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Paleoecology Lab
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The lab explores the ecology of extinct organisms through ammonite fossils and the living nautilus.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the paleoecology of extinct organisms and global environmental change
The Paleoecology Lab uses fossils as clues to study how past global environmental changes affected the organisms of the time.
Its main research material is fossils of ammonites, cephalopods that went extinct about 66 million years ago.
The lab also investigates the ecology of the nautilus, a cephalopod that is still alive today, through surveys and experiments mainly in the seas of the Philippines.
Studying both fossil and living organisms is one of the distinguishing features of this lab.
Key terms
- Ammonites
- Ammonites: cephalopod mollusks with shells coiled in a logarithmic spiral. They went extinct about 66 million years ago and are relatives of today's squid and octopus.
- Cephalopods
- Cephalopods: a group of mollusks. It includes the extinct ammonites as well as today's squid, octopus, and nautilus.
- Nautilus
- Nautilus: a living cephalopod with a shell structure nearly identical to that of ammonites. It lives in deep seas at depths of roughly 100 to 500 m.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab seeks to clarify, through the study of fossils, how past global environmental changes affected the organisms living at the time. It investigates both the extinct ammonites and the nautilus, which is alive today.
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- ProfessorRyoji Wani
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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: “Nautilus Shell and Ammonite Fossil” DGately27 / CC0 (cropped)
- Paleoecology of ammonites and nautilus: “Ammonite ( )” Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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