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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please join us
<i>tomorrow</i> for Martin Fernandez’s MS Prospectus in <i>EOAS 5067 at 3:00 pm</i>. See details below.
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Title: Paleoecology of Devonian hydrozoans from the Northern Appalachian Basin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Name: Martin Fernandez<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Date: November 20<sup>th</sup>, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Time: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Location: EOAS 5067<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Zoom:
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https://fsu.zoom.us/j/5935103946</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Major Professor: Dr. Jeremy Owens</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract: Non motile, sea bottom inhabiting animals (benthic epifauna) are some of the most prominent and ecologically impactful members of global marine communities
today and have been since their earliest occurrences in the Ediacaran (Bambach, 1993). The Middle Paleozoic was a crucial time for benthic epifauna, including major evolutionary and ecological shifts in the history of these faunas alongside changes in their
surrounding environments (e.g., Bush and Payne, 2021). Such research has established significant macroevolutionary shifts in ecological structure of shelled taxa by examining relative taxonomic composition and abundance, as well as paleoecological dynamics
over long term geologic time that occurred from the Cambrian through Mesozoic (Phillips, 1861; Sepkoski, 1981; Signor and Brett, 1984). However, such dynamics are difficult to determine for soft bodied organisms, which represent a minority of the fossil record
due to a lack of mineralized body parts such as shells, exoskeletons, or bones (Gaines, 2014; Hays et al., 2018).
<i>Plumalina </i>Hall, 1858 is a rare exception, as a soft-bodied benthic epifaunal hydroid found abundantly in Devonian (419.6-358.9 million years ago; Ver Straeten, 2023) deposits of the northern Appalachian Basin. This provides the unique opportunity to
investigate the paleobiology of a middle Devonian soft bodied organism. To that end, I will use morphology and environmental parameters to investigate the paleoecology of
<i>Plumalina </i>from the Middle and Upper Devonian of New York, their associated rock matrix, and virtual anatomical models derived from measurements of hundreds of specimens. I will quantitatively assess and compare characters of anatomy, sedimentology, as
well as preservational trends, which are directly controlled by paleoenvironmental characteristics. This aims to determine which and by what mechanisms, environmental factors affected
<i>Plumalina </i>colonization and ontogenetic development.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe Script"">Sr. Academic Program Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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