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In all kinds of weather, and across all kinds of terrain, the Florida Museum has excavated fossils from Central Florida’s Bone Valley Formation for the past 60 years. The sites of the formation are among the most prolific in Florida for vertebrate fauna and remain an important resource for our under
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Plaster fossil jackets often require a lot of wrangling, even when they are small. These jackets are constructed in the field with plaster, burlap, and even wood board, designed to bundle together the matrix and heavy fossils. While they make for a secure way to transport material out of the field,
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Oscar Mendez Email: omendez1@ufl.edu Stephanie Killingsworth Email: skillingsworth@floridamuseum.ufl.edu Mitchell S. Riegler Email: msr2322@ufl.edu Rachel E. Narducci Email: rnarducci@flmnh.ufl.edu Research: Paleoneurology, 3D Geometric Morphometrics, Xenarthra
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Though well known for his later work as the Florida Museum’s curator of Herpetology, Walter Auffenberg originally established himself with the museum as the first curator of Vertebrate Paleontology. He completed his PhD on fossil snakes of Florida in 1956, then worked until 1959 as the curator for t
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In the early 1970s, the Vertebrate Paleontology collections settled into the newly-constructed Dickinson Hall, which remains their home to this day. The collections staff of past years, including Chandra Aulsbrook, Howard Converse, Russell “Russ� McCarty, Gary Morgan, and Arthur “Art� Poyer, are
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Every autumn, paleontologists worldwide begin preparing for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting. It is an opportunity to share research, learn alongside colleagues, and explore the local fieldwork that sparks international curiosity. In both 1964 and 1980, the Florida Museum wel
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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 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 1,500,000 fossil specimens, of
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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 1,500,000 fossil specimens, of
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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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