Foraminifera Collections at the Smithsonian
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Description: Information about the Cushman and other collections held at the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Paleobiology.
The Cushman Collection & more The National Museum of Natural History serves as the largest repository in the world of foraminiferal type specimens with over 16,000 primary type specimens (holotypes and paratypes), searchable on-line, with graphics and over 200,000 secondary type specimens. It represents probably three-fourths of all the type specimens of the American smaller foraminifera, nine-tenths of those of the American Mesozoic and Cenozoic larger foraminifera, and a very large proportion of species from abroad that have been described in this country. Information about these specimens and some SEM images are available through the
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| Page title: | The Cushman Collection |
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| IP-address: | 160.111.252.229 |
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| NS | Name Servers: SI-NAMES1.SI.EDU 160.111.252.5 SI-NAMES2.SI.EDU 160.111.252.6 |
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| Date | activated: 19-Jun-1992 last updated: 29-May-2013 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |