The historical archive of the Palaeontological Collection Of Tübingen, Germany

The Tübingen collection of ichthyosaurs from the Lower Jurassic (Lower Toarcian) Posidonienschiefer Formation of Württemberg: a historical and curatorial perspective

“…Of course, illustrating hundreds of specimens was out of the scope of his studies as well. Unpublished drawings and photographs (documented by Hinz & Werneburg 2019) are often insufficient, because the species identification is not documented or not informative enough (e.g., GPIT-PV-30021) to correlate the notation of v. Huene or at least the date of origin to the collection of Tübingen.…”

“…With more than one million specimens, it is still one of the worldwide largest university collections of its kind ( Werneburg 2016). Founding fathers and pioneers of paleontology and its different sub-disciplines worked in Tübingen, including Friedrich August Quenstedt (1809–1889), Friedrich v. Huene (1875–1969), OTTO Schindewolf (1896–1971) and Adolf Seilacher (1925–2014), a history well represented also by a written document archive ( Hinz & Werneburg 2019). Since 2009, the collection is curated by the national German Senckenberg Society, which has the ultimate goal to bring the collection infrastructure to the most modern standards in the field ( Werneburg & BÖHme 2018).…”