术语“古脊椎动物学”的详细信息

英译术语:

vertebrate paleontology

汉语语境:

古脊椎动物学研究的主要对象是动物骨骼化石。中国大陆的主要轮廓从2亿多年前的二迭纪时已基本上形成并保持稳定，因此，中国是世界上保存陆生及淡水脊椎动物化石特别丰富的少数国家之一。自英国R。欧文在1870年第1次发表“四川采集的古哺乳类化石的描记”以来，中国即成为世界上古脊椎动物学研究的重要中心。70年代以来，更取得了显著的进展，如发表了大量的泥盆纪鱼类化石的研究成果，并依此提出了陆生脊椎动物起源的新假说。

英语语境:

The main research object of vertebrate paleontology is animal bone fossil. The embryo continental profile of China was formed about 200 million years ago during the Permian period and underwent no drastic changes ever since then. Therefore, China is one of the few countries where the fossils of vertebrates that lived on land or in fresh water are well-preserved with abundant species. Since the British zoologist R. Owen first published his famous paper ‘Descriptions on the Ancient Mammalian Fossils Collected from Sichuan'in the 1970s, China has become one important research center of vertebrate paleontology in the world and has made rapid progresses and great achievements. For example, a large number of research findings about fish fossils in the Devonian Period have been published, on the basis of which a new hypothesis on the origin of Terrestrial vertebrates is proposed.