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Geology Collections
Collected over the last 100 years or so, the paleontological collections rank among the world's ten largest and include millions of individual fossilized organisms. While numerically smaller, the meteorite collection is also of outstanding importance and in terms of size is the largest collection in a private institution and the fifth largest in the world.
… moreCollected over the last 100 years or so, the paleontological collections rank among the world's ten largest and include millions of individual fossilized organisms. While numerically smaller, the meteorite collection is also of outstanding importance and in terms of size is the largest collection in a private institution and the fifth largest in the world.
These collections are a national treasure and an international resource, enticing researchers from all over the world to study them. The collections are subdivided into four divisions: Meteorites/Gems and Minerals, Paleobotany, Invertebrate Paleontology, and Vertebrate Paleontology, the latter being further divided into Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles, Fossil Birds, Fossil Fishes and Fossil Mammals.
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Improvements to departmental paleontological collection facilities were funded by several NSF Collection Improvement grants. The state-of-the-art meteorite collections facility in the Robert Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies was constructed through the generous support of the Tawani Foundation and Col. James Pritzker. Labs for preparation of vertebrate fossils were renovated through the generous support of McDonald’s.
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