Support for Invertebrate Paleontology Collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

支持比较动物学博物馆的无脊椎动物古生物学收藏

• 批准号: 8911969
• 负责人: Stephen Gould
• 金额: $ 10.53万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-03-15 至 1992-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8911969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Invertebrate; Paleontology; Collections; Museum

The invertebrate fossil collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, was begun by Louis Agassiz in the mid-1800s. It has grown to be an internationally important collection of type and reference specimens of all geologic ages from around the world. Curatorial improvement of this collection will provide researchers with greater access to specimens of interest, and will promote new research by uncovering and documenting type specimens that are now filed with non-types. A catalogue of type cephalopods has been completed recently, and work on a type trilobite catalog is now being initiated. Natural history collections are the libraries in which the history of life are preserved. This collection has served generations of students and researchers in their explorations of the evolutionary past. Curatorial efforts such as this will ensure that future generations of paleontologists, invertebrate zoologists, and evolutionary biologists will continue to have access to this critically important resource.

博物馆的无脊椎动物化石收藏 比较动物学，哈佛大学，是由路易斯 阿加西在19世纪中期。 它已经发展成为国际上 重要的模式标本和参考标本收藏 世界各地的地质年代。 策展改善 这一系列将为研究人员提供更多的机会， 感兴趣的标本，并将促进新的研究， 发现和记录模式标本， 非典型 已完成了一个类型头足类的目录 最近，关于三叶虫类型目录的工作正在进行中， 启动。 自然历史收藏是图书馆， 生命的历史得以保存。 这一系列服务于 一代又一代的学生和研究人员， 进化的过去 像这样的策展努力将 确保未来的古生物学家，无脊椎动物， 动物学家和进化生物学家将继续 获取这一重要资源。