U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: The Asteroid (Echinodermata) Trichasteroposis from the Triassic of Germany - Its Taxonomy, Philogeny, and Paleoecologic Significance

9815164布莱克该奖项支持伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-尚潘分校的丹尼尔布莱克与德国因格尔芬根的Muschelkalk博物馆的Hans Hagdorn合作。该研究将重点研究Trichasteropsis属的古生态和埋藏环境，该属可追溯到三叠纪时期（2.25亿至1.9亿年前）。 (The化石的埋藏环境是指化石所在的岩层的特征。 研究中的属是了解小行星（海星）的历史和后古生代海洋生态系统演化的关键。 这是真的，因为三叠纪小行星形成了古生代和侏罗纪小行星之间的桥梁。 本研究将描述该属的形态、变异范围、个体发育、系统发育位置及其古生态环境。 这项合作结合了PI在小行星分类学方面的经验和Hagdorn在该属地质背景方面的经验。

9815164BlakeThis award supports Daniel Blake of the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign in a collaboration with Hans Hagdorn of the Muschelkalk Museum in Ingelfingen, Germany. The research will focus the study of the paleoecologic and taphonomic setting of the genus Trichasteropsis which dates back to the Triassic period (225 to 190 million years ago). (The taphonomic setting of a fossil refers to the characteristics of the stratum of rock in which the fossil is found.) The genus under study is pivotal in understanding the history of the Asteroids (starfish) and the evolution of post-Paleozoic marine ecosystems. This is true because the Triassic asteroid forms a bridge between the Paleozoic and Jurassic asteroids. The research will delineate the morphology, range of variation, ontogenetic development, and phylogenetic position of the genus as well as its paleoecological setting. The collaboration combines the PI's experience with asteroid taxonomy with Hagdorn's experience with the geological setting of the genus.