Paleontology & Geology Collections

In 2022, the paleontology and geology collections (over 13,000 specimens) at the University of Puget Sound were cataloged, computerized, and imaged by Whitney Worrell, now a PhD candidate at the University of Wyoming. The collections were included in Puget Sound Museum of Natural History (PSM) collections as the new director, Dr. Kena Fox-Dobbs, took the lead in May 2023. A summary of holdings (as of Aug 2023) includes:

Paleontology    
Plants    6,975
Invertebrates    3,307
Vertebrates    419
Trace    94
Total    10,795
    
Geology    
Rocks    1,586
Minerals    1,303
Total    2,889

Through 2023-24, the collections are available through shared Google Drives (contact gshugart@pugetsound.edu) as we work to validate and complete records and upload them to an Arctos data portal. The paleo records will then be accessible on iDigBio and GBIF.