The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany collections are now searchable online at CU Museum Paleontology Invertebrate and Plant Database.
The Museum is one of few worldwide to have sizeable and historically important fossil terrestrial arthropod collections, including a large collection (approximately 4800 specimens) of historically and scientifically important fossils of plants, insects, and other invertebrates from the Florissant Formation. The majority of these specimens were collected in 1906-1908 by T.D.A. Cockerell and others during their summer expeditions to Florissant.
The database will be updated in the future, and the Museum hopes to eventually add photographs of the specimens. Congratulations to the Museum for getting this excellent resource up and running!
-Melissa Barton
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Friends of the Park group supporting