M.D. (Martin) Brazeau PhD
NCB Research Fellow
Academic appointments:
Jan 2011- Present: NCB Research Fellow Netherlands Center for Biodiversity Naturalis Leiden, The Netherlands
February 2009-January 2011: FQRNT Postdoctoral Fellow Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History) Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University, Berlin
Education:
Ph.D. Biology with specialization in Evolutionary Organismal Biology (January 2009) Uppsala University Thesis: Endocranial Morphology and Phylogeny of Palaeozoic Gnathostomes (Jawed Vertebrates) Supervisor: Per E. Ahlberg
B.Sc. Biology, First-class Honours (May 2004) McGill University Thesis: A New Genus of Rhizodontid (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Lower Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation and the Evolution of the Lower Jaws in this Group. Supervisor: Robert L. Carroll
Publications
Brazeau, M.D. In press. The anatomy of the Early Devonian jawed vertebrate Ptomacanthus anglicus Miles. Palaeontology.
Brazeau, M.D. 2011. Problematic character coding methods in morphology and their effects. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104: 489-498.
Anderson, P.S.L., Friedman, M., Brazeau, M.D., Rayfield, E. 2011. The initial radiation of jaws: stability in the face of faunal and environmental change. Nature 476: 206–209.
Friedman, M. and Brazeau, M.D. 2010. Sequences, stratigraphy, and scenarios: what can we say about the fossil record of the earliest tetrapods? Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 278: 432-439.
Friedman, M. and Brazeau, M.D. 2010. A reappraisal of the origin and basal radiation of the Osteichthyes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 36-56.
Brazeau, M.D. 2009. The braincase and jaws of a Devonian ‘acanthodian’ and the origin of modern jawed vertebrates. Nature 457:305-308 (Supplementary Information 68 pp.).
Brazeau, M.D. and Jeffery, J.E. 2008. The hyomandibulae of rhizodontids (Sarcopterygii, Stem Tetrapoda). Journal of Morphology 269: 654-665.
Friedman, M. and Brazeau, M. 2008. Comment: Placoderm muscles and chordate interrelationships. Biology Letters 4: 103.
Miller, R.F. and Brazeau, M.D. 2007. A Late Devonian Porolepiform fish (Holoptychius) and the age of the Kennebecasis Formation, southern New Brunswick, Canada. Atlantic Geology 43:187-196.
Brazeau, M.D. & Ahlberg, P.E. 2006. Tetrapod-like middle ear architecture in a Devonian fish. Nature 439: 318-321.
Brazeau, M.D. 2005. A new genus of rhizodontid (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Lower Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation and the evolution of the lower jaws in this group. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42: 1481-1499.
Sunday, March 4, 2012