BRITISH MUSEUM ( NATURAL HISTORY ) - UNIVERSITY OF LONDON JOINT PALAEONTOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO NORTHERN RHODESIA + TANGANYIKA 1963
BRITISH MUSEUM ( NATURAL HISTORY ) - UNIVERSITY OF LONDON JOINT PALAEONTOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO NORTHERN RHODESIA + TANGANYIKA 1963
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DOI：
10.1038/201445a0
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发表时间：
1964-01-01
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影响因子：
64.8
通讯作者：
CHARIG, AJ
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作者：
ATTRIDGE, J;COX, CB;CHARIG, AJ
十九世纪是一个探索和殖民的时代。在世界各地新探索的领土上，许多欧洲人--主要是士兵、医生、传教士和工程师--对化石感兴趣；他们收集发现的东西，如果是英国人自己，他们通常会把材料送到大英博物馆进行鉴定和描述。从南部非洲卡鲁岩中获得的二叠纪和三叠纪爬行动物标本包括许多新属和新种的类型，具有很高的历史和科学价值。然而，它们往往只由头骨组成，收藏者忽略了任何颅骨后的材料，而且往往保存和准备得很差。此外，它们往往缺乏准确的地理和地质条件。
HE nineteenth century was a time of exploration and colonization. Many Europeans in newly explored territories throughout the world–mainly soldiers, doctors, missionaries and engineers—were interested in fossils; they collected what they found, and, if British_themselves, they usually sent their material to the British Museum for appraisal and description. The collections ofPermian and Triassic reptiles thus obtained from the Karoo rocks of southern Africa include the types of many new genera and species, and are of great historical and scientifio value. Yet they often consist only of skulls, the collectors having ignored any post-cranial material, and are often poorly preserved and prepared. Moreover, they frequently lack precise geographical and geological