Early Mammalian Evolution

早期哺乳动物进化

• 批准号: 9714975
• 负责人: Farish Jenkins
• 金额: $ 28.54万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-04-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9714975&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Early; Mammalian; Evolution

This proposal is designed to pursue opportunities to advance our knowledge of the morphology, functional anatomy, and phylogeny of early mammals. These opportunities developed as the result of the recent discovery of associated remains of a haramiyid mammal in the upper Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland. The discovery not only reveals greater diversity among early mammals than previously known, but also demonstrates how readily the current conceptual framework of early mammalian evolution may be reordered by new evidence. The proposed investigation will exploit this discovery by recovering associated skeletal remains from the deposits. The realistic prospect of recovering additional associated mammalian skeletal material from the Fleming Fjord Formation offers excellent potential to increase significantly our knowledge of the early evolution of Mammalia.

这个建议的目的是寻求机会，以提高我们的形态学，功能解剖学和早期哺乳动物的生殖发育知识。 这些机会是由于最近在东格陵兰弗莱明峡湾组上部发现了一种哈拉米哺乳动物的相关遗骸而开发的。 这一发现不仅揭示了早期哺乳动物之间比以前所知的更大的多样性，而且还表明了目前早期哺乳动物进化的概念框架可以通过新的证据重新排序。 拟议的调查将利用这一发现，从矿床中回收相关的骨骼遗骸。 从弗莱明峡湾地层中恢复额外的相关哺乳动物骨骼材料的现实前景提供了很好的潜力，以显着增加我们的知识的哺乳动物的早期进化。