Carnegie Fossils Exhibited In Japan

This international exhibition, curated by Dr. Kazunori Miyata, the Vertebrate Paleontology Curator of the Fukui Museum, will highlight on the an most important episode in the history of the earth: the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs. This special exhibit at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum will be held through October 13, 2008.

Cenozoic Era (65 million years ago to the Recent) is the Age of Mammals. Carnegie Museum has one of the most important collections of the Cenozoic fossil mammals of the North America, a vast continent with extensive exposure of rocks that yielded many best fossil record of the Early Cenozoic mammalian radiation. Carnegie Museum provides 86 fossil vertebrates, including some of the best Carnegie fossil specimens, for this special exhibition. This is the first time that Carnegie’s extensive fossil mammal collection, ranging from the earliest-known horse to gigantic ungulate mammals, is on exhibition for the Japanese public.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History has received generous support from FedEx for transportation for this international exhibition. -- www.carnegiemnh.org