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The Swedish Museum of Natural History has photographed their entire collection of brachiopods from the Cretaceous deposits of Skåne in southern Sweden. Now they need your help capturing vital specimen data on the labels.
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För svensktalande, välj knappen TRANSKRIBERA för att komma igång.
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During the Cretaceous age, the Kristianstad Basin was one of the northernmost tropical regions that ever existed on Earth, and it was teeming with marine life. Your help with this project will provide us with valuable insight into this ancient ecosystem.
Exploring Tropical SwedenAbout Exploring Tropical Sweden
During the later half of the Cretaceous age, Scania in southern Sweden enjoyed a tropical climate, despite being situated at the latitude of Hudson Bay. This collection of photographed specimens features fossil seashells called brachiopods or ‘lamp shells’, that lived 80 million years ago in the seas that flooded the Kristianstad Basin in Scania. Your help transcribing the specimen labels will allow scientists to better study this collection, in order to understand how the diversity and morphology of these creatures changed with water depth, from the intertidal zone to the outer shelf.
Under senare hälften av kritperioden var Kristiandstadsbassängen en av de nordligaste tropiska regionerna som någonsin funnits på jorden trots att den låg på samma latitud som idag. Den fotograferade delen av samlingen består av brakiopoder (armfotingar) som levde för 80 miljoner år sedan i det hav som täckte denna del av Skåne. Din hjälp med att skriva rent etiketterna skulle ge forskarna en större möjlighet att studera denna samling och bestämma hur mångfald och morfologi hos dessa organismer ändras med vattendjup från tidsvattenzonen till yttre kontinentalsockeln.