IUPC Policies Appendices

Acquisition Priorities

• Ordovician invertebrates – the collection from the Indiana flanks of the Cincinnati Arch accumulated by E.R. Cumings and his group documents the Ordovician-Silurian boundary throughout the southeast corner of the state, including measured sections, detailed stratigraphic samples of all macroinvertebrates, and a large collection of bryozoan thin sections. [Priority-Indiana]
• Waldron Shale – the collection contains extensive collections of macroinvertebrates from the Waldron Shale (Silurian). [Priority-Indiana]
• Carboniferous macroinvertebrates, vertebrates and plants – the collection contains extensive collections of all organisms from the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian of the Midwest and other regions, with notable subcollections from the Edwardsville Fm. in Monroe County and Crawfordsville, from the Salem Limestone of southern Indiana, from the St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve Fms. of southern Indiana, and from the Pennsylvanian strata of southwestern Indiana. [Priority-Indiana and Midwest]

• Conodonts – the conodont collection consists of tens of thousands of specimens, primarily the result of research by Carl Rexroad. [Priority-Indiana]
• Bivalves – a large collection of Mesozoic bivalves was the core of Erle Kauffman’s research career [Priority-North America]
• Rudist bivalves and corals – Mesozoic rudist bivalves and Mesozoic and Cenozoic corals from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean have been assembled by Claudia Johnson and students [Priority-Neotropics]
• Neogene mammals–Quaternary mammals from Indiana have been part of the collection since the time of D.D. Owen and O.P. Hay. The collection includes material from Harrodsburg Fissure, Monroe County. [Priority-Midwest]
• Paleogene mammals – the collection contains material from the early Wasatchian of the Bighorn Basin collected by Randy Patrick and colleagues [Priority-North America]

Unique segments of the collection

Owen Collection: a small group of fossils collected during David Dale Owen’s 1846-1848 survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.

Cumings Collection: extensive collection of the Ordovician boundary of the Indiana sections of the Cincinnati Arch.

Galloway Micropaleontology Collection: a large collection of microfossils assembled by J.J. Galloway for teaching micropaleontology and economic geology.

Rexroad Conodont Collection: a large collection of conodonts from Indiana and elsewhere in North America assembled by Carl Rexroad.

Perry Bryozoan Collection: A large collection of bryozoan macrofossils and thin sections of bryozoans amassed by Thomas G. Perry and students.

Lane and Ausich Crinoid Collection: detailed paleoenvironmental collection from the Mississippian Edwardsville Fm. at Monroe Lake and Crawfordsville, Indiana.

Kauffman Collection: large, worldwide collection of Mesozoic and Cenozoic mollusks assembled by Erle G. Kauffman.

Horowitz and Potter Collection: extensive collection of thin-sections illustrated by the authors in Introductory Petrography of Fossils.