Palaeozoological Collections (PZ), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)

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

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

Digitised records

Metadata last updated on 2024-11-04 07:34:54.0