Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum at Benedictine University Fossil Specimens (Arctos)

Occurrence Specimen
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10 January 2025
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Description

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.

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Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum, Benedictine University, Fossil Specimens

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Colleen Filipek
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Manager
Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum, Benedictine University
  • Birck Hall, Room 215, 5700 College Road
60532 Lisle
Illinois
US
Karly Tumminello
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Director/Curator
Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum, Benedictine University
  • Birck Hall, Room 229, 5700 College Road
60532 Lisle
Illinois
US
  • 630-829-6531
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect

Geographic Coverage

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]

Taxonomic Coverage

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
Kingdom Animalia, Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period Quartenary
Formation Period Tertiary
Formation Period Cretaceous
Formation Period Jurassic
Formation Period Triassic
Formation Period Permian
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 Miocene
Formation Period Oligocene
Formation Period Eocene
Formation Period Paleocene
Living Time Period The fossils were collected mainly between the 1870s and 1970s.

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Alternative Identifiers ebab4eda-c07d-4a40-a66a-d0f5b78a1235
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=jsnm_paleo