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

古生物学藏品是了解地球历史的一种稀有、不可替代的资源。加州大学古生物学博物馆（UCMP）拥有全国最大和最活跃的化石收藏之一。该项目通过将它们从旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学（SFSU）转移到UCMP，确保了一个独特的和濒危的200万至500万年前的海洋无脊椎动物和稀有海洋和陆地脊椎动物化石的收集，在那里标本将被策展和数字编目，为后代保留数据。旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学的学生和教师在40年的时间里从加州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。科学界对该藏品几乎一无所知，其中包含100多个属和200多种双壳类和腹足类软体动物，以及较少品种的海胆、苔藓虫、珊瑚和腕足动物，以及更稀有的鱼类、爬行动物以及海洋和陆地哺乳动物。 除了提供网络可访问的数字标本记录，收集的化石数据和图像将被纳入教育模块和UCMP网站上发布的虚拟实地考察，该项目将为研究生和本科生提供重要的培训机会。濒临灭绝的上新世-更新世化石收藏，来自加州中部凯特尔曼山的埃切古因、圣华金和图拉雷地层。加州的上新世-更新世海洋化石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-间冰期周期和局部板块构造运动。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。这项工作将首次使研究人员能够通过提供对化石的物理访问和对附带的地点数据的电子访问来利用这一不可替代的收藏。该项目的成果将在网上（www.ucmp.berkeley.edu）提供，数字化的收藏数据和图像将通过iDigBio（www.idigbio.org）和全球生物多样性信息机制（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).