Taxonomic, Evolutionary, Biogeographic and Paleoecologic Studies of Silurian-Devonian Brachiopods and Other Groups

本研究包括以下内容：1。完成世界范围志留纪对比图系列：欧洲大陆和北亚（亚洲俄罗斯、蒙古、韩国、日本）。2. 从泰国南部、沙特阿拉伯西北部、智利北部和邻近的阿根廷获得生物地理上关键的志留纪和泥盆纪腕足动物标本，以填补关键空白，并在世界大部分地区之间建立更好的关系。进一步探讨奥陶系和志留系Llanvirn-Llandovery期新发现的高等陆生植物（利用孢子四分体）的陆地生物地理意义，并与相关海洋环境的生物地理进行比较。为进一步拓展全球范围，在属级水平上开展后伊贝县奥陶系腕足类生物地理学研究。对伊朗上志留统腕足动物的生物地理特征也将进行描述。3. 3 .完成生态地层学项目中涉及的全球研究报告的出版。收集了伊贝县-怀特洛克界线期的资料，这是海洋环境中物种灭绝和随后的适应性辐射的主要时期之一，以及在温洛克纪早期发生在世界大部分地区的小灭绝事件。完成《无脊椎动物古生物学专论》，作为腕足动物卷修订的一部分，关于五元体和古生代terebratuids。

This study includes the following: 1. Completion of the series of worldwide Silurian Correlation charts: Continental Europe and Northern Asia (Asiatic Russia, Mongolia, Korea, Japan). 2. Obtaining biogeographically critical Silurian and Devonian brachipod collections from southern Thailand, northwestern Saudi Arabia, northern Chile and adjacent Argentina, to fill in critical blanks and establish better relations between large parts of the World. To further investigate the implications of the newly discovered terrestrial biogeography of the higher land plants (using spore tetrads) for the Llanvirn-Llandovery interval of the Ordovician and Silurian, and compare and contrast it with the biogeography of the associated marine environments. To further extend global, studies of post-Ibexian brachipod biogeography for the Ordovician at the generic level. Description of biogeographically critical Upper Silurian brachipods from Iran will also be carried out. 3. Completion for publication of the global studies involved in Project Ecostratigraphy. 4. Gathering information on the Ibexian-Whiterockian boundary interval, which is one of the major times of both extinction and subsequent adaptive radiation in the marine environment, and about the minor extinction event that occurred in the earlier Wenlockian for much of the World. 5. Completing the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology assignment, as part of the brachiopod volume revision, on the pentameroids and Paleozoic terebratuloids.