Palaeozoological Collections (PZ), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)
IPT GBIF Sweden
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Dataset type
This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.
Description
This dataset represents the physical and digital holdings of fossil animals at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The collection includes more than one million items, including many type specimens. The main part of the collection consists of material from Sweden, mainly invertebrates from the lower Palaeozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian), including extensive collections from the Silurian of Gotland. The collection also includes rich faunas, both invertebrates and vertebrates, from the Mesozoic of Scania. The non-Scandinavian invertebrate material also includes particularly important collections of microfossils from the early Cambrian, fossil seep faunas and material from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The vertebrate collections include one of the world’s richest collections of Devonian fish, with a focus on Spitzbergen, Greenland, and Germany. There are also important holdings of South American Pleistocene mammals.
Geographic Description
All continents and countries. All geological periods. Focus on early Palaeozoic and Mesozoic of Sweden and northern Europe with the world's largest collection of fossils from Gotland, and further from the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
Type of content
Includes: Point occurrence data.Citation
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Palaeozoological Collections
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure. This resource was last checked for updated data on 03 Feb 2025. The most recent data was published on 16 Dec 2024.
Metadata last updated on 2025-02-03 07:48:44.0
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