The Geology-Paleontology Museum of the School of Geology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was founded in 1927. It is housed in the Geology-Paleontology Laboratory, located in the right wing on the ground floor of the old building of the Faculty of Sciences (former Faculty of Physics and Mathematics).
The Museum covers an area of about 60m², where the collections of the laboratory are kept. These include material from the research activities carried out by its members. Typical samples of geological-paleontological interest from Greek areas are also displayed. The Museum collections are divided intro three major categories: - Minerals and rocks of Greece: it consists of a petrographic collection with regards to the structure and development of geology in Greece, a collection of minerals from the mine in Stratoni, Chalkidiki, and the one in Lavrio, enriched with representative minerals of Europe, a collection of types of Greek marble and a collection of black coal specimens from areas around Greece. - A paleontological collection of invertebrate organisms, which traces the evolution of invertebrate organisms through the geological time periods (from 600 million years ago until today), and it contains specimens from Greece and Europe, such as Trilobites, Ammonites, Hippurites, etc. - A paleontological collection of vertebrate organisms, which traces the evolution of mammals – the research activities carried out at the laboratory focus mainly on this field of study. The collection mostly contains mammal fossils from various areas of Greece (the Axios valley, Mygdonia basin, Grevena basin, Thessaly, Petralona, Nikiti in Chalkidiki, and other areas), and also skulls and bones of antelopes, equidae, giraffes, carnivore animals, rhinoceros and proboscideans which lived in Greece over the last 10 million years.
(Source : GBIF / GrSciColl)
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ProfDimitris Kostopoulos