We have selected objects from our collections to delight, intrigue, and inspire you. We invite you to explore these objects and to start your own conversations with them. Museum curators have provided references for you to learn more about these objects.
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Cucurbita pepo L. (Pumpkin)
Underhill, Wendy (2004) "The Healing Plants of Ida Hrubesky Pemberton." Colorado Gardener April:12-13
White, James J. & Lugene B. Bruno (2003) The Healing Plants of Ida Hrubesky Pemberton: Catalogue of an Exhibition 25 September 2003 - 29 February 2004. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Fremont culture
Mantle's Cave, Castle Park, Colorado, ca. 1100 A.D. UCM-6193 a, b
Burgh, Robert F. and Charles R. Scoggin. (1948) Archaeology of Castle Rock: Dinosaur National Monument. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Anthropology, No. 2. University of Colorado Press.
Roberts, Frank H.H. (1944) Charles R. Scoggin, 1914-1944. American Antiquity, 10(2).
Truesdale, James A. (1993) Archeological Investigations at Two Sites in Dinosaur National Monument. USDI, National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Division of Cultural Resources. Technical Information Service, Operations Division (Distributor).
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Acrotrichis sp. Family Ptiliidae UCM-0002603
Hall, W. E. 2003 Limulopteryx, a new genus of neotropical featherwing beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea: Ptiliidae) and comments on pterycine ptiliids. In Systematics of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the Retirement of Ivan Lobl. Memoirs on Entomology Volume 17, edited by G. Cuccodoro and R.A.B. Leschen, pp. 85-102. International Associated Publishers, Florida.
Hall, W. E. 2000 Ptiliidae Erichson, 1845. In American Beetles Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia, edited by Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas, pp. 233-246. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
Hall, W. E. 1999 Generic Revision of the Tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 125 (1- 2): 39 - 126.
Sorensson, M. 2003 New records of featherwing beetles (Coleoptera:Ptiliidae) from North America. Coleopterists Bulletin, 57: 369-381
Sorensson, M. 1997 Morphological and taxonomical novelties in the world's smallest beetles, and the first Old World record of Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). Systematic Entomology, 22: 257 - 283.
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Ptiliidae&contgroup=Staphylinoidea
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EO# 01270501, 0127052, 012795903
Ross, Andrew 1999 Amber. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Grimaldi, David A. 2003 Amber: Window to the Past. Harry N. Abrams, New York.
Poiner, George O. 1994 The Quest for Life in Amber. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA.
Poiner, George O. and Roberta Poiner 1999 The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Poiner, George O. and Raif Milki 2001 Lebanese Amber: The Oldest Insect Ecosystem in Fossilized Resin. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.
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Oreohelix strigosa UCM-8331
http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/ - useful conservation site for snails and mussels. Search on "Oreohelix" and notice that most of the species are listed as S1 or G1 (state or global threatened or "of concern" due to small populations size). Also gives map of ranges.
http://geomuse.org - our own mapping application for this region. See the collections of snails and mussels from our and our partner collections right on a set of accessible environmental maps.
