Colección Paleontológica Invertebrados e Icnologia - CONICET- Argentina

The Collection “Paleontología de Invertebrados e Icnología” (PIIc) was created in 2001 with the porpuse of officialize an incipient collection of invertebrate fossils and invertebrate trace fossils to the patagonian. This is the first oficial collection of the “Centro Nacional Patagonico” (CNP) of the “Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas” (CONICET), Argentina. This collection is recognized as one of the official repositories of the fossil patrimony by the State Government of the Chubut Province. Its aim is the conservation of the provincial paleontological patrimony, to support to the science and the education. Also, It possess comparative collections of invertebrate fossils of other regions of the world, to administer a paleontological didactics collection and an exhibition of fossils like support to the diffusion of the paleontological science《无脊椎动物古生物学与遗迹化石学》（Paleontología de Invertebrados e Icnología，缩写PIIc）于2001年设立，旨在将巴塔哥尼亚地区初具规模的无脊椎动物化石与无脊椎动物遗迹化石馆藏正式纳入官方序列。该馆藏是阿根廷国家科学与技术研究委员会（Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas，缩写CONICET）下属巴塔哥尼亚国家中心（Centro Nacional Patagonico，缩写CNP）的首个官方馆藏。其被丘布特省政府认定为省级古生物化石遗产官方保存机构之一，设立宗旨为保护本省古生物化石遗产，助力科研与教育事业发展。此外，该馆藏还收藏有全球其他地区的无脊椎动物化石对比标本，同时设有古生物学教学专用馆藏与化石展览专区，以推动古生物学科的科普传播。