Fossil Collections and Researches at the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Quezon City, Philippines(Part One Collection Building)

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Fossil collections at the Philippine Mines and Geosciences Bureau are dominantly microfossils consisting of small and large foraminifers, radiolarians and nannofossils. These are stored in slides and blocks, catalogued and recorded in a computerized database at the Paleontology Unit of this office. Coral, brachiopod, crustacean, and echinoid specimens are rather limited in number due to the lack of experts who will attend to these groups of fauna. However, mollusk collections have significantly increased this year because of the collaborative efforts between the bureau and the National Science Museum in Tokyo, Japan. Paleontological research in the Philippines was initiated by Antonio Francisco Llanos as early as 1861. From then on, intermittent reports were published on larger foraminifers, mollusks, echinoids, other invertebrates and some vertebrates. The advent on studies of planktic foraminifers came in the late 1950s when search for oil and gas was still mandated to the Bureau of Mines. In the second half of the 1990s, paleontological researches in this office temporarily lay dormant because most of its staffs were sent abroad for advance studies while some were reassigned to other offices of the bureau. At present, aside from the usual biostratigraphic works, paleontologists had branched out to other fields like paleobiogeography, taphonomy and paleoclimatology. Also, due to the daunting situation of our ecosystem, living organisms are being targeted as subjects of study in order to be attuned to the current thrusts of the Philippine government to environmentally related researches.
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Fossil Collections and Researches at the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Quezon City, Philippines(Part One Collection Building)

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