About our collections
Read more about our palaeontological collections, their history and historical expeditions.
Fossil plants
The palaeobotanical collections comprise almost 300,000 fossil plants from a wide array of geological ages all over the ...
Fossil invertebrates
Invertebrate fossils form the largest part of the collections at the Department of Palaeobiology with approximately 1 mi...
Fossil vertebrates
In our collections there are almost 50,000 fossil vertebrates, including a large collection of fish fossils and the worl...
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Microfossils
The microfossil collection includes marine microscopic plankton such as foraminifera and dinoflagellates but also ostrac...
Contact and loans
Read here where you can turn to if you are interested in borrowing or donating specimens, or if you want to get in touch...
Library
The unit of paleobiology has a library containing books, offprints, and scientific journals primarily focused on paleont...