U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research: The La Venta Fossil Primates

美日合作研究：拉文塔灵长类化石

• 批准号: 8716633
• 负责人: Alfred Rosenberger
• 金额: $ 1.06万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-03-15 至 1991-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8716633&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Japan; Cooperative; Research; La

This award will enable Dr. Alfred Rosenberger of the University of Illinois at Chicago to collaborate with Dr. Takeshi Setoguchi of the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan on the study of the La Venta fossil primates. The project will involve (1) describing previously found but as yet undescribed specimens from the La Venta fossil site in Columbia, and (2) finding and describing new primate fossils from this important Miocene site. The New World monkeys represent one of the most puzzling chapters in primate evolution, largely because their fossil record is so poor. Dr. Setoguchi is primarily a field paleontologist, while Dr. Rosenberger is an expert on the systematics and evolution of platyrrhine monkeys. Collaboration of their research teams should result not only in the collection of a significant number of new fossil specimens, but also in a better understanding of the relationship of early species with extant forms.

该奖项将使阿尔弗雷德罗森伯格博士的大学 伊利诺伊州芝加哥与博士武Setoguchi合作 日本京都大学灵长类研究所 对拉文塔化石灵长类动物的研究。 该项目将涉及 (1)描述了以前发现但尚未描述的标本 从哥伦比亚的拉文塔化石遗址，和（2）发现和 描述了这个重要的中新世遗址的新灵长类化石。 新大陆的猴子代表了人类历史上 在灵长类进化中，很大程度上是因为它们的化石记录如此 扶贫 Setoguchi博士主要是一名野外古生物学家，而Setoguchi博士则是一名野外古生物学家。 罗森伯格是一位系统学和进化方面的专家， 阔鼻猴 他们的研究团队的合作应该 结果不仅收集了大量新的 化石标本，而且在更好地了解 早期物种与现存类型的关系。