page_title: Beaty Biodiversity Museum
section_title: Fossil Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Beaty Biodiversity Museum / Collection / Fossil Collection
caption_attribution_description: Beaty Biodiversity Museum &#160;&#160;LocationVancouver, British Columbia, CanadaCoordinates49°&#160;15′&#160;48.96″&#160;N, 123°&#160;15′&#160;05.04″&#160;W Established2010Web pageBeaty Biodiversity MuseumAuthority control : Q4120770 VIAF:&#8201;4146634510341932833 institution QS:P195,Q4120770
context_page_description: The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is a natural history museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located on the campus of the University of British Columbia. Its 20,000 square feet of collections and exhibit space were first opened to the public on October 16, 2010; since then it has received over 35,000 visitors per year.
  Its collections include over two million specimens collected between the 1910s and the present, comprising the Cowan Tetrapod Collection, the Marine Invertebrate Collection, the Fossil Collection, the Herbarium, the Spencer Entomological Collection, and the Fish Collection. The collections focus in particular on the species of British Columbia, Yukon, and the Pacific Coast. The museum's most prominent display is a 25-metre skeleton of a female blue whale buried in Tignish, Prince Edward Island, which is suspended over the ramp leading to the main collections.
context_section_description: Dr. Merton Yarwood Williams, co-founder of the UBC Geology Department, began the Fossil Collection in 1924 with an initial acquisition from mining engineer William John Sutton The collection was exhibited in the Geological Sciences Centre beginning in 1971 and was curated by Joe Nagel. However, due to financial constraints the exhibit was closed in 1995. The collection became part of the holdings of the Pacific Museum of the Earth in 2003, but is being housed in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum during its recataloguing process.
  The Fossil Collection comprises over 20,000 items. Highlights of the collection include its stromatolites (rock formations consisting of blue-green algae dating back 500 million years – some of the oldest extant fossils) and examples of the Burgess Shale.
  In 2018, the museum added 3 casts of dinosaur trackways from Peace Region area of British Columbia to its permanent exhibitions.
caption: Clam fossils
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