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Historical fossil localities are frequently lost because, among other factors, the outcrops have been actively mined or erased by urban development. It would be what happened with historical fossil localities from the old Valparaiso province, in which naturalists, such as C. Darwin, J. Dana, R. Philippi and J. Brüggen collected fossil specimens. Ba...
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... James Dana was perhaps the foremost American mineralogist from the XIX century, who before 1868, had published the description of 28 new minerals, and he was also even a more famous professor and since 1848 writer of his Manual of Mineralogy as well as his treatise, that through many editions made his name as synonymous to Mineralogy, an later on his legacy that has been preserved with new revised editions (24 th ) to our day. Therefore, his Manual was used by whoever wanted to study minerals in the second part of the XIX century ( Figure 6). Ten years before, he was a young naturalist eagerly collecting minerals and invertebrates in the surroundings of Valparaíso, including a few fossils such as fossil wood samples. ...
