#   Palaeontological Association Virtual Meeting 2020 

 





December 18, 2020

 

 

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 Wrapping up 2020, the Invertebrate Paleobiology and Evolution lab had a strong presence at the **[Virtual Meeting](https://www.palass.org/meetings-events/annual-meeting/2020/annual-meeting-2020-virtual-meeting-overview) of the Palaeontological Association** organized by our colleagues at the University of Oxford! Contributions included **Sarah Losso'**s first talk at Pal Ass, addressing a fascinating case of limb specialization in the Burgess Shale trilobite *Olenoides serratus*, an impressive overview of ongoing work on the paleobiology of the early Cambrian Rosella Formation in British Columbia by **Rudy Lerosey-Aubril** (supported by the [William F. Milton Fund](https://vpr.harvard.edu/milton-fund)), an elegant quantitative paleoecological study on the hydrodynamics of *Isoxys* and other small bivalved euarthropods by **Stephen Pates** ([Alexander Agassiz Fellow](https://mcz.harvard.edu/edward-wilson-postdoctoral-fellowship-program) at the Museum of Comparative Zoology), and a deep dive into the[ head segmentation of great appendage euarthropods ](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220307727?casa_token=C-ZkGPUaU9UAAAAA:WcBuZ3ixPcGob45AZjCmgTT_jsEmPQ5aaQs3VijnoGx2YO3mWNGuk05C_bc1MmO1E9krneaF)by **Javier Ortega-Hernández** and visiting professor **Yu Liu** (supported by the [Harvard China Fund](https://hcf.fas.harvard.edu/)).

 Finally, congratulations are in order for **Sarah Losso** for securing funding from the Palaeontological Association [Small Grant Scheme](https://www.palass.org/awards-grants/grants/small-grants-scheme), which will support her work on the taphonomy of the exceptionally preserved trilobites from the Walcott-Rust in New York!



 

 

 



 

 

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