costerp@carnegiemnh.org
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Academic Training

PhD, 2010, Institut International de Paléoprimatologie, Paléontologie Humaine: Evolution et Paléoenvironnements (IPHEP), University of Poitiers

General Research Interests

• Mammalian paleontology and evolution
• Rodent paleontology and evolution
• Magnetic polarity stratigraphy
• Biostratigraphy
• Paleogeography

Research Emphases

• Paleogene African anthropoid-bearing deposits
  Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of the Late Paleogene primate-bearing deposits of North Africa and establishment of a high resolution magnetic polarity scale for the Late Paleogene African deposits.
• Systematics, biochronology, and phylogeny of early hystricognathous rodents
  Description and biostratigraphic study of Phiomyidaerodents assemblages from the Eocene-Oligocene deposits of central Libya. Cladistic analysis and systematic of the early hystricognathous rodents.
• Miocene Asiatic hominoid-bearing deposits
  Magnetic polarity stratigraphy, rock magnetic analyses and biostratigraphic studies of the Late Miocene bearing deposits of Myanmar (Irrawaddy Formation, Magway province) and Thailand (Mae Moh District, Lampang Province).

Publications

• 2011. Jaeger, J.-J., A. NaingSoe, O. Chavasseau, P. Coster, E.-G. Emonet, F. Guy, R. Lebrun, A. Maung, A. AungKhyaw, H. Shwe, S. ThuraTun, K. LinnOo, M. Rugbumrung, H. Bocherens, M. Benammi, K. Chaivanich, P. Tafforeau, &Y. Chaimanee. "First hominoid from the late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar)". PLoS ONE. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0017065
• 2010. Jaeger J.-J., Beard K. C., Chaimanee Y., Salem M., Benammi M., Hlal O., Coster P., Awad A. Bilal, Duringer P., Schuster M., Valentin X., Marandat B., Marivaux L., Métais E., Hammuda O. & Brunet M. "Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids" Nature 467, 1095-1098. Click here for e-print (PDF)
• 2010. Coster P., Benammi M., Lazzari V., Billet G., Martin T., Salem M., Abolhassan Bilal A., Chaimanee Y., Schuster M., Valentin X., Brunet M., Jaeger J.-J. "Gaudeamuslavocati sp. nov. (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the lower Oligocene of Zallah, Lybia: First African Caviomorph?" Naturwissenschaften, v. 97, no 8, p.697-70. Click here for e-print (PDF)
• 2010. Chavasseau O., Chaimanee Y., Coster P., Emonet E.-G., NaingSoe A., Kyaw A.A., Maung A., Rugbumrung M., Shwe H., Jaeger J.-J. "First record of a chalicothere from the Miocene of Myanmar." Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55,1 13-22. Click here for e-print (PDF)
• 2010. Coster P., Benammi M., Chaimanee Y., Yamee C., Chavasseau O., Emonet E.-G. & Jaeger J.-J. "A complete magnetic-polarity stratigraphy of the Miocene continental deposits of Mae Moh Basin, northern Thailand, and a reassessment of the age of hominoid-bearing localities in northern Thailand." Geological Society of America Bulletin 122, 7/8 1180-1191. Click here for e-print (PDF)