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The University of Oslo, Paleontological Museum contains the largest collection of fossils in Norway and functions as a National Museum. Dedicated work with organising a special type collection started in the 1920s and today specimens are housed in a special locked room and carefully arranged in a series of metal cupboards according to date of publication. At present there are well over 19.000 catalogued specimens of which almost 3.000 are type and figured specimens found in 960 publications dating from 1833 to the present. All relevant publications and specimens are recorded in the museum data base and will be available on the www in the near future. In English and Norwegian.