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Danita Brandt

Danita S. Brandt, Associate Professor
Invertebrate Paleontology
Ph.D., Yale University

Office:  308 Natural Science
Phone:  (517)355-6595
Email:   brandt@msu.edu

Personal webpage: www.msu.edu/~brandt

Research group - Ancient Life Systems

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Research Interests:     

  • Paleobiology, paleoecology, evolutionary patterns and extinction of trilobites, and eurypterids.
  • Trace fossils, in the context of how they contribute to our understanding of paleobiology/ paleoethology.
  • The contribution of taphonomy to better resolving the paleobiology/paleoecology of fossil faunas.