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[Jens]

I think it was a nice gift for long years of researching. I find it in:

The Geological Society of America, Newsletter:


New Trilobite Genus Named for Skehan

Jim Skehan, S.J., <skehan@bc.edu>, Weston Observatory, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Boston College, was honored by Prof. Mark A.S. McMenamin, paleontologist, Mount Holyoke College, whose research is the basis for establishing the new trilobite genus Skehanos, named for Dr. Skehan "to honor his contributions to New England geology." The ca 500 million year old Middle Cambrian arthropod is the first new trilobite genus from Massachusetts to be named since the 1880’s and was found in Hayward’s Quarry at the site of the Fore River Shipyard. The published basis for the new genus Skehanos was in Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, 24(4), 276-281, Dec 2002. Much of Jim’s published research over the past 40 years has been concerned with the Avalonian terrane of eastern North America for which Paradoxides and Skehanos are now diagnostic.
Jim’s reaction: "I cannot imagine a more significant gift and accolade than having the Avalonian trilobite genus named for me by a fellow geologist who has established that Skehanos may have evolutionary linkages to even older (Precambrian) ancestral Australian species as well as possibly also to younger Ordovician species. Moreover, Skehanos and other related
trilobites may serve as a key to possible discovery of additional Avalonian terranes in various parts of the world, as it has done for the Carolina terrane near Batesburg, South Carolina where Skehanos and Braintrella are found."

Congratulations, Jim!


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me too,

Jens