Current research projects
Below are some of the current and recent research projects that the Centre of Palaeobiology has taken part in.
- Chengjiang Lagerstätte, Cambrian, China (Royal Society)
- Comley Lagerstätte, Cambrian, UK (NERC)
- Herefordshire Lagerstätte, Silurian, UK (NERC and Leverhulme Trust)
- Soom Shale Lagerstätte, Ordovician, South Africa
- Eramosa Lagerstätte, Silurian, Canada (Royal Ontario Museum and NERC)
- Experimental decay of onychophorans - lobopodian anatomy and arthropod origins (NERC)
- Decay and preservation of chordates, and vertebrate origins (NERC)
- Silurian phytoplankton and oceanic change (Leverhulme Trust)
- Origins, ecology and paleobiology of ostracods and related arthropods (Royal Society and Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science)
- Palaeobiology of conodonts
- Bridging the gap between ecological and evolutionary timescales: tooth wear, niche differentiation and speciation in living and fossil fishes (NERC)
- Systematics locomotion and palaeobiology of pterosaurs
- Palaeoclimate of the Neogene and Holocene (USGS PRISM paleoclimate group and the British Antarctic Survey)
- Tooth wear and ecological constraints on conodonts (NERC)
- Provenance of lowland Iron Age ceramics using micropalaeontology (Nuffield and NERC)
- Early Palaeozoic climates
- The Anthropocene – a new epoch of time characterised by humans (British Geological Survey)