University of California Museum of Paleontology

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The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is a paleontology museum located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

The museum is in the Valley Life Sciences Building at Berkeley and the collections are primarily intended for research. UCMP was one of the first museums to have its own website in the early 1990s, due to its location within a technology-oriented university with a good Internet connection.

Several notable paleontologists have been part of this university's faculty including John C. Merriam who was the first Invertebrate paleontologist on the west coast of the United States.

External links

• UCMP website
• The Palentology Portal
• Understanding Evolution website

Credits