Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0209280

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0209280

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Was there an unusual environment with equally remarkable inhabitants in Early Cretaceous southeast Australia? After more than two decades of effort, there is strong evidence that Early Cretaceous southeastern Australia was inhabited by a remarkably diverse polar terrestrial vertebrate fauna adapted to the coldest environment known to have existed anywhere in the late Mesozoic. In this unusual terrestrial habitat for that time, temnospondyl amphibians and allosaurid dinosaurs survived long after becoming extinct elsewhere. Here, too, are found what may be the oldest known and yet remarkably advanced placental mammals, the group to which we belong. To further corroborate or refute these hypotheses, some of which are highly contentious, is the aim of this project.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $554,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biogeography | Geology | Palaeontology | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Earth sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Biogeography | Biological sciences | Earth sciences | Geology | Palaeontology

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