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Paul MayerPaul MayerAlex. P. LayngAlex. P. Layng

Kathryn AlbrightKathryn AlbrightRyan Ryan ManzukManzuk

Illustrations by Alyssa Caywood

My talk will focus on these two specimens ofDawsonoceras annulatum

Daenerys P 754

Tyrion P 5666

430 million years ago Dawsonoceras annulatum, an orthoconic nautiloid cephalopod,jetted between reefs on a tropical, carbonate platform munching on trilobites.

Diorama at National Museum Cardiff

• Warm

• Tropical (17º South Latitude)

• Carbonate platform

© Ron Blakey Northern Arizona University

SilurianPaleogeographic map

430 million years ago

© The Field Museum CK23BT, Photographer Ron Testa.

All good things must come to and end

Bedrock Geology Map USGSGrayish-purple is Silurian age rock

Niagara Escarpment

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

Fossil Silurian ReefFlank beds dipping off of 100 meter tall Silurian reef core at

Thornton Quarry, Illinois, USA

© The Field Museum, GN90799d_JWH_026w,Photographer William Henry Jackson.

Peristyle and Water Gatefrom Grand Basin.

World's Columbian Exposition 1893.

© The Field Museum, GN85075.

© The Field Museum, GN85075.

407 Silurian fossils in Wardʼs collection,69 of them were from Illinois including Daenerys

Image of Daenerys from 1899

© The Field Museum, GEO78400 and GEO82887.

Oliver CummingsFarrington,

Geology Curator

Arthur Ware Slocom,Fossil Invertebrate Curator

© The Field Museum, CSGEO8770, Photographer unknown.

Ground was broken on September 3, 1892 forthe Chicago Drainage Canal, later renamed theSanitary and Ship Canal. 28 miles from Chicago

to Lockport, Illinois.

Copyright The Field Museum CSGEO8771

Collected ~25,000 Silurian reef fossilsstored in the collectionas 5,000 specimen lots

© The Field Museum, CSGEO38570.

Tyrion, an Internal model, and an impression of anorthoconic nautiloid cephalopod Fossil

(Dawsonoceras annulatum).Photographed in 1913

Possibly these negatives were made for Fossil Collectingby Dr A. W. Slocom, Assistant Curator, Division of Invertebrate

Paleontology, Field Museum Thirty eighth free illustrated lecture courseDate March 8, 1913

© The Field Museum, CSGEO38583.

Image of Daenerys from 1925

© The Field Museum, GEO80803.

Daenerys was on display in the Fossils of theChicago case in the

Frederick J. V. Skiff Hall (Hall 37) from 1951 to 1992

In 1968 Daenerys makes her television debute with Ernest Roscoe in"Down to Earth," for the New Trier Township Instructional Television. The

film was video-taped at the Museum and has been presented oneducational closed-circuit television at several North Shore schools.

© The Field Museum, GEO85829c, Photographer John Weinstein.

New Reef model of ChicagoSilurian (430 million years ago) sea life diorama, shows models of Chicago

area Life Over Time exhibit

Daenerys on display in the background of Brain Scoop Episodes “AskEmily #7” January 8, 2014 and “The Nondenominational Holiday Botanical

Celebration”, December 25, 2013

Tyrion on displayat the

2015 ESCONIGem, Mineral and Fossil

Showon the

DuPage CountyFairgrounds.

Tyrion on display for thebehind the scenes FMNH Members Night

May 14-15, 2015

Interns movespecimens from

Collection range todigitization lab

Carts hold 6drawers

1. Label Photography

2. Specimen photography

3. KE EMu data entry

Digitization lab with three workstations:

Ryan ManzukLabel Photography Workstation

Alex LayngFossil Photography

Workstation

Kathryn AlbrightEntering data from digitized label photograph into KE EMu

Digitization Progress at FMNH

Total Number of Specimen Records

TotalFossil

Images

TotalLabel

Images

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

1 11 21 31 41

Errors

Connected Records

Mary Williams, Scientific Illustrator, using Tyrion as a model

Initial sketches for Dawsonocerasby Mary Williams

Final Sketch of Dawsonocerasby Mary Williams

Kate Webbink and Marc LambruschiSee their Demo at 3:30pm this afternoon Century Ballroom B andlearn how data is pulled out of EMu and converted into web pages

• IMLS Grants For America• Museum Collection Fund• Grainger Digital Initiative• Patricia Burke, MPM• Peter Sheehan, MPM• Sharon Grant• Kate Webbink• Marc Lambruschi• Pete Herbst• Rob Zschernitz• FMNH Technology Department• Lindsey Snyder• Heidi Rouleau• FMNH Education Department• Ian Glasspool• Scott Lidgard• Museum Collections Spending Fund• William Simpson, Christine Niezgoda, William

Parkinson, and Petra Sierwald• Robert Sapp Heidelberg Cement Group• Katy Bickerton (Edge Renewables)• Shropshire Geological Society• Nicole Karpus, Liza Connolly, Sam Albright,

Ryan Manzuk, and Alex Layng• Mary Williams and Tyler Fewell

Acknowledgements

Paul MayerFossil Invertebrate Collections Manager

at the Field MuseumChicago, Illinois