About the NYSM Museum Collections:
The New York State Vertebrate Paleontology collections consist of nearly 12,000 specimens from across the state. Fossils are predominately late Pleistocene (~15,000 years) in age and range in size from tiniest of shrews to large wooly mammoths.

• Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Database
  
  
• The Cohoes Mastodon
  
  
• Collections Policy and Forms
  
  
• Internships in Vertebrate Paleontology for the NYSM
  
  
• Found a Fossil?
  
  
• Virtual Tour of the Collections (Podcasts)