Early Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils, Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments in the Southwest Taoudeni Basin, West Africa

早寒武世小壳化石已被发现， 西南部晚前寒武纪-早古生代地层 西非塞内加尔和几内亚的Taoudeni盆地。 折叠和 这些地层的断层横向相关物被纳入 多造山（晚前寒武纪-晚古生代）型花岗岩 褶皱带 P.I.将进行详细的抽样计划， 含化石地层并进行古生物学和 沉积学分析，以进一步记录动物群， 确定沉积的环境， 地层 该项目将增加我们对 西非古生代盆地和褶皱带。 它将使 我们对寒武纪早期小行星分布的认识 贝壳化石和帮助测试以前提出的省级 阴谋 该项目还将导致对 这些生物生存、死亡和 就像化石一样。

Early Cambrian small shelly fossils have been recovered from late Precambrian to early Paleozoic strata of the southwestern Taoudeni Basin, Senegal and Guinea, West Africa. Folded and faulted lateral correlatives of these strata are incorporated in the polyorogenic (late Precambrian to late Paleozoic) Mauritanide fold belt. P.I. will conduct a detailed sampling program of the fossiliferous strata and undertake paleontological and sedimentological analyses to further document the faunas and to determine the environments of deposition of the containing strata. The project will add to our knowledge of the stratigraphy of Paleozoic basins and fold belts in West Africa. It will refine our understanding of the distribution of earliest Cambrian small shelly fossils and help to test previously proposed provincial schemes. The project will also result in interpretations of the environments in which these organisms lived, died and accummulated as fossils.