Geology Department
Faculty
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Geology, PO Box 4099 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011 Phone#: 928-523-4561 Fax#: 928-523-9220 |
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Dr. David K.
Elliott
Office:
305 Geology Annex (Building 13) Title: Professor
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U.S. Postal Service
Address: Department of Geology P. O. Box 4099 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4099 |
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Frier Hall, Building 12, Room 100 Knoles Drive Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4099 |
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| My main research interests are in the origin, evolution, and diversification of early vertebrates, particularly agnathans (jawless vertebrates). My work has been concentrated in the Late Silurian through Devonian and I have documented faunas around the Old Red Sandstone Continent from eastern Europe and Spitzbergen, across the Canadian arctic, through western North America, and down to Mexico. Research projects are continuing in all those areas as I develop biostratigraphic correlations and study evolutionary relationships. In addition my position as the de facto invertebrate paleontologist in the department has led me into projects on trace fossils in the Cambrian and Permian and a long term study of the invertebrate faunas of the Pennsylvanian in Arizona. |