Paleoecology of Vertebrates from the Silurian and Devonian of the Canadian Arctic Island

该奖项支持对组成的研究， 志留纪和泥盆纪动物群埋藏学 和加拿大萨默塞特群岛，以及 沉积物的沉积学和岩石学， 古生态学和沉积环境的总体视图 脊椎动物群。 将研究埋藏学， 提供关于动物群在多大程度上 为了帮助理解 它们所处的沉积环境。 结果 沉积学和埋藏学研究将 整合在一起， 脊椎动物生活的环境。 然后将其与 与已知的这个时代的其他脊椎动物群相比较， 为了更好地理解 早期脊椎动物居住的环境。 因为许多 研究的脊椎动物属于鲜为人知的群体， 这个区域以前被认为是一个进化的 在这一时期，预计系统发育 这项工作将产生广泛影响。

This award supports the study of the composition and taphonomy of Silurian and Devonian faunas Prince of Whales and Somerset Islands, Canada, together with the sedimentology and petrology of the sediments to provide an overall view of the paleoecology and depositional settings of the vertebrate faunas. The taphonomy will be studied to provide information about the extent to which the faunas have been transported and to aid understanding of the depositional environments in which they occur. Results of the sedimentological and taphonomic studies will be integrated to provide a reconstruction of the environments in which the vertebrates lived. This will then be compared with what is known of other vertebrate faunas of this age in an attempt to provide a better understanding of the environments inhabited by early vertebrates. As many of the vertebrates studied belong to little known groups and as this area has previously been identified as an evolutionary center at this period it is expected that the phylogenetic implications of this work will be extensive.