Staff ProfileDr Peter Hodges
Honorary Research Fellow (Natural Sciences)
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Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3215
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Ph.D. Swansea University “Lower Lias, Lower Jurassic Bivalvia of South-West Britain”.
Member Palaeontological Association. Member Palaeontographical Society. Member Geologists’ Association, South Wales Group. Ex Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Committee Member South Wales G.A.. Researchgate member.
Research Interests
Revision of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic Stratigraphy mainly Wales and south-west Britain. The taxonomy of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda. Biometrics and statistics of bivalvia and gastropoda also digital techniques.
Keywords
Jurassic, Triassic, stratigraphy, taxonomy, Bivalvia, Gastropoda, biometrics.Links
Selected Publications
Hodges, P. 2017 (in press). The Early Jurassic Bivalvia from the Hettangian and Lower Sinemurian of south-west Britain. Part 2. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London, 65-111, pls 7-10.
Martin, J.E, Vincent, P., Suan, G., Sharpe, T, Hodges, P., Williams, M., Howells, C. and Fischer V. 2014. A mysterious giant ichthyosaur from the lowermost Jurassic of Wales [PDF]. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00062.2014
Hodges, P. & Simms, M. J. 2004. Bivalves. In British Lower Jurassic Stratigraphy: an introduction. In M. J. Simms, N. Morton, N. Chidlaw & K. N. Page (eds), Geological Conservation Review Series 30. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, 33-37.
Wright, V. P., Cherns, L. & Hodges, P. 2003. Missing molluscs: field testing taphonomic loss in the Mesozoic through early large-scale aragonite dissolution. Geology, 31(3), 211-14.
Hodges, P. 2000. The Early Jurassic Bivalvia from the Hettangian and Lower Sinemurian of south-west Britain. Part 1. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London, 1-64.
Hodges, P., Ivimey-Cook, H. C., Radley, J. & Swift, A. 1999. Bivalves. In Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group. In A. Swift & D. M. Martill (eds), The Palaeontological Association, 82-127.
Hodges, P. 1994. A new barnacle from the Lower Jurassic of South Wales. Palaeontology, 37(4), 901-905.
Hodges, P. 1994. The base of the Jurassic System: new data on the first appearance of Psiloceras planorbis in southwest Britain. Geological Magazine, 131(6), 841-44.
Hodges, P. 1991. The relationship of the Mesozoic bivalve Atreta to the Dimyidae. Palaeontology, 34(4), 963-70.
Hodges, P. 1986. The Lower Lias (Lower Jurassic) of the Bridgend area, South Wales. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 97(3), 237-42.