To further research he established a collection of ca 30,000 bird and 13,000 mammal specimens for the museum.
Several mammal specimens have been found from the Jiufotang, but only one has been formally described and named.
The Museum collection includes several thousand mammal specimens.
The mammal specimens are presented as works of modern art within strikingly minimal environmentals.
The museum representative who introduced the event pointed out that many of the bird and small mammal specimens assembled on the stage dated from the eighteen-hundreds.
In addition there were nearly 400 mammal specimens including new species such as Hadromys humei.
He collected a number of mammal specimens and learned to speak Spanish, supporting himself in part by trading in horses.
Over 300 mammal specimens have been found in the La Colonia formation.
These fossils, many never exhibited, were selected from the museum's complete collection of 250,000 mammal specimens, and nearly every one is genuine, not a cast.
Birds and mammal specimens are conserved as dry study skins.