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

该提案寻求部分资金（50%的费用分摊）， 出版了一本修订两个属的系统分类的专著 加勒比海地区的石珊瑚 晚第三纪。 各论已经过审查， 被《美国古生物学公报》（Bulletins of American Paleontology）接受为独立的 第三纪古生物学系列的一部分 多米尼加共和国北方。 其内容提供了详细的 方案文件和基本原理 在NSF资助的研究中进行的形态测定分析 编号BSR 8605277。 这本专著是独一无二的， 第一次对珊瑚礁进行系统的治疗， 物种识别的定量方法，以及 在空间上追踪形态种的分布， 时间 总共有9个物种被确认， 导致之前报道的16种中有5种的同义词 加勒比海新第三纪的物种。 其中只有三个物种 被发现幸存下来，直到最近，只有两个， 可以追溯到渐新世

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.