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Museums of Natural History
Copenhagen
(Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen)
Denmark

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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Museon
Hague
The Netherlands

Geology - The Museon has some exquisite petrified wood exhibits in all colours of the rainbow.

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Natural History Museum of Maastrich
Province of Limburg,
Maastricht
The Netherlands

The Tegelen Clay (Fossil) Collection - From the Tegelen clay deposits a large number of well-preserved fossils have been collected, which together illustrate well the flora and fauna of the Tiglian, the time interval between 2.2 and 1.7 million years ago, which was named after the village of Tegelen.

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Natur Historiska Riksmuseet
(Swedish Museum of Natural History)

Stockholm
Sweden

Department of Palaeobotany - The bulk of the collections come from the Mesozoic of Sweden and from the Arctic. There are also significant collections from the Antarctic, South America, and China, as well as smaller collections from many other areas of the world. The department houses some 200,000 specimens of fossils plants. The electronic registration of the fossil plant collections is a major current ongoing project.

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