The Collection
Size and focus of the collection: About 25.000 specimens from the Palaeozoic (especially corals, nautilids, brachiopods, trilobites, crinoids and, to a lesser extent, bivalves and gastropods); 70.000 specimens from the earlier Mesozoic (Triassic), especially cephalopods (ceratitids and nautilids), bivalves, gastropods, brachiopods and echinoderms (crinoids, starfishes and sea urchins) from the Muschelkalk and Keuper of Baden-Württemberg as well as fossils such as corals, bivalves, gastropods, ammonoids, brachiopods and echinoderms) from the alpine Upper Triassic.
Significance of the collection: Palaeozoic: Important collection of published specimens from the "classic", partly unaccessible sites in Europe, especially from Germany. Larger collections come from the Lower Devonian of Bundenbach / Hunsrück and from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel.
Older Mesozoic (Trias): One of the largest special collections from the Muschelkalk and Keuper of Baden-Württemberg; large comparative collections from many sites in Central Europe. Special collections from many "classic" sites of the Alps, especially from the Middle and Upper Triassic of the Dolomites; about 1.000 types and figured specimens; historical special collections, including that of Friedrich von Alberti (1795-1878). The latter focuses on fossils from the Muschelkalk and Keuper of Württemberg, with the figured specimens and types of Alberti´s publications (Friedrich von Alberti 1826: Die Gebirge des Königreichs Würtemberg; Friedrich von Alberti 1834: Beitrag zu einer Monographie des Bunten Sandsteins, Muschelkalks und Keupers und die Verbindung dieser Gebilde zu einer Formation).
Data Project and Service
The Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Württemberg supported inventory, digitalisation and online access of the collections. Technical support is provided by the Stabsstelle IT & Biodiversitätsinformatik of the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart.
The Dataset "Fossile Invertebrates (Paleozoic and Triassic) at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde" and – if not stated otherwise – its supporting files have been copyrighted © 2025- by the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart.