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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  
000445609 complete specimen AMNH:FI:103165 Globotruncana conica plicata Mesh 2022-06-01 Restricted Download  
000445599 sectioned half 2 AMNH:FI:95512 Globorotalia truncatulinoides Mesh 2022-06-01 Restricted Download  
000445595 sectioned half 1 AMNH:FI:95512 Globorotalia truncatulinoides Mesh 2022-06-01 Restricted Download  
000445591 complete specimen AMNH:FI:95512 Globorotalia truncatulinoides Mesh 2022-06-01 Restricted Download  
000445580 complete specimen AMNH:FI:89592 Globorotalia alamedillensis Mesh 2022-06-01 Restricted Download  
000445543 complete specimen AMNH:FI:19805 Dentalina decepta Mesh 2022-06-01 Restricted Download  
000445424 complete specimen AMNH:FI:104151 Guadryina sp Mesh 2022-05-31 Restricted Download  
000445409 complete specimen AMNH:FI:88890 Endothyra whitesidei Mesh 2022-05-31 Restricted Download  
000445391 complete specimen AMNH:FI:19941 Orobias biumbonata Mesh 2022-05-31 Restricted Download  
000445380 complete specimen AMNH:FI:19888 Oolina simplex lacrima Mesh 2022-05-31 Restricted Download  
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