Vertebrate Paleontological Analysis of Campanian and Maestrichtian Faunas, North Slope, Akaska

该奖项支持脊椎动物古生物学研究， 增加对海洋生物的组成和生物地层学的了解， 北坡的Campanian和Maestrichtian陆生动物群， 阿拉斯加 在大弯海洋点地区收集将提供： 1)更多的材料进行全面系统的分析， 鸭嘴龙类，2）用于评估保真度的埋藏数据 骨床反映了动物群的组成， 3)用于研究结晶过程的标本， 显然涉及很少的矿化。 结果进行 研究将促进调查可能的模式， 脊椎动物对高海拔严酷环境的适应 北方纬度和物种洲际扩散模式 北美洲和亚洲之间的陆栖脊椎动物。

This award supports a vertebrate paleontological investigation to increase knowledge of the composition and biostratigraphy of Campanian and Maestrichtian terrestrial faunas of the North Slope, Alaska. Collecting in the Big Bend-Ocean Point area will provide: 1) more material for a thorough systematic analysis of the common hadrosaurid, 2) taphonomic data for an evaluation of the fidelity with which the bone bed reflects the composition of the fauna, and 3) specimens for a study of the processes of fossilization that apparently involved little permineralization. Results of these studies will promote investigations of possible modes of adaptation of vertebrates to the rigors of environments at high northern latitudes and patterns of intercontinental dispersal of terrestrial vertebrates between North America and Asia.