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Fossils, rocks and early Cambrian clocks: calibrating body plan assembly and lineage splits in ancestral animals from Gondwana [ 2012-01-01 - 2015-12-31 ]

Research Grant

[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP120104251]

Researchers: Dr John Paterson (Chief Investigator) ,  Glenn Brock (Chief Investigator)

Brief description Fossils, rocks and early Cambrian clocks: calibrating body plan assembly and lineage splits in ancestral animals from Gondwana. The precise timing of when animal body plans evolved and rapidly diversified during the Cambrian Explosion remains mysterious. This project will investigate vast collections of exquisitely preserved early-middle Cambrian fossils from Australia to determine the precise order of evolutionary events at the root of the animal tree of life.

Funding Amount $300,000

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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