Vertebrate Paleontological Analysis of Campanian and Maestrichtian Faunas, North Slope, Akaska

阿卡斯卡北坡坎帕尼亚和马斯特里赫特动物群的脊椎动物古生物学分析

• 批准号: 8821816
• 负责人: William Clemens
• 金额: $ 9.92万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-07-01 至 1991-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8821816&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Vertebrate; Paleontological; Analysis; Campanian; Maestrichtian

This award supports a vertebrate paleontological investigation to increase knowledge of the composition and biostratigraphy of Campanian and Maestrichtian terrestrial faunas of the North Slope, Alaska. Collecting in the Big Bend-Ocean Point area will provide: 1) more material for a thorough systematic analysis of the common hadrosaurid, 2) taphonomic data for an evaluation of the fidelity with which the bone bed reflects the composition of the fauna, and 3) specimens for a study of the processes of fossilization that apparently involved little permineralization. Results of these studies will promote investigations of possible modes of adaptation of vertebrates to the rigors of environments at high northern latitudes and patterns of intercontinental dispersal of terrestrial vertebrates between North America and Asia.

该奖项支持一项脊椎动物古生物学调查，以增加对阿拉斯加北坡坎帕尼亚和马斯特里赫特陆地动物群组成和生物地层学的了解。 在大弯海点区域收集的样本将提供：1）用于对常见鸭嘴龙进行彻底系统分析的更多材料，2）用于评估骨床反映动物群组成的保真度的埋藏学数据，以及 3）用于研究显然几乎不涉及全矿化的化石化过程的标本。 这些研究的结果将促进对脊椎动物适应北高纬度地区严酷环境的可能模式以及北美和亚洲之间陆地脊椎动物洲际扩散模式的研究。