Early Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils, Stratigraphy and       Paleoenvironments in the Southwest Taoudeni Basin,          West Africa
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Early Cambrian small shelly fossils have been recovered from               late Precambrian to early Paleozoic strata of the southwestern                  Taoudeni Basin, Senegal and Guinea, West Africa.  Folded and                    faulted lateral correlatives of these strata are incorporated in                the polyorogenic (late Precambrian to late Paleozoic) Mauritanide               fold belt.                                                                           P.I. will conduct a detailed sampling program of the                       fossiliferous strata and undertake paleontological and                          sedimentological analyses to further document the faunas and to                 determine the environments of deposition of the containing                      strata.                                                                              The project will add to our knowledge of the stratigraphy of               Paleozoic basins and fold belts in West Africa.  It will refine                 our understanding of the distribution of earliest Cambrian small                shelly fossils and help to test previously proposed provincial                  schemes.  The project will also result in interpretations of the                environments in which these organisms lived, died and                           accummulated as fossils.
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