The Division of Vertebrate Paleontology uses the assistance of volunteers in the museum’s collections facility, Dickinson Hall on the University of Florida campus. Volunteers perform many different tasks and we try to match new volunteers with tasks that interest them most. Among the tasks
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Dr. Bruce J. MacFadden Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology bmacfadd@flmnh.ufl.edu 352-273-1937 Dr. Jonathan I. Bloch Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Associate Chair, Department of Natural History jbloch@flmnh.ufl.edu 352-273-1938 Rachel E. Narducci Collections Manager rnarducci@fl
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Paleontological Society of Lee County This scholarship will be awarded to a student (either undergraduate or graduate) of Florida paleontology enrolled in a degree program at the University of Florida. This scholarship consists of a one-time stipend of $5,000 to be used for academic purposes, for e
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Miss Lucy Dickinson Fellowship The Miss Lucy Dickinson Fellowship is available on a competitive basis to graduate students pursuing the Doctoral degree in Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Florida. This fellowship can be awarded along two tracks. Track 1 is for up to three years with a s
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Rachel Narducci Email: rnarducci@flmnh.ufl.edu Research: Paleoneurology, 3D Geometric Morphometrics Selby Olson Email: olsonse@ufl.edu Research: Mammalian Evolution and Functional Morphology Not Pictured: Jeanette Pirlo Email: jpirlo@flmnh.ufl.edu Sean M. M
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The Florida Museum maintains five separate fossil vertebrate collections. The specimens derive mainly from the Cenozoic Era (last 65 million years), with more than 80% coming from about 1200 localities in Florida. Other major contributing regions are islands in the Caribbean Basin, Central and Sout
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The Tapir Challenge pitted fossil collecting teams from the Florida Museum of Natural History and East Tennessee State University to determine whose site would produce the most tapir skeletons. By the spring of 2008, the challenge was about an even draw, although the Tennesse group has many years
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Personnel of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology of the Florida Museum of Natural History will identify fossils that have been legally collected or purchased. To aid our identifications, tell us where the specimen was found, to the best of your knowledge. Our greatest expertise lies with spec
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The Florida Museum’s Vertebrate Paleontology collections provide the most complete basis available for study of Cenozoic vertebrate life and evolution in the eastern United States and the circum-Caribbean Basin area. Combined, the five separate collections total about 1,000,000 fossil specimens, of
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When the world closed down in mid-March, not only did we have to close the Museum doors to the public, but also to our amazing volunteers. They could no longer help us in collections or give tours as docents and we had to postpone, and then out and out cancel, our annual reception that honors all of
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