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The Booth Museum Fossils

Published by: John Cooper
A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton.
A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton.

John A. Cooper (retired Keeper of Natural Sciences at the Booth Museum of Natural History) has published the latest version of

A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton

Updated February 2020, it can now be found online.

A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton.
A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton.
John Cooper with one of the most famous fossils in the Booth fossil collections “Mr. Willett’s Crocodile”
John Cooper with one of the most famous fossils in the Booth fossil collections: “Mr. Willett’s Crocodile”, first published in 1878 and many times since, most recently in 2011. It was again consulted by Dr Michela Johnson from Canada in May 2014. It comes from rocks in the Weald and is about 140 million years old.

International science codes require that every species or subspecies of organism, whether living or fossil, should have a type or reference specimen to define its characteristic features.

These specimens are held in museums and collections around the world and must be available for study.

The Booth’s collection of fossil type specimens are available to scientists all over the world through this catalogue.

A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton.

John Cooper with one of the most famous fossils in the Booth fossil collections “Mr. Willett’s Crocodile”
John Cooper with one of the most famous fossils in the Booth fossil collections: “Mr. Willett’s Crocodile”, first published in 1878 and many times since, most recently in 2011. It was again consulted by Dr Michela Johnson from Canada in May 2014. It comes from rocks in the Weald and is about 140 million years old.
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John A. Cooper (retired Keeper of Natural Sciences at the Booth Museum of Natural History) has published the latest version of A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton. Updated February 2020, it can now be found online.