项目编号: | 1348456
|
项目名称: | Exceptionally well-preserved Early Cretaceous seed plants from Mongolia |
作者: | Patrick Herendeen
|
承担单位: | Chicago Botanic Garden
|
批准年: | 2013
|
开始日期: | 2014-02-01
|
结束日期: | 2018-01-31
|
资助金额: | USD465366
|
资助来源: | US-NSF
|
项目类别: | Standard Grant
|
国家: | US
|
语种: | 英语
|
特色学科分类: | Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology
|
英文关键词: | fossil plant
; mongolia
; well-preserved seed plant fossil
; extinct seed plant
; mongolian scientist
; seed plant evolution
; whole plant
|
英文摘要: | The Early Cretaceous of Mongolia is well known for its fossil dinosaurs and other vertebrates, but fossil plants from Mongolia are very poorly studied. This project will examine diverse assemblages of fossil plants from multiple Early Cretaceous age localities that are yielding new, abundant, and exceptionally well-preserved seed plant fossils. The goal of the research is to discover, characterize, document and understand the implications of these newly discovered fossil plants that date to a critical interval for changes in the flora of the Earth. The fossil material will be studied primarily using scanning electron microscopy and high-resolution X-ray microtomography. The excellent preservation provides a rare opportunity to reconstruct ?whole plants? from multiple co-occurring fossils of extinct Cretaceous species.
This study is important in several respects. The overarching objective for the study is to inform a deeper understanding of seed plant evolution. The research will add significantly to knowledge about extinct seed plants during the Early Cretaceous, an interval of major and rapid evolutionary and vegetational change. The project will strengthen international collaboration among US, Japanese and Mongolian scientists and students. Student involvement and communicating science to the public are institutional priorities and will be accomplished through on hands training for students, feature articles, website presentations, and exhibition outreach at the Chicago Botanic Garden and the Field Museum. |
资源类型: | 项目
|
标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/97391
|
Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候减缓与适应
|
There are no files associated with this item.
|
Recommended Citation: |
Patrick Herendeen. Exceptionally well-preserved Early Cretaceous seed plants from Mongolia. 2013-01-01.
|
|
|