Betty Kellett Nadeau

Betty Kellett Nadeau (1906-?) was an American paleontologist who was considered "an authority on Palaeozoic ostracoda".[1] Numerous marine species and a genus bear her name.

Early life

Elizabeth R. Kellett was born in 1906 in Kansas to Elsie Jane and E. V. Kellett.[2][3] For part of her childhood, she lived in Miami, Oklahoma.[3]

Kellett moved to Lawrence, Kansas[4] and attended the University of Kansas, where she studied with state geologist Raymond Cecil Moore and graduated in 1927. She pursued further studies in Massachusetts, working in the laboratory of paleontologist Joseph Augustine Cushman.[5]

Career

She worked for the Amerada Petroleum Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma beginning in 1929,[6] before moving to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where she worked for Stone & Webster. In 1934, in Lake Charles, she married Edward Hollis Nadeau.[3] Beginning in 1947, Nadeau taught at Washington University in St. Louis.[7] By 1958, she had left St. Louis to follow her husband E. H. Nadeau to Naples, Italy and to Venezuela, where he was stationed.[8]

Work

Some of the types of ostracodes she worked with were primary types, as well as topotypes. These were collected from above and below the surface of the ground. Nadeau observed that there existed a multiplicity of variations not only between species of ostracodes, but among each species as well. This research was based off the Kansas ostracodes. She discovered the variations of the Kansas ostracodes were either causes by variations between individuals. She also found sex and age of ostracodes to be contributors to variation. She spent eight years studying carboniferous ostracodes, and studying the different types of variations of this species.[9]

Legacy

The species Paraparchites kellettae,[10] Hollinella kellettae,[11] Remaneica kellettae,[12] Pseudobythocypris kellettae,[13] and Polytylites kellettae[14] and the genus Bekena[15][16] are named for her.

References

  1. ↑ Crespin, Irene (1951), Report on visit to United States of America (PDF), Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources: Geology and Geophysics
  2. ↑ "1930 U. S. Census: Tulsa, Oklahoma". FamilySearch. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. 8 April 1930. p. 4-B. NARA microfilm publication T626, Roll #1935. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Announcements". Miami, Oklahoma: The Miami Daily News-Record. June 10, 1934. p. 11. Retrieved 18 October 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "In the Old Home Town" Lawrence Journal-World (September 11, 1935): 4.
  5. ↑ "Makes Geological Map" Courier-News (April 24, 1933): 13. via Newspapers.com
  6. ↑ Plummer, F. B. (December 1929), "Researches in Paleontology", Journal of Paleontology, 3 (4): 415–419, JSTOR 1297919
  7. ↑ "Six New Instructors Named at Washington U." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (January 26, 1947): 25. via Newspapers.com
  8. ↑ "News Reports", Micropaleontology, 5 (3): 383–388, July 1959, JSTOR 1484435
  9. ↑ Kellett Nadeau, Betty (December 1936). "Carboniferous Ostracodes". Journal of Paleontology. 10: 769–784.
  10. ↑ Sohn, I. G. (1971), New Late Mississippian Ostracode Genera and Species from Northern Alaska (PDF), US Geological Survey
  11. ↑ McLaughlin, Kenneth P. (1952), "Microfauna of the Pennsylvanian Glen Eyrie Formation, Colorado", Journal of Paleontology, 26 (4): 613–621, JSTOR 1299847
  12. ↑ Remaneica kellettae Thalmann 1932, World Register of Marine Species
  13. ↑ Pseudobythocypris kellettae (Cordell, 1952) Shaver, 1958, World Register of Marine Species
  14. ↑ Polytylites kellettae Elias 1958, World Register of Marine Species
  15. ↑ Gibson, Lee B. (1955), "Upper Devonian ostracoda from the Cerro Gordo formation of Iowa", Bulletins of American Paleontology, 35 (154): 335–386 . See in particular p. 349.
  16. ↑ Bekena Gibson 1955, World Register of Marine Species
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