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The Florida Museum of Natural History is pleased to announce the third searchable database has been added to its web site. The Florida Geological Survey collection joins the Pierce Brodkorb fossil bird collection, and the Invertebrate Paleontology type collection as multi-parametered searchable on-line databases. Check out our home page at: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu A brief description of the FGS collection follows: The Florida Geological Survey (FGS) fossil vertebrate collection was started during the 1920s and housed in the FGS headquarters in Tallahassee. From then until after the 2nd World War, after which time the vertebrate paleontology program at the University of Florida (UF) was started, specimens from the FGS collection were the primary source of fossil vertebrate descriptions from Florida. In 1976 the entire FGS fossil vertebrate collection was transferred to UF's Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) with support from a National Science Foundation grant. The FGS collection contains about 10,000 catalogued specimens and is particulalry rich in the early Miocene (e.g., Thomas Farm and panhandle localities), late Miocene-early Pliocene (e.g., classic Bone Valley sites), and Pleistocene (e.g., Vero Beach and Reddick localities). The majority of specimens in the FGS collection are mammals, followed by reptiles, birds, and a relatively small number of amphibians and fish. Although there are some sites that are unique to the FGS collection, many of the sites overlap with holdings in the main UF and Brodkorb Fossil Bird collections, which are both also housed in the FLMNH. --------------------------------------------- Bill Paine wgp@flmnh.ufl.edu 904-392-1721 Florida Museum of Natural History Museum Road University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Museum home page: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu ---------------------------------------------
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