Vertebrate Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the SoutheasternBenue Trough, Cameroon, West Africa

西非喀麦隆贝努埃海槽东南部的脊椎动物古生物学和地层学

• 批准号: 8700539
• 负责人: Louis Jacobs
• 金额: $ 5.32万
• 依托单位: Southern Methodist University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-06-01 至 1988-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8700539&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Vertebrate; Paleontology; Stratigraphy; SoutheasternBenue; Trough

During the Cretaceous Period, the earliest divergence of mammalian orders was taking place, and the South Atlantic was beginning to open. Fossil vertebrates of Cretaceous age from west Africa are extremely rare, but potentially important to our understanding of the early history of mammals and the extinction of dinosaurs. Drs. Jacobs and Flynn have collected some fossil vertebrates from Cretaceous rocks from Cameroon, and they propose to explore the fossil-bearing deposits more completely, and to identify the fossil groups discovered. The proposed research could greatly improve our understanding of the early evolution of mammals, and of how the geographic distribution of vertebrates was affected by the separation of continents during the late Mesozoic.

在白垩纪， 哺乳动物的订单正在发生，南大西洋是 开始开放。 白垩纪脊椎动物的化石来自 西非是非常罕见的，但对我们的潜在重要性， 了解哺乳动物的早期历史和灭绝 恐龙。 雅各布斯和弗林博士收集了一些化石 喀麦隆白垩纪岩石中的脊椎动物，他们提出 更全面地探索化石沉积物， 确定发现的化石群。 这项研究可以大大提高我们的 了解哺乳动物的早期进化，以及 脊椎动物的地理分布受到 中生代晚期大陆的分离。