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Palaeozoological Collections (PZ), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)

Specimen Records: 388,214
Media Records: 5,426
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-01-23

This dataset represents the physical and digital holdings of fossil animals at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The collection includes more than one million items, including many type specimens. The main part of the collection consists of material from Sweden, mainly invertebrates from the lower Palaeozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian), including extensive collections from the Silurian of Gotland. The collection also includes rich faunas, both invertebrates and vertebrates, from the Mesozoic of Scania. The non-Scandinavian invertebrate material also includes particularly important collections of microfossils from the early Cambrian, fossil seep faunas and material from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The vertebrate collections include one of the world’s richest collections of Devonian fish, with a focus on Spitzbergen, Greenland, and Germany. There are also important holdings of South American Pleistocene mammals.

Contacts

Name Kevin Holston
RoleCurator
Emailkevin.holston@nrm.se
Name Ove Johansson
RoleCurator
Emailove.johansson@nrm.se
Name Ove Johansson
RoleCurator
EmailOve.Johansson@nrm.se
Name Vivi Vajda
RoleDepartment Head, Researcher
Emailvivi.vajda@nrm.se
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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