Publication of a Systematic Monograph on Two Genera of Neogene Caribbean Reef Corals

该提案寻求部分资金（50%费用分摊），用于出版一本专著，修订加勒比地区新近纪时期两个属的核状珊瑚的系统分类。该专著已被《美国古生物学公报》审查并正式接受，作为多米尼加共和国北部新近纪古生物学系列的一部分单独的一卷。它的内容提供了详细的协议文件和基本原理的形态计量分析进行了研究，由NSF资助的第。BSR 8605277。该专著的独特之处是，它是第一个在珊瑚礁珊瑚中使用严格的定量方法来识别物种的系统处理之一，以及通过空间和时间追踪形态物种的分布。总共有9个物种被确认，导致加勒比新近纪16个先前报道的物种中的5个同义。这些物种中只有三个被发现存活到最近，只有两个延续到渐新世。

The proposal seeks partial funding (50% cost share) for the publication of a monograph revising the systematics of two genera of scleractinian corals within the Caribbean region during Neogene time. The monograph has been reviewed and formally accepted by the Bulletins of American Paleontology as a separate volume in part of a series on the Neogene Paleontology of the northern Dominican Republic. Its contents provide a detailed documentation of the protocol and rationale underlying morphometric analyses performed in research funded by NSF grant no. BSR 8605277. The monograph is unique in being one of the first systematic treatments in reef corals to use a rigorous quantitative approach in the recognition of species, as well as in tracing the distributions of morphospecies through space and time. A total of nine species are recognized altogether, resulting in the synonymy of five of 16 previously reported species in the Caribbean Neogene. Only three of these species are found to have survived until the Recent, and only two to extend back into Oligocene time.