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JENA: The Palaeontological Collections at the Phyletisches Museum in Jena

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Two palaeontological collections are stored and investigated at the Phyletisches Museum in Jena. With the closure of the geoscientific institutes of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in 1969, the associated palaeontological collection was taken over as a historical entity that has grown since the first half of the eighteenth century. The second collection developed after the foundation of the Phyletisches Museums in 1908 and is presently the main body of the fossil material. One of its best known specimens is a skeleton of an aurochs from Hassleben in western Thuringia (holotype of Bos primigenius taurus), which was studied intensively by J.W. v. Goethe and others. A recently acquired attractive insect fossil is the holotype of a new ancestral family of Strepsiptera embedded in Burmese amber. Palaeontological material is displayed in the exhibition and occasionally used in zoological courses. Research is carried out with specimens from the collection of the Phyletisches Museum, but also with fossils from other institutions and with international cooperation partners.

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  1. Entomology Group, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, mit Phyletischem Museum, Jena, Germany

    Dietrich von Knorre & Rolf G. Beutel

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  1. Department of Biology, Zoological Collection Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Hessen, Germany

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  2. Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany

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von Knorre, D., Beutel, R.G. (2018). JENA: The Palaeontological Collections at the Phyletisches Museum in Jena. In: Beck, L., Joger, U. (eds) Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Natural History Collections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77401-5_33

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