Excavation and Analysis of Middle Miocene Primates and Associated Fauna at Maboko Island, Kenya

肯尼亚马博科岛中中新世灵长类动物及相关动物群的发掘和分析

• 批准号: 9505778
• 负责人: Brenda Benefit
• 金额: $ 21.18万
• 依托单位: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9505778&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Excavation; Analysis; Middle; Miocene; Primates

The goal of this continued excavation of an island in Lake Victoria is to reconstruct the evolutionary divergence of Old World monkeys and apes. It will include excavations of sediments adjacent to highly productive productive primate fossil-bearing areas. Since 1987, the locality has produced many important finds including two new species of bushbabies, a compoete and undistorted skull fo the ancestral Old World monkey Victoriapithecus, and postcranial remains of Kenyapithecus which demonstrate that it is the earliest semiterrestrial ancestral hominoid in the fossil record. A major emphasis of this phase of the project will also be placed on publishing descriptions as well as phylogenetic and functional interpretations of the more than 6,000 fossil finds from this incredibly productive site.

对维多利亚湖一个岛屿进行持续挖掘的目的是重建旧大陆猴子和猿的进化分歧。 它将包括在盛产灵长类动物化石的地区附近挖掘沉积物。 自1987年以来，该地区已产生了许多重要的发现，包括两个新的物种，包括两个新的物种，一个完整的和未扭曲的头骨的祖先旧大陆猴，和后颅遗骸的肯尼亚古猿，这表明它是最早的半陆栖祖先人科动物的化石记录。 该项目这一阶段的主要重点还将放在出版描述以及对这个令人难以置信的多产遗址发现的6,000多个化石的系统发育和功能解释上。