Palaeobiology - Vertebrate Fossils Collection - Mammalia - Royal Ontario Museum
Citation
Millen B, Seymour K (2018). Palaeobiology - Vertebrate Fossils Collection - Mammalia - Royal Ontario Museum. Version 7.5. Royal Ontario Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/50n0dc accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-21.Description
The vertebrate fossil collection at the Royal Ontario museum consists of over 72,000 catalogued and databased fossil specimens of all vertebrate classes. Inventory and databasing of the fossil fishes is not yet complete however, so this number will grow in the near future. The collection is just over a century old, having been started with a donation from the University of Toronto when the museum was created in 1914. Particular strengths of the collection include Cretaceous dinosaurs from Alberta, Jurassic ichthyosaurs, Tertiary mammals from Saskatchewan, Quaternary mammals from Peru, Ecuador, Florida and Alberta, as well as Quaternary birds from Peru.Sampling Description
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Specimens represent all continents excepting Antarctica
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Contacts
Bradley Millenoriginator
position: Database Technician
Royal Ontario Museum
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Toronto
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Ontario
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Kevin Seymour
metadata author
position: Assistant Curator
Royal Ontario Museum
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Toronto
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Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-416-586-5754
email: kevins@rom.on.ca
homepage: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/kevin-seymour
David Evans
curator
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Brian Iwama
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Ian Morrison
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position: Technician
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto
M5S 2C6
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-416-586-5756
email: ianmo@rom.on.ca
Kevin Seymour
administrative point of contact
position: Assistant Curator
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto
M5S 2C6
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-416-586-5754
email: kevins@rom.on.ca
homepage: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/kevin-seymour