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Paleontological Collections - an Overview
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The paleontological collection is specialized in fossils of the Canton of Bern, especially of the Molasse sediments, of the Jura mountains and also much precious of the Alps. There are about 160'000 objects in the collections.
Collection of figured specimens
Legend: Harpoceras renvieri Hug 1898 (Holotype), Liassic ammonite, Teysachaux, Canton of Fribourg
The oldest specimens of our collections are described by Meisner in 1820. Then we have the specimens from Studer Bernhard 1825, Agassiz 1833 und 1839, Heer 1855 and others (see pdf-list).
Regional collections (mainly invertebrates)
- Swiss Molasse basin: Tertiary, mainly Miocene. Fossils from St.Gallen, Luzern, Balerna, Aarwangen, Bern, Rüschegg, Guggisberg, Lausanne, Jensberg, Laufen, Courgenay, Court, le Locle.
Legend: Pecten helvetiensis (sea shell), Imihubel (10 km S of Bern)
- Swiss Alps: Carboniferous to Tertiary, mainly Helvetic, Ultrahelvetic and Briançonnais. An important collection which is not well known because only a few people worked with this material.
Legend: Harpatocarcinus punctulatus (fossil crab), Eocene, Niederhorn, Bernese Oberland
- Foreign countries: Cambrian to subrecent: There are objects of well known localities as Crailsheim, Priabona, Possagno, Damery, Solnhofen, Holzmaden and others. Allmost a third of the collection consists of faunas from the European Tertiary. The following type localities are documented: Bajocian, Danian, Bartonian, Aquitanian, Burdigalian, Tortonian, Plaisantian and Astian.
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Systematic collections
- Mesozoic fossils of the Swiss Jura mountains. Half of the material originates from the Cantons Bern and Jura. Here included is the collection of F.L. Koby, comprising e.g. a very rich fauna of the Rauracien facies (Oxfordian, Malm).
Legend: Stomechinus perlatus, (sea-urchin), Upper Jurassic, Reuchenette, Canton of Bern
- Teeth of Chondrichthyes, mainly from the Swiss Molasse (based on the collection from J. Wegmüller)
- Bivalves of the Upper Marine Molasse (Burdigalian), near Bern
- Trilobites
- Oligocene corals from southern Europe
Plants
(mainly Cenozoic and Carboniferous, from Switzerland and also foreign countries)
Legend: Leaf of the cinnamon tree, Lower Freshwater Molasse, Eriz,
Canton of Bern
Vertebrates
mainly mammals (from Switzerland, French, German, Italy, England, Greece and Egypte, from important localities as Ronzon, Robiac, Bach, Cadibona, Samos)
- Mesozoic
- Tertiary
- Ice age
Important single objects
- Dinotherium bavaricum, Miocene, Mt.Chaibeux Switzerland, lower jaw
- Aceratherium gannatense, Aquitanian, Berne, Switzerland, skull
- Megaloceras giganteus, Quarternary, Eire, skeleton
- Ursus spelaeus, Quarternary, Czech republic, skeleton
- Confuciusornis sanctus, lower Cretaceous, Liaoning Province, NE-China
Liassic, area of Holzmaden, Germany, on rock:
- Stenopterygius quadriscissus, S. crassicostatus, S. sp.
- 2 Mystriosaurus bollensis, skeletons, and
- 3 Pentacrinus subangularis
- Dunkleosteus cf. marsaisi, middle Devonian, Southern Morocco
- Coccosteus cuspidatus, Devonian, Scotland
- Orthacanthus senckenbergianus, lower Permian, Niederkirchen, Germany
- Acanthodes bronni, Permian, Pfalz, Germany
- Birkenia elegans, Silurian, Hagshaw Hills, Scotland
- Osteolepis macrolepidotus, middle Devonian, Orkney Islands
- Pteraspis sp., lower Devonian, Olpe, Germany
- Eurypterus remipes, upper Silurian, Passage Guld, New York
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