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Brian Chatterton

Publications

• FORTEY, R.A. and CHATTERTON, B.D.E. 1988. Classification of the trilobite suborder Asaphina. Paleontology, 31, 165-222.
• CHATTERTON, B.D.E. and WHITEHEAD, H.L. 1987, Predatory borings in the inarticulate brachiopod Artiotrea from the Silurian of Oklahoma. Lethaia, 20, 67-74.
• EDGECOMBE, G.D. and CHATTERTON, B.D.E., 1987. Heterochrony in the Silurian radiation of encrinurine trilobites. Lethaia, 20, 337-351

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Research area

Paleozoic fossils, especially trilobites, biogeography, biostratigraphy, heterochrony, ontogeny, systematics

Research interest

Dr. Brian D.E. Chatterton specializes in the systematics of trilobite, conodont, and rostroconch fossils from Ordovician through Devonian times. Particular interests include: ontogeny, heterochrony and evolution of trilobites; event stratigraphy and its effect on evolution, extinction and survivorship; biostratigraphy; biogeography; and paleoecology. Present work includes description and classification of new faunas, and classification of known and new faunas using a combination of cladistic and stratophenetic approaches. Fossils are derived mainly from Canada, but also from Sweden, Iran, and Australia.

School

Australian National University