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Field Museum of Natural History (Geology) Fossil Invertebrates Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Webbink K, Mayer P (2019). Field Museum of Natural History (Geology) Fossil Invertebrates Collection. Version 1.7. Field Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/cjabhe accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-05-30.

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.
  1. Porifera
    rank: phylum
  2. Cnidaria
    rank: phylum
  3. Bryozoa
    rank: phylum
  4. Brachiopoda
    rank: phylum
  5. Mollusca
    rank: phylum
  6. Arthropoda
    rank: phylum
  7. Exhinodermata
    rank: phylum
  8. Nemertea
    rank: phylum
  9. Nematoda
    rank: phylum
  10. Priapulida
    rank: phylum
  11. Echiura
    rank: phylum
  12. Annelida
    rank: phylum
  13. Onychophora
    rank: phylum
  14. Chaetognatha
    rank: phylum
  15. 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
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