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Institut Català de Paleontologia "Miquel Crusafont"

Contact

Contact

Angel Galobart

Administrator

Xavier Solà

Telephone

+34-937261769

Address

Escola Industrial, 23
Sabadell
08201
Barcelona
ESPAÑA

Email

galobartla@diba.es

Colección de paleovertebrados, Institut Català de Paleontologia "Miquel Crusafont"

Description

The collection began in 1969, date of creation of the Paleontological Institute, with the donation of the personal collection of the Prof. Miquel Crusafont and the funds of the old Museum of History of Sabadell. It has gone getting rich along the years with successive excavation campaigns. It is mainly integrated by fossil vertebrates of the Iberian basins, basically mammals. It also has an important collection of fossil plants of the Catalan basins, as well as the "Pere Vidal Carreras" collection of fossil invertebrates.

Overall information

Strengths

1- Primate and human evolution, 2- analysis of continental cenozoic ecosystems, 3- Mesozoic palaeoherpetology, 4- Continental Cenozoic biostratigraphy.

Access restrictions

Only researchers.

Taxonomic coverage

Scientific names

algunos/as Amphibia, algunos/as Aves, algunos/as Chondrichthyes, algunos/as Mammalia, algunos/as Mollusca, algunos/as Osteichthyes, algunos/as Reptilia.

Common names

algunos/as anfibios, algunos/as aves, algunos/as mamíferos, algunos/as moluscos, algunos/as peces, algunos/as plantas, algunos/as plantas vasculares, algunos/as reptiles, algunos/as tiburones.

Geospatial coverage

todo(s) Península Ibérica.

Temporal location

Temporal coverage

algunos/as Cenozoico, algunos/as Mesozoico.

Datasets of the collection/database

Types of objects

algunos/as conchas (colección), algunos/as huesos, algunos/as huevos.

Types of datasets

todo(s) fósil.

Conservation method

algunos/as secado, principalmente sin tratamiento.

Digitalization

Nº of copies / records

200.000

Percentage of computerization

100

Does it include Type specimens?

No

Access to datasets

  • N/A