Vertebrate Paleontology

Yale Peabody Museum Expeditions

The Yale Peabody Museum has a long history of mounting expeditions to the far corners of this world in search of fossil vertebrate remains.

Most recently, the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology has launched several expeditions to find Triassic faunas in southern Utah.

• 2005–2007 Expeditions to North Dakota and Montana
  
• The Peabody Finds a Poposaurus
  
• 2000–2004 Yale Peabody Expeditions to Utah
  

Between 1870 and 1873 O.C. Marsh led 4 expeditions of Yale students into the American West. These Yale College Scientific Expeditions are chronicled in the following documents:

• 1870 Expedition | 1871 Expedition | 1872 Expedition | 1873 Expedition
  

Other collectors have since added significantly to the holdings of the Museum. Large scale expeditions included such destinations as the Late Jurassic of Como Bluff, Wyoming, the Tertiary of Texas, the Triassic of the southwestern United States, the Early Cretaceous of Montana, and the Tertiary of Egypt.

See also: Repository of O.C. Marsh Papers


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