Field Museum of Natural History (Geology) Fossil Invertebrates Collection

Kate Webbink

doi:10.15468/cjabhe

Field Museum of Natural History (Geology) Fossil Invertebrates Collection

Citation

Webbink K, Mayer P (2017). Field Museum of Natural History (Geology) Fossil Invertebrates Collection. Field Museum. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/cjabhe accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-04-21.

Description

The Field Museum’s fossil invertebrate collection started with the purchase of the Ward’s Natural Science Establishment collection displayed during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The collection grew steadily over the years with the work of A.W. Slocom, S. K. Roy, E. S. Richardson and other Field Museum geologists plus numerous donations from other museums, universities, and the general public. In 1965 the Field Museum acquired the University of Chicago’s Walker Museum fossil invertebrates, which more than doubled the total number of specimens in the collection. Today there are an estimated 2 million specimens divided into ~320,000 specimen lots. The majority of the collection is arranged systematically divided by geologic periods. The remaining collection is organized stratigraphically.

Taxonomic Coverages

There are 15 fossil invertebrate phyla represented in the Field Museum’s collections.

Porifera
rank: phylum
Cnidaria
rank: phylum
Bryozoa
rank: phylum
Brachiopoda
rank: phylum
Mollusca
rank: phylum
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Exhinodermata
rank: phylum
Nemertea
rank: phylum
Nematoda
rank: phylum
Priapulida
rank: phylum
Echiura
rank: phylum
Annelida
rank: phylum
Onychophora
rank: phylum
Chaetognatha
rank: phylum
Hemichordata
rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

Global

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Kate Webbink
originator
position: Information System Specialist
Field Museum of Natural History
email: kwebbink@fieldmuseum.org

Paul Mayer
metadata author
position: Collections Manager of Fossil Invertebrates
Field Museum of Natural History
email: pmayer@fieldmuseum.org

Paul Mayer
user
position: Collections Manager of Fossil Invertebrates
Field Museum of Natural History
email: pmayer@fieldmuseum.org
homepage: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/91

Scott Lidgard
curator
position: Associate Curator
Field Museum of Natural History
email: slidgard@fieldmuseum.org
homepage: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/101

Laura Russell
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
email: larussell@vertnet.org

Kate Webbink
point of contact
position: Information Systems Specialist
Field Museum
email: kwebbink@fieldmuseum.org
homepage: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/986

Sharon Grant
administrative point of contact
position: Technology Liaison to Science
Field Museum of Natural History
email: sgrant@fieldmuseum.org