Edwin Cadena
Edwin Cadena
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Edwin Cadena
PhD student –Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina USA
Email: ecadena@ncsu.edu or ecadena@ufl.edu
Education
University of Florida, 2009 M.S. Geological Sciences
Universidad Industrial de Santander, 2003. B.S Geologist
Research Interests
Vertebrate Paleontology; systematics, evolutionary history, molecular paleontology, paleobiogeography and paleoecology of neotropical vertebrates, particularly turtles.
Current Research
Currently, I am working on three different projects related to fossil turtles from the Neotropics. The former involves a new material from the basal panpleurodire turtle Notoemys zapatocaensis from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of Colombia. The second makes part of a huge paleontological project on Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Coal Mine, Colombia. From this locality, four different taxa represent the earliest occurrence for Podocnemids turtles in the Neotropics, placing the origin of the most important Cenozoic clades of tropical South American turtles during the Paleocene. The last project focus on Early to Middle Miocene turtles from the Panama Canal Basin, with important implications in the distribution and dispersal events of Neogene turtles in the Neotropics and Caribbean region.
Selected Bibliography
Cadena. E, W. Joyce, J. Bloch. (In preparation). New specimens of the Platychelyids turtle Notoemys zapatocaensis from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of Colombia. Journal of Paleontology.
Cadena. E, A. Rincon, J. Bourque, C. Jaramillo, C. Montes, J. Bloch and B. MacFadden. (In preparation). Early to Middle Miocene turtles from Panama; Evidence of a very early meeting between North-Central and South America faunas. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Cadena, E. J. Bloch and C, Jaramillo. (In press). New Podocnemidid turtle (Testudines; Pleurodira) from the Middle-Late Paleocene of Tropical South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Hastings, A. J, Bloch. E, Cadena, and C, Jaramillo. (In press) A new small short-snouted Dyrosaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Paleocene Northeastern of Colombia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Head, J. Bloch, J. Hastings, A. Bourque, E. Cadena, E. Herrera, F. Polly, D and Jaramillo, C. (2009).Giant Boine snake from a Paleocene Neotropical rainforest indicates hotter past equatorial temperatures. Nature, 457 (7230) 715-717.
Cadena, E. Jaramillo, C and Paramo, M. (2008). New material of Chelus colombiana (Testudines; Pleurodira) from the Lower Miocene of Colombia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1206-1212
Cadena, E. Jaramillo, C and Paramo, M. (2007).The first late Pleistocene record of Kinosternon (Cryptorida: Kinosternidae) turtles for Northern South America, Pubenza Locality, Colombia. South American Journal of Herpetology, 2(3), 201-205
Cadena Rueda, E. and Gaffney, E. (2005) Notoemys zapatocaensis, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Peurodira :Platychelyidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia.American Museum Novitates, New York, 3470:19 pp.