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American Museum of Natural History
AMNH Invertebrate Paleontology Organization Team Managed
172 Media · 82 Specimens · Creator: Hopkins, Melanie, Hussaini, Bushra · Managed by: Melanie Hopkins, Bushra Hussaini, Hilary Ketchum

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) contains one of the largest Invertebrate Paleontology Collections in the world, estimated at 5.12 million specimens. It began in 1875 with the purchase of the James Hall collection and has grown steadily through donations and expeditionary field-work by curators including Otto Haas (Mesozoic Cephalopoda), Roger Batten (Carboniferous Gastropoda), Norman Newell (Paleozoic Bivalvia), Niles Eldredge (Devonian Trilobita), Neil Landman (Mesozoic Cephalopoda) and Melanie Hopkins (Paleozoic, Trilobita). The Hall collection contains important type and historical material, including Paleozoic brachiopods, nautiloids and sponges, as well as Cretaceous material from mid 19th century expeditions to the American West. In addition, the Foraminifera and Ostracoda Microfossil collection was established in 1935 and contains 7000 specimen lots keyed into seminal monographs on foraminifera and ostracoda. Many of the sites represented by these specimens are no longer accessible. The AMNH Invertebrate Paleontology collections serves a wide user base, providing material for numerous publications dealing with taxonomy and systematics of various invertebrate groups to students and professional researchers, as well as providing material to K-12 students and the general public via exhibition and educational activities.

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  ID Part Object Taxonomy Type Date Added Publication Status  
000546944 Fossil AMNH:FI:38100 Caryocrinus ornatus Mesh 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546934 Fossil AMNH:FI:38100 Caryocrinus ornatus Video 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546861 Fossil AMNH:FI:37950 Timoroblastus coronatus Mesh 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546856 Fossil AMNH:FI:37950 Timoroblastus coronatus Video 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546850 Fossil AMNH:FI:4175-3 Nucleocrinus verneuili Mesh 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546845 Fossil AMNH:FI:4175-3 Nucleocrinus verneuili Video 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546839 Fossil AMNH:FI:38009 Pentremites globosa Mesh 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546835 Fossil AMNH:FI:38009 Pentremites globosa Video 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546829 Fossil AMNH:FI:6690 Actinocrinus multiramosus Video 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
000546825 Fossil AMNH:FI:6690 Actinocrinus multiramosus Mesh 2023-08-04 Restricted Download  
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