Micropaleontological training collections

Micropaleontological training and teaching collections

In applied micropaleontology biostratigraphers need to quickly assign samples from outcrops or wells to a geological age, for which they sometimes prepared collections for on-site species identification, rapid comparison but which also served for training of specialists. Some collections were especially prepared prior to international meetings and colloquia in order to standardize species identification among industrial specialists. Occasionally such very valuable collections are donated from practizing biostratigraphers after retirement. Also at the Natural History Museum a few such collections are deposited.
Some of them served as "pocked-collections" to specialists during their on-site work in petroleum industry. Others had a fundamental to the development of regional (or global) biostratigraphic correlation schemes. Outstanding examples from the perspective of science history are the foraminiferal collections of the Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd. (the T.L.L. collections), or the zonal assemblage collection of Cenozoic tropical planktic foraminifera of H.M. Bolli and his co-workers.

At NMB Such collections are not curated at physically separate locations but are kept alongside the main collections of individual specialists. The following links and brief descriptions may help to better locate these training sets in the various main collections and places.

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4.) Colln. of Trinidad foraminifera (T.L.L. foraminiferal colln.) (H.G. Kugler)

5.) Pocket collection of Martin A. Ziegler (1961)
Training set for the identification of benthic and planktic foraminifera, mainly for purposes of applied biostratigraphy.

6.) Teaching collection M. Knappertsbusch (Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera)

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7.) Foraminiferal models