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Mark
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Thesis’ title:
Gigantism
in Palaeozoic Arthropods: Palaeobiological and Phylogenetic Perspectives.
Names of
thesis advisors:
Simon J. Braddy,
University of Bristol; Richard A. Fortey, Natural History Museum, London.
Source of
funding:
Natural
Environment Research Council (NERC) studentship with industrial CASE funding.
Start and
Finish Dates:
October 2005 to
October 2008
Manuscripts:
Bell, M. A., Braddy, S. J., Fortey, R. A. (in prep) Cope’s Rule as a control over body size
in Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites.
Bell, M. A., Braddy, S. J., Fortey, R. A. (in prep) The effects of extinction on trilobite
body size: the Lilliput effect
Bell, M. A., Rushton, A. W. A. (in prep) Species of core paradoxidid genera: a
cladistic analysis
Rahman,
I. A, Sutton, M. D., Bell, M. A. (2009) Evaluating the phylogeny and biological
affinities of carpoids using stratigraphic congruence indices, Lethaia.
Braddy,
S. J., Crean, R. P. D., Dunlop, J. A., Bell, M. A. (in
review TRSE) Redescription of the giant Early Devonian scorpion Praearcturus
gigas
Woodward, 1870 (Arachnida: Scorpiones)
Educational
Background:
2001 –
2005 BSc (Hons) in Earth
Sciences
University of Glasgow
Thesis entitled “Trilobite distribution
patterns in the type Onnian substage (Ordovician – Caradoc Series)”
Supervisor – Alan W. Owen (Glasgow)
Further Information
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