Cenozoic Chronology and Vertebrate Faunas of Bolivia

这个项目将研究玻利维亚高原上暴露的3000万年来哺乳动物动物群的记录。这次更新将利用之前的研究结果，并在时间上向上扩展。拟议研究的目标是深入研究6个已知的晚新生代(中新世-更新世)遗址，并寻找将填补该地区已知序列的新地点。这样，我们可以利用我们的结果在时间上追踪一个局部地区3000万年来刻度良好的演化，也可以与南美洲其他重要的新生代层序进行空间比较，例如阿根廷的经典遗址。

This project will study the 30 million year record of mammalian faunas exposed on the Bolivian altiplano. This renewal will capitalize on, and expand upwards in time from the results of the previous research. The objectives for the proposed research are to intensively work six known late Cenozoic (Miocene-Pleistocene) sites and to prospect for new localities that will fill in the sequence known to exist in this region. In so doing, we could use our results to temporally trace 30 million years of well- calibrated evolution in a localized area and also make spatial comparison with other important Cenozoic sequences in South America, e.g., the classic sites in Argentina.