いわき市石炭・化石館における東日本大震災被災標本のレスキュー活動(<特集>東日本大震災における標本レスキュー活動)

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The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake caused extensive damage to fossil collections stored at museums in the Northeast Japan. In particular, a right dentary of Mastodon americanum, which is housed in the Iwaki City Coal and Fossil Museum, was seriously injured. Here we briefly report the repair operation for this fossil specimen with discission on problems and solutions in restoring damage fossils owing to natural disasters.