Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100247

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160100247

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Out of China? Australia's earliest endemic jawed vertebrate faunas. This project will seek new fossil discoveries from Australian Devonian sediments to address questions of the origins, diversification and biogeographical dispersal of early jawed vertebrates. In particular, there is the potential to test or refine recent evolutionary hypotheses based on fossil finds from the Siluro-Devonian of southern China which served as a likely point of origin for several key vertebrate groups. Likely finds include fishes that test dermal bone-homologies between osteichthyans and placoderms, jawless fishes that may unveil details of the origin of jaws, and calibration of paleoatmospheric models via the observed size of Early Devonian fossil fishes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-03-2016

End Date: 01-01-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $353,706.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeontology (incl. Palynology) | Palaeoecology | Geology | Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Geology | Palaeoecology | Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)

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