저자는 2013년 1월 15일부터 2015년 3월 25일까지 약 2년 2개월에 걸쳐 우리나라 9개 자연사박물관을 방문하고 오류연구를 하였다. 그 결과 7개 박물관에서 총 28개의 오류를 발견하였다. 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 오류가 왜 발생하는가, 또 오류가 발생하지 않게 하거나 발생한 오류를 조기에 수정하는 방법은 없을까 하는 대안을 찾는데 있다. 그렇게 하기 위해 선행논문과 서적을 연구하고 대상 자연사박물관에 대한 설문조사를 하였다. 연구결과를 토대로 다음과 같은 대안을 제시하였다. 첫째, 세부전공 분야별 학예사 인력을 확충하되, 단기적으로는 대학 등과 연계하여 자료 발굴, 보전, 연구, 전시자료 작성 등에 전문가를 참여시킨다. 둘째, 전시과정에서 미리 분류체계를 수립하며 보전전문가를 확보한다. 셋째, 전시과정에서 외부 전문가의 심의과정을 만들고, 관람자의 의한 오류 시정 절차를 구축한다. 넷째, SNS, 도슨트, 교육프로그램을 통해 학생과 주민이 오류시정 참여하도록 해야 한다. 다섯째, 대중매체를 통해 명확한 학술적 배경을 기반으로 만들어진 고생물들의 참신한 모습을 보여줌으로써 기존의 문화적 관성을 해결한다.

This study is directed to study of the stratigraphy, sedimentary rocks and depostitional environment of the Jinju Formation in the Jinju-Sacheon area. The Jinju Formation in the area is subdivided into the lower member, middle member and upper member by their lithologic characteristics. Each member of the Jinju Formation is composed mianly of grey arkose sandstone, sandy shale and dark grey shale. A few thin layers of limestone and calcareous shale are intercalated in the upper parts. As in most places, sand shale of the formation shows onionJstructures and contains many nodules. The grain particle analysis of the sandstone samples were obtained moderately sorted, positive skewness and meso-kurtic. The significant sedimentary structures such as the pillow, cone-in-cone, large scale suncrack, ridge-type cross-bedding, cylindrical muddy lime concretion and stromatolites are sampled from the non-marine Cretaceous Jinju Formation in the Kyeongsang basin, Korea. The fades fossils of the Cretaceous snakeflies, freshwater fishes, cyzicuses, cladophlebis spp., and plant stems were excavated from the black shale of the formation. The paleocurrent study, was carried out by means of the statistical analysis of the cross-stratification, ripple mark, slump structure, and parting lineation, which are palecocurrent structure. The investigator presents his own computer programming process for the calculation of statistical parameters. The paleocurrent direction, depositional strike, source area, and the depositional center of the basin of the Jinju Formation are judged to be southeast, northeast, northwest, and southeast, respectively. The depositional environment on the formation in the studied area is determined definitely the fluvial environment in view of the interdisciplinary assessment of the analysis results of paleocurrent structures listed above.

Study on the Carboniferous strata started in 1886, and that of Pusulinids in 1906. Stratigraphic study of the Korean Carboniferous strata in 1919 resulted in the four fold division of the Pyeongan System which embraces the Permo -Carboniferous, though a new scheme of subdivision of the Carboniferous has been proposed by the study of fusulinids in 1969. More than 60 species of Carboniferous fusulinids belonging to 20 genera have been described from South Korea. Of these fusulinids the Pseudostaffella-Neostaffella -Xenostaffella line shows an interesting development. Small Pseudostaffella gave rise to Pseudostaffella kimi which may have developed into the larger forms with the ooncave peripherise and concave umbilici. These are Neoataffella, N. hanensis, N. papilioformia, and N. magna. For these four-sided concave larger form8 a new subgenus name Hanostaffella is proposed. Genus Xenoataffella is the extremely squeezed form with the evolute outermost volution, though the other biocharacters are almost the same as in Hanostaffella.