Support for Care and Use of the Systematic Collection of Mazon Creek Fossil Animals and Plants

支持马松溪动物和植物化石的系统收集和使用

• 批准号: 8702337
• 负责人: Scott Lidgard
• 金额: $ 15.3万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-10-15 至 1990-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8702337&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Care; Use; Systematic; Collection

The Mazon Creek area of northeastern Illinois yields one of the most important soft-bodied invertebrate and plant biotas known from the Late Paleozoic. Middle Pennsylvanian terrestrial, freshwater and marine organisms from this region are both diverse and abundant. The Field Museum of Natural History houses the largest and most significant collection of fossils from Mazon Creek, but almost half of its 94,000 specimens are not yet fully available to the scientific community. This project will provide support for equipment and temporary personnel to assist the Museum in (1) reducing a backlog of 43,000 unsorted, unculled and uncatalogued specimens; (2) rearranging the Mazon Creek holdings to accommodate the newly sorted material; (3) cataloging the entire Mazon Creek collection using computerized collection management techniques; and (4) publishing a catalogue of type, figured and referred specimens from the Mazon Creek area. Completion of the project will facilitate more efficient collection management, enhance awareness of the extensive Field Museum holdings, and result in a unique collection of research-quality specimens that will be more accessible and significantly more useful for future research.

伊利诺斯州东北部的马松溪地区是 最重要的软体无脊椎动物和植物生物 晚古生代的化石 中宾夕法尼亚陆栖， 这个地区的淡水和海洋生物都是多样的 和丰富。 菲尔德自然历史博物馆拥有世界上最大的， 最重要的化石收集从马松溪，但 94，000个标本中几乎有一半尚未完全可用 向科学界展示。 该项目将提供支持 设备和临时人员，以协助博物馆（1） 减少43 000件未分类、未挑选和未编目的积压物品 标本;（2）重新安排马松溪控股， 容纳新分类的材料;（3）编目整个 使用计算机化收集管理的Mazon Creek收集 （4）出版一份印刷、数字和 来自马松溪地区的标本 完成 项目将促进更有效的收集管理， 提高对菲尔德博物馆大量藏品的认识， 形成了一个独特的研究质量的标本集， 将更容易获得，对未来更有用， research.