Journal articles: 'Walker Museum of Paleontology'

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Lei, X. "PALEONTOLOGY: Temple, Tourism May Sink Chinese Museum." Science 296, no. 5572 (May 24, 2002): 1379a—1379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.296.5572.1379a.

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McVicker, Donald. "Frederick Starr and the Walker Museum." Council for Museum Anthropology newsletter 10, no. 1 (January 1986): 6–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mua.1986.10.1.6.

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BRINKMAN, PAUL D. "Establishing vertebrate paleontology at Chicago's Field Columbian Museum, 1893—1898." Archives of Natural History 27, no. 1 (February 2000): 81–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2000.27.1.81.

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By the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of the costly, far-flung, labor-intensive, and specimen-centered nature of the discipline, American vertebrate paleontology had become centralized at large collections maintained by a few universities and major natural history museums. Foremost among the latter group were the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; the American Museum of Natural History, New York; the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC; the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; and the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. There is an extensive body of popular and historical literature reviewing the establishment and early development of the vertebrate paleontology programs at most of these institutions, especially the American Museum. The Field Columbian Museum, however, has received relatively little attention in this literature. The present paper begins to redress this imbalance by reviewing the establishment of vertebrate paleontology at the Field Columbian Museum from the museum's foundation in 1893, through the end of 1898, when the museum added a vertebrate paleontologist to its curatorial staff. An account of the Field Columbian Museum's first expedition for fossil vertebrates in the summer of 1898 is included.

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Bjerstedt, Thomas W. "Repository for Devonian–Mississippian trace fossil figured specimens." Journal of Paleontology 63, no. 3 (May 1989): 386–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000019570.

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Trace fossils figured in four recent papers in the Journal of Paleontology and Palaios have been reposited in the Invertebrate Paleontology Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH). Catalog numbers for these specimens are herein assigned.

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Suárez-Ibarra, Jaime Yesid, Gina Cardoso, Lidiane Asevedo, Lucas de Melo França, Mário André Trindade Dantas, Luis Enrique Cruz-Guevara, Andrés Felipe Rojas-Mantilla, and Ana Maria Ribeiro. "Quaternary proboscidean (Mammalia) remains of the UIS Geological Museum, Colombia." Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 24, no. 1 (January 30, 2021): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2021.1.06.

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Proboscideans arrived in South America from North America during the Great American Biotic Interchange, becoming one of the most representative animals of the megafauna that inhabited this continent throughout the Quaternary. In Colombia, the abundance of their remains contrasts with scarce scientific descriptions and publications. This paper identifies dental and postcranial proboscidean fossils from the Center and Northeast of Colombia. The fossil remains were identified as molars (six), a tusk, cervical vertebrae, and a distal part of the right humerus. The tusk was assigned to Notiomastodon platensis, while the other remains were assigned to Gomphotheriidae, with at least six individuals: two immatures, two subadults, and two older adults – mature and senile. Keywords: South America, megamammals, taxonomy, Gomphotheriidae, Notiomastodon platensis.

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Rainger, Ronald. "Collectors and Entrepreneurs: Hatcher, Wortman, and the Structure of American Vertebrate Paleontology Circa 1900." Earth Sciences History 9, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 14–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.9.1.l1n05k0783584203.

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John Bell Hatcher (1861-1904) and Jacob L. Wortman (1856-1926) were two of the most prominent figures in late nineteenth-century American vertebrate paleontology. Working at leading centers for the science, including Yale's Peabody Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, each was responsible for significant discoveries of fossil vertebrates and notable contributions to taxonomy and biostratigraphy. Yet both had itinerant and, by their own admissions, highly frustrating careers. Traditionally their problems have been explained in terms of personality, as a result of their sensitive, volatile temperaments. Yet their careers and difficulties also reflect the structure of American vertebrate paleontology at the time, a discipline centered in museums and under the direction of wealthy, powerful entrepreneurs. Men such as Othniel Charles Marsh and Henry Fairfield Osborn financed and helped to promote work in vertebrate paleontology, but the context within which such work was conducted also limited opportunities for Hatcher, Wortman, and others.

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Naugolnykh, S. V. "All-Russian scientific–practical conference “Paleontology in modern museum and education”." Стратиграфия 27, no. 3 (April 22, 2019): 123–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0869-592x273123-125.

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The paper deals with the program and participants of the All-Russian Scientific-Practical Conference “Paleontology in modern museum and education”, which was organized by Geological Institute of RAS (Moscow), K.A. Timirjazev State Biological Museum (Moscow), and Krasnoufimsk Regional Museum (the City of Krasnoufimsk, Sverdlovsk region) in the City of Krasnoufimsk, August 20–24, 2018.

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Allmon, Warren D., Robert M. Ross, Richard A. Kissel, and David C. Kendrick. "Using Museums to Teach Undergraduate Paleontology and Evolution." Paleontological Society Special Publications 12 (2012): 231–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200009345.

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Museum exhibitions possess a long history of serving as useful tools for teaching both paleontology and evolutionary biology to college undergraduates. Yet, they are frequently under-appreciated and underutilized. However, they remain potentially outstanding resources because they can be used to meet a spectrum of learning objectives related to nature of science, real-world relevance, and student interest. Specifically, even small museum displays can provide: 1) authentic specimens, which often are more diverse, of higher quality, and historically more significant than those in teaching collections; 2) specimens in context, with other specimens and/or geological or biological background available; 3) examples of how fossils connect to virtually all of Earth and life sciences (explaining why they have so frequently been at the center of traditional “natural history”); 4) cross-disciplinary experiences, connecting science, art, technology, and history within a social context; and 5) opportunities for students to learn about teaching. A survey of instructor-developed activities performed within a host of natural history museums—with particular attention devoted to the Museum of the Earth, an affiliate of Cornell University—suggests that natural history exhibitions, regardless of size and scope, can complement and strengthen formal education in an undergraduate setting.

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Gross, W., and H. P. Schultze. "Zur Geschichte der Geowissenschaften im Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin. Teil 6: Geschichte des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin 1910–2004." Fossil Record 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 5–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/fr-7-5-2004.

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Die Entwicklung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin von einer Institution, die Geologie zusammen mit Paläontologie als eine Einheit vertrat, über eine Institution, die eine geotektonische Ausrichtung hatte, zu einer auf Paläontologie konzentrierten Institution wird nachvollzogen. Die beiden Institutsdirektoren am Anfang des 20sten Jahrhunderts waren Vertreter der allumfassenden Geologie des 19ten Jahrhunderts, während die beiden folgenden Direktoren eine Geologie ohne Paläontologie vertraten. Das führte zu einer Trennung der beiden Richtungen, und nach der III. Hochschulreform der DDR 1968 verblieb allein die sammlungsbezogene Paläontologie am Museum. Nach der Wiedervereinigung wurde ein Institut für Paläontologie mit biologischer Ausrichtung mit zwei Professuren, einer für Paläozoologie und einer für Paläobotanik, eingerichtet. <br><br> The development of the Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut und Museum of the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt University (formerly Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität) in Berlin from a geology-paleontology institution to a pure paleontology institution is described. The first two directors of the department in the beginning of the 20th century, Prof, von Branca and Prof. Pompeckj, represented a 19th century concept of a geology, which included paleontology, even vertebrate paleontology as the crown jewel of geology. They fought sometimes vigorously against a separation of paleontology from geology. The next two directors. Prof. Stille and Prof, von Bubnoff, were the leading geologists in Germany; to be a student of Stille was a special trade mark in geology of Germany. They represented a geology centered on tectonics. The separation of paleontology as separate section was prepared. The destructions of the Second World War, the following restaurations and the division of Germany into two States influenced strongly their directorships. The education of geologists at the Museum für Naturkunde ended with the III. University Reform of the German Democratic Republik in 1968. Paleontology was represented by the international renown vertebrate paleontologist, Prof. Dr. W. Gross, up to 1961. Since 1969, paleobotany was strengthened by the inclusion of the paleobotany unit of the Akademie der Wissenschaften into the museum. After reunification of Germany n 1990, the department was rebuild as a Institut für Palaontologie with close connection to biology, a unique situation in Germany. Two professorships, one for paleozoology, Prof. Schultze. and one for paleobotany, Prof. Mai, were established. The number of curators increased to ten from one under the first director of the 20th century. <br><br> doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmng.20040070103" target="_blank">10.1002/mmng.20040070103</a>

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Lipps, Jere H., and Karen L. Wetmore. "Transfers of algal, microfossil, plant, and vertebrate materials to the University of California Museum of Paleontology." Journal of Paleontology 67, no. 5 (September 1993): 894–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000037161.

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The university of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), located on the Berkeley Campus, is a major repository of fossils and paleontological materials. The collection, one of the largest in the nation, originated in 1873 and has been added to continuously since then. In 1921, the Museum of Paleontology was officially initiated with an endowment though the generosity of Annie Alexander of Oakland, California (Grinnell, 1958). The UCMP collections are divided into four specimen collection management units and one collection of paleontological materials, such as rock, sediment, and amber samples, and various teaching collections. The specimen collection units are Fossil Prokaryotes and Protists, Fossil and Recent Invertebrates, Paleobotany and Palynology, and Vertebrate Paleontology. Each of these units has its own manager and each consists of hundreds of thousands of specimens or more and thousands of primary and secondary type specimens. The Museum is supported by the Annie Alexander Endowment and the University of California, Berkeley. It has a staff of 11, and a group of faculty curators, affiliate faculty curators from other University of California campuses, research associates, and associated graduate and undergraduate students. It is a general purpose research museum open to the scientific community and, although it does no formal instruction, it provides instructional exhibits and teaching collections at Berkeley and other campuses. It publishes Paleobios (ISSN 0031-0298), an occasional publication containing a variety of paleontological, peer-reviewed papers. UCMP is also involved in public and school activities at the Museum in Berkeley and at the University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Science, Art and Culture, at Blackhawk Plaza, Danville, California.

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Rix, Alan. "The Triassic insects of Denmark Hill, Ipswich, Southeast Queensland: the creation, use and dispersal of a collection." Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 62 (March 18, 2021): 217–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.62.2021.2020-11.

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Type and additional fossil insects from the Late Triassic Denmark Hill locality in Southeast Queensland, Australia, are held in the collections of the Queensland Museum (Brisbane), the Australian Museum (Sydney) and the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom (London). The history of these collections shows that they were the product of a concerted effort in the first two decades of the twentieth century to extract the fossils by Benjamin Dunstan, Queensland’s Chief Government Geologist, and to describe the fossils by Dunstan and Robin Tillyard, the foremost Australian entomologist of the time. They collaborated closely to document the late Triassic insects of Australia, at the same time as Dunstan carefully curated and organised both the official government collection of these insects for the Geological Survey of Queensland, and his own private collection. The death of the two men in the 1930s led to the sale by his widow of Dunstan’s private fossil collection (including type and type counterpart specimens) to the British Museum, and the donation of Tillyard’s by his widow to the same institution, in addition to some material that went to the Australian Museum. This paper documents the locations of all of the published specimens. The history of the Denmark Hill fossils (a site no longer accessible for collection) highlights the problems for researchers of the dispersal of holdings such as these, and in particular the separation of the part and counterpart of the same insect fossils. It also raises ethical questions arising from the ownership and disposal of private holdings of important fossil material collected in an official capacity.

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Byrd, Christina. "Bringing Sternberg Museum Fossils into the 21st Century." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e25931. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25931.

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The Sternberg Museum of Natural History (FHSM) has a rich paleontology history extending back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. From the 1902 to 1992, the museum was housed on the Fort Hays State University campus. FHSM outgrew the campus capacity and moved to a new location that afforded the museum significant space for collections and exhibits. Just as the museum had to change locations with its growing collections, so too must the means of care for the collections change and be updated. In order to improve the state of the paleontology collections and make them more accessible, the FHSM’s Chief Curator pursued grants to achieve these goals. Two grants later, FHSM is well on its way to a digitized paleontology collection. One National Science Foundation (NSF) grant focuses on basic collections improvement: transcription of hand-written records, cataloging the specimen backlog, and imaging specimens. One of the most important updates is the addition of the relational database, CollectiveAccess. This database enables FHSM to have a public-facing, searchable database that can show not only specimen data but also images and 3D scans of fossils. The second grant is an NSF funded Integrated Digitized Biocollection (iDigBio) collaborative research project. This grant focuses on fossils collected from the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway fossils. The digitization goals of the collections improvement grant work synergistically with the iDigBio grant. When preparing to start work on these two projects, workflows and how-to guides were developed to fit the needs of both grants. This synergy increased efficiency for training student workers and aided quality control. In regards to the new relational database, many considerations had to be made: what is the nature of the data, with whom are we sharing data, what are the data standards, what controls need to be in place to increase ease of use. Digitization of the collection started with transcription of hand-written records into a spreadsheet. The data from those record books and ledgers was cross referenced with the specimen cards to check for accuracy. Between the two grants, FHSM has two photography stations, four undergraduate students, and two graduate students. This small army of students, along with the Collections Manager, have succeeded in digitizing the invertebrate paleontology collection and have made significant progress on the vertebrate collection. Once the database is finalized, the images produced by these students will be uploaded and shared with aggregators such as iDigBio and accessible via the FHSM website.

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Medler, John T. "The types of Flatidae (Homoptera) in the Stockholm Museum described by Stat, Melichar, Jacobi and Walker." Insect Systematics & Evolution 17, no. 3 (1986): 323–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631286x00251.

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AbstractLectotypes and paralectotypes are designated for species of flatid planthoppers described by StÅl, Melichar, Jacobi and Walker. The location of other syntypes known to exist is given. The genitalia of lectotype males are illustrated. NEW SYNONYMY (junior synonym first), as follows: Colgaroides circumcincta Jacobi = Colgaroides acuminala (Walker); Mesophylla inclinala Melichar = Phylliana serva (Walker); Copsyrna leucophaea StÅl = Bythopsyrna lineoides (Olivier); Hypsiphanta minax Jacobi = Euphanta munda (Walker); Euphanta obscura Jacobi = Euryphantia tristis (Kirkaldy); Idume plicala Melichar = Idurne deducta (Walker); Phromnia rubescens StÅl = Flatida floccosa (Guérin-Ménèville. NEW COMBINATIONS (previous combination first), as follows: Poeciloptera cereris StÅl = Cromna sinensis (Walker); Paratella fusconigra Melichar = Sephena fusconigra (Melichar); Phyllyphanla hyalinata StÅl= Colgar peracuta (Walker); Paratella modesta Melichar = Sephena modesta (Melichar); Delostenopium rubripes Jacobi = Euphanta rubripes (Jacobi); Microflata stictica Melichar = Mimophantia sliclica (Melichar). NEW STATUS: Melicharia alba (Melichar) not a varitey of Melicharia deducta (Melichar); Lawana inornata (Melichar) not a variety of Lawana candida (Fabricius); Cerynia maria lutescens Melichar not a variety of Cerynia maria (White); Melicharia pallida (Melichar) not a synonym of Melicharia lactifera (Walker).

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Werning, David Hugh. "The Museum Scene in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman." Renascence 44, no. 3 (1992): 203–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/renascence199244316.

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Naugolnykh, S. V. "Museum Colloquium “Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Permian System in the Museum Displays and Private Collections”." Paleontological Journal 45, no. 2 (March 2011): 234–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s0031030111020146.

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Dutro, J. Thomas, and Thomas W. Henry. "Fossil invertebrate collections moved from National Museum." Journal of Paleontology 65, no. 1 (January 1991): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000020308.

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Paleontological investigations have played a critical role in the research of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its founding in 1879. From about 1950 until recently, the bulk of these fossil materials collected by USGS field geologists was housed in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C, under the control of the Branch of Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the USGS. Large biostratigraphic sets of USGS collections also resided in Denver, Colorado, and Menlo Park, California, at the USGS regional centers.

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Dutro, J. Thomas. "Correspondence and papers of U.S. Geological Survey paleontologists placed in Smithsonian Archives." Journal of Paleontology 65, no. 1 (January 1991): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002233600002031x.

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Correspondence and working papers of a number of U.S. Geological Survey paleontologists who were once quartered in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History have been transferred to the Smithsonian Archives during the past few years. Major space reallocations in the Museum resulted in consolidation of USGS Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch research activities into about one-quarter the space occupied before 1988. Consequently, most of the records and many of the fossil collections were moved out of the Museum.

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Laporte, Léo. "George G. Simpson (1902-1984): Getting Started in the Summer of 1924." Earth Sciences History 9, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 62–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.9.1.1t25282v8vp24w08.

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In the middle of his first year of graduate work in vertebrate paleontology at Yale, George Gaylord Simpson began looking about for employment for the coming summer. He needed a job that would not only further his paleontological education, but also, with a wife and infant daughter to support, one that would pay him a salary, however modest. He eventually obtained a position prospecting for Tertiary mammals in Texas and New Mexico as a field assistant to William Diller Matthew of the American Museum of Natural History. By the end of the summer, Simpson established himself as an energetic and highly successful field man, having made two major fossil discoveries, thereby impressing both Richard Swan Lull, his major advisor at Yale, and Matthew, whom he would eventually succeed at the American Museum as curator of fossil mammals. When Simpson returned to Yale in the fall, Lull, despite his earlier refusal, permitted him to study the Marsh Collection of Mesozoic mammals for his dissertation. Matthew, too, was enthusiastic about Simpson's demonstrated abilities for he became Simpson's mentor, acting as informal off-campus advisor for his dissertation and eventually an advocate for Simpson's appointment at the American Museum. Simpson also learned, the hard way, about scientific protocol and professional territoriality when a short paper he wrote describing the geologic results of his work in New Mexico was suppressed by Childs Frick, honorary curator of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology who had supported the New Mexico (and Texas) excursion with his own funds. Frick's financial support of the Museum apparently gave him greater influence than Matthew who, as chairman of Vertebrate Paleontology, had initially approved Simpson's paper for publication in the Museum Bulletin.

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BEAVER, ETHAN P., MICHAEL D. MOORE, ALEJANDRO VELASCO-CASTRILLÓN, and MARK I. STEVENS. "Three new ghost moths of the genus Oxycanus Walker, 1856 from Australia (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)." Zootaxa 4732, no. 3 (February 13, 2020): 351–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4732.3.1.

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Three new species of ghost moth, Oxycanus ephemerous sp. nov., O. flavoplumosus sp. nov., and O. petalous sp. nov. are described from South Australia, New South Wales, and south-west Western Australia, respectively. We illustrate these species and compare morphological and molecular (mtDNA COI gene) characters with similar Oxycanus Walker, 1856 species from Australia. Comparative images of Oxycanus subvaria (Walker, 1856), O. byrsa (Pfitzner, 1933), and O. determinata (Walker, 1856) are figured. The type material of the three new species are held in the Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, the Western Australian Museum, Perth, and in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide. The type specimens of Oxycanus hildae Tindale, 1964 syn. n. were also examined and the taxon is here considered synonymous with O. subvaria. Concerns are raised about the conservation status of all three new species due to few or localised distribution records.

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Jia, Hepeng. "Paleontology: advancing China's international leadership." National Science Review 6, no. 1 (November 12, 2018): 171–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwy132.

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Abstract In recent years, Chinese scientists have achieved significant progress in paleontological discoveries and scientific studies. Series of studies published in top journals, such as Science, Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), have astonished the world by presenting beautiful fossils that furnish robust evidence to enrich the understanding of organismic evolution, major extinctions and stratigraphy. It has been portrayed as the heyday in the paleontology of China. What is the status of the field? What factors have caused the avalanche of fossil discoveries in China? What implications can these new discoveries provide for our understanding of current evolution theories? How, given their significant contribution to the world's paleontology scholarship, can Chinese scientists play a due leadership role in the field? At an online forum organized by the National Science Review (NSR), its associate editor-in-chief, Zhonghe Zhou, asked four scientists in the field as well as NSR executive editor-in-chief Mu-ming Poo to join the discussion. Jin Meng Paleobiologist at American Museum of Natural History Mu-ming Poo Neurobiologist at Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shuzhong Shen Stratigrapher at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shuhai Xiao Paleobiologist and geobiologist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Zhonghe Zhou (Chair) Paleobiologist at Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences

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TSAI, JING-FU, and DÁVID RÉDEI. "The identity of shield bugs described by Francis Walker from Taiwan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)." Zootaxa 2152, no. 1 (July 8, 2009): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2152.1.3.

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Francis Walker (1809–1874), an English entomologist, described five species of shield bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from „Formosa” (= Taiwan) in 1868. Four of them have never been recorded again since the original description and their identity has remained unknown so far. Based on the type material deposited at the Museum of Victoria, Abbotsford, Australia, Walker’s species are documented and their identities are clarified. The following new synonymies are proposed: Eysarcorini: Eysarcoris guttigerus (Thunberg, 1783) = E. latus Walker, 1868, syn. n. = E. pustulatus Walker, 1868, syn. n.; Menidini: Menida (Menida) versicolor (Gmelin, 1790) = Rhaphigaster quinquemaculatus Walker, 1868, syn. n.; Myrocheini: Laprius gastricus (Thunberg, 1822) = Sciocoris lugubris Walker, 1868, syn. n. Lectotypes are designated for Eysarcoris latus, E. pustulatus, and Sciocoris lugubris.

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Batten, Roger. "Robert Parr Whitfield: Hall's Assistant Who Stayed too Long." Earth Sciences History 6, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.6.1.d36v317p64885205.

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R. P. Whitfield was born near Utica in 1828. He had no formal education. He was deeply committed to natural history and joined a Utica society at 17 and bought a microscope and soon became well known as a naturalist illustrator. At 20 years of age he began working in a scientific instrument business at Utica and within a year became a partner. He caught the attention of Col. Jewett, a curator of the State Cabinet and joined the Hall paleontology group in 1856. He was Hall's chief illustrator for 10 years, gradually learning the trade and becoming Hall's chief assistant. In 1869, trouble developed over the authorship of a paper on Devonian clams and their relationship quickly deteriorated to the point that Whitfield looked for a position elsewhere, securing such at the American Museum of Natural History in 1877. Even when he left, Hall accused him of breach of contract but evidence indicates that Hall knew that he had the job in New York following the purchase of Hall's collection by the American Museum of Natural History. Whitfield became an active producer of papers on a wide variety of paleontology averaging 3-4 per year and became a major influence in Paleontology in the 1880-1900 period. He died shortly after he was retired at the age of 82 in 1910.

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Stojanova, Anelia. "Taxonomical notes on Torymidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)." Open Life Sciences 5, no. 3 (June 1, 2010): 396–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11535-010-0023-3.

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AbstractAs a result of investigations over type material from a collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, a new synonym and two new combinations in the Torymidae family (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) are proposed: Eridontomerus illiesi Szelényi, 1981 as a junior synonym of Cryptopristus caliginosus (Walker, 1833); Eridontomerus unidentatus Szelényi, 1973 is transferred to the genus Pseudotorymus Masi, 1921; and Idiomacromerus obscuripennis (Szelényi, 1973) is transferred to the genus Torymoides Walker, 1871.

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Scotchmoor, Judith, and Claus Hedegaard. "Why is the Museum on the Web?" Paleontological Society Papers 2 (October 1996): 59–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1089332600003156.

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The Classic usage of the term museum implies a collection of objects, not a display, though this has been the common usage since the late 19th century. The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is predominantly a museum in the classic sense. In this case the collection of objects is a research and study collection of fossil and Recent organisms. Visitors will find a few display cases, a very impressive Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton accompanied by a Pteranodon ingens flying overhead, a couple of dinosaur skulls, and plans for expansion. However, the overwhelming part of the collections is not usually accessible to the public. Nonetheless it is the mission of UCMP “…to facilitate the understanding of the history of life through service to research to education, and to the public.” It is the use of technology that has allowed us to more effectively reach the public sector.

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Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin. "Museus e a divulgação científica no campo da paleontologia." Anuário do Instituto de Geociências 28, no. 1 (June 1, 2005): 116–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.11137/2005_1_116-130.

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Museums are generally regarded as having high potential for science communication. In Brazil, however, those institutions are still far away from accomplishing this mission, particularly regarding paleontology. Here we discuss several aspects regarding science communication and museums. The three main activities associated to museums are research, repositories of collections and exhibitions. The collections of the Brazilian museums and the exhibits tend to be poor when compared with similar European and North American institutions, causing a distance between museum and society. Among the attempts of changing this picture, the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, in collaboration with the Museu de Ciência da Terra (DNPM), has organized in 1999 the temporary exhibition THE TIME OF THE DINOSAURS, which turned out to be the most visited exposition regarding fossils organized in the country so far. Among the several benefits of this exhibit was to increase the interest of the population regarding paleontology. This experience has shown that the museum must interact more strongly with the society in order to fully develop its potential of science communication.

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Tumarkin-Deratzian, Allison R. "Designing an Upper-Level Vertebrate Paleontology and Taphonomy Course for Undergraduate Geoscience Majors." Paleontological Society Special Publications 12 (2012): 43–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200009229.

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Designing and teaching a vertebrate paleontology course for geoscience majors presents several challenges. Students often come to the course with limited or nonexistent biology backgrounds, and therefore may begin the semester anxious about their ability to master course material. Moreover, students may be skeptical about the value of learning vertebrate skeletal anatomy for their future careers as geoscientists. Vertebrate Paleontology and Taphonomy is an upper-level elective for geoscience majors that was intentionally designed to allow students to develop a basic understanding of vertebrate osteology for themselves before focusing on formational histories of vertebrate skeletal accumulations in geological context. The course relies heavily on hands-on exposure to modern and fossil skeletal material, field trips to local museum galleries and collections, cooperative laboratory activities and projects, and analysis of real-world data sets. Students work together with one another and the instructor to make observations on vertebrate fossils, analyze their own data and data from the primary literature, and interpret taphonomic histories of actual vertebrate assemblages. This structure makes success in the course less about ‘learning vertebrate paleontology’ and more about using vertebrate paleontology and taphonomy as a tool to become effective practicing geoscientists.

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Feranec, Robert S., and Andrew L. Kozlowski. "AMS Radiocarbon Dates from Pleistocene and Holocene Mammals Housed in the New York State Museum, Albany, New York, USA." Radiocarbon 52, no. 1 (2010): 205–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200045136.

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Despite its rich paleontological record, only limited research has been published on the Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrate faunal record of New York State. This paper presents a set of dates from the bone collagen of Pleistocene and Holocene mammal specimens housed in the Vertebrate Paleontology Collections at the New York State Museum, Albany, New York, USA.

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Ausich, William I., and Jeffrey R. Thompson. "A possible Laurentian volchoviid ophiocistioid from the Katian of southwestern Ohio." Journal of Paleontology 95, no. 5 (March 30, 2021): 1097–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.28.

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The Cincinnatian (Katian) of the Cincinnati Tri-State area is widely regarded as one of the most fossiliferous sections known (Meyer and Davis, 2009). Echinoderms from these strata include well-described asteroids, crinoids, cyclocystoids, edrioasteroids, glyptocystoids, mitrates, and ophiuroids. John Pope discovered a partially articulated echinoderm in float from the Fairview Formation that does not correspond to any known Cincinnatian echinoderm. Although mentioned in Ubaghs (1966, as a presumable personal communication from Pope, 1960), Haude and Langenstrassen (1976), Reich (2001), and Reich and Haude (2004), this specimen at the Cincinnati Museum Center (CMCPIP 51316) has neither been described nor illustrated; yet, these authors attributed it to Volchovia Hecker, 1938 in the Class Ophiocistioidea. Questions swirl around this fossil: what is its complete morphology; does it belong to Volchovia; whether or not it can be assigned to Volchovia, is it an ophiocistioid? The first step to understand this enigmatic echinoderm is to illustrate and describe the specimen, which is the objective of this note.

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Blair, K. G. "Types of Heteromera described by F. Walker now in the British Museum." Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 69, no. 1-2 (April 24, 2009): 268–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1921.tb02810.x.

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Boles, Walter E., and Trevor H. Worthy. "Foreword to published works from the Proceedings of the VII International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution held at the Australian Museum, in Sydney, from 18–23 August, 2008." Records of the Australian Museum 62, no. 1 (May 26, 2010): 2–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1532.

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This volume comprises the Proceedings of the VII International Meeting of the Society for Avian Paleontology and Evolution (SAPE). The previous six meetings were held in North America, Europe and China. This seventh meeting marks the first gathering of the Society in the Southern Hemisphere. It was hosted by, and held at, the Australian Museum, in Sydney, from 18–23 August, 2008.

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Rothschild, Bruce. "Intertwining of paleontology and medicine: implications for structure-function relationships, behavior, and habitat in paleontology." Paleontological Society Special Publications 6 (1992): 252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200008121.

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Medicine and paleontology have been intertwined from the start. Gideon Algernon Mantell, a family physician from Sussex, and his wife, while on patient care “rounds,” found the first English dinosaur. Nineteen years later in 1841, Sir Richard Owen established the neologism, dinosaur, to categorize these animals. It is not accidental that the first Dean of Kansas University School of Medicine was also the founder of the University's Museum of Natural History. Rheumatology and paleontology paths have also crossed in the form of Thinocetus arthritus, so named because the ligamentous fusion in a specimen mistaken for arthritis.Technology and understanding of disease processes have advanced sufficiently to allow hypotheses to be critically examined. The underlying assumptions are that:1. Disease manifestations are relatively stable through time.2. Tissue is preserved in a state amenable to analysis.3. Pathology can be distinguished from diagenesis (pseudopathology).4. Analysis of pathology as a skeletal phenomenon provides more insight than examination of isolated bones.5. Analysis of pathology as a population phenomenon provides more insight than examination of isolated skeletons.Exemplifying the intertwining nature of the fields is the presence of spine and sacroiliac involvement and the nature and distribution of erosive lesions in the great apes (Gorilla and Pan (chimpanzee), the lesser ape (Hylobates) and Old World monkeys (Theropithecus, Papio, Cercopithecus, Macaca, Presbytis, Colobus, and Erythrocebus). This allowed definitive diagnosis of spondyloarthropathy. Reproducibility of diseases across species lines has been established for spondyloarthropathy (gorilla, chimp, monkey), not only for gross or radiologic appearance of individual bones, but also for skeletal distribution. More recently, similar observations have been made for Smilodon and Mammuthus. Reactive arthritis, related to infectious agent diarrhea or sexually transmitted, is a consideration. Infectious agent diarrhea is common in Old World primates. This natural disease state provides a unique model system for in depth analysis of the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to disease pathophysiology.

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Hogler, Jennifer A., and Rex A. Hanger. "A new chondrophorine (Hydrozoa, Velellidae) from the Upper Triassic of Nevada." Journal of Paleontology 63, no. 2 (March 1989): 249–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000019296.

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Chondrophorines have a long but exceedingly sporadic history: they dot the late Precambrian and Paleozoic and are common in modern oceans, but have not been reported from the Mesozoic or Cenozoic save for a possible Triassic occurrence (Stanley, 1986) and a single Cretaceous appearance (Stanley and Kanie, 1985). Stanley (1982) suggested that much of the fossil record of the group may languish unrecognized and misidentified in museum drawers because of its generally molluscanlike aspect and poor representation in the literature. This suspicion is validated by the discovery of a velellid chondrophorine pneumatophore in the vertebrate collections of the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP).

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SUMRALL, COLIN D., PAULA T. WORK, DAVID L. MEYER, GLENN W. STORRS, and ELIZABETH MERRITT. "NOTICE OF TRANSFER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI PALEONTOLOGY COLLECTIONS TO CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER." Journal of Paleontology 74, no. 6 (November 2000): 1198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<1198:nototu>2.0.co;2.

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Sumrall, Colin D., Paula T. Work, David L. Meyer, Glenn W. Storrs, and Elizabeth Merritt. "Notice of transfer of the University of Cincinnati paleontology collections to Cincinnati Museum Center." Journal of Paleontology 74, no. 6 (November 2000): 1198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000017753.

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Hunda, Brenda R., Glenn W. Storrs, and David L. Fox. "Notice of transfer of the University of Minnesota paleontology collections to Cincinnati Museum Center." Journal of Paleontology 93, no. 5 (May 14, 2019): 1031–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.33.

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Luckett, Robert E. "For My People." Public Historian 40, no. 3 (August 1, 2018): 173–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.3.173.

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When Margaret Walker founded the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People in 1968, she stood at the forefront of a nascent Black studies movement. At the time, she had served on the faculty at Jackson State College since 1949. In both a racist and a sexist society, she used her scholarship and art as vehicles for activism. Today, the Margaret Walker Center, named for its founder, continues to lift up her legacy as a museum and special collections archive dedicated to Black experience in America.

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West, Robert. "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Green River Basin, Wyoming, 1840-1910." Earth Sciences History 9, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.9.1.83871301283k8757.

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Paleontological exploration in the Green River Basin in the first half of the nineteenth century demonstrated the presence of vertebrate fossils there. Studies of potential wagon and railroad routes revealed additional information about the occurrence and distribution of fossiliferous rocks during the 1850s. Post Civil War government geologic and geographic surveys yielded large numbers of fossil mammals and created the setting for competition and controversy among Leidy, Cope and Marsh. Numerous publications resulted, as well as Leidy's departure from paleontology. Residents of Fort Bridger worked with all the Eastern scientists to provide information about fossil localities; many specimens also were sent east. Four Princeton expeditions in the 1870s and 1880s preceded the systematic work of the American Museum of Natural History in 1893 and 1903-1906. By 1909 the geological and vertebrate paleontologic framework of the basin was firmly established.

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Fisher, Donald. "John Mason Clarke: James Hall's Protégé - Successor." Earth Sciences History 6, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 114–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.6.1.0463v792n4244g6w.

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John Mason Clarke, the successor to James Hall as State Paleontologist of New York, was both similar and dissimilar to his mentor in his approach to paleontology and paleontologists. Both were intensely passionate in their pursuit of paleontological research. However, their opposing personalities mandated that they travel vastly differing avenues toward implementing the accomplishments of the New York State Geological Survey and State Museum during their respective eras.

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YIN, ZI-XU, and LING-XIN MENG. "Review of the genus Larnaca Walker, 1869 from China (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae: Gryllacridinae)." Zootaxa 5027, no. 4 (September 2, 2021): 587–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5027.4.7.

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The Chinese species of Larnaca are reviewed. A new species, Larnaca (Larnaca) walle sp. nov. is described from China. Female of Larnaca (Larnaca) emarginata Bian, Guo & Shi, 2015 is described for the first time. The type specimen is deposited in Museum of Biology, East China Normal University.

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Breithaupt, Brent. "Biography of William Harlow Reed: The Story of a Frontier Fossil Collector." Earth Sciences History 9, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 6–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.9.1.59584t2t2gl6r04t.

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William Harlow Reed was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1848. His adventurous spirit led him to the Rocky Mountain West to take positions guiding, hunting game, and fighting Indians. In 1877, while working as a foreman for the Union Pacific Railroad at Como, Wyoming, he accidentally discovered large bones on the nearby ridge. These specimens, reported to O.C. Marsh at Yale University, heralded him into a career in vertebrate paleontology that he would pursue for the next 38 years. Although frustrated by certain aspects of field work and lack of recognition as a field paleontologist, he was a diligent and loyal collector for Marsh. He gave this same dedication in later years to W. C. Knight at the University of Wyoming and W. J. Holland at the Carnegie Museum. Although not formally educated in the sciences, Reed's desire to learn, interest in natural phenomena, and association with the notable paleontologists of his time, allowed him to gain a background in geology and paleontology. After more than 25 years of significant discoveries of dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, mammals, and cycads in Wyoming, Reed was given the position as curator of the museum and instructor in geology at the University of Wyoming in 1904. He held this position until his death in 1915.

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Asato, Kaito, and Tomoki Kase. "Gigantic scaphopods (Mollusca) from the Permian Akasaka Limestone, central Japan." Journal of Paleontology 95, no. 4 (March 10, 2021): 748–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.3.

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AbstractPaleozoic scaphopods are among the most poorly known mollusks because of their featureless tubular shell morphology and fragmentary preservation. An apical orifice at the posterior end of a conch is a diagnostic character of Scaphopoda that distinguishes them from other groups of animals that produce similar calcareous tubes, but this structure is rarely preserved. A rich molluscan fauna from the Permian Akasaka Limestone in central Japan includes scaphopod shells, and past studies have reported four species, all of which were based on fragmentary specimens. This study recognizes six species in the Akasaka Limestone mainly on the basis of museum/institution collections, and a new genus (Minodentalium) and three species (Prodentalium onoi, M. hayasakai, and M. okumurai) are described, two known species (P. akasakensis and P. neornatum) are redescribed in more detail, and one species (Prodentalium sp.) is described under open nomenclature. The following eight known species are allocated to the new genus Minodentalium: Plagioglypta furcata Waterhouse, 1980; Pl. girtyi Knight, 1940; Pl. subannulata Easton, 1962; Dentalium ingens De Koninck, 1843; D. meekianum Geinitz, 1866; Pl. prosseri Morningstar, 1922; Dentalium priscum Münster in Goldfuss, 1842; and D. herculeum De Koninck, 1863. All the species, except for M. hayasakai, are gigantic, reaching 200 mm or more in length. The species richness is the greatest known from a single locality/formation worldwide.UUID: http://zoobank.org/35405b9d-3ba7-40bf-87c5-3f2b550b1a6d

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Swab, John J., and Todd Babcock. "Surveying Northeastern Pennsylvania: Contextualizing the Flower-Walker Collection at the Tioga Point Museum." Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 14, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 9–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2018.1468847.

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Medler, John T. "Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XIV. Walker and Distant Types in the British Museum." Oriental Insects 24, no. 1 (January 1990): 127–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1990.11835534.

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Archibald, S. Bruce, Kathleen B. Pigg, David R. Greenwood, Steven R. Manchester, Lisa Barksdale, Kirk R. Johnson, Michael Sternberg, Ruth A. Stockey, Melanie L. DeVore, and Gar W. Rothwell. "Wes Wehr dedication." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42, no. 2 (February 1, 2005): 115–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e05-013.

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We dedicate this issue to the memory of Wesley C. Wehr, former Affiliate Curator of Paleobotany, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, Washington. Wes' contributions to paleontology, particularly in the Okanagan Highlands of Washington State and British Columbia; his influence on a generation of paleontologists (particularly paleobotanists) working in and coming from this region; and his warm friendship that brought together members of the scientific and arts communities were deeply influential, and will be fondly remembered.

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Canadelli, Elena. "Marble Busts and Fish Fossils." Nuncius 31, no. 2 (2016): 439–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03102006.

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The historical catalogs of the museum collections contain a wealth of information for historians seeking to reconstruct their contents, how they were displayed and the ways in which they were used. This paper will present the complete transcription of a draft catalog that was prepared in 1797 for the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities of the University of Padua. Conserved in the university’s Museum of Geology and Paleontology, the catalog was the first to be compiled of the museum, which was established in 1733 thanks to the donation by Antonio Vallisneri Jr. of his father Antonio Vallisneri Sr.’s collection of antiquities and natural history. The catalog was compiled by the custodian of the museum, the herbalist and amateur naturalist Bartolomeo Fabris. It is of great interest because it provides a record of the number and nature of the pieces conserved in the museum at a time when natural history and archeology collections were still undivided. It also provides indications as to how such collections were arranged for display in the public halls of a university at the end of the eighteenth century. Based on this catalog, with additional information drawn from other manuscript and published sources and museum catalogs from the 1830s conserved in various institutes at the University of Padua, it is possible to reconstruct the contents and layout of a significant late 18th-century natural history collection.

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Grant, Claudia A., Bruce J. MacFadden, Pavlo Antonenko, and Victor J. Perez. "3-D FOSSILS FOR K–12 EDUCATION: A CASE EXAMPLE USING THE GIANT EXTINCT SHARKCARCHAROCLES MEGALODON." Paleontological Society Papers 22 (September 2016): 197–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/scs.2017.15.

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AbstractFossils and the science of paleontology provide a charismatic gateway to integrate STEM teaching and learning. With the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), as well as the exponentially increasing use of three-dimensional (3-D) printing and scanning technology, it is a particularly opportune time to integrate a wider variety of fossils and paleontology into K–12 curricula. We describe a curricular prototype that integrates all four components of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) into authentic research using dentitions of the Neogene giant shark Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon Agassiz, 1843). This prototype has been implemented in two middle and two high schools in California and Florida. Consistent with prior evidence-based research, student engagement increases when they have hands-on experiences with fossils, particularly with a charismatic species such as Megalodon. Access to museum specimens helps students understand big ideas in ‘Deep Time.’ In addition to engaging students in authentic STEM practices and scaffolding development of content knowledge, paleontology is an integrative science that connects and informs socially relevant topics, including long-term (macro-) evolution and climate change. The application of 3-D printing and scanning to develop curricula using fossils has immense potential in K–12 schools in the U.S.

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Di Rocco, Concezio. "Dandy Walker variant and persistent occipital sinus at the museum La Specola in Florence." Child's Nervous System 22, no. 3 (February 1, 2006): 225–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00381-005-1271-9.

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Bohatý, Martin, and Dalibor Velebil. "Med. Dr. Adalbert Wraný (1836–1902) – doctor of medicine, mineral collector and donor to the National Museum in Prague." Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 188, no. 1 (2019): 95–146. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmpnhs-2019-0005.

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Adalbert Wraný (*1836, †1902) was a doctor of medicine, with his primary specialization in pediatric pathology, and was also one of the founders of microscopic and chemical diagnostics. He was interested in natural sciences, chemistry, botany, paleontology and above all mineralogy. He wrote two books, one on the development of mineralogical research in Bohemia (1896), and the other on the history of industrial chemistry in Bohemia (1902). Wraný also assembled several natural science collections. During his lifetime, he gave to the National Museum large collections of rocks, a collection of cut precious stones and his library. He donated a collection of fossils to the Geological Institute of the Czech University (now Charles University). He was an inspector of the mineralogical collection of the National Museum. After his death, he bequeathed to the National Museum his collection of minerals and the rest of the gemstone collection. He donated paintings to the Prague City Museum, and other property to the Klar Institute of the Blind in Prague. The National Museum’s collection currently contains 4 325 samples of minerals, as well as 21 meteorites and several hundred cut precious stones from Wraný’s collection.

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Klaus, Angela V., and William K. Barnett. "Museum Applications For Scanning Electron Microscopy: From Mollusks To Meteorites." Microscopy and Microanalysis 5, S2 (August 1999): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1431927600013386.

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In addition to dinosaur bones and gem collections, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is also home to nine academic research departments: Anthropology, Herpetology, Mammalogy, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Ichthyology, Ornithology, Entomology, Invertebrates, and Vertebrate Paleontology. Each of these departments supports curators, research scientists and assistants, graduate students, and post-docs engaged in a broad spectrum of research activities.The Core Microscopy Facility houses a state-of-the-art Cold Field Emission SEM equipped with an energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer. This instrument is extremely versatile, as it must be in order to meet the challenges of a diverse imaging and microanalytical environment. Our applications run the gamut from high-resolution electron imaging of insect parts to quantitative x-ray microanalysis of 5 billion-year-old meteorites.Mineral scientists, archeologists, anthropologists, and artifact conservators use X-ray microanalysis extensively at the AMNH. Current projects include the analysis of chondrites (meteorites that condensed at the same time as the solar system), Neolithic pottery remains, and pigment fragments from Native American artwork.

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Wilkinson, Joanne E., Kristen D. Spring, T. L. Dunn, Gilbert J. Price, and J. Louys. "The vertebrate fossil collection record from the Chinchilla Sand, South–East Queensland, 1844-2021." Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 63 (2021): 11–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.63.2021.2020-07.

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Since the mid-1840s a diverse fossil vertebrate assemblage, referred to as the Chinchilla Local Fauna, has been collected from the Pliocene deposits of the Chinchilla Sand on the western Darling Downs of South-East Queensland. In large part because of this long history and the numerous collectors who have worked fossil deposits in the area, much ambiguity regarding site and locality names and their specific coordinates exists. Here, we review the vertebrate fossil collection records in the Queensland Museum Fossil, Donor, Collector and Locality Registers, correspondence, and field notes in an effort to pinpoint the location of each named locality and site and develop a digital map which highlights the historical collecting sites at one significant locality in the Chinchilla area. To ensure that a systematic framework for all future collecting from the main collecting area (Chinchilla Rifle Range) is maintained, we recommend the use of consistent nomenclature for sites so that spatial information of the highest possible quality is captured into the future. We recommend future collections include detailed recordings of stratigraphic contexts as well as GPS coordinates.

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