Palaeontological collections
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Fossil and recent ostracod database
Browse collection titles or search by donor, collector, taxonomic level, stratigraphic location or country of origin.
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Buckley collection database
Access a complete catalogue of the Buckley foraminifera slide collection.
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Duxbury collection database
Access high quality colour images and original plates from the Duxbury collection, a catalogue of Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts.
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Former Aberystwyth Microfossil Collection database
A catalogue of discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, including foraminifera, ostracods, coccoliths and conodonts.
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Former British Petroleum microfossil database
Search materials from over 3,500 individual well runs, including palynological and nannofossil slides from over 120 countries.
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Fossil and recent ostracod database
Browse collection titles or search by donor, collector, taxonomic level, stratigraphic location or country of origin.
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Heron-Allen slide collection database
Access a complete catalogue of the Heron-Allen foraminifera slide collection, including specimens collected during historic research voyages.
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Historical collections
Find out about the important fossil collections of Sir Hans Sloane,Carl Dietrich Eberhard König and Thomas Pennant, held at the Museum.
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Palaeontology specimen database
Search the palaeontology database for specimens held in the Museum's palaeontology collections.
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Weird Chilean dinosaur is plant-eating theropod - 01/05/2015
Museum dinosaur expert Paul Barrett comments on a new species of dinosaur that has unusual mix of meat-eating and plant-eating features.