Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland: The History of Life of Fossil Organisms at Museums and Universities

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
 Research and Open Questions—A Modern Concept Behind Berlins T. rex Presentation of Tristan Otto  (Uwe Moldrzyk, Linda Gallé)....Pages 1-14
 Scientific Methods of Geological and Paleontological Collections and Trends in Paleontological Investigation and Research  (Cathrin Hühne)....Pages 15-22
 BAMBERG: The Paleontological Collection at the Museum of Natural History in Bamberg (NKMB)  (Matthias Mäuser)....Pages 23-26
 BASEL: The Natural History Museum Basel (NMB)  (Walter Etter, Michael Knappertsbusch, Loïc Costeur)....Pages 27-38
 BERLIN: The Palaeontological Collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin  (Christian Neumann, Stephan Schultka, Florian Witzmann)....Pages 39-56
 BERN: The Natural History Museum — An Institution of the Burgergemeinde of Bern  (Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller)....Pages 57-68
 BIELEFELD: Not Worth Mentioning? Paleontological Collections of Small Museums: The Example of Bielefeld (North Rhine Westphalia, Germany)  (Mark Keiter, Sven Sachs)....Pages 69-76
 BILZINGSLEBEN: The Bilzingsleben Collection  (Clemens Pasda)....Pages 77-79
 The Paleontological Collection of the State Museum of Natural History (SNHM) in Braunschweig, Germany  (Ralf Kosma)....Pages 81-92
 BREMEN: The Paleontological Research Collection of the Geosciences Collection of the University of Bremen  (Jens Lehmann)....Pages 93-113
 Chemnitz: Back to the Roots of Palaeobotany—Chemnitz and its Palaeontological Collection  (Ronny Rößler, Thorid Zierold)....Pages 115-135
 COBURG: Naturkunde-Museum Coburg—Paleontological Collections  (Eckhard Mönnig)....Pages 137-145
 COTTBUS: Museum of Natural History and Environment in Cottbus  (Rolf Striegler, Ursula Striegler)....Pages 147-156
 DARMSTADT: The Paleontological Collections of Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt  (Gabriele Gruber, Oliver Sandrock, Torsten Wappler)....Pages 157-164
 DESSAU-ROSSLAU: Museum of Natural History and Prehistory—Paleontological Collection  (Angelika Hesse)....Pages 165-170
 DORTMUND: Museum für Naturkunde der Stadt Dortmund  (Jan-Michael Ilger, Oliver Adrian)....Pages 171-177
 DOTTERNHAUSEN: The Jurassic World of the Swabian Alb Region (South Germany): The Fossil Collection of the Werkforum and Fossil Museum of Dotternhausen  (Annette Schmid-Röhl)....Pages 179-182
 EICHSTÄTT: The Jura-Museum Eichstätt  (Martina Kölbl-Ebert)....Pages 183-187
 ERLANGEN: The Erlangen Paleobiology Collections  (Wolfgang Kiessling, Michael Heinze, Cristina Krause)....Pages 189-192
 ESSEN: Ruhr Museum—Geological Collection  (Ulrike Stottrop, Udo Scheer, Esther Guderley)....Pages 193-207
 FRANKFURT/DRESDEN/GÖRLITZ: Palaeontological collections of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung  (Dieter Uhl, Lutz Kunzmann, Christine Hertler, Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke, John-Albrecht Keiler, Peter Königshof et al.)....Pages 209-240
 FRICK: Late Triassic Basal Sauropodomorph and Theropod Dinosaurs at the Sauriermuseum Frick, Switzerland  (Andrea B. Oettl-Rieser, Marion Zahner)....Pages 241-248
 GOTHA: Museum der Natur, Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha  (Oliver Wings, Carsten Eckert)....Pages 249-260
 GÖTTINGEN: The Palaeontological Collections of the Geoscience Museum at the Georg-August University in Göttingen  (Alexander Gehler, Mike Reich, Joachim Reitner)....Pages 261-270
 HALLE: The Geiseltal Collection of Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg  (Frank D. Steinheimer, Alexander K. Hastings)....Pages 271-280
 HALLE: The Palaeontological Collection of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale)  (Norbert Hauschke)....Pages 281-292
 HAMBURG: Palaeontological Collections of the Center of Natural History, Universität Hamburg  (Ulrich Kotthoff, Jochen Schlüter)....Pages 293-300
 HANNOVER/BERLIN: The Geoscientific Collections of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources and the State Authority for Mining, Energy and Geology in Hannover and Berlin  (Angela Ehling, Carmen Heunisch)....Pages 301-307
 HANNOVER: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover—Lower Saxony State Museum Hannover  (Annette Richter, Annina Böhme)....Pages 309-320
 HILDESHEIM: Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum  (Jürgen Vespermann)....Pages 321-324
 HOLZMADEN: Prehistoric Museum Hauff—A Fossil Museum Since 4 Generations—(Urweltmuseum Hauff)  (Rolf Bernhard Hauff, Ulrich Joger)....Pages 325-329
 INGELFINGEN: Muschelkalkmuseum Hagdorn Stadt Ingelfingen  (Hans Hagdorn)....Pages 331-338
 JENA: The Palaeontological Collections at the Phyletisches Museum in Jena  (Dietrich von Knorre, Rolf G. Beutel)....Pages 339-346
 MAUER: The Locality of Mauer and its Virtual Collection of Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fossils  (H. Dieter Schreiber, Kristina Eck, Volker Liebig)....Pages 347-363
 KÖLN: Geological Collections of the University of Cologne (GCC) (Geological and Palaeontological Collections of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne)  (Michael R. W. Amler, Hans-Georg Herbig)....Pages 365-370
 KREFELD: Palaeobotanical and Palynological Collection at the Geological Survey North Rhine-Westphalia  (Christoph Hartkopf-Fröder)....Pages 371-381
 LINZ: The Paleontological Collection of the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz  (Björn Berning)....Pages 383-389
 LÜBECK: Museum of Nature and Environment, Paleontological Collections  (Susanne Füting)....Pages 391-401
 MAINZ: Paleontological Collections of the University of Mainz (Geoscientific Collections)  (Kirsten I. Grimm, Bernd R. Schöne)....Pages 403-408
 MAINZ: Palaeontological Collections of the Landesamt für Geologie Und Bergbau Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)  (Jürgen Gad, Winfried Kuhn, Peter Schäfer)....Pages 409-410
 The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen  (Doris Döppes, Wilfried Rosendahl)....Pages 411-418
 MARBURG: GeoArchive Marburg (Geological and Palaeontological Collections of the Former Faculty of Geosciences, Philipps University of Marburg)  (Michael R. W. Amler, Günter Kauffmann, Dieter Uhl)....Pages 419-426
 MÜNCHEN: The Fossil Collections of the Bavarian State Collections at Munich  (Mike Reich, Gert Wörheide)....Pages 427-443
 MÜNSTER: Geomuseum of the WWU  (Markus Bertling)....Pages 445-454
 NIERSTEIN: Paläontologisches Museum Nierstein  (Lutz Kaecke)....Pages 455-457
 SCHIFFWEILER (Landsweiler-Reden): Center for Biological Documentation (Zentrum für Biodokumention—ZfBS)  (Edgar Müller)....Pages 459-464
 SCHLEUSINGEN: Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg Schleusingen (Thuringia, Germany)—Home of Permian and Triassic Fossils  (Ralf Werneburg)....Pages 465-479
 SIEGSDORF: The Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum  (Robert Darga)....Pages 481-486
 ST. GALLEN: Naturmuseum St. Gallen  (Toni Bürgin)....Pages 487-490
 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS)  (Rainer Schoch, Johanna Kovar-Eder)....Pages 491-497
 THALLICHTENBERG: POLLICHIA Geoscience Collections at the Urweltmuseum GEOSKOP, Thallichtenberg (Germany)  (Sebastian Voigt, Jan Fischer)....Pages 499-504
 TÜBINGEN: The Palaeontologial Collection of Tübingen  (Ingmar Werneburg, Madelaine Böhme)....Pages 505-512
 WIEN: “To the Realm of Nature and its Exploration”: The Paleontological Collections of the Natural History Museum Vienna  (Mathias Harzhauser, Andreas Kroh)....Pages 513-523
 WIESBADEN: Museum Wiesbaden, Natural History Collections  (Fritz Geller-Grimm)....Pages 525-531
 ZURICH: The Geological-Palaeontological Collection at ETH Zurich  (Andreas D. Mueller, Rodney Eastwood, Stefan Ungricht)....Pages 533-544
 ZURICH: Palaeontological Museum of the University of Zurich  (Christian Klug, Beat Scheffold)....Pages 545-553
 State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe: Institute of Life and Earth Sciences  (Eberhard Frey, H. Dieter Schreiber)....Pages 555-560
Back Matter ....Pages 561-573