Conodont collection
Conodont fossil, Ozarkodina confluens
The collection of conodont microfossils is particularly strong in Carboniferous material.
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The collections are being digitised and are accessible via the Data Portal.
Specimen numbers
Slides
5,000
Individual specimens
50,000+
Strengths
We curate 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.
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
