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Interns and Volunteers Crucial in Curating and Digitizing Fossil Invertebrates in the Field Museum’s...

Interns and Volunteers Crucial in Curating and Digitizing Fossil Invertebrates in the Field Museum’s...

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Interns and Volunteers Crucial in Curating and Digitizing Fossil Invertebrates in the Field Museum’s Fast Growing Mazon Creek Collection

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Interns and Volunteers Crucial in Curating and Digitizing Fossil Invertebrates in the Field Museum’s Fast Growing Mazon Creek Collection

Publisher

Sofia: Pensoft Publishers

Journal title

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2018-07, Vol.2, p.e25942

Language

English

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Sofia: Pensoft Publishers

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The Mazon Creek region in Northeastern Illinois is home to a Middle Pennsylvanian (~307 million years old) soft-bodied fossil Lagerstätte of animals and plants that lived along a subtropical swampy coastline. This area was strip mined for coal from 1928 to 1974 and museum geologists and amateur collectors acquired large fossil collections during th...

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Interns and Volunteers Crucial in Curating and Digitizing Fossil Invertebrates in the Field Museum’s Fast Growing Mazon Creek Collection

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2169991385

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2169991385

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ISSN

2535-0897

E-ISSN

2535-0897

DOI

10.3897/biss.2.25942

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