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)