Recordset
Search RecordsetField Museum of Natural History (Geology) Paleobotany Collection
Specimen Records: 23,492
Media Records: 35,600
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23
The Paleobotany Collection spans 3.8 billion years of history but has its major strengths in the Late Paleozoic and Cretaceous-Paleogene. It includes hand specimens, mesofossils, cellulose acetate preparations of anatomically preserved plants, and both fossil and extant (comparative) palynological preparations.
Contacts
| Name | Kate Webbink |
| Role | Information Systems Specialist |
| kwebbink@fieldmuseum.org |
| Name | Fabiany Herrera |
| Role | Curator |
| fherrera@fieldmuseum.org |
| Name | Michael Donovan |
| Role | Collections Manager |
| mdonovan@fieldmuseum.org |
| Name | Ian Glasspool |
| Role | Associate Researcher |
| none |
| Name | Sharon Grant |
| Role | Technology Liaison to Science |
| sgrant@fieldmuseum.org |
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