Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology — Combined minor collections (5 sections)
About this product
Overview
Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology — Combined minor collections (5 sections) groups 50 collection units from 5 sections within the ES Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology division (Earth Sciences), covering an estimated 440,441 individual items held across 311,922 curatorial/storage units. Material is predominantly macrofossils (46 of 50 collection units), whole organisms (2 of 50 collection units), and mixed (2 of 50 collection units). Preservation is mainly hand specimens, microscope slide, and oversize specimens. Named taxa represented in this product include Arthropoda, Cnidaria, Annelida, Porifera, and Scleractinia, among others.
Value
Curatorial assessment rates this product highly on Strategy/mission/research, Identification, and Scope and depth (avg. 3.5/5 across its top three scored dimensions), indicating it is well positioned for external licensing relative to other NHM holdings.
Use Cases
- training data for fossil-identification and palaeontological computer-vision models
- reference datasets for evolutionary and stratigraphic research
- content for natural-history media, documentaries, and museum digital exhibits
- 3D scanning and reconstruction projects for education, VR/AR, and scientific visualisation
- academic and institutional research licensing (biodiversity, systematics, and comparative studies)
- supervised computer-vision or species-identification model training, thanks to reliable taxonomic ground truth
Assets (50)
Annelida (oversized)
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Annelida (oversized) - South Kensington
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Annelida thin sections & cavity slides
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Cenozoic Annelida
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Cenozoic Cnidaria
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Cenozoic Porifera
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Chelicerata - main
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Chelicerata - oversized eurypterids
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Crustacea - Collins collection
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Crustacea - Gogo collection
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Crustacea - main
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Crustacea - Quayle collection
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Early animal life collection
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Fossil Cnidaria - thin sections
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Hexapoda - main
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Hexapoda - Weald collection
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Mesozoic Annelida
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Mesozoic Cnidaria
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Mesozoic Porifera
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Myriapoda
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Non-biological Problematica
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Oversized Porifera
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Palaeozoic Annelida
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Palaeozoic Annelida (Machaeridia)
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Palaeozoic Cnidaria
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Palaeozoic Porifera
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Palaeozoic Porifera (Archaeocyathida)
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Pleistocene Aldabra Atoll
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Pleistocene Kenya
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Porifera thin sections & cavity slides
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Problematica
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Problematica
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Problematica (Eozöon canadense)
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Problematica (oversized)
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Problematica thin sections & cavity slides
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Recent comparative Cnidaria 1
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Recent comparative Cnidaria 2
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Throughflow Bulk Collections
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Trilobites - Beckley collection
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Trilobites - Fortey collection
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Trilobites - French nodules
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Trilobites - main (incl. allies)
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Trilobites - Mixed field collections
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Trilobites - Morris & Tripp collection
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Trilobites - Page collection
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Unincorporated Cnidaria
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Unprocessed Mesozoic
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Unprocessed Palaeozoic
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Unsorted Cnidaria
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Wandsworth arthropods
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