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John W. Merck

John W. Merck, Jr.

Principal Lecturer
Director of Undergraduate Studies - Geology
Associate Director, College Park Scholars - Science and Global Change Program

Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 1997

Contact

GEO 1119
Geology Building
8000 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742

CEN 1218
Centreville Hall
4243 Valley Drive
College Park, MD 20742

Phone: (301) 405-4379

Phone: (301) 405-2808

Fax: (301) 314-9661

jmerck [at] umd [dot] edu

Research Interests

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, and the incorporation of data from CT scans of fossil specimens in the morphological description of fossil taxa.

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