Colección de paleovertebrados, Institut Català de Paleontologia "Miquel Crusafont"
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Code
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Registration date
24/08/2007 -
Update date
07/09/2012 - Download the sheet
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
200.000
100
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