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An integrative paleontological and paleoenvironmental study of the Middle Cambrian Spence, Wheeler, and Marjum soft-bodied faunas of Utah

An integrative paleontological and paleoenvironmental study of the Middle Cambrian Spence, Wheeler, and Marjum soft-bodied faunas of Utah

Scientists reconstructed phylogenetic and biogeographic patterns in Burgess Shale type soft-bodied faunas from Utah.

Project Details
Start date: 
01/01/2005
End date: 
Tue, 01/01/2008
People and Institutions
KU PI: 
blieber
Collaborating Organizations: 
Pomona College
University of California, Riverside
Yale University
Funding Agencies: 
National Science Foundation
Funding amount: 
110000

Location

Utah UT
United States
40° 0' 0" N, 110° 0' 0" W
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NSF Award

Revisionary systematics of cheirurid trilobites

Revisionary systematics of cheirurid trilobites

Scientists are reconstructing phylogenetic and biogeographic patterns of trilobite clades and using this information to study macroevolutionary patterns and processes including the response of the biota to a major episode of mass extinction.

Project Details
Start date: 
01/01/2007
End date: 
Tue, 01/01/2013
People and Institutions
KU PI: 
blieber
Collaborating Organizations: 
University of Iowa
Funding amount: 
450000

Location

University of Kansas
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045
United States
38° 57' 32.3784" N, 95° 14' 35.2176" W
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NSF Award
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