2020 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Initiation of a species-level fossil diatom image database
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19K06820
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| Research Institution | Yamagata University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | Taxonomy / Morphology / Diatom / Fossil |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During fiscal 2020, the research concentrated on the Proboscia species in Eocene marine sediments. In particular, the species in the 51 samples from 13 Oamaru outcrop locations (late Eocene). In addition, surveys were also carried out on Barbados (middle Eocene) and Mors (early Eocene) outcrop materials. The results of the latter are important as previous workers already described a number of Rhizosolenia spp., which possessed probosces, and so these taxa require transfer to Proboscia. These Eocene taxa are often characterised by serrated ridges on the probosces, although non-ridged forms also exist.
In addition, routine work on recent material revealed the presence of a new species from the subarctic Pacific.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
During fiscal 2020, numerous Eocene samples were investigated, which revealed the presence of more than 10 species - some of these require transferring to Proboscia, while others are new to science. Most of the species represent the old ridge-bearing lineage but during the Eocene some new lineages start to appear. Since many LM and SEM photographs were taken, the best of these will be incorporated into the image database.
The new species from the subarctic Pacific was described and published.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
During fiscal 2021, the research will focus on the remaining materials from the Cretaceous, Paleocene, Oligocene and Pliocene. Preliminary surveys of these have already been carried out and the samples look promising. New DSDP and ODP samples were also acquired recently.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to the ongoing covid19 problem, I was unable to use my travel funds for both domestic and foreign trips. So I have requested that this money be carried over to 2021.
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Research Products
(3 results)
