Paleontological Collection of the Facultad de Ingeniería of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Abstract

The Paleontological Collection of the Facultad de Ingeniería of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has 6,347 fossil samples of plants, protists, invertebrates, and vertebrates. Additionally, there are 348 recent samples with the aim to make comparisons between the living world and the geological past. The main purpose of this collection is to support the courses of General Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Paleontology, Micropaleontology, Stratigraphy, and Historical Geology for the Geological Engineer major. The collection is organized by phyla and each sample has a card with systematic, stratigraphic and geographic information. The invertebrate fossils are the most abundant and come from different regions of Mexico such as Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Coahuila, Durango, Sinaloa, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Estado de México, Puebla, Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Guerrero, and Chiapas. It also has material from Canada, the United States of America, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Russia, and Australia.