Dr. Paul Copper

Professor Paul Copper of Laurentian University is an internationally renowned paleontologist and stratigraphical geologist, who has worked world-wide on the faunas of ancient carbonate reefs and platforms, their ecological succession, and the relationship of their episodic mass extinctions to global climatic change. He ranks as the world authority on the once-prolific tribe of atrypid brachiopods, their structural and functional morphology and global evolutionary relationships. Invited to assume responsibility for the atrypids in the new five-volume "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology" - the premier reference work on invertebrate fossils world-wide - he is completing analysis of some 260 genera and 5000 species of these complex and important fossils, which he has studied in all major geological museums of the world from Washington to Nanjing.