The Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum is a small natural history museum located on the second floor of the Michael and Kay Birck Hall of Science at Benedictine University. The museum represents the work of Fr. Hilary Jurica, O.S.B. and his brother, Fr. Edmund Jurica, O.S.B. who collected specimens for their students to use during their almost 100 combined years of teaching at Benedictine University. In the early 1970's, the Museum was placed in the hands of Fr. Theodore Suchy, O.S.B. who turned their collection of specimens into a thriving nature museum. Fr. Ted continued collecting and the collection grew to over 10,000 specimens, ranging from a tiny aphid to a whale skeleton. Many of the fossils held in the Paleontological collection at the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum were originally brought in as a teaching collection and the bulk of the fossils were collected by Fr. Hilary. This research collection is intended to help with the study of fossils, fossilization, and the historic timeline of life on Earth. The fossils stretch back to the Quartenary period, but the majority are from the Paleozoic period.
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables.
The core data table contains 2,519 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum, Benedictine University, Fossil Specimens
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
The fossils held at the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum have been collected from around the world. They began as a teaching collection, so the majority of the fossils were collected in the United States, specifically the Midwestern Region. The Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum houses a large collection of Mazon Creek fossils in addition to general fossils from around the globe.
| Bounding Coordinates |
South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
Any fossil taxa. The Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum does not have a specific focus, we house many different fossils under the Kingdoms of Animalia and Plantae.
| Domain |
Eukarya
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| Kingdom |
Animalia,
Plantae
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| Formation Period |
Quartenary |
| Formation Period |
Tertiary |
| Formation Period |
Cretaceous |
| Formation Period |
Jurassic |
| Formation Period |
Triassic |
| Formation Period |
Carboniferous |
| Formation Period |
Pennsylvanian |
| Formation Period |
Mississippian |
| Formation Period |
Devonian |
| Formation Period |
Silurian |
| Formation Period |
Ordovician |
| Formation Period |
Cambrian |
| Formation Period |
Pleistocene |
| Formation Period |
Pliocene |
| Formation Period |
Oligocene |
| Formation Period |
Paleocene |
| Living Time Period |
The fossils were collected mainly between the 1870s and 1970s. |
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