Paleontology Collections

The collections are non-circulating, but available by appointment Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Active Excavation Sites

• Fort Crittenden (snails, turtles, clams, early fish and dinosaur bones)
• Payson (many bones of armor-plated fish)
• Safford (giant capybara, horses, camels and a Glyptotherium)
• Zuni Basin (several animals new to science including dinosaur Zuniceratops)
• Moenkopi (trackways, amphibians and reptiles)
• New Sauropod (partial skeleton of a sauropod)

Closed Site Collections

• Saint Johns (bone fragments and teeth of phytosaurs and metoposaurs)
• Milk Creek (horse and camel bones and teeth)
• Wikiup (bear and bird bones)

Collections

• Nisbet Invertebrate Collection
• Russian Dinosaur and Mammal-like Reptile Casts
• Larry Marshall Marsupial Dentition Collection