Vertebrate Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the SoutheasternBenue Trough, Cameroon, West Africa
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During the Cretaceous Period, the earliest divergence of                mammalian orders was taking place, and the South Atlantic was                   beginning to open.  Fossil vertebrates of Cretaceous age from                   west Africa are extremely rare, but potentially important to our                understanding of the early history of mammals and the extinction                of dinosaurs.  Drs. Jacobs and Flynn have collected some fossil                 vertebrates from Cretaceous rocks from Cameroon, and they propose               to explore the fossil-bearing deposits more completely, and to                  identify the fossil groups discovered.                                                The proposed research could greatly improve our                           understanding of the early evolution of mammals, and of how the                 geographic distribution of vertebrates was affected by the                      separation of continents during the late Mesozoic.
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