LINZ: The Paleontological Collection of the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz

The origin of the Paleontological Collection of the Upper Austrian State Museum goes back to the 1830s. Historically subordinate to mineralogy and petrology, today’s Paleontological Collection is the largest and scientifically most important of the three subunits of the museum’s Geoscience Collections. Fossils from the Upper Austrian part of the Mesozoic Northern Limestone Alps, especially Triassic ammonoids, and from the Cenozoic Alpine Foreland Basin, in particular marine and terrestrial mammals, form the backbone of the collection.