CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Transfer of Orphaned Kettleman Hills Collection from San Francisco State University to the University of California Museum of Paleontology

古生物收藏是了解地球历史的一种罕见的、不可替代的资源。加州大学古生物博物馆（UCMP）拥有美国最大、使用最活跃的化石收藏之一。该项目通过将200万至500万年前的海洋无脊椎动物和稀有的海洋和陆地脊椎动物化石从旧金山州立大学转移到UCMP，确保了独特和濒危的收集，在那里标本将被管理和数字编目，为后代保存数据。旧金山州立大学的学生和教师在40年的时间里从加利福尼亚中部的凯特尔曼山的多个地质构造中收集了这些化石，并提供了精确、高质量的地理和地质信息。科学界几乎不知道这些藏品，其中包括100多属200多种双壳类和腹足类软体动物，以及较少种类的棘皮类、苔藓虫、珊瑚和腕足类动物，以及罕见的鱼类、爬行动物、海洋和陆地哺乳动物。除了提供可在网上访问的数字标本记录外，收集的化石数据和图像将被纳入UCMP网站上的教育模块和虚拟实地考察，该项目将为研究生和本科生提供重要的培训机会。该项目的重点是对加利福尼亚中部Kettleman Hills的Etchegoin、San Joaquin和Tulare地层中一组独特的、濒临灭绝的上新世-更新世化石进行物理转移、重新安置和数字编目。加利福尼亚的上新世-更新世海洋化石记录记录了过去500万年中重要的全球环境和海平面变化，以及具体的驱动因素，包括气候、冰期-间冰期旋回和当地板块构造运动。这个时代的化石和相关的动物群是积极使用UCMP收集的研究人员正在进行的研究的主题。这一努力将首次使研究人员能够利用这些不可替代的藏品，提供对化石的实物访问和对相关地点数据的电子访问。该项目的结果将在网上（www.ucmp.berkeley.edu）获得，数字化的收集数据和图像将通过iDigBio （www.idigbio.org）和全球生物多样性信息设施（www.gbif.org）共享。

Paleontology collections represent a rare, irreplaceable resource for understanding Earth history. The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) has one of the largest and most actively used fossil collections in the country. This project secures a unique and endangered collection of two to five million year old marine invertebrate and rare marine and land vertebrate fossils by transferring them from San Francisco State University (SFSU) to UCMP where the specimens will be curated and digitally cataloged, preserving the data for future generations. Students and faculty at San Francisco State University over the course of 40 years collected these fossils with precise, high quality geographic and geologic information from multiple geologic formations from the Kettleman Hills of Central California. The collection has been virtually unknown to the scientific community and it contains more than 100 genera and 200 species of bivalve and gastropod mollusks, and fewer varieties of echinoids, bryozoans, corals, and brachiopods, with rarer fish, reptiles, and marine and terrestrial mammals. In addition to providing web-accessible digital specimen records, the data and images of fossils from the collection will be incorporated into education modules and virtual field trips posted on UCMP websites and the project will provide important training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.The focus of the project is the physical transfer, rehousing, and digital cataloging of a unique, endangered collection of Pliocene-Pleistocene-aged fossils from the Etchegoin, San Joaquin, and Tulare formations in the Kettleman Hills of Central California. The Pliocene-Pleistocene marine fossil record in California records important global environmental and sea level changes and specific drivers operating over the last five million years include climate, glacial-interglacial cycles, and local plate tectonic movements. Fossils of this age and related faunas are the subject of ongoing study by researchers who actively use UCMP collections. The effort will, for the first time, enable researchers to make use of this irreplaceable collection by providing physical access to the fossils and electronic access to the accompanying locality data. Results of the project will be accessible online (www.ucmp.berkeley.edu) and digitized collections data and images will be shared via iDigBio (www.idigbio.org) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org).