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

小行星9712340 该项目的目标是对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策划、分类和计算机化。 由于标本数据将在标本被策展的同时被输入计算机数据库，因此该藏品此前缺乏足够的空间和策展支持。 该收藏品包括大约20万个标本，包括辅助材料，并包含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。 该系列中最大和最重要的部分包括来自南极洲的二叠纪和三叠纪植物，包括数千种硅质矿化（其中保存了内部解剖结构），这是最稀有的植物化石保存形式。 这是世界上最大的矿化南极植物集合，包括各种具有保存年轮的矿化木材，可用于重建这些时期的高纬度古气候。 该集合将组织分层，策展，计算机化，并成为该领域的其他学者访问。 由于它将是数据库，学者们将能够搜索收集地层或系统。

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.