Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160102460
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Resolving evolutionary problems at the fish-tetrapod transition. The project aims to investigate very early Australian tetrapod trackways and conduct fieldwork to resolve the place of origin and timing of the evolution of the first tetrapods. The evolution of fishes to tetrapods was one of the key events in evolution. Studies on Northern Hemisphere fossils place an origin for the group around 380 million years ago. Australian fossils suggest a much older origin. New micro computed tomography data from Australian 3-D fossil fishes, combined with study of rare tetrapod gill arch bones, would enable us to determine the origins of tetrapod air-breathing and its ecological setting. The project may facilitate a rewriting of vertebrate evolution's most significant first step.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 02-2016
End Date: 09-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $491,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Palaeontology (incl. Palynology) | Palaeoecology | Ecology | Animal Structure and Function
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Conserving Natural Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
