Research

Palaeontology research at the Australian Museum features the evolution and biogeography of Early Palaeozoic arthropods, especially trilobites, as well as the study of conodonts and corals from the Cambrian through the Devonian Periods, and Early Palaeozoic vertebrates, particularly fishes.

Current projects are:

• Systematics, ontogeny and biogeography of trilobites
• Higher-level arthropod interrelationships using morphological and molecular sequence data (PDF This article is only available in PDF format. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat, a FREE reader is available from Adobe.)
• Evolution of myriapods, especially centipedes
• Systematics and biogeography of Devonian vertebrates of Australia and Antarctica
• Dental evolution of jawed vertebrates, especially placoderms
• Development of the vertebrate axial and appendicular skeleton, focusing on the Queensland lungfish Neoceratodus
• Ordovician-Devonian agnathans
• Taxonomy, biogeography and biostratigraphy of Ordovician conodonts from NSW and China

Scientific information for the Palaeontology site was provided by Greg Edgecombe, Alex Ritchie, Zerina Johanson, Robert Jones and Yong-yi Zhen.

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