KUBI Paleobotany Collection

Andrew Bentley

doi:10.15468/6skwfo

KUBI Paleobotany Collection

Citation

Bentley A, Serbet R (2023). KUBI Paleobotany Collection. Version 1.56. University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6skwfo accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-10-02.

Description

The paleobotany collections, including several “orphaned” collections, is comprised of compression, impression, petrified, and permineralized specimens from Precambrian to Pleistocene stratigraphic horizons and from various localities around the world. The focus of the collection is currently on Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic fossils from Antarctica (Antarctic Collection), the largest collection of Antarctic fossil plants in the world. Additional material includes Pennsylvanian, Permian, and Cretaceous compression-impression specimens from several localities in eastern and central Kansas and coal balls from the Midcontinent, USA. The Division of Paleobotany was instituted in 1995 when Edith L. Taylor and Thomas N. Taylor moved to the University of Kansas, bringing their extensive collection of fossil plants with them. The Taylor Collection and the Baxter Collection of mostly Kansas coal balls formed the core of the KU Paleobotany collection, but we have acquired other so-called orphaned collections, including portions of the collections of Ted Delevoryas (Triassic of North Carolina; Jurassic of Mexico), Lawrence C. Matten (Devonian of Ireland), Gar W. Rothwell (early seed plants) and Gene Mapes (Pennsylvanian of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas).

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Contacts

Andrew Bentley
originator
position: Bioinformatics Manager
University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute
Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence
66045
KS
US
Telephone: +1 (785) 864-3863
email: abentley@ku.edu
homepage: https://biodiversity.ku.edu/

Rudolph Serbet
metadata author
position: Collections Manager
University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute
Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence
66045
KS
US
Telephone: +1 (785) 864-3410
email: serbet@ku.edu
homepage: https://biodiversity.ku.edu/paleobotany

Brian Atkinson
curator
position: Curator
University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute
1475 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence
66045
KS
US
Telephone: +1 (785) 864-1256
email: brian.atkinson@ku.edu
homepage: https://biodiversity.ku.edu/paleobotany

Kelly Matsunaga
curator
position: Curator
University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute
1475 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence
66045
KS
US
email: matsunaga@ku.edu
homepage: https://biodiversity.ku.edu/paleobotany

Rudolph Serbet
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager
University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute
Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence
66045
KS
US
Telephone: +1 (785) 864-3410
email: serbet@ku.edu
homepage: https://biodiversity.ku.edu/paleobotany