Jean-Bernard Caron | |
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 Jean-Bernard Caron in the field at the Burgess Shale | |
| Born | Jean-Bernard Caron France |
| Nationality | Canadian, French |
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| Fields | Palaeontology |
| Institutions | Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
| Thesis | Taphonomy and Community Analysis of the Middle Cambrian Greater Phyllopod Bed, Burgess Shale (British Columbia) (2005) |
Jean-Bernard Caron is a French and Canadian palaeontologist currently working as a curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Caron is also cross-appointed at the University of Toronto as an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences. He is known for his work on the Burgess Shale.
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Hello, my name is Jean-Bernard Caron I'm the Associate Curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario museum and my main duty here museum is to work on the Burgess Shale Collection. So what is the Burgess Shale? Well the Burgess Shale is the site in British Columbia which is famous for its fossils. These fossils are about half a billion years old and represent the best window of animal life that we have on this time period. The Cambrian explosion is very important for the study of organisms and early animals on Earth and the Burgess Shale because if it's exceptional bout to preserve to in rocks offers a rare glimpse of this life. So I'm presenting a few specimens here on this table that come from a collections this is an anymore Kong Sydney on this is a repost fiction mall itself hours after part you have also a number of has strange other arthropods like this large an almanac carried its it's a predator this is one of its Khloe and we ever if you're a constriction some these and the mall ones he was mending Japan and and decide the mall is particulary their terrifying because of his close and also because of its ma of which which was secular this anymore as para flauta nice ants we recognize the number of for related forms such as this animal call: like Enya which also I S has similar features among the most famous after parts from the British shall I realize setting the the most famous and this anymore is absent the wonderfully preserved we alder leans and if any can recognize the cat I we have presence on the specimens your collections authors transcript responded this sham how to lose with scare rights these and the mall is is called with axiom and this claim rights have particularly striking when you see them we found direct light and this question is extremely reflective ventures wonderful details the same ol with exercise now related to the MONUSCO thanks to our latest release which are published in Nature a few months ago we have more common for souls which are common in striped obvious time during at bar fire engine is a call and those animals a call Tomo bytes and this is a a very fine example of try to bite with Japanese preserved this is a recall struction on this tell a bite ands this anymore idea near a series of lakes preserved our ancestor and I protective ancestor is also founding a bearish alan is called carry out this is a model of carry a I design look lack me at all but it's still a related to to as to the chordates and this is the actual specimen way out to sea that its it is a feast lack form with two small 10 tackles on the head and one of the the most common health records from the bishops collar kinda nice piece this is a more than of Canada espy's and this is the actual and the mall lack mind I Canada species also very common shell this is a very brief overview of for Sals from the Bears shall have we have hundreds of species in this power tower all these animals where living marrying front at that time the parish shall and the wrong eyes the largest collection on this animals on the planet thank you for
Education
Caron completed a bachelor's degree in natural history at the Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand in 1997 and his Diplôme d'études approfondies in palaeontology, sedimentology and chronology from the University Claude-Bernard, Lyon in 1999. His thesis focused on the problematic Burgess Shale animal Banffia constricta. Jean-Bernard Caron volunteered as a field assistant at the Burgess Shale in 1998 and, in 1999 and 2000, participated in the last two seasons led by Desmond Collins, then Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). He also spent several months at the ROM as a technical assistant, preparing Burgess Shale material. Caron completed his PhD on the taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Burgess Shale at the University of Toronto in the winter of 2004; in 2005 he won an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship to work on the Chengjiang Biota in order to compare it to the Burgess Shale biota.
Research and career
Caron is currently the curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum. He held the position of associate chair of invertebrate palaeontology from 2006 to 2010.[1]
His collaborative research program focuses mainly on the taphonomy, ecology, phylogeny, and biodiversity of Burgess Shale animals. The study material for his work comes mainly from the Royal Ontario Museum collections, the world's largest repository of Burgess Shale material, with over 150,000 specimens.[2] Caron's work includes the description of new invertebrate species (Herpetogaster, Orthrozanclus, Siphusauctum, Yawunik, and Surusicaris) as well as poorly known invertebrate species (Hurdia and Spartobranchus), and has also involved the redescription of Pikaia, a primitive chordate, and Metaspriggina, a primitive fish. Several animals–Odontogriphus, Wiwaxia, Nectocaris, and Hallucigenia–had previously been regarded as new phyla by Stephen Jay Gould, but have now been reinterpreted as primitive members of known animal groups (stem groups). Caron leads regular fieldwork activities in the Canadian Rockies and discovered an important new Burgess Shale site near Marble Canyon in Kootenay National Park in 2012.
In 2010, Caron received the Pikaia Award for outstanding contributions to Canadian research from the Palaeontology Division of the Geological Association of Canada.
Caron also engages in outreach about the Burgess Shale. Notably, he spearheaded the production of the Virtual Museum of Canada's Burgess Shale site with Parks Canada, which won the Golden Trilobite Award from the Palaeontological Association and the Award of Excellence in Publications from the Ontario Museum Association.
| Date | Position |
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| 2006–2010 | Associate Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum |
| 2007– | Associate Professor of Earth Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto |
| 2010- | Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum |
Awards and honours
- 2010 – Pikaia Award, Geological Association of Canada
- 2011 – Golden Trilobite Award, Palaeontological Association
- 2012 – Award of Excellence in Publications, Ontario Museum Association
References
- ^ "Jean-Bernard Caron". 2014.
- ^ "The Fossils". 2011. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
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