Staff Profile Dr Caroline Buttler
Head of Collections Development
Contact Details
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3359
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Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
BSc (Hons) Geology (University of Liverpool), MSc Palaeontology & Ecology (University of Manitoba), PhD Palaeontology (University of Wales, Swansea)
Accredited Conservator (Institute of Conservation).
Vice-President (Palaeontographical Society), Editor (Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association), Committee Member (University of Birmingham Lapworth Museum Committee).
Research Interests
My research is focused on Palaeozoic bryozoans, especially the order Trepostomata. Of particular interest is the systematics and taxonomy of this group of colonial animals, as well as their biogeography and ecology. Recent projects include encrusting Ordovician bryozoans, X-ray Tomography/Microscopy of Palaeozoic palaeostome bryozoans and the revision of the trepostome section for the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
I am also interested in the conservation and care of geological material in museum collections.
Keywords
Palaeontology, Bryozoa, taxonomy, palaeoecology, conservationLinks
Selected Publications
Wilson, M.A., Buttler, C.J. and Vinn, O. 2024. Traces of missing encrusters: borings reveal sclerobiont taphonomy in the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati region, USA. Historical Biology.
Buttler, C.J., Mitchell, R.L., Wilson, M.A., Johnson, R.E. 2023. Applications for X-ray Tomography/Microscopy of Palaeozoic palaeostome bryozoans. In M.M. Key, Jr., J.S. Porter and P.N. Wyse Jackson (eds.) 2023. Bryozoan Studies 2022. CRC Press/Balkema, pp. 1–8.
Buttler, C.J., Cherns, L. and McCobb, L.M.E. 2022. Trepostome bryozoans encrusting Silurian gastropods: A taphonomic window and its implications for biodiversity. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67, 569–577
Ma, J., Buttler, C.J., Taylor, P.D., Huang, B., Zhao, Z., Xia, F. 2022 Depauperate survival bryozoans following the first episode of the end Ordovician mass extinction in the Kuanyinchiao Bed (Hirnantian, Upper Ordovician) of northern Guizhou, South China. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
Buttler, C.J. & Taylor, P.D. 2020. Review of symbioses between bryozoans and primary and secondary occupants of gastropod shells in the fossil record. In Bryozoan studies 2019 – Proceedings of the eighteenth International Bryozoology Association Conference Liberec (eds. Wyse Jackson, P. & Zágoršek, K.) pp. 11–22.
Ma, J-Y, Taylor, P.D. & Buttler, C.J. 2019. Unusual compound zooecia in the trepostome bryozoan Eostenopora from the Devonian of Guizhou, China. Palaeoworld, 28, 289-294.
Wilson, M.A., Buttler, C.J. & Taylor, P. D. 2019. Bryozoans as taphonomic engineers, with examples from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Midwestern North America. Lethaia, 52, 403-409.
Buttler, C. J. Wilson M. A. 2018. Paleoecology of an Upper Ordovician submarine cave-dwelling bryozoan fauna and its exposed equivalents in northern Kentucky, USA. Journal of Paleontology, 92, 568 – 576.
Wyse Jackson, P. N, & Buttler, C. J. 2015. Preparation, Imaging, and Conservation of Paleozoic Bryozoans for Study. Invertebrate Treatise on Paleontology Online 63: Part G, Revised, Vol. 2, Chapter 3
Popov, L., Hairapetian, V., Ghobadi Pour, M., Buttler, C., Evans, D. H., Hejazi, S. H., Jahangir, H. 2014 Llandovery fauna of Iran during the post-extinction recovery. The Third International Symposium of the International Geosciences Programme Project 589 (IGCP- 589), 105-110.
Ma J, Buttler, C.J. & Taylor, P. D. 2014. Cladistic analysis of the ‘trepostome’ Suborder Esthonioporina and the systematics of Palaeozoic bryozoans. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali. 94, 153-161
Buttler, C.J., Wyse Jackson, P.N., Ernst, A. & McKinney, F.K. 2013. A Review of the early Palaeozoic biogeography of bryozoans. In Harper, D. A.T. & Servais, T. (eds) Early Palaeozoic Palaeobiogeography and palaeogeography, Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 38, 145–155.
Ernst, A & Buttler, C. 2012. Cystoporate bryozoans from the Lower – Middle Devonian of NW Spain. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 263, 261-285
Buttler, C. J., Wyse Jackson, P. N. & Key, M. M. Jr. 2008. Bryozoa from the Ordovician (Caradoc) of Courtown, Co. Wexford, Ireland, 9-18. In: S. J. Hageman, M. M. Key, Jr, & J. E. Winston (eds). Proceedings of the 14th International Bryozoology Association Conference. Special Publication Series of the Virginia Museum of Natural History Press; Martinsville.
Buttler, C., Cherns, L. & Massa, D. 2007. Bryozoan mud-mounds from the Upper Ordovician Jifarah (Djeffara) Formation of Tripolitania, north-west Libya. Palaeontology, 50, 479-494.
Brenchley, P.J., Marshall, J.D., Harper, D.A.T., Buttler, C.J. & Underwood, C.J. 2006. A late Ordovician (Hirnantian) karstic surface in a submarine channel, recording glacio-eustatic sea-level changes: Meifod, Central Wales. Geological Journal, 40, 1-22.
Buttler, C. & Davis, M. 2006. The conservator in context: crossing curatorial boundaries, 30-33. In Saunders, D., Townsend, J.H. & Woodcock, S. (eds) The object in context: crossing conservation boundaries. Contributions to the Munich IIC Congress 2006.
Boardman, R.S & Buttler, C.J. 2005. Zooids and extrazooidal skeleton in the order Trepostomata (Bryozoa). Journal of Paleontology, 79, 1088–1104.