Database Progress, Advisors, Collaborators

Fossil Collection Database Progress

• Mesozoic mollusks Western Interior, Cobban collection: 14,000 localities done
• Mesozoic mollusks International, Sohl collection: 32,000 localities done
• Mesozoic ammonites Gulfian Series, Conlin collection: 4,000 localities done
• Cenozoic mollusks Waller, Stephenson, White collections: 15,000 localities done
• Mesozoic/Cenozoic western US vertebrates, Lewis collection: 2200 localities done
• Cenozoic western US vertebrates, Repenning collection: 1000 localities done
• Paleozoic trilobites, Ross, Palmer, Taylor collections:, 13,000 localities done
• Paleozoic forams, Meyers collections, 400 records done
• Paleocene non-marine mollusks, Hanley collection:, 400 records done
• Cretaceous-Pleistocene pollen, Tschudy, Nichols, Leopold collections: 10,000 localities done
• 50,000 fossil localities georeferenced

Advisors 

• Farley Fleming, advisor
• Steve Hook, advisor
• Bob Hunt, Nebraska University Museum; paleontologist, advisor and current researcher
• James Kennedy, Oxford University Museum Director and paleontologist; advisor and current researcher
• Jann Thompson, USNM Department of Paleobiology Collections Manager; advisor
• Ireneusz Walaszczyk, Institute of Geology, University of Warsaw; geologist and paleontologist, advisor and current researcher
• Scott Wing, USNM paleontologist, Department of Paleobiology Chairman; advisor

 Key Collaborators

• US National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian)
• Oxford University Museum of Natural History
• American Museum of Natural History
• USGS Field Records