THE ROUSSEAU H. FLOWER INVERTEBRATE FOSSIL COLLECTION: CONSERVATION AND CURATION

Abstract

Rousseau was one of the most important invertebrate paleontologists in the history of New Mexico geology. His prolific collecting and publishing established four orders, approximately 100 genera and over 400 species of invertebrates, most of them cephalopods. Many of his specimens were collected from BLM-administrated lands in New Mexico and Texas. The extensive collection produced by Flower is one of the most important records of Paleozoic invertebrates in the country. ~10,000 locality