleobiology, (1) Cambridge University Press (CUP) : 24 - 52. doi: 10.1666/06022.1
  • Todd JA, Jackson JBC, Johnson KG, Fortunato HM, Heitz A, Alvarez M, Jung P (2002) The ecology of extinction: molluscan feeding and faunal turnover in the Caribbean Neogene. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, (1491) The Royal Society : 571 - 577. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1923
  • Todd JA (2000) The central role of ctenostomes in bryozoan phylogeny.. Proceedings of the 11th International Bryozoology Association Conference, 1999.. Herrera A, Jackson JBC (Eds).Allen Press: Lawrence, Kansas.
  • Burridge AK, Hörnlein C, Janssen AW, Hughes M, Bush SL, Marlétaz F, Gasca R, Pierrot-Bults AC, Michel E, Todd JA, Young JR, Osborn KJ, Menken SBJ, Peijnenburg KTCA Time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of pteropods. Vermeij GJ (Eds).PLOS ONE, (6) Public Library of Science (PLoS) : e0177325 - e0177325. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177325

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