Palaeontological collections National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg

doi:10.15468/vbuvyu

Palaeontological collections National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg

Citation

MnhnL, Braun P (2023). Palaeontological collections National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg. Version 1.69. National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/vbuvyu accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-10-01.

Description

The first collection of fossils in the natural history museum was part of the donation of the Society of Sciences to the state in 1922. Since then it has grown by excavations, by donations and several acquisitions. The most important private collections added before 1985 to the historical collection of the museum were: X. deWael, E. de Muyser E., V. Ferrant, X. Leesberg, H. Reding, J. Robert., L. Senninger, P. Siegen, N. Laux, F. Heuertz,. More recent acquired collections meanly originate from the scientific collaborators of the MnhnL. Today the collections has about 70.000 fossils, half of it is recorded (20.000 records). The predominant provenances of the fossils are the Eifel, Eislek and Ardennes for the Devonian species, the Lorraine, Gaume and Guttland for the Jurassic fossils. The Paris Basin stratigraphical area is fairly good represented, du to the collection of P. L. Maubeuge and the E. Pellat Collection of the UCL. The main systematic groups in number of pieces and in degree of determinations, are Jurassic cephalopods, gastropods and bivalves so as devonian brachiopods and trilobites. The geological formations with complete fossil faunas are the Luxembourg Sandstone, the Sonninia-layers, the minette iron formation and the Dogger limestone. A nice collection of fossil woods from G. Janssen and the leafs from US coal Measures should be mentioned in Paleobotaniocal topics.

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MnhnL
originator
National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
25 Rue Münster
Luxembourg
2160
LU
email: recorder@mnhn.lu
homepage: https://www.mnhn.lu

Paul Braun
metadata author
position: Digital Curator
National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
25 Rue Münster
Luxembourg
2160
LU
email: paul.braun@mnhn.lu
homepage: https://www.mnhn.lu/science
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8353-1469

owner
Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg
25 Rue Münster
Luxembourg
2160
LU
email: recorder@mnhn.lu
homepage: https://www.mnhn.lu/

Paul Braun
administrative point of contact
position: Digital Curator
National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
25 Rue Münster
Luxembourg
2160
LU
email: paul.braun@mnhn.lu
homepage: https://www.mnhn.lu/science
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8353-1469

Ben Thuy
administrative point of contact
position: Curator Palaeontology
National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
25 Rue Münster
Luxembourg
2160
LU
email: Ben.THUY@mnhn.lu
homepage: https://www.mnhn.lu/science
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8231-9565

Robert Weis
administrative point of contact
position: Scientific assistant Palaeontology
MnhnL
25 Rue Münster
National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
2160
LU
email: robert.weis@mnhn.lu
homepage: https://www.mnhn.lu/science
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8510-0227