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Cleveland Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Hennessey S, Majewski H (2023). Cleveland Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Paleontology Collection. Version 3.8. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/y0qgmj accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-21.

Description

The Department of Invertebrate Paleontology collects, curates and studies fossil invertebrates. Its collection includes body fossils of animals such as sponges, bryozoans, corals, trilobites, crustaceans, insects, millipedes, brachiopods and mollusks, as well as trace fossils (ichnofossils) made by invertebrate animals. With more than 86,600 individual cataloged specimens, the collection’s strength is Ohio fossils, but it also includes specimens from elsewhere in North America, and from Europe, Asia and South America.

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Coelenterata
    rank: phylum
  2. Mollusca
    rank: phylum
  3. Graptolithina
    rank: phylum
  4. Annelida
    rank: phylum
  5. Conulariida
    rank: phylum
  6. Echinodermata
    rank: phylum
  7. Arthropoda
    rank: phylum
  8. Porifera
    rank: phylum
  9. Bryozoa
    rank: phylum
  10. Brachiopoda
    rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

The collection’s strength is Ohio fossils, but it also includes specimens from elsewhere in North America, and from Europe, Asia and South America.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Sarah Hennessey
originator
position: Collections Manager of Earth Sciences
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle
Cleveland
44106
OH
US
Telephone: +01 216-231-4600 ext. 3259
email: shennessey@cmnh.org
homepage: https://www.cmnh.org
Hailey Majewski
originator
position: Digital Asset Manager
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle
Cleveland
44106
OH
US
Telephone: +01 216-231-4600 ext. 3259
email: hmajewski@cmnh.org
homepage: https://www.cmnh.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3446-8317
Hailey Majewski
metadata author
position: Digital Asset Manager
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle
Cleveland
44106
OH
US
Telephone: +01 216-231-4600 ext. 3259
email: hmajewski@cmnh.org
homepage: https://www.cmnh.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3446-8317
David Bloom
programmer
position: Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
Sarah Hennessey
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager of Earth Sciences
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle
Cleveland
44106
OH
US
Telephone: +01 216-231-4600 ext. 3529
email: shennessey@cmnh.org
homepage: https://www.cmnh.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0009-0008-5922-8241
Hailey Majewski
administrative point of contact
position: Digital Asset Manager
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle
Cleveland
44106
OH
US
Telephone: +01 216-231-4600 ext. 3259
email: hmajewski@cmnh.org
homepage: https://www.cmnh.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3446-8317
Meghan Strong
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager of Earth Sciences
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Director of Collections
Cleveland
44106
OH
US
Telephone: +01 216-231-4600 x 3318
email: mstrong@cmnh.org
homepage: https://www.cmnh.org
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