Allison Bronson Ph.D.

• BS (Zoology & Marine Biology) 2014 Humboldt State University/Cal Poly Humboldt
• PhD (Comparative Biology), 2018, Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History

• Evolution, Introductory Zoology, Methods of Laboratory Instruction, Ichthyology, Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates

I'm an evolutionary ichthyologist and morphologist, working in the context of deep time. Much of my work is on the cranial anatomy and systematics of fossil and living chondrichthyans and on the depositional conditions that preserve fossil cartilage. However, some of my lab's questions are on a much shorter time scale, assessing environmental and anthropogenic effects on the anatomy of local fish species.

• J. Neal, S. Rodrigues, J. Denton, and A.W. Bronson. Skeletal Labyrinth Morphology of Four Species of Living Elasmobranchs. Anatomical Record (accepted)
• Bronson, A., A. Pradel, J. Denton, and J. Maisey. 2024. A new operculate symmoriiform chondrichthyan from the Late Mississippian Fayetteville Shale (Arkansas, USA). Geodiversitas 46(4):101-117.
• M.W. Nachman, E.J. Beckman, [and 118 others, including A.W. Bronson]. 2023. Specimen collection is essential for modern science. PLoS Biology 21(11): e3002318. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002318
• Frable, B., C. Seid, A.W. BRONSON, and P.R. Møller. 2023. A new deep-sea eelpout of the genus Pyrolycus (Zoarcidae: Lycodinae) associated with a hydrothermal seep on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica. Zootaxa. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5230.1.5; http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0F90B9EF-58FA-4E54-B9E4-D697...
• John E.A. Marshall, Peter F. Holterhoff, Samar R. El-Abdallah, Kelly K.S. Matsunaga, A.W. BRONSON, and Alexandru M.F. Tomescu. 2022. The Archaeopterid Forests of Lower Frasnian (Upper Devonian) Westernmost Laurentia: Biota and depositional environment of the Maywood Formation in northern Wyoming as reflected by palynoflora, macroflora, fauna, and sedimentology. International Journal of Plant Sciences.
• BRONSON, A.W. 2021. A three-dimensionally preserved stethacanthid cranium from the Late Mississippian Fayetteville Shale (Arkansas, USA). In: A. Pradel, John S.S. Denton, and P. Janvier (Editors.) Ancient Fishes and their living relatives: a tribute to John G. Maisey.
• T. Durieux; M.A. Lopez; A.W. BRONSON; A.M.F. Tomescu. 2021. A new phylogeny of the cladoxylopsid plexus – contribution of an early cladoxylopsid from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) of Quebec. American Journal of Botany.
• Peecook, B., A.W. BRONSON, B. Otoo, and C. Sidor. 2021. Freshwater fish faunas from two Permian rift valleys of Zambia, novel additions to the ichthyofauna of southern Pangea. Journal of African Earth Sciences 183 (2021): 104325 doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104325
• Toledo, S., A. Bippus, B. Atkinson, A.W. BRONSON, and A. Tomescu. 2021. Taxon sampling and alternative hypotheses of relationships in the euphyllophyte plexus that gave rise to seed plants: insights from an Early Devonian radiatopsid. New Phytologist doi:10.1111/NPH.17511.
• Maisey, J. G., P. Janvier, A. Pradel, J.S.S. Denton, A.W. BRONSON, R. Miller, and C. Burrow. 2019. Doliodus and pucapampellids: contrasting perspectives on stem chondrichthyan morphology. In: Z. Johanson, C. Underwood, and M. Richter (Editors.) Evolution and Development of Fishes.

Graduate Students

Current:

Maritza Gamez, Lucas Kebow, Nicole Rahman-Garnier, Kaiden Walton

Former:

Melody Tew (2023): Neural crest cell fate in Acipenser transmontanus