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

该提案寻求部分资金(50%的费用份额)，用于出版一本专著，修订加勒比地区新近纪时期两个珊瑚属的分类学。这本专著已经被《美国古生物学公报》作为多米尼加共和国北部新近系古生物学系列的一部分进行了审查和正式接受。其内容提供了美国国家科学基金会资助的研究中进行的形态计量学分析的协议和基本原理的详细文件。BSR 8605277。这本专著的独特之处在于，它是对珊瑚礁进行系统处理的第一批使用严格的定量方法识别物种以及追踪形态物种在空间和时间上的分布的方法之一。总共识别出9个物种，导致以前在加勒比海新近纪报告的16个物种中的5个为同名。这些物种中只有三种被发现存活到最近，只有两种延续到渐新世。

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.