Conodont fossil, Ozarkodina confluens
The Museum’s collection of conodont microfossils is particularly strong in Carboniferous material.
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Strengths
The Museum curates a number of historically significant conodont collections:
- type and figured material of George Jennings Hinde (1879), which represents our oldest conodont collection
- material from Alan Higgins, published in the 1960s
- type and figured material from the Carboniferous of Britain (Frank Rhodes, Ronald Austin and Ed Druce, 1969), which forms the core of our conodont collection
- Austin’s British and Irish Carboniferous research collection, acquired in 1994
- Silurian collections from Richard Aldridge and co-workers, including Peep Männik, John Mabillard and Giles Miller
The Cambrian, Permian and Triassic periods are currently under-represented.
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Microscopic tooth-like fossils from the Silurian period, found in the Timan-Pechora region of Russia
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Microscopic Hindeodus cristulus fossils from the Carboniferous Middle Hosie Limestone near Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland
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An element of the conodont Ozarkodina remscheiddensis eosteinhornensis
Countries of origin
The majority of the collection is British, but we hold smaller sub-collections from Australia, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Iran, Italy, Latvia, New Zealand, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and Turkey.
Important historical collections
- George Jennings Hinde (1879)
- Alan Higgins (1960s)
- Frank Rhodes, Ronald Austin and Ed Druce (1969)
- Ronald Austin’s British and Irish Carboniferous research collection
- Silurian collections from Richard Aldridge and co-workers, including Peep Männik, John Mabillard and Giles Miller
Related links
- Conodont collection database
- Publications (link TBC)
- The Curator of Micropalaeontology's blog
- Blogpost: Conodonts – the most controversial microfossils?
- Follow us @NHM_Micropalaeo
- Micropalaeontology library
Accessing the collections
Scientists and collections management specialists can visit the collections and borrow specimens for research.
Collections management
Our duty is to provide a safe and secure environment for all of our collections.
Collections on the move
We have set out on an ambitious programme to develop a new science and digitisation centre at Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire by 2026. As we prepare for the move, access to some collections will be affected.
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