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For use with uncontrolled names found in AMNH documentation.
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AMNH: Floor 4, Section 5.
The Museum reimagined its fossil halls in the 1990s. Chronologically arranged exhibits were updated to reflect evolutionary relationships. The Halls of Saurischian and Ornithischian Dinosaurs, the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, which includes the Hall of Primitive Mammals and the Paul and Irma Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals, the Hall of Vertebrates Origins, and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center were the result of this rearrangement in exhibition (4, 1994-96, p. 5).
The Hall of Primitive Mammals highlights the development of key mammalian physical features such as the synapsid opening in the skull, a large hole behind the eye socket for muscles that extend to the jaw, three middle ear bones, and the placenta. These traits correspond to eating, hearing, and reproduction, and each trait represents a change in an evolutionary branch. Animal groups represented in this hall include monotremes, multituberculates, triconodonts, edentates, and extinct relatives of mammals, such as the Dimetrodon and glyptodonts. Some living animals from these groups, such as the egg-laying mammal platypus, a monotreme, are referred to as “living fossils.” (1).
Curator for hall (3, 1995, p. 6-10.).
Preparator for exhibits in hall (3, 1995, p. 6-10.).
Curator for hall (3, 1995).
The Hall of Primitive Mammals replaced the Hall of Early Mammals (4, 1990/91 p. 1).
Preparator for exhibits in hall (3, 1995, p. 6-10.).
Curator for hall (2, 1995).
Curator for hall (2, 1995).
Companion hall
Hall located in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives (1).
Directed installation of exhibits (3, 1995, p. 6-10.).
Curated digital images of permanent halls in the American Museum of Natural History Library, Digital Special Collections.