Conodont collection

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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Senior Curator

Dr Stephen Stukins

Principal Curator

Dr Giles Miller

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Microscopic tooth-like fossils from the Silurian period, found in the Timan-Pechora region of Russia
Microscopic Hindeodus cristulus fossils from the Carboniferous Middle Hosie Limestone near Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland
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