Big Creek Reservation and Rocky River Reservation were incredibly fertile grounds for the discovery of Devonian period fish fossils by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. With the construction of Interstate 71 along park grounds in 1965, the National Museum of Natural History worked in collaboration with Cleveland's museum to trail behind road crews in search of upturned fossil remains. Dr. David Dunkle, the Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at Smithsonian Institution, acted as supervising scientific consultant. Through a grant from the National Science Foundation, the remains were sorted, cataloged, cleaned, and added to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's famed collection of Devonian fossils. | Source: Courtesy of Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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"I-71 Under Construction" appears in: Dunkleosteus
