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

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梅斯特里赫斯陆地动物群的组成和生物地层学的了解。在Big Bend-Ocean Point地区收集将提供：1)对常见鸭嘴龙进行彻底系统分析的更多材料，2)评估骨床反映动物组成的保真度的化石学数据，以及3)研究化石过程的标本，显然不涉及过矿化作用。这些研究的结果将促进对脊椎动物适应北纬高纬度严酷环境的可能模式的研究，以及陆生脊椎动物在北美和亚洲之间洲际扩散模式的研究。

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.