Paleontological collection of the University of Tübingen

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Plateosaurus engelhardti dinosaur : skeleton in the University's Paleontological Museum. It is an almost complete individual from Trossingen , reconstructed and set up by Friedrich von Huene
Skeletons of two cave bears from the Karls- and Bärenhöhle near Sonnenbühl on the Swabian Alb
Lipleurodon ferox , a pliosaur , in the paleontological institute of the University of Tübingen
One of eight so far discovered specimens of Henodus chelyops , a placodon animal (plaster tooth dinosaur ), exhibited in the Palaeontological Institute of the University of Tübingen. All known fossils come from the Tübingen Goldersbachtal .

The paleontological collection of the University of Tübingen goes back to a teaching collection from the late 18th century and was subsequently expanded by members of the university as well as by private collections . It currently consists of around 600,000 objects from all areas of paleontology , from micropaleontology to vertebrate paleontology . The exhibition rooms of the collection were completely renovated in 2010 and 2011 and offer an overview of fossils in southwest Germany, the development of life and especially marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs , plesiosaurs and marine crocodiles , as well as the early development of mammals and therapsids . The paleontological collection of the University of Tübingen is one of the largest university collections in Germany and is a sub-collection of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT .

Collection focus

Particularly noteworthy are the collecting activities of the following researchers: Friedrich August Quenstedt , who laid the foundation for the systematic paleontological research of the Swabian Alb in the 19th century , the vertebrate fossils from the collection of the paleontologist Friedrich von Huene , the ammonite collections of Otto Heinrich Schindewolf , and the extensive collection of traces of Adolf Seilacher . Among the microfossils , the collection of the Reutlingen school teacher Alfred Eisenack deserves a special mention.

literature

  • Johannes Baier: Museum portrait : The new paleontological museum in Tübingen , Fossilien 30, 247–252, 2013.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '33.9 "  N , 9 ° 3' 35.6"  E