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TRILOBITE RESEARCH DIRECTORY
CRONIER, Catherine |
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PROFILE |
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Name: CRONIER, Catherine
Category: Professional
Address: Lab. de Paléontologie et Paléogéographie du Paléozoique, (UMR 8014, C.N.R.S.)
UFR Sciences Terre (SN5),
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1,
59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex,
FRANCE
Phone: +33 (0)3.20.43.41.51
Fax: +33 (0)3. 20 .43.69.00
Email: Catherine.Cronier@univ-lille1.fr
Webpage: www.univ-lille1.fr/geosciences/umr_lp3/CRONIER-web.htm |
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| Area(s) of Research: Systematic Palaeontology – Diversity – Disparity – Ontogeny – Phylogeny. |
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| Group(s) of interest: Phacopida (especially Phacopidae) |
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| Period(s): (Ordovician) - Devonian |
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| Field Area(s): France - Belgium - Germany - Poland - Morocco - Algeria - Australia |
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| Current Projects: My research activities focus on morphological evolutionary patterns related to environmental constraints in Devonian phacopid trilobites. This includes studies on ontogeny and phylogeny of phacopids and on morpho-functional evolution of species using biometric and morphometric approaches. Special emphasis is given to the importance of heterochrony in the evolution of the latest phacopids such as size reduction, progressive transformation of the visual complex until blindness and delay in the onset of ankylosis of the facial suture. I am also interested in biodiversity, palaeobiology and palaeoecological problematics. |
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RECENT WORKS (last 3 years): |
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5. Cronier, C. & R. Fortey. 2006. Morphology and ontogeny of an Early Devonian phacopid trilobite with reduced sight from southern Thailand. Journal of Paleontology, 80: 529-536.
4. Cronier, C., Auffray, J.-C. & P. Courville. 2005. A quantitative comparison of the ontogeny of two closely related phacopid species of the Upper Devonian. Lethaia, 38 : 1-14.
3. Cronier, C. & P. Courville. 2005. New xiphosuran merostomata from the Upper Carboniferous of Graissessac Basin (Massif Central, France). Compte rendus Palevol, 4: 123-133.
2. Cronier, C. et P. Courville. 2004. A rich and highly endemic decapod crustacean fauna from the Middle Jurassic of North-East France. Palaeontology, 47 : 999-1014.
1. Cronier, C., Feist, R. & J.-C. Auffray. 2004. Variation in the eye of Acuticryphops (Phacopina, Trilobita) and its evolutionary significance: a biometric and morphometric approach. Paleobiology, 30: 470-480. |
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Last update:
Jan., 19th 2007 |
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