Skip to Content

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.

TEAM PROJECTS

View results as:
List Gallery
List of media items in this team
  ID Part Object Taxonomy Type Date Added Publication Status  
000444773 complete specimen AMNH:FI:88695 Fusulinella euthysepta Mesh 2022-05-27 Restricted Download  
000444800 AMNH:FI:103853 Biloculina anomalaschlum Mesh 2022-05-27 Restricted Download  
000446268 complete specimen AMNH:FI:88810 Reussella miocenica Video 2022-06-10 Restricted Download  
000446437 sectioned half 1 AMNH:FI:107735 Cibicides fletcheri Mesh 2022-06-13 Restricted Download  
000442323 complete specimen AMNH:FI:19799 Cibicides mckannai Mesh 2022-05-16 Restricted Download  
000442319 complete specimen AMNH:FI:19799 Cibicides mckannai Video 2022-05-16 Restricted Download  
000442333 complete specimen AMNH:FI:19786 Carinina carinata Mesh 2022-05-16 Restricted Download  
000445369 complete specimen AMNH:FI:45898 Gaudryina laevigata pyramidata Mesh 2022-05-31 Restricted Download  
000445387 complete specimen AMNH:FI:19941 Orobias biumbonata Video 2022-05-31 Restricted Download  
000444676 complete specimen AMNH:FI:19884 Lenticulina velascoensis Mesh 2022-05-26 Restricted Download  
Number of results to display per page
Showing 151 - 160 of 172