Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1094569

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1094569

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Drying and dying in Australia: extraordinary creatures and climate change 15 million years ago. Australia's globally distinctive mammals were confronted 15 million years ago by a climate plunge from lush greenhouse to dry icehouse conditions. In northern Queensland, in the World Heritage-listed cave known as AL90, fossil-rich deposits span this interval of change. Entombed are dozens of extraordinarily well-preserved skulls and articulated skeletons including a growth series from pouch-young to adults of a rare, possibly sloth-like marsupial as well as more familiar kangaroos, thylacines and bats. Our fossil research will help align Australian records of biotic change with global palaeoclimatic events and provide a benchmark for measuring the nature and rate of environmental and biotic change that continues to transform our nation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 30-06-2015

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $550,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Biostratigraphy | Geology | Palaeontology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Heritage not elsewhere classified | Climate change |

Other Keywords

Biostratigraphy | Climate change | Geology | Heritage not elsewhere classified | Palaeoecology | Palaeontology | Understanding Australia'S Past

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