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Current Scientific Activities of the Lund Team, updated November 2011 (new reference on trilobite antatomical aspects see publication list above)
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Fredrik Terfelt:
My research is focused primarily on Cambrian to early Ordovician biotas and their utility for local and global geochronology. My main interest pertains to Furongian trilobites and agnostoids, however, the Cambrian through Ordovician faunas as a whole have been in focus for the last few years. I am currently working on the Cambrian-Ordovician transitional interval of Scania, Sweden, with emphasis on the faunal content and isotopic signal for this important interval in Earth history. Moreover, as a member of the Cambrian Stage 10 working group, I ensemble data to recognize a suitable horizon for correlating the base of Stage 10. In a recently started project, exceptionally preserved Orsten arthropods have been extracted and initially analyzed to understand the taphonomy of these fossils.
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Mats Eriksson:
My research is focused primarily on early Paleozoic biotas and their relationships to environmental changes. This time interval embraces some of the most significant evolutionary events in Earth history, setting the agenda for life as we know it. I work chiefly as a micropalaeontologist. Our ‘tools of the trade’ comprise fossils in the microscopic size range that are extracted from their enclosing rocks in great abundance. Subsequently these fossils are studied to assist us in understanding ancient ecosystems and solving various geological problems. At the present my major research projects are on:
(1) Paleozoic jaw-bearing polychaetes – palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology, taxonomy and evolution;
(2) Cambrian faunal dynamics, exceptional preservation, biostratigraphy and event stratigraphy;
(3) diet and trophic structures in ancient ecosystems, and
(4) Middle Ordovician high-resolution biostratigraphy and faunal dynamics, as related to extraterrestrial influx.
Current Scientific Activities of the Lund Team, updated November 2011 (new reference on trilobite antatomical aspects see publication list above)
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Fredrik Terfelt:
My research is focused primarily on Cambrian to early Ordovician biotas and their utility for local and global geochronology. My main interest pertains to Furongian trilobites and agnostoids, however, the Cambrian through Ordovician faunas as a whole have been in focus for the last few years. I am currently working on the Cambrian-Ordovician transitional interval of Scania, Sweden, with emphasis on the faunal content and isotopic signal for this important interval in Earth history. Moreover, as a member of the Cambrian Stage 10 working group, I ensemble data to recognize a suitable horizon for correlating the base of Stage 10. In a recently started project, exceptionally preserved Orsten arthropods have been extracted and initially analyzed to understand the taphonomy of these fossils.
Fredrik Terfelt:
My research is focused primarily on Cambrian to early Ordovician biotas and their utility for local and global geochronology. My main interest pertains to Furongian trilobites and agnostoids, however, the Cambrian through Ordovician faunas as a whole have been in focus for the last few years. I am currently working on the Cambrian-Ordovician transitional interval of Scania, Sweden, with emphasis on the faunal content and isotopic signal for this important interval in Earth history. Moreover, as a member of the Cambrian Stage 10 working group, I ensemble data to recognize a suitable horizon for correlating the base of Stage 10. In a recently started project, exceptionally preserved Orsten arthropods have been extracted and initially analyzed to understand the taphonomy of these fossils.
-
Mats Eriksson:
My research is focused primarily on early Paleozoic biotas and their relationships to environmental changes. This time interval embraces some of the most significant evolutionary events in Earth history, setting the agenda for life as we know it. I work chiefly as a micropalaeontologist. Our ‘tools of the trade’ comprise fossils in the microscopic size range that are extracted from their enclosing rocks in great abundance. Subsequently these fossils are studied to assist us in understanding ancient ecosystems and solving various geological problems. At the present my major research projects are on:
(1) Paleozoic jaw-bearing polychaetes – palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology, taxonomy and evolution;
(2) Cambrian faunal dynamics, exceptional preservation, biostratigraphy and event stratigraphy;
(3) diet and trophic structures in ancient ecosystems, and
(4) Middle Ordovician high-resolution biostratigraphy and faunal dynamics, as related to extraterrestrial influx.
Mats Eriksson:
My research is focused primarily on early Paleozoic biotas and their relationships to environmental changes. This time interval embraces some of the most significant evolutionary events in Earth history, setting the agenda for life as we know it. I work chiefly as a micropalaeontologist. Our ‘tools of the trade’ comprise fossils in the microscopic size range that are extracted from their enclosing rocks in great abundance. Subsequently these fossils are studied to assist us in understanding ancient ecosystems and solving various geological problems. At the present my major research projects are on:
(1) Paleozoic jaw-bearing polychaetes – palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology, taxonomy and evolution;
(2) Cambrian faunal dynamics, exceptional preservation, biostratigraphy and event stratigraphy;
(3) diet and trophic structures in ancient ecosystems, and
(4) Middle Ordovician high-resolution biostratigraphy and faunal dynamics, as related to extraterrestrial influx.
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