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Historical Geology and Paleontology Lab
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The lab reads fossils and strata to understand the evolution of life and changes in the global environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading the history of life and the Earth through fossils.
The Historical Geology and Paleontology Lab studies how organisms evolved and how the environment changed over the course of Earth's history.
By interpreting the phylogeny, functional morphology, paleoecology, and paleoenvironments of organisms, the lab investigates the patterns of adaptive evolution and the changes in the living environment at the Earth's surface.
The subjects differ by faculty member and include conodont paleontology, vertebrate evolution, and isotope analysis of sedimentary rocks.
The lab is one of the fields in the Earth Evolution major of the College of Geoscience, where specialized research and education are carried out.
Key terms
- paleoecology
- The study of how organisms lived in the past, based on fossils. It is one of the subjects this lab interprets
- conodonts
- Tooth-shaped fossils of small animals that lived in the seas from the Paleozoic to the Mesozoic. They are one of the specialties of the faculty in this lab
- isotope analysis
- An analysis that measures the proportions of atoms of the same element that have different masses. In this lab, it is applied to sedimentary rocks
ResearchResearch themes
The lab interprets the phylogeny, functional morphology, paleoecology, and paleoenvironments of groups of organisms through Earth's history, and investigates the patterns of adaptive evolution and the changes in the living environment at the Earth's surface. Each faculty member works on different subjects, such as conodonts, vertebrates, and reconstruction of paleoenvironments.
*Illustrative imageConodonts and Mesozoic–Paleozoic Geological History
Centered on conodont paleontology, the lab studies the geological history of the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. One example of graduation research is a study of strata using conodonts contained in Triassic limestone.
*Illustrative imageVertebrate Evolution and Paleoecology
The lab studies the evolution and paleoecology of vertebrates. Examples of graduation research include functional reconstruction of fossil teeth of theropod dinosaurs and body mass estimation of Mesozoic bird embryos.
*Illustrative imagePaleoenvironmental Reconstruction and Isotope Analysis
The lab works on reconstructing the paleoenvironments of the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. It deals with isotope analysis of sedimentary rocks and Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorSachiko Agematsu
- Associate ProfessorKohei Tanaka
- Assistant ProfessorHironao Matsumoto
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Burning Tree Mastodon excavation site, Burning Tree Golf Course” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Conodonts and Mesozoic–Paleozoic Geological History: “An archaeologist is measuring the stratigraphy of an archaeological trench” Chudilovski ph / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Vertebrate Evolution and Paleoecology: “Dinosaur Egg Museum, Xixia Dinosaur Park- Psittacosaurus Skeleton 01” Gary Todd / CC0 (cropped)
- Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction and Isotope Analysis: “Layers of sedimentary rock in Makhtesh Ramon (50750)” Rhododendrites / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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