Sandra J. Carlson is an American invertebrate paleontologist specialized in brachiopods.
[1] She is a professor emerita in the department of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis.
in earth sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
[3] Her 1986 dissertation was titled, Ontogenetic and Evolutionary Trends in the Articulate Brachiopod Hinge Mechanism.
[4] Daniel Fisher was Carlson's doctoral advisor.