Vertebrate Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the SoutheasternBenue Trough, Cameroon, West Africa

在白垩纪时期，哺乳动物目最早的分化发生了，南大西洋开始开放。西非白垩纪时期的脊椎动物化石极为罕见，但对我们了解哺乳动物的早期历史和恐龙的灭绝可能很重要。Drs。雅各布斯和弗林从喀麦隆的白垩纪岩石中收集了一些脊椎动物化石，他们建议更全面地探索含化石矿床，并确定发现的化石群。这项研究将大大提高我们对哺乳动物早期进化的认识，以及对中生代晚期大陆分离对脊椎动物地理分布的影响的认识。

During the Cretaceous Period, the earliest divergence of mammalian orders was taking place, and the South Atlantic was beginning to open. Fossil vertebrates of Cretaceous age from west Africa are extremely rare, but potentially important to our understanding of the early history of mammals and the extinction of dinosaurs. Drs. Jacobs and Flynn have collected some fossil vertebrates from Cretaceous rocks from Cameroon, and they propose to explore the fossil-bearing deposits more completely, and to identify the fossil groups discovered. The proposed research could greatly improve our understanding of the early evolution of mammals, and of how the geographic distribution of vertebrates was affected by the separation of continents during the late Mesozoic.