Cleveland Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

Sarah Hennessey; Hailey Majewski

doi:10.15468/y0qgmj

Cleveland Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

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

Coelenterata
rank: phylum
Mollusca
rank: phylum
Graptolithina
rank: phylum
Annelida
rank: phylum
Conulariida
rank: phylum
Echinodermata
rank: phylum
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Porifera
rank: phylum
Bryozoa
rank: phylum
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