Evolutionary interest:
Cambrian to Permian
Stratigraphic interest:
Cambrian
TRILOBITE PEOPLE DIRECTORY
HUGHES, Nigel C.
PROFILE
Name: HUGHES, Nigel C.
Category:  Professional
Address:    Dept. of Earth Sciences
                   University of California
                   Riverside, CA 92521
                   USA
Phone: 001 951 827 3098
Fax:   001 951 827 4324
Email: nigel.hughes@ucr.edu
Website: http://earthscience.ucr.edu
                http://www.trilobyte.ucr.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Area(s) of Research: Biostratigraphy - Evolution – Paleobiology – Ontogeny
Group(s) of interest: Agnostida - Asaphida - Corynexochida - Harpetida - Lichida - Phacopida - Proetida - Ptychopariida - Redlichiida
Period(s): Cambrian to Permian (evolutionary interest) – Cambrian (stratigraphic interest)
Field Area(s): southeastern Asia (Himalaya) 
Current Projects: I try to apply data from trilobites to questions of broad evolutionary and geological interest:
1) Evolutionary work in my lab currently focuses on aspects of the development of segmentation in trilobites in the context of that of other arthropods.
2) Stratigraphic work concerns using our understanding of the stratigraphic history of the Himalaya to test models of Himalayan uplift and the develoment of the Indo-Gangetic foreland basin.
WORKS (last 3 years):
10. Hughes, N.C., Minelli A., & Fusco G. 2006. The ontogeny of trilobite segmentation: a comparative approach. Paleobiology, 32:603-628.
9. Hunda, B.R. Hughes, N.C. and Flessa, K. 2006. Trilobite taphonomy and temporal resolution in the Mt. Orab Shale (Upper Ordovician, Ohio, U.S.A.). Palaios, 21:26-45.
8. Myrow, P.M., Snell, K.E., Hughes, N.C., Paulsen, T.S., Heim, N.A., and Parcha, S.K. 2006. Cambrian depositional history of the Zanskar Valley region of the Indian Himalaya: Tectonic implications. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 76: 364-381.
7. Myrow, P.M., Thompson, K.R., Hughes, N.C., Paulsen, T.S., Sell, B.K., & Parcha, S.K. 2006. Cambrian stratigraphy and depositional history of the northern Indian Himalaya, Spiti Valley, north-central India. GSA Bulletin, 118: 491-510.
6. Hughes, N.C. 2005. Trilobite construction: building a bridge across the micro- and macroevolutionary divide. p. 139-158. In Briggs, D.E.G. (ed.), Evolving Form and Function: Fossils and Development: Proceedings of a symposium honoring Adolph Seilacher for his contributions to paleontology, in celebration of his 80th birthday. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, 288 pp.
5. Simpson, A., Hughes, N.C., Kopaska-Merkel, D.C. & Ludvigsen, R. 2005. Development of the caudal exoskeleton of the pliomerid trilobite Hintzeia plicamarginis new species. Evolution and Development, 7: 528-541.
4. Jacobs, D.K., Hughes, N.C., Fitz-Gibbon, S.T. & Winchell, C.J. 2005. Terminal addition, the Cambrian radiation and the Phanerozoic evolution of bilaterian form. Evolution and Development, 7: 498-514.
3. Hughes, N.C., Myrow, P.M., Peng Shanchi, and Parcha, S.K. 2005. Establishing a chronostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental framework for the Cambrian of the Himalaya and its geological implications. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica,  22 (Suppl.): 68-70.
2. Hughes, N.C., Peng Shanchi, Bhargava, O.N., Ahluwalia A.D., Walia S., Myrow P.M. & Parcha, S.K. 2005. Early Tsanglangpuan (late early Cambrian) trilobites from the Nigali Dhar syncline and the Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Tal Group, Lesser Himalaya, India. Geological Magazine,142: 57-80.
1. Hughes, N.C. & Heim, N.A. 2005. Cambrian: chronology, environments, and evolution. In Selley, R.C, Cocks, L.R.M. & Plimer, I.R. Encyclopedia of Geology. Elsevier Press, Oxford, Vol. 4, pp. 163-174.
Nigel is generally on the left, but a little to the right of Santa Claus in this photo.
Last update:
Jan., 26th 2007