Professor Jim Kennedy


Emeritus Professor of Natural History

Email: jim.kennedy@oum.ox.ac.uk
TEL: +44 (1865) 272076
FAX: +44 (1865) 272072

Research Profile

My research interests lie in the geology and palaeontology of the Cretaceous Period, and range from chalk sedimentation and diagenesis to integrating stable isotope, geochemical and biostratigraphic schemes. Current projects include the description of ammonite faunas from southern England, France, Uzbekistan, Greenland, Texas, Nigeria, KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), Madagascar, and Nigeria, as well as integrated studies on the Albian of southeast France, linking biostratigraphic schemes to Milankovitch based time scales and stable isotope events.

Selected Publications (Full Publications)

  • KENNEDY, W.J., GALE, A.S., BOWN, P.R., CARON, M., DAVEY, R., GRÖCKE, D. and WRAY, D.S. 2000. Integrated stratigraphy across the Aptian-Albian boundary in the Marnes Bleues at the Col de Pré-Guittard, Arnayon (Drôme), and at Tartonne, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Boundary Point for the base of the Albian Stage. Cret. Res., 21, 591-720.
  • KENNEDY, W.J., COBBAN, W.A. and LANDMAN, N.L. 2001. A revision of the Turonian members of the ammonite subfamily Collignoniceratinae from the United States Western Interior and Gulf Coast. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 267, 148 pp., 124 figs., 13 tabs.
  • GALE, A.S., HARDENBOL, J., HATHAWAY, B., KENNEDY, W.J., YOUNG, J.R. and PHANSALKAR, V. 2002. Global correlation of Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) sequences: evidence for Milankovitch control on sea level. Geology, 30, 291-294.
  • KLINGER, H.C. and KENNEDY, W.J. 2003. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite families Nostoceratidae Hyatt, 1894, and Diplomoceratidae Spath, 1926. Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 110, 219-336, 6 figs.
  • KENNEDY, W. J., GALE, A. S.,LEES,J.A. and CARON,M. 2004. The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Cenomanian Stage, Mont Risou, Hautes- Alpes, France. Episodes, 27, 21-32.
  • GOOLAERTS, S., KENNEDY, W. J., DUPUIS, C. and STEURBAUT, E. 2004. Terminal Maastrichtian ammonites from the Cretaceous-Paleogene Global Stratotype Section and Point, El Kef, Tunisia. Cretaceous Research, 25, 313-328.
  • GALE, A. S., KENNEDY, W.J., VOIGT, S., and WALASZCZYK, I. 2005. Stratigraphy of the Upper Cenomanian-Lower Turonian Chalk sucession at Eastbourne, Sussex, U.K.: ammonites, inoceramid bivalves and stable carbon isotopes Cretaceous Research, 26, 460-487.
  • KAPLAN, U., KENNEDY, W. J., and HISS, M. 2005. Stratigraphie und Ammonitenfauna des Campan im nordwestlischen und zentralen Munsterland. Geologie und Palaontologie in Westfalen 64, 171p., 12 figs, 65 pls.
  • KENNEDY, W. J. and others, 105 entries in: FISCHER, J. C. (Ed.). 2006. Révision critique de la Paléontologie Française d’Alcide d’Orbigny, volume IV, Céphalopodes Crétacées. Backhuys, Leiden. 292pp., 65 pls +facsimile of original text and illustrations.
  • GALE, A. S., KENNEDY, W. J., LEES, J. A., PETRIZZO, M. R., and WALASZCZYK, I. 2006. An integrated study (inoceramid bivalves, ammonites, calcareous nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera, stable carbon isotopes) of the Ten Mile Creek section, Lancaster, Dallas County, Texas, a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Santonian Stage. Acta Geologica Polonica, 57, 113-160, 25 figs.
  • KENNEDY, W. J., and LATIL, J.-L. 2007 The Upper Albian ammonite succession in the Montlaux section, Hautes-Alpes, France. Acta Geologica Polonica, 57, 453-478, 12 pls., 4 text-figs.
  • GALE, A. S., HANCOCK, J. M., KENNEDY, W. J., PETRIZZO, M.R., LEES, J. A., WALASZCZYK, I., and WRAY, D. S. 2008. An integrated study (geochemistry, stable oxygen and carbon isotopes, nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera, inoceramid bivalves, ammonites and crinoids) of the Waxahachie Dam Spillway, North Texas; a possible boundary stratotype for the base of the Campanian Stage. Cretaceous Research, 29, 131-167, 24 figs.
  • GALE, A. S., VOIGT, S., SAGEMAN, B. B. and KENNEDY, W. J. 2008. Eustatic sea level record for the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)-extension to the Western Interior Basin, USA. Geology, 36, 859-862, 5 figs.

For a complete list of publications see the attached PDF