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Current Collections Data: IN PROGRESS
The paleobotanical collection was established and largely built by emeritus Prof. Henry N. Andrews in 1964 when he joined the faculty as Head of the Botany Department. In addition to the material that Andrews brought and added, the collection grew through additions made by his successor, Dr. William Crepet, and his students. Rock specimens are primarily impressions and compressions. Glass slides bear preparations of coal ball peels, ground thin sections of permineralized plant remains, and spores and cuticle extracted from fossils.
The collection represents the full
span of geological time for which plant fossils are known and includes
most major plant groups. The specimens are of high quality, selected to
illustrate important features of a given plant taxon or group, or are
representative taxa of well-known locality, and in some cases represent
type or figured specimens (e.g., isotypes of plants from the Early Devonian
of the Trout Valley Formation, Maine). Although the holdings are especially
rich in Devonian plants, they also include extremely fine specimens of
younger (Mesozoic and Cenozoic) plant fossils as well. Many of the coal
ball peels are part of a series from which important early coal ball studies,
published by Andrews and his students, were made.
Collection Manager:
Dr. Robert Capers
Faculty: Dr. Cynthia Jones
email: robert.capers@uconn.edu
phone: 860-486-1889
UConn Fossil Plant Collection, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Unit 3043, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-3043,
USA
Collections Data:
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Specimen data on-line