Shuler Museum of Paleontology
The
Shuler Museum of Paleontology maintains research and teaching collections
in microfossils, fossil invertebrates, fossil plants, and recent
and fossil vertebrates. Active areas of research involve Mesozoic
and Cenozoic vertebrates and plant macrofossils, and palynology.
Vertebrate collections in the Shuler Museum of Paleontology have special strengths in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Texas, and the Mesozoic of Southwestern U.S. SMU personnel have maintained an active field research program in paleontology in countries that include Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Cameroon, Pakistan, Mexico, and Yemen. Among the approximately 50 vertebrate type specimens housed in the Shuler Museum are the Cretaceous plesiosaur Libonectes (Elasmosaurus) morgani (Welles), dinosaur Protohadros byrdi Head, and mammal Holoclemensia texana Slaughter, and the Pleistocene pronghorn Tetrameryx shuleri Lull.
Specimens from
the Shuler Museum have been displayed at public museums including
the Dallas Museum of Natural
History, the Fort Worth Museum
of Science and History, and the Heard
Natural Science Museum. A traveling exhibit based upon the book "Lone
Star Dinosaurs" by Dr. Louis L. Jacobs was produced by the Fort
Worth Museum of Science and History, and features the artwork
of Karen Carr.
Facilities of the Shuler Museum of Paleontology include laboratories for fossil preparation, molding and casting, pollen extraction and anlysis, and morphometric analysis.
PERSONNEL
For collections
information contact:
Dr. Dale A. Winkler, Ph.D. Director
Dr.
Louis L. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Chair Environmental
Science Program
Dr. Bonnie F. Jacobs, Ph.D.
CHIEF PREPARATOR
Deborah Nixon, dnixon@smu.edu