Paleoecology of Vertebrates from the Silurian and Devonian of the Canadian Arctic Island

该奖项支持对加拿大鲸鱼王子岛和萨默塞特群岛志留系和泥盆纪动物群的组成和埋藏学的研究，以及沉积物的沉积学和岩石学的研究，以提供脊椎动物动物群的古生态学和沉积环境的总体看法。对地层学的研究将提供有关动物迁移程度的信息，并有助于了解它们发生的沉积环境。沉积学和地层学研究的结果将综合起来，重建脊椎动物生活的环境。然后将其与已知的这个时代的其他脊椎动物区系进行比较，试图更好地了解早期脊椎动物居住的环境。由于所研究的许多脊椎动物属于鲜为人知的群体，并且由于该地区先前已被确定为这一时期的进化中心，因此预计这项工作的系统发育意义将是广泛的。

This award supports the study of the composition and taphonomy of Silurian and Devonian faunas Prince of Whales and Somerset Islands, Canada, together with the sedimentology and petrology of the sediments to provide an overall view of the paleoecology and depositional settings of the vertebrate faunas. The taphonomy will be studied to provide information about the extent to which the faunas have been transported and to aid understanding of the depositional environments in which they occur. Results of the sedimentological and taphonomic studies will be integrated to provide a reconstruction of the environments in which the vertebrates lived. This will then be compared with what is known of other vertebrate faunas of this age in an attempt to provide a better understanding of the environments inhabited by early vertebrates. As many of the vertebrates studied belong to little known groups and as this area has previously been identified as an evolutionary center at this period it is expected that the phylogenetic implications of this work will be extensive.