Fossil invertebrate collections moved from National Museum

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-171
Author(s):  
J. Thomas Dutro ◽  
Thomas W. Henry
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Regional Centers ◽  
The U.S

Paleontological investigations have played a critical role in the research of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its founding in 1879. From about 1950 until recently, the bulk of these fossil materials collected by USGS field geologists was housed in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C, under the control of the Branch of Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the USGS. Large biostratigraphic sets of USGS collections also resided in Denver, Colorado, and Menlo Park, California, at the USGS regional centers.

Palliseria (Middle Ordovician Gastropoda) from east-central Alaska and its stratigraphic and biogeographic significance

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 674-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Rohr ◽  
Robert B. Blodgett
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Shell Material ◽  
East Central ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Genus One ◽  
The U.S

Several unsilicified gastropod specimens were collected by John B. Mertie, Jr., on July 13, 1941, during a boat traverse along the Porcupine River of east-central Alaska. The specimens were originally deposited in the Ulrich (Cambrian and Ordovician) stratigraphic collections of the U.S. Geological Survey at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. The collection contains one specimen of Palliseria and three specimens of Maclurites, all of which are broken from the limestone. Despite the lack of much of the shell material, they are easily identified as to genus. One specimen identified as Palliseria is particularly significant.

Primary type specimens of sucking lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Anoplura) in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1047 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
LANCE A. DURDEN ◽  
NANCY E. ADAMS
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Taxonomic Assignment ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Sucking Lice ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Primary Type ◽  
The U.S

An annotated list is presented of the 110 primary types (holotypes, lectotypes, syntypes, or neotypes) of sucking lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Anoplura) deposited in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, as of May 2005. Annotations for each taxon are listed alphabetically by specific epithet, and are followed by the original generic assignment and (in parentheses) the current family designation. Next, the author, year of description, and original citation are provided. The primary type held in the USNM (with USNM type number, slide number and other relevant data, if these were assigned), original collection data, current taxonomic assignment (if different from the original designation), and additional taxonomic remarks, if relevant, are then given. Brief information on allotypes and paratypes are included if these are mounted on the same microscope slide as the primary type or if they are otherwise relevant. The types include those of the type species of seven genera (Abrocomaphthirus Durden & Webb, Atopophthirus Kim & Emerson, Haematopinoides Osborn, Latagophthirus Kim & Emerson, Pecaroecus Babcock &Ewing, Phthirpediculus Ewing, and Sathrax Johnson) one of which is the type genus of a family (Pecaroecidae). Primary types for five species of Anoplura that have not yet been described, and for another four species that were described in an unpublished dissertation are also deposited in the USNM. Hosts and collection data for these nine specimens are briefly mentioned after the main list; however, species names are excluded because these names currently have no nomenclatural standing. A neotype specimen is designated for Haematopinus montanus Osborn, 1896, a taxon which is currently treated as a junior synonym of Linognathoides laeviusculus (Grube, 1851).

Correspondence and papers of U.S. Geological Survey paleontologists placed in Smithsonian Archives

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-172
Author(s):  
J. Thomas Dutro
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The U.S

Correspondence and working papers of a number of U.S. Geological Survey paleontologists who were once quartered in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History have been transferred to the Smithsonian Archives during the past few years. Major space reallocations in the Museum resulted in consolidation of USGS Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch research activities into about one-quarter the space occupied before 1988. Consequently, most of the records and many of the fossil collections were moved out of the Museum.

scholarly journals A NEW SPECIES OF TELENOMUS PARASITIC ON GEOCORIS (HYMENOPTERA: PROCTOTRUPOIDEA; HEMIPTERA: LYGAEIDAE) IN CALIFORNIA

1973 ◽  
Vol 105 (11) ◽  
pp. 1407-1411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Gordh ◽  
R. Akinyele Coker
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Geocoris Punctipes ◽  
Egg Parasite ◽  
Cotton Fields ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The U.S

AbstractTelenomus reynoldsi n. sp. (Scelionidae: Telenominae) is described as an egg parasite of Geocoris punctipes Say and G. pallens Stål in California. The parasite has been recovered from cotton fields at Thermal and Indio, and from strawberry fields at El Toro, California. Additional material deposited in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History has been recovered from Geocoris collected at Buttonwillow and Weed, California.

An annotated catalog of types of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1022 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
STANISLAV P. ABADJIEV
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
New Synonym

A catalog of the type material of 59 taxa of Neotropical Pierinae housed in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, is presented. Each entry includes the species-group name, the original combination quoted from the original publication, the type locality, the type specimens with their labels, and notes about current taxonomic status. One new synonym has been established, Euterpe dysoni Doubleday, 1847 = Leodonta marginata Schaus, 1902. Lectotypes are designated for 5 species group taxa: Archonias intermedia Schaus, 1913, Hesperocharis jaliscana Schaus, 1898, H. paranensis Schaus, 1898, Pieris sublineata Schaus, 1902, and P. limona Schaus, 1913.

Collection transfer

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-446
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
University Department ◽  
Fine Collection ◽  
Invertebrate Fossils ◽  
Taxonomic Order

I he National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), Department 01 Paleobiology, recently received the collection of invertebrate fossils (except Insecta and Patagonia material) formerly housed in the Princeton University, Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences. This fine collection contains approximately 70,000 specimens; type and nontype specimens were stored together in taxonomic order. Current documentation for the entire collection consists of a card catalogue. Following curation, the specimens will be housed taxonomically in standing type and nontype collections. Lists of type specimens received will be published as they are isolated. Borrowers should return specimens to the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, upon completion of loans.

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