| title: | Lower Silurian conodonts - evolution, associations and palaeoecology, and application in high-resolution stratigraphy |
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| reg no: | ETF5406 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
1.10-1.16. Bio-Geo Sciences |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University |
| head of project: | Peep Männik |
| duration: | 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2006 |
| description: | The project is planned as a palaeontological-biostratigraphical research. The studies will be mainly based on collections from Estonia but information from other regions will be essential. The success of the project will depend greatly upon cooperation with specialists working with conodonts in other regions (direct comparison of collections, discussions, consultations, joint studies and publications, use of some special laboratory equipment, etc.). Also, consultations of specialists of other specialities (sedimentology, geochemistry, etc.) will provide valuable additional information allowing evaluating of the stratigraphical and palaeoecological conclusions based on the distribution of faunas, finding out relations beween taxonomically different associations of faunas, interpretation of the environmental conditions, etc. The project has two main aims: 1) taxonomic revision of the Lower Silurian conodonts and monographic description of the faunas from Estonia, and 2) characterization of the evolution of selected evolutionary lineages of taxa as well as faunas in general based on the taxonomic and palaeoecological analysis of the Lower Silurian conodont faunas, and based on these data, the evaluation and updating of the biozonal scheme. Expected results of the project will be revised taxonomy and detailed descriptions of Lower Silurian conodonts from Estonia; characterization and description of general, and specific, features in the evolution of the Lower Silurian conodont faunas; characterization of the palaeoecological associations of conodonts, their distribution in time and space, and their relations to particular environmental conditions; revised and updated biozonation and reliable criteria for regional and global correlations; evaluation of the data available, their continuity or discontinuity and the possible reasons for this. |
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Peep Männik | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University | senior scientist | |