Christopher Whalen, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Invertebrate Paleontology (Cephalopods), Vertebrate Paleontology (Paleozoic Fishes), Paleobiology, Macroevolution, , Paleoecology, Phylogenetic Systematics, Morphometrics, Paleodiversity

I am interested in the macroevolutionary patterns and trends exhibited by marine animals in the water column during the Paleozoic era (~541 to 252 million years ago). My research encompasses large paleoecological compilations, diversity through time analyses, phylogenetics of cephalopods and early vertebrate fishes (stem gnathostomes), morphometrics, specimen based analyses of material from exceptionally preserved biotas (Fezouata, Mazon Creek, Bear Gulch), and original fieldwork (Cunningham Creek, Chinle).

Publications:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/37/eabc2365

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.0883

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gbi.12397

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16992

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/…