Natalia López Carranza
- Collection Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology Division, Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum
Contact Info
Education —
Selected Publications —
Martin, R., López Carranza, N., LaVine, R., & Lieberman, B. (2023). Morphological evolution during the last hurrah of the trilobites: Morphometric analysis of the Devonian asteropyginid trilobites. Paleobiology, 49(2), 296-312. doi:10.1017/pab.2022.39.
López Carranza, N., & Carlson, S.J. (2021). Quantifying shell outline variability in extant and fossil Laqueus (Brachiopoda: Terebratulida): Are outlines good proxies for long-looped brachidial morphology and can they help us characterize species? Paleobiology, 47(1), 149-170. doi:10.1017/pab.2020.56.
López Carranza, N., & Carlson, S.J. (2019). Testing species assignments in extant terebratulide brachiopods: a three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of long-looped brachidia. PloS one, 14(11), e0225528.
Awards & Honors —
2013-2018. UC MEXUS- CONACYT Doctoral Fellowship
2014- 2016, 2018. Durrell Award, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis.
2016. Natural History Museum Los Angeles County Invertebrate Paleontology Collections Study Grant.
2014. Complementary Fellowship for Ph.D. dissertation, Dirección General de Relaciones Internacionales, Secretaria de Educación Pública, Mexico
Memberships —
The Paleontological Society
Geological Society of America
Specify User Advisory Committee
Paleo Data Working Group