Support for Care and Use of the Systematic Collection of    Mazon Creek Fossil Animals and Plants
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The Mazon Creek area of northeastern Illinois yields one of                the most important soft-bodied invertebrate and plant biotas                    known from the Late Paleozoic.  Middle Pennsylvanian terrestrial,               freshwater and marine organisms from this region are both diverse               and abundant.                                                                        The Field Museum of Natural History houses the largest and                 most significant collection of fossils from Mazon Creek, but                    almost half of its 94,000 specimens are not yet fully available                 to the scientific community.  This project will provide support                 for equipment and temporary personnel to assist the Museum in (1)               reducing a backlog of 43,000 unsorted, unculled and uncatalogued                specimens; (2) rearranging the Mazon Creek holdings to                          accommodate the newly sorted material; (3) cataloging the entire                Mazon Creek collection using computerized collection management                 techniques; and (4) publishing a catalogue of type, figured and                 referred specimens from the Mazon Creek area.  Completion of the                project will facilitate more efficient collection management,                   enhance awareness of the extensive Field Museum holdings, and                   result in a unique collection of research-quality specimens that                will be more accessible and significantly more useful for future                research.
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