Expertise: Micropaleontology • Foraminiferal taxonomy • Biostratigraphy • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction • Carbonate petrology • Paleoecology • Marine sedimentology • Fossil extraction and imaging methods

Publications:

MCCAULEY, C. M., NESTELL, G., NESTELL, M., and MAYER, P. S., 2025. Silurian foraminifers in the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Part I: D. M. Grubbs (1939). Micropaleontology, 71 (4): 335-345. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47894/mpal.71.4.02

MCCAULEY, C. M., NESTELL, G. P., and NESTELL, M. K., 2022. A new technique for observing the internal morphology of foraminiferal tests in transmitted light. Micropaleontology, 68 (6), 587-599. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47894/mpal.68.6.04

Projects:

Currently working on Middle Silurian (Ludlow, Pridoli) - Early Devonian (Lochkovian) biostratigraphy and taxonomy of agglutinated foraminifera from South-Central Oklahoma.

Continuing experiments in mounting microfossils and imaging in transmitted and reflected light.