Ashfall Fossil Beds: The best paleontological exhibit EVER!
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park的点评
点评:It's tough to find the right word to describe the Ashfall Fossil Beds, but FABULOUS would be close. I read about this site in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Reign of Mammals, so since we were travelling through Nebraska, we made this a destination. Everything about this site is perfect -- it's a bit of an adventure to find, the visitor centre has intelligent displays, the landscape is magical (it didn't hurt that the meadowlarks were singing their little hearts out), the Rhino Barn is the most amazing fossil display I've seen in a long time. The site superintendent treated us like he was really happy to answer our questions and talked to us for more than half an hour about what we were looking at and his own research project. The information panels in the Rhino Barn are really well done. I appreciated that we were directed to the fossil site before getting access to the gift shop. The book selection is obviously curated by someone who knows their way around this subject
翻译:很难找到合适的词来描述 Ashfall 化石床,但“极好”这个词很贴切。我在 Steve Brusatte 的《哺乳动物的崛起和统治》一书中读到了这个遗址,所以既然我们要穿越内布拉斯加州,我们就把这里作为目的地。这个遗址的一切都堪称完美——寻找它有点像一场冒险,游客中心有智能展示,风景如画(草地鹨尽情歌唱也并不伤人),犀牛谷仓是我很久以来见过的最令人惊叹的化石展示。遗址管理员对待我们就像他真的很乐意回答我们的问题一样,与我们聊了半个多小时,谈论我们正在看的东西和他自己的研究项目。犀牛谷仓里的信息面板做得非常好。我很感激我们在进入礼品店之前被引导到化石遗址。书籍的选择显然是由熟悉这个主题的人策划的