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The Catalog of casts of paleontological finds of primates of the Museum of Anthropology of MSU

Vorontsova E.L.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Vorontsova Elena L., PhD; ORCID ID 0000-0002-7817-7274; e.l.vorontsova@mail.ru

Abstract

Natural science museum collections are an important source of materials for scientific research. The Museum of Anthropology has a collection of casts from paleontological finds of primates. This catalog has never been published before. This work contains information about the composition and history of the formation of the collection. Materials and methods. Documents from the Archive of the Museum of Anthropology of Moscow State University and articles in journals became the basis for writing this work. Analytical and chronological research methods were applied in the study. Results and discussion. The section "Brief information on the history of the formation of the collection" contains information about the sources of replenishment of the paleoprimatological collection, the names of the scientists who transferred the items, the geography of receipts are given. The items were combined into collections on the grounds that they came from the same source at the same time. The "Collection catalog" is represented by a table. The finds are divided by geological periods, listed in alphabetical order within the period. Conclusion. A catalog of casts of finds of representatives of the order Primates (excluding the genus Homo) is presented in the article. In the course of working with the documents, we discovered that not all the accompanying papers were preserved. Work on reconstructing the history of the receipt of paleontological casts of primates will continue. @ 2023. This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license

Keywords

biological anthropology; evolution; fossil finds; order Primates; copies of fossil bones; catalog

DOI: 10.32521/2074-8132.2023.4.094-102

Цит.: Vorontsova E.L. The Catalog of casts of paleontological finds of primates of the Museum of Anthropology of MSU // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2023; 4/2023; с. 94-102 (Published: November 20 2023)