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.

新金元哺乳动物的年代学圆桌会议研讨会关于亚洲的新金元陆地哺乳动物动物群：与更大的Holarctica和Africapi的相关性和生物地理关系，王Co-Pi，Lawrence J. FlynnabstractLostlos在陆地哺乳动物的洲际迁移的交叉路口中，亚洲在我们对哺乳动物进化，动物地理学，动物地理学以及有关物种有关的物种首次出现在周围大陆及其作为生物处理的主要标志的物种的相关问题中起着至关重要的作用。 在新金元（约24-200万年前），当亚洲与非洲和北美有间歇性联系，并与欧洲广泛联系时，这种战略地理位置尤其明显。 在亚洲建立了一个公认的哺乳动物生物地层框架将大大走向全球哺乳动物进化的情况。 尽管如此重要和有希望，但亚洲在陆地生物地层学和年代学研究中落后于欧洲和北美，许多未解决的问题成为瓶颈，以详细了解其他地方的哺乳动物进化。 这个提议的圆桌会议研讨会将于2009年6月在北京举行，代表了世界上关于亚洲陆地哺乳动物生物地层学和年代学的世界专家的首次大规模聚会，其中包括具有生物层学专业知识的科学家。 除了提供各个地区和国家的最新进展外，该研讨会还将对建立哺乳动物生物地层学框架的最佳方法进行深入讨论，并将制作一本书（哥伦比亚大学出版社），这是对亚洲地面地球体学的唯一全面处理。 该卷将代表建设亚洲时间框架的最新技术，并将成为未来多年的标准参考，不仅对于亚洲的哺乳动物生物学学位学生，而且对于欧洲，非洲和北美地区周围大陆的地球科学社区。 该研讨会将在受到以前区域视角限制的专家之间建立更广泛的合作，并为在整个研究领域建立脊椎动物古生物学家的第一个工作网络奠定了基础。 该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。 预计超过一半的参与者将来自以前在国际会议上代表不足的国家，其中许多也是妇女（两名来自美国的妇女，三名来自俄罗斯，六个来自中国，一名来自土耳其，哈萨克斯坦和泰国）。 该项目由美国国家科学基金会的国际科学与工程学办公室（土耳其[TU]和巴基斯坦[PK]）共同资助。