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History of paleontology at the Florissant fossil beds, Colorado
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Steven W. Veatch
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Steven W. Veatch
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Department of Earth Science, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801, USA
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Herbert W. Meyer
Herbert W. Meyer
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National Park Service, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, Florissant, Colorado 80816, USA
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Published:January 01, 2008
Paleontological studies at Florissant have been ongoing for more than 13 decades. As the focus of these studies has shifted through this time, the site has provided important insights into the evolution of paleontology as a science from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its subsequent development. Early studies focused on the description of new taxa from collections that were being made by the early scientific surveys of the American West, particularly the Hayden Survey during the early 1870s and an expedition from Princeton in 1877. The first studies and descriptions of these fossils were by Leo Lesquereux on...
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GSA Special Papers
Paleontology of the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado
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435
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Geological Society of America
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9780813724355
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January 01, 2008
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- Arthropoda
- biography
- Cenozoic
- Chordata
- Colorado
- conservation
- Eocene
- Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
- Florissant Lake Beds
- fossil localities
- history
- Insecta
- Invertebrata
- Mandibulata
- national monuments
- Oligocene
- Paleogene
- paleontology
- Plantae
- public lands
- Teller County Colorado
- Tertiary
- United States
- upper Eocene
- Vertebrata
- Lesquereux, Leo
- Scudder, Samuel H.
- MacGinitie, Harry D.
- Cockerell, Theodore Dru Allison
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