Workshop on Neogene Mammalian Chronology of Asia, June 2009 in Beijing, China

亚洲新近纪哺乳动物年代学研讨会，2009 年 6 月在中国北京

• 批准号: 0924142
• 负责人: Xiaoming Wang
• 金额: $ 3.67万
• 依托单位: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Neogene; Mammalian; Chronology; Asia

Neogene Mammalian Chronology of AsiaA Roundtable Workshop on Neogene Terrestrial Mammalian Faunas of Asia: Correlation and Biogeographic Relationships with Greater Holarctica and AfricaPI, Xiaoming Wang; co-PI, Lawrence J. FlynnAbstractLocated at the cross-roads of intercontinental migrations of terrestrial mammals, Asia plays a crucial role in our understanding of mammalian evolution, zoogeography, and related questions about species first appearances in surrounding continents and their function as major markers of biochronology. This strategic geographic position is particularly apparent during the Neogene (~24-2 million years ago) when Asia was intermittently connected to Africa and North America, and widely connected to Europe. A well-established mammalian biostratigraphic framework in Asia will go a long way toward a global picture of mammalian evolution. Despite such importance and promise, however, Asia lags behind Europe and North America in the studies of terrestrial biostratigraphy and geochronology, and many unresolved issues become bottlenecks for detailed understanding of mammalian evolution elsewhere. This proposed roundtable workshop, to be held in Beijing in June 2009, represents the first large-scale gathering of world experts on Asian terrestrial mammal biostratigraphy and geochronology, including scientists with expertise in biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, biochronology, zoogeography, paleoenvironment, as well as phylogenies of various groups of extinct mammals. In addition to offering the latest progress from individual regions and countries, the workshop will initiate in-depth discussions about the best methods to establish a mammalian biostratigraphic framework and will produce a book (Columbia University Press) that is the only comprehensive treatment of Asian terrestrial geochronology. This volume will represent the state of the art in construction of an Asian temporal framework, and will become a standard reference for many years to come, not only for students of mammalian biochronology in Asia, but also for the geoscience community in surrounding continents in Europe, Africa, and North America. The workshop will foster broader collaborations among specialists who are limited by a previously regional view, and lay the groundwork for establishing the first working network of vertebrate paleontologists across the study area. The workshop offers unprecedented opportunities for collaboration among geologists and paleontologists. More than half of the participants are expected to be from countries previously under-represented in international conferences, many of them also women (two from the United States, three from Russia, six from China, and one each from Turkey, Kazakhstan and Thailand). This project is co-funded by the Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program and the Office of International Science and Engineering (Turkey [TU] and Pakistan [PK]) of the National Science Foundation, USA.

亚洲近纪陆生哺乳动物年代学亚洲近纪陆生哺乳动物动物群圆桌会议：与Greater Holarctica和African的对比和生物地理关系，王晓明；共同Pi，Lawrence J.Flynn摘要亚洲地处陆生哺乳动物洲际迁移的十字路口，在我们理解哺乳动物进化、动物地理学以及有关物种首次出现在周边大陆及其作为生物年代学主要标志的相关问题方面发挥着至关重要的作用。这一战略地理位置在新近纪(约2400万年前)尤为明显，当时亚洲断断续续地与非洲和北美相连，并与欧洲广泛相连。在亚洲建立一个完善的哺乳动物生物地层框架，将在很大程度上有助于了解哺乳动物的全球进化图景。然而，尽管亚洲如此重要和有希望，但在陆地生物地层学和地质年代学的研究方面，亚洲落后于欧洲和北美，许多悬而未决的问题成为详细了解其他地方哺乳动物进化的瓶颈。这一拟于2009年6月在北京举行的圆桌会议是亚洲陆生哺乳动物生物地层学和地质年代学世界专家的首次大规模聚会，其中包括具有生物地层学、磁性地层学、生物年代学、动物地理学、古环境以及各种已灭绝哺乳动物的系统发育方面专门知识的科学家。除了提供个别区域和国家的最新进展外，研讨会还将就建立哺乳动物生物地层框架的最佳方法展开深入讨论，并将出版一本书(哥伦比亚大学出版社)，这是对亚洲陆地地质年代学的唯一全面论述。这本书将代表构建亚洲时间框架的最新技术，并将成为未来许多年的标准参考，不仅供亚洲哺乳动物生物年代学的学生使用，也供欧洲、非洲和北美周边大陆的地球科学界参考。研讨会将促进受以前地区性观点限制的专家之间更广泛的合作，并为在整个研究领域建立第一个脊椎动物古生物学家工作网络奠定基础。研讨会为地质学家和古生物学家之间的合作提供了前所未有的机会。预计一半以上的与会者将来自以前在国际会议上任职人数不足的国家，其中许多人也是女性(美国两人，俄罗斯三人，中国六人，土耳其、哈萨克斯坦和泰国各一人)。该项目由沉积地质和古生物学计划和美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室(土耳其和巴基斯坦[PK])共同资助。