MÜNCHEN: The Fossil Collections of the Bavarian State Collections at Munich

Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”: the importance of private collections

“…It shows one of the first fossil examples of a phoretic relationship between pseudoscorpions and insects and was figured in numerous textbooks and other works. A large part of the Bachofen-Echt amber collection was purchased by the State of Bavaria in 1958, and the specimen is today part of the Munich Palaeontology collections (SNSB-BSPG 1958 VIII 195; see Reich and Wörheide 2018) Française, the 'Karl-Alfred-von-Zittel-Medaille' of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, or the 'Amanz Gressly-Preis' of the Schweizerische Paläontologische Gesellschaft, just to name a few. An example from a field with important impact of amateur palaeontologists is palaeoentomology.…”

“…2), such as in Berlin (collection of Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim; see Dietrich 1960, Hoppe 2001, Frankfurt/M. (collections of Johann Christian Senckenberg and Eduard Rüppell; see Struve 1967), and Munich (collection of Count Georg zu Münster; see Reich and Wörheide 2018).…”