Welcome to UChicago Paleobiology!

We integrate data on fossil and living organisms, and their evolutionary relationships, environments, and geography, to understand the history of life.

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Major research areas

• Evolution, extinction, and clade dynamics: Foote, Jablonski, Slater, Webster
• Taphonomy and the nature of the fossil record: Foote, Jablonski, Kidwell, Webster
• Phylogeny, systematics, and evolutionary morphology: Foote, Slater, Webster
• Paleoecology and conservation paleobiology: Jablonski, Kidwell
• Stratigraphy and Earth history: Blättler, Kidwell, Rowley, Waldbauer, Webster