Early metazoan evolution and ecology of the cambrian radiation

早期后生动物演化与寒武纪辐射生态学

• 批准号: 341944-2007
• 负责人: Caron, JeanBernard
• 金额: $ 1.41万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=458673
• 关键词: Early; metazoan; evolution; ecology; cambrian

My research focuses primarily on the study of the first complex marine communities from the period just following the Early Cambrian. The Cambrian explosion represents the sudden worldwide appearance and rapid diversification of most major animal groups, starting about 540 million years ago. The record of this critical event is preserved in a series of exceptional fossil deposits, especially in China and Canada, of which the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (a UNESCO World Heritage site in British Columbia) is certainly the most famous.

我的研究主要集中在研究早期寒武纪之后的第一个复杂的海洋群落。寒武纪大爆发代表了大约5.4亿年前开始的大多数主要动物群体在世界范围内的突然出现和迅速多样化。这一重大事件的记录保存在一系列特殊的化石矿床中，特别是在中国和加拿大，其中中寒武纪伯吉斯页岩（不列颠哥伦比亚省的联合国教科文组织世界遗产）无疑是最著名的。