Allison Daley

Allison C. Daley (* in Canada ) is a Canadian paleontologist specializing in the Cambrian Explosion .

Life

Daley received her BS in Biology and Geology from Queen's University in Kingston in 2003 and her MS in Earth Sciences in 2005 from the University of Western Ontario . From 2006 to 2010 she was doing her doctorate at Uppsala University . Her dissertation on the morphology and evolution of the Anomalocarididae received the Jan Bergström Young Geoscientist Award in 2015 . Then she was until 2013Postdoctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum in London . Since then she has been a lecturer at the University of Oxford ( St Edmund Hall ) at the Department of Zoology and a research fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History .

Daley is the author of an initial description of the following publications :

Allison C. Daley & John S. Peel : A possible anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet deposit, North Greenland . In: Journal of Paleontology . tape 84 , no. 2 , 2010, p. 352-355 , doi : 10.1666 / 09-136R1.1 ( Tamisiocaris borealis ).
Allison C. Daley & Graham E. Budd : New anomalocaridid appendages from the Burgess Shale, Canada . In: Palaeontology . tape 53 , no. 4 , 2010, p. 721-738 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1475-4983.2010.00955.x ( Amplectobelua stephenensis ).
Peter van Roy, Allison C. Daley & Derek EG Briggs : Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps . In: Nature . tape 522 , 2015, p. 77-80 , doi : 10.1038 / nature14256 ( Aegirocassis benmoulae ).

^ ^A ^b Dr Allison Daley wins Jan Bergström Young Geoscientist Award. In: St Edmund Hall. May 8, 2015, accessed July 24, 2016 .
^ Allison C. Daley: The morphology and evolutionary significance of the anomalocaridids (= Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology . No. 714 ). Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2010, ISBN 978-91-554-7723-3 , ISSN 1651-6214 , urn : nbn: se: uu: diva-114102 (English, 40 pages).