Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0453550
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Australian fossil marine reptiles: a research and regional museum program. Australian Mesozoic marine reptile fossils are common but poorly studied. Two of the most productive localities - Richmond QLD, Coober Pedy SA - are internationally important, spanning a poorly known stratigraphic interval of marine reptile evolution and representing a high-latitude geographic region subject to near freezing conditions. Such preservation occurs nowhere else and provides a unique opportunity for anatomical, systematic and palaeobiological investigations. Such research benefits local communities because it forms the basis for regional museum displays, generates long-term tourism revenue, and encourages geological resources to be viewed as valuable natural assets to be responsibly managed for the future.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2004
End Date: 05-2007
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $336,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Palaeoecology | Geology | Palaeontology | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Tourism not elsewhere classified | Economic issues | Preserving movable cultural heritage |
