During this summer I travelled to Portugal. Sounds like a big trip, but it is even bigger if you think that I crossed 450 million years! In fact, the reason of this trip was studying deposits from different geologic ages. The palaeontological record of Portugal is amazing: from Palaeozoic trilobites to the Pleistocene landsnails (here figured), through Mesozoic dinosaur footprints!
andrea: I am Andrea ‘Tracemaker’ Baucon. My research interests focus on palaeontology, with particular emphasis on the study of life-substrate interactions. In my research, I addressed three main questions: (1) What drives the distribution of burrows? (2) How do mass-extinctions modify burrowing behaviour? (3) Do life-substrate interactions exist beyond Earth? I tackled these questions using quantitative methods (fractal analysis, network theory, geostatistics) and analogy with modern life-substrate interactions (actuopalaeontology).
Would you like to share your thoughts?
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *