Anthropological and Paleontological Research at the Fossil Primate Sites of the Fayum, Egypt

埃及法尤姆灵长类化石遗址的人类学和古生物学研究

• 批准号: 9507770
• 负责人: Elwyn Simons
• 金额: $ 35.4万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 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: 1995-07-01 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9507770&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Anthropological; Paleontological; Research; Fossil; Primate

Over the last two decades, Elwyn Simons' excavations at the Fayum Depression in Egypt have provided the major discoveries and documentation of early monkey evolution. It is a remarkable site, and Dr. Simons has been extremely diligent and industrious. The period for which this site has almost come to be synonymous with is the Oligocene, roughly 30 million years ago, near the time when the first monkeys began to appear. Recently, Simons and his colleagues have found a new locality at the Fayum which dates from an earlier period, the Eocene, extending back the time depth of fossil monkeys to the time of their origination. They have just begun to investigate this deposit, known as Locality 41. Already, the finds have demonstrated the following: 1. a surprisingly high number of different monkeys (anthropoids) and a `bushiness` of early monkey evolution - lots of experimentation. 2. broad adaptive diversity of early monkeys. 3. the structurally primitive qualityof these animals. This new award for three years will undoubtedly lead to a whole host of new fossil primate and other vertebrate finds. All the Eocene primates collected thusfar at L-41 represent new taa and many are more complete than those found elsewhere. This is a very exciting excavation with extremely good prospects for new discoveries.

在过去的二十年里，Elwyn Simons在埃及法尤姆洼地的发掘为早期猴子进化提供了重大发现和文件。 这是一个了不起的网站，西蒙斯博士一直非常勤奋和勤奋。 这个遗址几乎成为渐新世的代名词，大约3000万年前，接近第一批猴子开始出现的时间。 最近，西蒙斯和他的同事们在法尤姆发现了一个新的地点，它可以追溯到更早的时期，始新世，将化石猴子的时间深度延伸到它们的起源时间。 他们刚刚开始调查这个存款，被称为地点41。这些发现已经表明： 1. 数量惊人的不同的猴子（猴子）和 早期猴子进化的“成功”--大量的实验。 2. 早期猴子的广泛适应多样性。 3. the structural结构primitive原始quality质量of these animals动物. 这个为期三年的新奖项无疑将导致一系列新的灵长类动物和其他脊椎动物化石的发现。 到目前为止，在L-41收集到的所有始新世灵长类动物都代表了新的taa，其中许多比其他地方发现的更完整。 这是一个非常令人兴奋的挖掘，有着非常好的新发现前景。