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The Collection of Invertebrates is under the supervision of Dr. Walter Kegel Christensen. His Email address is: wkc@savik.geomus.ku.dk

The Collection of Invertebrate and Plant Type Palaeontological Collection - The Type Collection, is a depository of scientifically described and figured fossil invertebrates and plant specimens from Denmark and Greenland. About 22,000 specimens are registrated in the Type Collection which includes rich invertebrate collections of fossils from the Danish Cretaceous, Tertiary and Quaternary deposits, and many specimens from the Mesozoic and Palaeozoic exposures on Bornholm, together with well preserved specimens of cephalopods, plant fossils and rich Palaeozoic material from Greenland.
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Geology - The Museon has fossil ammonites of every size.

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The Palaeontology collections incorporate a number of rare fossils from the Swiss Alps. The collections comprise about 1680 drawers and many single oversized objects. The invertebrates are dominant with 1405 drawers. Material from the Swiss Alps: 455 drawers, the Swiss Jura mountains: 185, the Swiss Tertiary: 295 and from other countries: 470. Plants: 155, Vertebrates: 120 drawers. The detailed grouping of this paleontological collection is as follows:

--Regional collections (mainly invertebrates)

- Swiss Molasse basin: Tertiary

- Swiss Jura mountains: Mesozoic

- Swiss Alps: Carboniferous to Tertiary

- Other countries: all ages, much Tertiary

 --Systematic collections

*Swiss fossils

- Echinoderms from the Jurassic of the Swiss Jura mountains

- Teeth of Chondrichthyes from the Swiss Molasse

- others

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