Paleobotanical Collection
Pecopteris plumosa, schist Niederwuerschnitz
This collection of approximately 800 specimens of fossil plants was assembled over many years by the palaeobotanist Harald Walther for his lectures. In addition to his own procurements, especially from lignite opencast mining areas in eastern Germany and Bohemia, donations by colleagues and private collectors contributed to a virtually complete documentation of the fossil record of plant evolution based on selected pieces.
Literature
Friedrich Ditsch and Christoph Neinhuis, "Was Sammlungen können – Verknüpfung unterschiedlicher botanischer Sammlungen in der Lehre", in: Cornelia Weber, Sarah Elena Link, Martin Stricker, Oliver Zauzig (Hg.): Objekte wissenschaftlicher Sammlungen in der universitären Lehre: Praxis, Erfahrungen, Perspektiven, Berlin 2016, pp. 25-32 (https://doi.org/10.18452/17864)
Contact
TU Dresden, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Botany
Zellescher Weg 20b, 01217 Dresden