Recent Fossil Theft
This page and the attached images and materials are not intended for general public viewing.
The specimens shown and listed below were stolen from the Hall of Fossil Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History on or before November 16, 2006. If you have any information on the whereabouts of any of them, please contact:
Matthew Carrano – (202) 633-1314. carranom AT si DOT edu
Jann Thompson – (202) 633-1357, thompson AT si DOT edu
Robert Purdy – (202) 633-1348, purdyr AT si DOT edu
[1 of 9] Frictops emryi (Insectivora)
USNM 336367
skull with nearly complete postcranial skeleton
featured on the cover of Nature, March 12, 1992
[2 of 9] Neohipparion republicans (Perissodactyla, Equidae)
USNM 352701
partial upper jaw and palate with nearly complete dentition
[3 of 9] Chrysemys picta (Testudines, Testudinidae)
USNM 351927
complete carapace
[4 of 9] Palaeolagus haydeni (Lagomorpha)
USNM 16291
complete skull with lower jaws
[5 of 9] Thinocyon velox (Carnivora)
USNM 22479
complete skull with lower jaws
[6 of 9] Uintacyon juglans (Carnivora)
USNM 22478
anterior part of skeleton on slab
[7of 9] Ischyromys veterior (Rodentia)
USNM 336369
skull and partial skeleton
[8 of 9] Hyrachyus affinis (Perissodactyla, Tapiridae)
USNM 22482
complete skull and lower jaws
[9 of 9] Paradjidaumo trilophus (Rodentia)
USNM 18804
skull and partial skeleton
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