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

Specimen Records: 2,519
Media Records: 1,808
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-25

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.

Contacts

Name Colleen Filipek
RoleCollections Manager
Emailcfilipek@ben.edu
Name Karly Tumminello
RoleDirector/Curator
Emailktumminello@ben.edu
Name Colleen Filipek
RoleCollections Manager
Emailcfilipek@ben.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Colleen Filipek
RoleCollections Manager
Emailcfilipek@ben.edu
Name Karly Tumminello
RoleDirector/Curator
Emailktumminello@ben.edu
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This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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99.881
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26.876
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26.876
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11.552
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11.513
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11.036
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10.679
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0.953
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dwc_kingdom_replaced  i1
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rev_geocode_mismatch  i1
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