Support for Paleobotanical Collection at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center

该项目的目的是对1995年成为堪萨斯大学自然历史博物馆和生物多样性研究中心（KUNHM）一部分的大量重要化石植物进行整理、压缩和计算机化。这些藏品以前既缺乏足够的空间，也缺乏策展支持，因为标本数据将在标本策展的同时输入计算机数据库。该藏品包括大约20万个标本，包括辅助材料，包括从单细胞藻类到开花植物的所有植物群的化石，年龄从前寒武纪到更新世不等。这个收藏中最大和最重要的部分是来自南极洲的二叠纪和三叠纪植物，包括几千个二氧化硅过矿化（内部解剖结构被保存），这是最罕见的植物化石保存形式。这是世界上最大的南极过矿化植物集合，包括各种保存完好的生长年轮的过矿化木材，可以用来重建这些时期的高纬度古气候。这些资料将按地层学进行整理、整理、计算机化，并可供该领域的其他学者使用。由于它将建立数据库，学者们将能够按地层或系统地搜索这些藏品。

9712340 Taylor The objective of this project is to curate, compactorize and computerize the large and important collection of fossil plants that became part of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center (KUNHM) in 1995. The collection has previously lacked both adequate space and curatorial support, as specimen data will be entered into a computer database at the same time that the specimens are curated. The collection consists of approximately 200,000 specimens, including ancillary material, and contains fossils of all plant groups from unicellular algae to flowering plants, ranging in age from Precambrian to Pleistocene. The largest and most important part of this collection consists of Permian and Triassic plants from Antarctica, including several thousand silica permineralizations (in which internal anatomy is preserved), the rarest form plant fossil preservation. This is the largest colletion of permineralized Antarctic plants in the world and includes a variety of permineralized wood with preserved growth rings, which can be used to reconstruct high-latitude paleoclimates during these time periods. The collection will be organized stratigraphically, curated, computerized, and become accessible to other scholars in the field. Since it will be databased, scholars will be able to search the collection either stratigraphically or systematically.