Re: [dinosaur] National Museum of Brazil destroyed

[Borja Holgado <bortx.holgado@gmail.com>]

All palaeontological collections were in the main building, some at the exhibition and most of them at the collections. So far, we do not know how many specimens are lost or if we could recover some of them from the collections where specimens were a bit more "safe", but things are looking extremely bad. The fire lasted more than 10 hours and the fireman came too late. We will inform in the following days.

Missatge de Daniel Madzia <daniel.madzia@gmail.com> del dia dl., 3 de set. 2018 a les 3:26:

There is another building with (some?) vertebrate and botanical collections that is supposedly safe. Does anyone have a catalog of specimens of fossil vertebrates housed at the destroyed building?

Thanks,

Daniel

po 3. 9. 2018 vÂ5:11 odesÃlatel Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com> napsal:

Indeed. Tragic and appalling. What is it with spinosaurs and museums??!!

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:12 AM Pterosaurologist <pterosaurologist@gmail.com> wrote:

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-brazil-fire-museum/rios-200-year-old-national-museum-hit-by-massive-fire-idUKKCN1LJ00C

Including holotypes of the theropod Santanaraptor, Angaturama and Oxalaia. And the pterosaurs Tapejara, Anhanguera and Thalassodromeus. All, now, consumed and distroyed.Â

Dama!

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Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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