title: A call to the custodians of deep time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA. erwind@si.edu
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Erwin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005580:Fossils; D008954:Models, Biological; D010163:Paleontology / Q000379:methods*