Research Description
Dan Blake remains very active in paleontology research and can be found in the department most days.
Recent Publications
Blake, D. B., & Lefebvre, B. (2024). Ordovician Petraster Billings, 1858 (Asteroidea: Echinodermata) and early asteroid skeletal differentiation. Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 23(17), 217-239. https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2024v23a17
Blake, D. B., & Hotchkiss, F. H. C. (2022). Origin of the subphylum Asterozoa and redescription of a Moroccan Ordovician somasteroid. Geobios, 72-73, 22-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2022.07.002
Blake, D. B., & Sprinkle, J. (2021). Arceoaster hintei n. gen. n. sp., a late Silurian homeomorphic asteroid (Echinodermata, Hudsonasteridae). Journal of Paleontology, 95(1), 154-161. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.57
Blake, D. B., Gahn, F. J., & Guensburg, T. E. (2020). An Early Ordovician (Floian) asterozoan (Echinodermata) of problematic class-level affinities. Journal of Paleontology, 94(2), 358-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.82
Blake, D. B., & Koniecki, J. (2020). Taxonomy and functional morphology of the Urasterellidae (Paleozoic Asteroidea, Echinodermata). Journal of Paleontology, 94(6), 1124-1147. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.42