| 项目编号: | 1645530
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| 项目名称: | RAPID: Salvage Excavation of a Critically Important Late Miocene Fossil Deposit in North-Central Florida: A Rare Opportunity for Science and Education |
| 作者: | Jonathan Bloch
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| 承担单位: | University of Florida
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| 批准年: | 2016
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| 开始日期: | 2016-08-15
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| 结束日期: | 2018-07-31
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| 资助金额: | 39012
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Earth Sciences
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| 英文关键词: | natural history
; florida museum
; fossil
; southeastern coastal plain
; vertebrate taxa
; sand mining operation
; great urgency
; horse stable waste recycling
; same strata
; small mouse
; small vertebrate
; 5-million-year old site
; first vertebrate locality
; many fossil
; fossil bone
; broad range
; undergraduate student
; high school teacher
; site
; articulated skeleton
; diverse fauna
; flmnh permanent research collection
; careful excavation
; private property
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| 英文摘要: | In November 2015, fossil bones were discovered weathering out of exposures created by a sand mining operation about 30 km southwest of Gainesville, Florida. Paleontologists of the Florida Museum of Natural History quickly determined that the site was potentially very significant, and began quarrying operations. The site is located on private property and the landowner will allow access until Spring 2017 and has agreed to donate all specimens to the FLMNH permanent research collections. However there is a finite time to excavate fossils, as the pit will soon be filled in and the land then used for horse stable waste recycling and pasture for cattle. Thus there is a great urgency to recover as many fossils as possible through careful excavation.
The 5-million-year old site has so far produced fossils of about 50 vertebrate taxa. A very broad range of body size is represented, with bones of animals the size of small mice and salamanders found in the same strata as those of rhinos and elephants. Portions of the site are richly fossiliferous and some areas routinely produce articulated skeletons. This is the first vertebrate locality of this age in the southeastern coastal plain with complete skeletons, and also the only one with a diverse fauna of small vertebrates. Undergraduate students, high school teachers, and citizen scientists will be trained and involved in this excavation. Ultimately specimens will be displayed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/91465
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Jonathan Bloch. RAPID: Salvage Excavation of a Critically Important Late Miocene Fossil Deposit in North-Central Florida: A Rare Opportunity for Science and Education. 2016-01-01.
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