Dr. Michael Caldwell > Professor and Chair
Contact
Room: Z 424, Biological Sciences
Phone: (780) 492-3458
Fax: (780) 492-9234
Email: mw.caldwell@ualberta.ca
Academic Training
BPEd: University of Alberta
BSc: University of Alberta
PhD: McGill University
Vertebrate palaeontology, i.e., morphology, phylogeny, evolution, and ecology, etc. Organisms of interest include fossil and living squamates (snakes and lizards) as well as of extinct marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Current research is focused on marine and terrestrial snakes from Cretaceous rocks in the southern hemisphere (Gondwana), the cranial anatomy and phylogeny of extant scolecophidian snakes (blind, burrowing snakes), fossil mosasauroids from Upper Cretaceous rocks in New Zealand, Europe, Africa and North America, terrestrial lizards from the Cretaceous rocks of North America, and the molecular genetics of axial elongation in limb-reduced to limbless tetrapods.
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