Paleontological Research Institution Collections
Citation
Skibinski L (2023). Paleontological Research Institution Collections. Version 5.12. Paleontological Research Institution. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/gcs4df accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.Description
The collection of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) includes 7 million specimens, making it among the 10 largest invertebrate paleontology collections in the United States. Most of the collection consists of invertebrate fossils (representing almost every major group of organisms from around the world over the past 2 billion years), with major strengths in Cenozoic marine mollusks of the Western Hemisphere, Paleozoic marine invertebrates of New York State, and Cenozoic benthic foraminifera of the U.S. Coastal Plains and Caribbean. The collection also includes significant holdings of Recent mollusks. PRI houses all non-botanical fossils and Recent mollusks formerly held at Cornell University. PRI's collection of Type and Figured specimens (also one of the nation's 10 largest) includes more than 15,000 specimens, many of which were published in PRI’s journal, Bulletins of American Paleontology—one of the oldest peer-reviewed paleontological journals in the world.Additional info
Specific locality or collection event information may be available. https://www.priweb.org/files/Collections/Collections-Data_Use_Policy.pdf, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ and http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html http://priweb.org/collections-data-use-policyTaxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Most of the collections consist of invertebrate fossils (representing almost every major group of organisms from around the world over the past 2 billion years), with major strengths in Cenozoic marine mollusks of the Western Hemisphere, Paleozoic marine invertebrates of New York State, and Cenozoic benthic foraminifera of the U.S. Coastal Plains and Caribbean.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Leslie Skibinskioriginator
position: Collections Manager
Paleontological Research Institution
1259 Trumansburg Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +01 607-273-6623 ext. 128
email: lls94@cornell.edu
homepage: http://www.priweb.org/
Leslie Skibinski
metadata author
position: Collections Manager
Paleontological Research Institution
1259 Trumansburg Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +01 607-273-6623 ext. 128
email: lls94@cornell.edu
homepage: http://www.priweb.org/
David Bloom
programmer
position: Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
Gregory Dietl
curator
position: Director of Collections
Paleontological Research Institution
1259 Trumansburg Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +01 607-273-6623 ext. 117
email: gpd3@cornell.edu
homepage: http://www.priweb.org/
Leslie Skibinski
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager
Paleontological Research Institution
1259 Trumansburg Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +01 607-273-6623 ext. 128
email: lls94@cornell.edu
homepage: http://www.priweb.org/