Description
Of the more than 170,000 specimens in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Division of Paleobotany, 4,300 are type and illustrated specimens. The collection is worldwide in scope, with approximately 75% from North America and the remaining from the Arctic, Australia, Central America, Europe, Israel, Pakistan, Lebanon, China, India, South America, and the West Indies.
This collection, which traces its roots to the early 19th century, is one of the most historically significant in the United States. Highlights include:
Plant fossils from the opening of the American West
Plant fossils from the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842, described by James Dwight Dana
Triassic and late Cretaceous floras from Arizona, New York, New Jersey, and southern New England
The world’s largest assemblage of cycadeoids
- Taxonomic description
- No information
- Geographic description
- No information
- Temporal description
- No information
- Code
- YPM
- Number of specimens in collection
- 170,000
- Online Catalog/Database
- Content types
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Incorporated collections
- New York Botanic Garden
- Princeton University
Contacts
- Homepage
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- CT
- City/Town
- NEW HAVEN
- Postal/Zip Code
- 06511
- Address
- 170 Whitney Ave
- Mailing address
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Connecticut
- City/Town
- New Haven
- Postal/Zip Code
- 06511-0000
- Address
- Yale University, PO Box 208118
S
Shusheng Hu
Collections Manager
Identifiers
- Code
- YPM
- Identifiers
- UUIDurn:uuid:d6702499-0698-4069-bf5f-9312bef7ed16