Laura Jane Cotton

Laura Jane Cotton

Tenure Track Assistant Professor


  1. 2023
  2. Published

    Late Quaternary paleoceanography of Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: Ostracode species as a potential indicator of cold seep activity

    Chu, R. W. C., Yasuhara, M., Riise, K. M., Asahi, H., Huang, H. M., Cotton, Laura Jane, Hong, Y. & Rasmussen, T. L., 1 Aug 2023, In: Geology. 51, 8, p. 758-762

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Benthic foraminifera as bioindicators for assessing reef condition in Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i

    Mathes, G. H., Steinbauer, M. J. & Cotton, Laura Jane, 2023, In: Pacific Conservation Biology. 29, 3, p. 238-245

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Controls on potassium incorporation in foraminifera and other marine calcifying organisms

    Nambiar, R., Hauzer, H., Gray, W. R., Henehan, M. J., Cotton, Laura Jane, Erez, J., Rosenthal, Y., Renema, W., Müller, W. & Evans, D., 2023, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 351, p. 125-138

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Litho- and biostratigraphy of the early Eocenelarger benthic foraminifera-dominated carbonates of the central Tethys domain, Zagros Foreland Basin, SW Iran

    Kakemem, Umid, Cotton, Laura Jane, Hadavand-Khani, N., Fallah-Bagtash, R., Thibault, Nicolas Rudolph & Anderskouv, Kresten, 2023, In: Sedimentary Geology. 455, 25 p., 106477.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Nordic Nummulites: An unusual occurrence of Nummulites planulatus from Jyske Rev, Danish North Sea

    Cotton, Laura Jane, 2023, In: Micropaleontology. 69, 4-5, p. 543-548 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    The fossil assemblage from Pontils, a middle Eocene primate-bearing locality from Northeastern Spain

    Minwer-Barakat, R., Bolet, A., Anadón, P., Alegret, L., Badiola, A., Blanco, A., Cotton, Laura Jane, Femenias-Gual, J., Furió, M., Godinot, M., Moyà-Solà, S., Peláez-Campomanes, P., Sanjuan, J. & Marigó, J., 2023, In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 43, 2, 25 p., e2259970.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. 2022
  9. Published

    Hotspots of Cenozoic Tropical Marine Biodiversity

    Yasuhara, M., Huang, H-H. M., Reuter, M., Tian, S. Y., Cybulski, J. D., O'Dea, A., Mamo, B. L., Cotton, L. J., Martino, E. D., Feng, R., Tabor, C. R., Reygondeau, G., Zhao, Q., Warne, M. T., Aye, K. K. T., Zhang, J., Chao, A., Wei, C-L., Condamine, F. L., Kocsis, A. T. & 16 others, Kiessling, W., Costello, M. J., Tittensor, D. R., Chaudhary, C., Rillo, M. C., Doi, H., Dong, Y., Cronin, T. M., Saupe, E. E., Lotze, H. K., Johnson, K. G., Renema, W., Pandolfi, J. M., Harzhauser, M., Jackson, J. B. C. & Hong, Y., 2022, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 60. Hawkins, S. J. (ed.). CRC Press, p. 243-300 58 p. (Oceanography and Marine Biology, Vol. 60).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Shallow Water Records of the PETM: Novel Insights From NE India (Eastern Tethys)

    Sarkar, S., Cotton, Laura Jane, Valdes, P. J. & Schmidt, D. N., 2022, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 37, 7, e2021PA004257.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. The Ordovician diversification of sea urchins: systematics of the Bothriocidaroida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)

    Thompson, J. R., Cotton, Laura Jane, Candela, Y., Kutscher, M., Reich, M. & Bottjer, D. J., 2022, In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19, 20, p. 1395-1448 54 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. 2021
  13. Benthic foraminiferal morphological response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Young, C. M. E., Schwing, P. T. & Cotton, Laura Jane, 2021, In: Marine Micropaleontology. 164, 9 p., 101971.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Reassessing the Bartonian unit stratotype at Alum Bay (Isle of Wight, UK): an integrated approach

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Rivero-Cuesta, L., Franceschetti, G., Iakovleva, A., Alegret, L., Dinarès-Turell, J., Hooker, J., King, C., Fluegeman, R., Yager, S. & Monechi, S., 2021, In: Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 54, 1, p. 17-42

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. 2020
  16. Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability

    Tucker, M. E., Carey, S. N., Sparks, R. S. J., Stinton, A., Leng, M., Robinson, L., Li, T., Lewis, J. & Cotton, Laura Jane, 2020, In: Marine Geology. 429, 17 p., 106320.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Liberating microfossils from indurated carbonates: comparison of three disaggregation methods

    Beasley, C., Parvaz, D. B., Cotton, Laura Jane & Littler, K., 2020, In: Journal of Micropalaeontology. 39, 2, p. 169-181

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Post-Eocene coupled oroclines in the Talesh (NW Iran): Paleomagnetic constraints

    Rezaeian, M., Kuijper, C. B., van der Boon, A., Pastor-Galán, D., Cotton, Laura Jane, Langereis, C. G. & Krijgsman, W., 2020, In: Tectonophysics. 786, 14 p., 228459.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. The high-magnesium calcite origin of nummulitid foraminifera and implications for the identification of calcite diagenesis

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Evans, D. & Beavington-Penney, S. J., 2020, In: Palaios. 35, 10, p. 421-431

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Triumph and tribulation for shallow water fauna during the Paleocene–Eocene transition: insights from the United Arab Emirates

    Beasley, C., Cotton, Laura Jane, Al-Suwaidi, A., LeVay, L., Sluijs, A., Ullmann, C. V., Hesselbo, S. P. & Littler, K., 2020, In: Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 54, 1, p. 79-106

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. 2019
  22. Larger Benthic Foraminifera from the Panna and Mukta Fields Offshore India: Paleobiogeographical Implications

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Wright, V. P., Barnett, A. & Renema, W., 2019, In: Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 49, 3, p. 243-258

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. 2018
  24. A new stem group echinoid from the Triassic of China leads to a revised macroevolutionary history of echinoids during the end-Permian mass extinction

    Thompson, J., Hu, S., Zhang, Q., Petsios, E., Cotton, Laura Jane, Huang, J., Zhou, C., Wen, W. & Bottjer, D., 2018, In: Royal Society Open Science. 5, 1, 8 p., 171548.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope-Mg/Ca thermometry

    Evans, D., Sagoo, N., Renema, W., Cotton, Laura Jane, Müller, W., Todd, J. A., Saraswati, P. K., Stassen, P., Ziegler, M., Pearson, P., Valdes, P. J. & Affek, H. P., 2018, In: PNAS. 115, 6, p. 1174-1179

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Eocene shallow-marine ostracods from Madagascar: southern end of the Tethys?

    Yasuhara, M., Hong, Y., Tian, S. Y., Chong, W. K., Okahashi, H., Littler, K. & Cotton, Laura Jane, 2018, In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17, 9, p. 705-757

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. First bryozoan fauna from the Eocene–Oligocene transition in Tanzania

    Martino, E. D., Taylor, P. D., Cotton, Laura Jane & Pearson, P., 2018, In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16, 3, p. 225-243

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Larger foraminifera of the Devil's Den and Blue Hole sinkholes, Florida

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Eder, W. & Floyd, J., 2018, In: Journal of Micropalaeontology. 37, 1, p. 347-356

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. 2017
  30. Chemical relationships of ambers using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Vollrath, F., Brasier, M. D. & Dicko, C., 2017, In: Geological Society Special Publication. 448, p. 413-424 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  31. Earliest Cretaceous cocoons or plant seed structures from the Wealden Group, Hastings, UK

    Brasier, A. T., Cotton, Laura Jane, Garwood, R. J., Baker-Brian, J., Howlett, E. & Brasier, M. D., 2017, In: Geological Society Special Publication. 448, p. 399-411 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. Integrated stratigraphy of the Priabonian (upper Eocene) Urtsadzor section, Armenia

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Zakrevskaya, E. Y., Boon, A. V. D., Asatryan, G., Hayrapetyan, F., Israyelyan, A., Krijgsman, W., Less, G., Monechi, S., Papazzoni, C. A., Pearson, P. N., Razumovskiy, A., Renema, W., Shcherbinina, E. & Wade, B. S., 2017, In: Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 50, 3, p. 269-295

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  33. Pteropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Thecosomata) from the Eocene/Oligocene boundary interval of three cored boreholes in southern coastal Tanzania and their response to the global cooling event

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Janssen, A. W., Pearson, P. N. & Driel, R. V., 2017, In: Palaeontologia Electronica. 20, 3, 21 p., 52A.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. Remarkable preservation of brain tissues in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur

    Brasier, M. D., Norman, D. B., Liu, A. G., Cotton, Laura Jane, Hiscocks, J. E. H., Garwood, R. J., Antcliffe, J. B. & Wacey, D., 2017, In: Geological Society Special Publication. 448, p. 383-398 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  35. The contribution of micropalaeontology to the study of Bronze Age potters' workshops at Tel Lachish, Israel and the biostratigraphy of the Lachish area

    Jones, T. D., Magrill, P., Hefetz, M. W., Cotton, Laura Jane & Pearson, P. N., 2017, The Archaeological and Forensic Applications of Microfossils: A Deeper Understanding of Human History. Williams, M., Hill, T., Boomer, I. & Wilkonson, P. (eds.). Geological Society, p. 177-197 (The Micropalaeontological Society, Special Publications, Vol. 7).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  36. 2016
  37. A new Eocene lineage of reticulate Nummulites (Foraminifera) from Kilwa district, Tanzania: a place for Nummulites ptukhiani?

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Pearson, P. N. & Renema, W., 2016, In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14, 7, p. 569-579

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  38. 2015
  39. Three dimensional reconstructions of Nummulites tests reveal complex chamber shapes

    Renema, W. & Cotton, Laura Jane, 2015, In: PeerJ. 3, 14 p., e1072.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  40. 2014
  41. Stable isotope stratigraphy and larger benthic foraminiferal extinctions in the Melinau Limestone, Sarawak

    Cotton, Laura Jane, Pearson, P. N. & Renema, W., 2014, In: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 79, Part A, p. 65-71 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  42. 2013
  43. Micropalaeontological evidence for the late Oligocene Oi-2b global glaciation event at the Zarabanda section, Spain

    Fenero, R., Cotton, Laura Jane, Molina, E. & Monechi, S., 2013, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 369, p. 1-13 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  44. Taphonomic significance of a dense infestation of Ensis americanus (Binney) by Balanus crenatus Brugière, North Sea

    Donovan, S. K., Cotton, Laura Jane, Van Den Ende, C., Scognamiglio, G. & Zittersteijn, M., 2013, In: Palaios. 28, 11, p. 837-838 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  45. 2012
  46. Larger benthic foraminifera from the Middle Eocene to Oligocene of Tanzania

    Cotton, Laura Jane & Pearson, P. N., 2012, In: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences. 105, 1, p. 189-199 11 p.

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  47. Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania Drilling Project Sites 27-35

    Jimènez Berrocoso, À., Huber, B. T., MacLeod, K. G., Petrizzo, M. R., Lees, J. A., Wendler, I., Coxall, H., Mweneinda, A. K., Falzoni, F., Birch, H., Singano, J. M., Haynes, S., Cotton, Laura Jane, Wendler, J., Bown, P. R., Robinson, S. A. & Gould, J., 2012, In: Journal of African Earth Sciences. 70, p. 36-57 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Organic geochemistry of late Jurassic paleosols (Dirt Beds) of Dorset, UK

    Matthewman, R., Cotton, Laura Jane, Martins, Z. & Sephton, M. A., 2012, In: Marine and Petroleum Geology. 37, 1, p. 41-52 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  49. 2011
  50. Extinction of larger benthic foraminifera at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary

    Cotton, Laura Jane & Pearson, P. N., 2011, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 311, 3-4, p. 281-296 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  51. 2009
  52. First report of amber with spider webs and microbial inclusions from the earliest Cretaceous (c. 140 Ma) of Hastings, Sussex

    Brasier, M., Cotton, Laura Jane & Yenney, I., 2009, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 166, 6, p. 989-997 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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