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稀有的、不可替代的资源。加州大学古生物学博物馆(UCMP)拥有美国最大和最活跃的化石收藏之一。该项目通过将200至500万年前的海洋无脊椎动物以及稀有的海洋和陆地脊椎动物化石从旧金山州立大学(SFSU)转移到UCMP，以确保收集到的独特且濒危的标本，在那里将对标本进行整理和数字编目，为子孙后代保存数据。旧金山州立大学的学生和教职员工在40年的时间里从加利福尼亚州中部凯特尔曼丘陵的多个地质构造中收集了这些化石，并提供了准确、高质量的地理和地质信息。科学界几乎一无所知，其中包括100多个属200种的双壳类和腹足类软体动物，以及较少的棘球类、苔藓虫、珊瑚和腕足类动物，以及更稀有的鱼类、爬行动物和海洋和陆地哺乳动物。除了提供网上可访问的数字标本记录外，来自该收藏的化石的数据和图像将被纳入到UCMP网站上张贴的教育模块和虚拟实地考察中，该项目将为研究生和本科生提供重要的培训机会。该项目的重点是对来自加利福尼亚州中部凯特尔曼丘陵的埃切戈因、圣华金和图拉雷地层的独特的上新世-更新世濒危化石进行实物转移、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重要的全球环境和海平面变化，过去500万年来的具体驱动因素包括气候、冰川-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收藏品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通过提供对化石的物理访问和对伴随的地点数据的电子访问来利用这一不可替代的收藏。该项目的成果将可在网上查阅(www.ucmp.berkeley.edu)，数字化收藏数据和图像将通过iDigBio(www.idigBio.org)和全球生物多样性信息基金(www.gbi.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).