Joint Paleo. Research in Russia

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Norm MacLeod

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:57:05 -0600
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FYI--this was forwarded from the Museum-l

Colleagues,

     The museum of natural history, Novosibirsk, Russia, is looking for
partners in the sphere of palaeontology.

     The museum has possibilities for carrying out the joint
palaeontological expedition to the first Russian cemetery of dinosaurs that
had been found by the museum of natural history this year. The museum can
offer another expedition to burial places of mammals of the mammoth fauna
complex.  The museum is ready for the joint scientific researches in this
sphere.

     The museum of natural history can organize exhibitions with skeletons
of animals of the mammoth fauna complex and dinosaurs of the Cretaceous
period. Exhibitions can be expanded by archaeological and ethnographical
material kept in another Siberian museums.

     The museum of natural history was founded in 1994 in Akademgorodok (the
scientific center of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences).

     Today the museum possesses the following exibits:
        - Coelodonta antiquitatis,
        - Bison priscus,
        - Bison bonanus,
        - Mammunthus primigenius,
        - Dinosaur (sub-group Theropoda, family Saurornithidae),
        - 3 skeletons of dinosaurs (sub-group Ornithopoda, family
                Psittacosauridae),
        - Dinosaur (sub-group Sauropoda, the excavations are started).

     The museum keeps 10,000 bones of animals.  Today the museum is
installing skeletons of Equus sp., Crocuta spelaea, a second copy of  Bison
priscus, Spelaearctos rossicus, Megaloceros giganteus. There are also coat
samples of Mammunthus primigenius and bison in the museum.

     We hope that our offers will be interesting for you. We are looking
forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

Igor E.Grebnev
Director of the museum

THE  MUSEUM  OF  NATURAL  HISTORY
630060,  Russia,  Novosibirsk,  ul. Lesosechnaya,  2 - 258
Phone  (3832) 76-12-88,   fax  (3832) 76-01-07
email vasily@stb.nsk.su


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Norman MacLeod
Senior Scientific Officer
N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk (Internet)
N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)

Address: Dept. of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum,
         Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD

Office Phone: 0171-938-9006
Dept. FAX:  0171-938-9277
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