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Education

Ph.D. 1962, Stanford University
B.S. 1957, George Washington University

Research Interests

Systematics, morphology, and phylogeny of fossil and extant tetradontiforms, zeiforms, and acanthuroid fishes; behavioral ecology of chaenopsid blennies.

Recent Publications

Tyler, James C. and Bannikov, A. F. 2011. New specimen of rare fossil triacanthid fish genus Protacanthodes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy (Triacanthidae, Tetraodontiformes). In: Miscellanea Paleontologica. Verona, Italy: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona,(Studi e Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca) pp.29-35.

Tyler, James C. and Bannikov, A. F. 2011. A new species of Aulorhamphus fish from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy (Aulorhamphidae, basal Gasterosteiformes). In: Miscellanea Paleontologica. Verona, Italy: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona,(Studi e Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca) pp.37-45.

Tyler, James C. and Bannikov, A. F. 2011. An informative new specimen of the fish Veronarhamphus canossae from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy (Aulorhamphidae, basal Gasterosteiformes). In: Miscellanea Paleontologica. Verona, Italy: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona,(Studi e Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca) pp.47-55.

Tyler, James C. and Bannikov, A. F. 2011. New genus and species of aulorhamphid fish (Aulorhamphidae, basal Gasterosteiformes) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, with a unique first-dorsal-fin pterygiophore placement. In: Miscellanea Paleontologica. Verona, Italy: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona,(Studi e Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca) pp.57-65.

Tyler, James C. and Micklich, Norbert R. 2011. A new genus and species of surgeon fish (Perciformes, Acanthuridae) from the Oligocene of Kanton Glarus, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 130(2): 203-216. doi:10.1007/s13358-011-0016-5

Bannikov, A. F., Tyler, James C. and Sorbini, C. 2010. Two new taxa of Eocene rabbitfishes (Perciformes, Siganidae) from the North Caucasus (Russia), with redescription of Acanthopygaeus agassizi (Eastman) from Monte Bolca (Italy) and a phylogenetic analysis of the family. Bollettino del Museo civico di storia naturale di Verona: Geologia, Paleontologia, Preistoria, 34: 3-21.

Carnevale, Giorgio and Tyler, James C. 2010. Review of the fossil pufferfish genus Archaeotetraodon (Teleostei, Tetraodontidae), with description of three new taxa from the Miocene of Italy. Geobios, 43(3): 283-304.

Tyler, James C. and Bannikov, Alexandre F. 2009. Phylogenetic implications of the some cranial features of the porcupine pufferfish Pshekhadiodon (Tetraodontiformes, Diodontidae) from the Eocene of the Northern Caucasus. Journal of Ichthyology, 49(9): 703-709.

Micklich, Norbert R., Tyler, James C., Johnson, G. David, Swidnicka, Ewa and Bannikov, Alexandre F. 2009. First fossil records of the tholichthys larval stage of butterfly fishes (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae), from the Oligocene of Europe. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 83(4): 479-497. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0031-7