Acquisition of Paleontological Field Equipment

该奖项将提供所需的资金，以获得外地 设备，以便主要研究者和同事可以 在蒙大拿州西北部建立了一个野外营地， 勘探圣玛丽河和杨柳溪地质 地层作为恐龙化石骨骼和蛋的来源。 主要研究者与其他研究者合作开展的实地工作 关于J.R.波兹曼落基山脉博物馆的霍纳， 蒙大拿州，在1986年至1988年期间，发现了两个新的 骨床，嵌套层和各种关节化石 稀有恐龙物种的遗迹。这些和未来的发现 为晚白垩世恐龙的研究提供了机会 动物区系和分析的演变和灭绝 恐龙新化石层的位置需要设定 为这次野外工作建一个新营地

This award will provide the funds needed to acquire field equipment so that the Principal Investigator and colleagues can set up a field camp in northwestern Montana to carry out their exploration of the St. Mary River and Willow Creek geological formations as sources of dinosaur fossil bones and eggs. Field work by the Principal Investigator, in collaboration with J.R. Horner of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, during 1986-88 has resulted in the discovery of two new bonebeds, a nesting horizon and various articulated fossil remains of rare dinosaur species. These and future discoveries offer opportunities for the study of Late Cretaceous dinosaur fauna and for the analysis of the evolution and extinction of dinosaurs. The location of the new fossil beds requires setting up a new campsite for this field work.