做了40年的化石勘探者,收藏家和展览商

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI:10.55468/gc313
H. Siber
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即使是200年来为公共和私人收藏而进行的化石收集,也没有用尽化石的供应。人们甚至可以说,我们仅仅触及了表面,最好、最重要的发现还在那里。造成这种情况的主要原因是,在过去三十年中,挖掘、收集和整理化石的技术手段有了相当大的进步,在理想的情况下,目前的收集工作已远远优于过去的收集工作。谁有雄心、有技能、有财力、有合法的权利来适当地收集化石?传统上,有三个群体从事化石收集的艺术和技术:专业古生物学家,高级业余爱好者和商业古生物学家。所有这些群体都对古典和现代古生物学以及世界各地的博物馆收藏做出了重大贡献。最近关于限制收集化石的发展主要针对业余爱好者和所谓的“商业”或独立的古生物学家,这大大减少了合法收集化石的机会。然而,如果这三个群体共享资源,他们的合作效果最好。合作模式多种多样,并已证明对各方都有利。此外,限制在化石较多的地区和国家收集化石是善意的,但基本上适得其反。古生物学需要这三个群体的努力和投入。他们的合作是必不可少的,并最终决定了为后代发现和保存的重要化石的数量和质量。科学上重要的化石没有必要只存放在“公共储存库”。标准应该是继续进行科学研究的可及性,而不是所有权。
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40 years as a fossil prospector, collector and exhibition maker
Even 200 years of fossil collecting for the benefit of public and private collections has not exhausted the supply of fossils by any means. One can even argue that we have barely scratched the surface, and that the best and most important finds are still out there. The primary reason for this is that the technical means for excavating, collecting and preparing fossils have considerably advanced during the last three decades, up to the level that the present act of collecting is - under ideal circumstances - far superior to past collecting efforts. Who has the ambition, the skills, the financial resources and the legal rights to collect fossils properly? Traditionally, three groups engage themselves in the art and technique of fossil collecting: professional palaeontologists, advanced amateurs, and commercial palaeontologists. All of these groups have made significant contributions to classical and modern palaeontology and to museum collections worldwide. Recent developments regarding restrictions to collect fossils primarily target amateurs and so called 'commercials' or independent palaeontologists, and have greatly diminished the opportunities for legal fossil collecting. However, these three groups work best together if they pool their resources. Many models of cooperation exist and have proved beneficial for all parties involved. In addition, the restrictions on fossil collecting in more fossiliferous areas and countries is well meant, but essentially counterproductive. Palaeontology requires the effort and input of all three groups. Their cooperation is essential and eventually determines the amount and quality of important fossils found and saved for future generations. It is not necessary that scientifically important fossils are exclusively housed in "public repositories". The criterion should be accessibility for continued scientific research and not ownership.
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