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JOHN W. MERCK

Academic Title: Lecturer

Name: JOHN W. MERCK

 

Department: Department of Geology

Department Website: http://www.geol.umd.edu/

Institution: University of Maryland, College Park

 

Address: A.V. Williams Building
College Park, Maryland 20742

 

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Expertise: *The phylogeny and evolutionary history of the euryapsids, primarily marine reptiles of the Mesozoic Era, including ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and sauropterygians.
* The empirical testing of cladistic methods of phylogeny reconstruction using digitally simulated phylogenies.
* The incorporation of data from CT scans of fossil specimens in the morphological description of fossil taxa.

 

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