Staff Profile Cindy Howells
Curator: Palaeontology
Contact Details
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3354
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Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
BSc (Hons) Geology (Cardiff), Membership Secretary (Geological Curators’ Group), Committee Member (Geologists Association, South Wales Group), Committee Member (The Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy). Member of: The Palaeontological Association, The History of Geology Group, The South East Wales RIGS Group.
Research Interests
My current research interests includes the study of dinosaurs, and other Mesozoic vertebrates, particularly relating to Wales. I am also interested in the palaeontology and related stratigraphy of Wales, SW England and the rest of the UK, particularly from the Carboniferous to the present day. Other interests include the History of Geology and Palaeontological Collecting. I am also interested in working with amateur palaeontological collectors to establish a collecting code of practice and database of finds.
Keywords
Palaeontology, dinosaur, Jurassic, Triassic, Mesozoic, ammonite, ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, mammals, crinoid, fossil, Carboniferous, curation, museum, history of geology.Links
Selected Publications
Martill, D.M., Vidovic, S.U., Howells, C. and Nudds, J.R. 2016. The oldest Jurassic dinosaur: a basal neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain. PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0145713.
Howells, C. 2015. Dinosaur Discovery – new kid on the Jurassic block. Natur Cymru 55: 25-29
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
Miller, C.G, Ewin, T, Chalk, H-L, Riddington, K, Kerbey, H, Howells, C, Nudds, J, Matthew Parkes, M, Spencer, J, Morgan, A, Howe, M, Bernard, E, King, S. and Gladstone, I. 2014. Geological Curators' Group Survey 2014: results and a vision for the future. The Geological Curator 10 (2): 77-92.
Howells, C. 2014.
Kalvoda, J., Nudds, J. Bábek, O. and Howells, C. 2013. Late Chadian-early Arundian high-resolution biostratigraphy in the Ogmore-by-Sea section (South Wales-Mendip shelf) and the mid-Avonian unconformity. Journal of the Geological Society,171(1): 41-47
Howells, C. and Kammer T. 2013, A new crinoid from the Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) of South Pembrokeshire, Wales. Geological Journal. 49(2): 207-212
Howells, C. 2007, The Geological Curators’ Group - the first 34 years….! [PDF] The Geological Curator, 8(8): 352-374
Sharpe, T., Howe, S.R. and Howells C. 1998, Setting the standard? The Earth Science Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London [PDF]. The Geological Curator, 6(10): 395-403