Charles Amazon
Graduate Researcher
Charles Amazon is an M.S. student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Brooklyn College. He completed his B.S. in General Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked at the Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections. His undergraduate research ranged from describing Pleistocene bat faunas from Central Texas caves to investigating the functional morphology of ventral keels in teleost fishes. He is interested in mammal diversification following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction and is currently studying Paleocene archaic ungulates from the Fort Union Formation of southeastern Montana.

Published Abstracts and Conference Presentations
Amazon, C. G., Kolmann, M., El Khoury, C., Truman, S., Donatelli, C. A View to a Keel: the form and function of ventral keels in fishes. Presented at the 2025 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology conference in Atlanta, GA.