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COLLECTIE Ert B Rovad G Ert COLLECTIE ROVAD B ERT ERT G A view of the storage facilities at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Parts of the P.W. Lund collection were stored here between 1963-2010. REVISITING THE P.W. LUND COLLECTION The Peter Wilhelm Lund Collection is a large and important Late Pleistocene collection of subfossil bone remains, primarily consisting of mammal bones from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Unearthed from limestone caves, the collection includes more than 50 mammalian type-specimens. The collection that today resides in the Zoological Museum, part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark is now being reexamined, digitalized and repacked. During this process, the most spectacular specimens have been reviewed and several forgotten specimens have been rediscovered. Also, in preparation for the future, newly discovered hair samples and coprolites are being evaluated for potential ancient DNA retrieval. he Danish naturalist Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801- 1880) is famous for having explored more than 800 ISTORY H limestone caves near the village of Lagoa Santa in K the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. In 60 of these USEUM OF ATURAL ATURAL caves he discovered substantial amounts of subfossil, Late ENMAR T N M D Pleistocene bones, mainly from mammals. P.W. Lund was very diligent and thorough while working with the many bones and bone fragments from the caves, and he managed to identify more than 100 extinct species of mammals. Many of the species were new to science, such as the saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator and numerous types of ground sloths, all of which Lund was the first to describe and name. Very fittingly, P.W. Lund is often described as “The Father of Brazilian Paleontology”. P.W. Lund’s scientific results were written down and sent home to Denmark as a series of articles on Brazil’s prehistoric fauna (Blik på Brasiliens Dyreverden før sidste Jordomvæltning, 1837-1846). In 1845 he donated his entire collection to King Christian the 8th of Denmark and today the collection is an important and integral part of the Quaternary Zoology Collections at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. OvERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION The P.W. Lund subfossil collection is vast and consists Peter Wilhelm Lund AUTEUR of more than 100.000 specimens, (bones and breccias of (1801-1880) KASPER HANSEN [43] CRANIUM MEI 2011 ARTELLE C . C , INSPIRED BY , Graphics: Kasper Hansen Graphics: LH K The village of Lagoa Santa where P.W. Lund lived, is situated app. COLLECTIE 400 km north of Rio de Janeiro in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The limestone caves Lund investigated lay within a 40 km radius Typical limestone cave from Minas Gerais, Brazil of Lagoa Santa. Late Pleistocene age) and a further to revisit some of the most famous tooth was approximately 20 cm long 2.000.000 smaller bones from samples specimens, as well as rediscovering but was missing the distal pointy end. of owl regurgitation. Many of the some of the lesser known and all but Initially he thought that it originated specimens suffer from fractures and/ forgotten items in the storage facilities from an extinct form of bear. Later, or missing parts and it is estimated that of the museum. It is important to Lund changed his mind and speculated only 10% of the bones are more or less mention here, that the collection only that the tooth originated from a giant intact. Having been stored in relatively has been on public display for a limited hyena. Eventually, after more bones unprotected and outdated drawers and number of years in the middle of the where uncovered, he settled for a new cabinets, all of the specimens are now previous century. Solely the museum’s genus of saber-toothed cat. He named being transferred to modern containers scientific personnel and visiting it Smilodon populator, the “scalpel- and protected with cotton wool. Apart researchers can gain access to the toothed destroyer”. from this repacking, the collection is collection on a daily basis. Here follows also being digitalized. A new electronic a description of some of the most Interestingly, the incomplete canine database has been implemented for spectacular and interesting specimens. was pictured in one of Lund’s articles, easier access and overview of the with a drawn silhouette of the imagined collection. Smilodon populator shape of the pointy distal end. After its publication Lund actually succeeded During the process of upgrading During his earliest excavations Lund in finding the matching fragment the collection, it has been interesting discovered a very large canine. The and it fits his picture from the article ASPER HANSEN K A sample of owl regurgitation [45] CRANIUM MEI 2011 COLLECTIE ASPER HANSEN ASPER HANSEN K K Canines and mandibles of Smilodon populator. Type specimen is the canine on the right. ROVAD B ERT ERT G Two very well preserved sculls of the Brazilian Some of the human remains excavated by Horned Frog, Ceratophrys aurita. P.W. Lund in the Sumidouro cave systems. perfectly. Today this type specimen Australo-Melanesian origin and not the third of the entire collections volume is one of the main attractions of the typical northern Asian origin normally consists of various edentates. collection. associated with early human settlers of the Americas. Earlier investigations It is quite amazing to consider Homo sapiens had hinted that this could be the case, how difficult Lund’s work with but not until now had so many skulls these animals must have been. Lund Another important discovery by been examined and compared. These used George Cuvier’s principles of Lund was made in the Sumidouro cave fascinating results imply a parallel comparative anatomy, but in Lund’s systems. Here, the skeletons of 30 early colonization of the New World and will time, only the large species of ground humans in relatively good condition hopefully spur on attempts to extract sloth Megatherium had been described were found. Various specimens have ancient-DNA from the human bones and thus, Lund had virtually nothing to been radiocarbon dated and their ages in the collection to further investigate compare his bones with. And not only are between 7.580 to 11.260 years this theory. Unfortunately the chemical did he lack a comparative collection, before present (calibrated). This places composition of most of the specimens but practically all his specimens were the members of the so-called Lagoa in the collection complicates this broken or shattered. Still, Lund’s final Santa race as some of the earlier undertaking. list of 20 extinct species of edentates humans in South America, but not is impressive, albeit not without a few among the initial colonizing groups that Edentata misidentifications. are several thousand years older. This order of placental mammals Breccias Recently, an investigation into that includes today’s anteaters, the morphological character traits of armadillos, and sloths, was once the Lund’s scientific methods also the sculls of 81 individuals from the dominating group of large animals in impress in other areas. For the sake of Lagoa Santa race (including those South America. P.W. Lund excavated preserving samples of how the many of the P.W. Lund Collection), where numerous bones, many of them broken bones were found in the hardened combined with radiocarbon dating data or fragmented, from relatively many clay and limestone matrix in the (Neves & Hubbe, 2005). Somewhat now extinct species of ground sloths caves, Lund collected 1.337 breccias. surprisingly, the results suggested an and glyptodonts. Approximately one They were collected from the most KASPER HANSEN Recently rediscovered coprolites, possibly from a ground sloth. [45] CRANIUM MEI 2011 analyzed sometime in the not so distant future. ASPER HANSEN K THE NEW MUSEUM AND THE FUTURE OF THE P.W. LUND COLLECTION In 2004 the Natural History Museum of Denmark was created by merging the Botanical Gardens, the Botanical Museum, the Zoological Museum, and the Geological Museum - all parts of the Copenhagen University, Denmark (www.snm.ku.dk). It is the ambition to build a new joint “mega-museum” in The broken breccia with mammalian hairs sticking out. the Botanical Gardens within the next 6-7 years, depending on funding. The COLLECTIE museum’s leadership has appointed the often visited caves and contain bones sizes of up to 15 cm long and 2 kg! The P.W. Lund Collection as one of dozen representing a broad spectrum of most numerous species represented key elements to be put on permanent species, such as Edentates, deer, was the Broad-snouted Caiman display in this new museum. capybara, peccary, rodents, marsupials, Caiman latirostris. Also found were horned frogs, birds, snails and even boas, rattlesnakes, several lizards and Regarding scientific research, the humans. catfish. future of the collection could develop along several paths. One of the more Rediscovered reptiles, obvious paths is the extraction of ANCIENT DNA IN HAIR ancient DNA from human and other amphibians and fish mammalian specimens. But also a Some years after Lund had shipped AND COPROLITES study of the vast amounts of owl his collection to Copenhagen, zoologist regurgitation could almost certainly Herluf Winge (1857-1923) began While handling the many breccias, reveal new species of rodents. Or the studying the material. Winge published one particularly fragile specimen bones in the breccias could be freed a five volume series of books named suddenly fell apart and split into from their hardened matrix for further “E Museo Lundii” (1888-1915), two pieces. On closer examination examination. Last but not least, new describing all the mammals and birds thirty hair-like threads were revealed publications on the rediscovered of the collection. For various reasons, as the culprits of the weakness in reptiles, amphibians and fish are one amphibians, reptiles and fish were this otherwise solid breccia.
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