Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections

The Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections hold over two million vertebrate fossils, related archives, and a modern osteology collection with 17000 specimens. The collections originated in 1858 with the Geological Survey of Texas. The Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections have grown over the years to include collections from The University of Texas Geology Department, the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), Texas Memorial Museum (TMM), Texas A&M, Texas A&M Kingsville, East Texas State University, Midwestern University, and Lamar University. Fossils from Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park are among the federal collections held in trust. The Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections are part of the new Jackson School Museum of Earth Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin and can be found in the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory building on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. global, emphasis on Texas and southwestern United States. fossil and Recent vertebrates