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.
此資源出現紀錄的資料已發佈為達爾文核心集檔案（DwC-A），其以一或多組資料表構成分享生物多樣性資料的標準格式。
核心資料表包含 2,519 筆紀錄。
亦存在 1 筆延伸集的資料表。延伸集中的紀錄補充核心集中紀錄的額外資訊。 每個延伸集資料表中資料筆數顯示如下。
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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.
| 界定座標範圍 |
緯度南界 經度西界 [-90, -180], 緯度北界 經度東界 [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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| 生物存活的時期 |
The fossils were collected mainly between the 1870s and 1970s. |
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