ECODIV: Ecological diversity of land vertebrates through the largest extinction in Earth history
Funder: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101022550 Dates: March 2022 to present Institutions: University of Birmingham (UK), Virginia Tech (USA) |
Palaeobiology and macroevolution of mesozoic reptiles
Description: Specimen-based work is important to me because it provides the primary data for all my lines of research. I have worked the anatomy, systematics & taxonomy, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography and macroevolution of multiple Mesozoic tetrapod groups. Among my favourites: early archosauromorphs (e.g. drepanosaurs, trilophosaurs), bird-line archosaurs (e.g. lagerpetids, pterosaurs), crocodile-line archosaurs (e.g., ornithosuchids, erpetosuchids), and marine reptiles (e.g., thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs, sauropterygians, ichthyosaurs). I regularly target poorly-studied intervals and described (macro- and micro-) vertebrate assemblages with the aim to fill in gaps in the fossil records. |
artwork by Nikolay Zverkov |
Fieldwork
I regularly participate to fieldwork campaigns in the Triassic southwest of the USA (Triassic), Triassic and Jurassic of the UK (England and Scotland). I have also visited and worked on Permian, Triassic and Jurassic deposits of northern Italy and Switzerland and Cretaceous of southern Canada. |