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香槟分校的丹尼尔·布莱克与德国英格尔芬根马舍尔卡尔克博物馆的汉斯·哈格道恩合作。这项研究将重点研究三叠纪(2.25亿至1.9亿年前)毛霉属的古生态和埋藏学背景。(化石的挖掘背景是指发现化石的岩石地层的特征。)正在研究的该属对于了解小行星(海星)的历史和后古生代海洋生态系统的演化至关重要。这是真的，因为三叠纪小行星在古生代和侏罗纪小行星之间形成了一座桥梁。这项研究将描绘该属的形态、变异范围、个体发育、系统发育地位及其古生态背景。这次合作将PI在小行星分类学方面的经验与Hagdorn在该属的地质环境方面的经验结合在一起。

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.