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The CID Institute Family Museum Nature Science Collection comprises actually Fossil specimen collected during own nature science excursions between 1965 and 2016. The first collected objects have been exposed inside the Waldmuseum at Emmershaeuser Huette until 1969. The collection moved then together with the family settlement site to Weilmuenster, where it remained mostly packed up and stored. A part of the collection got lost and partially it became mixed up during renovations. But also new objects entered the collection, mostly brought from travel excursions to Southern France, Spain, Nicaragua and Colombia.

In two publications from 2011 and 2016 the CID Institute started the since long years since 2002 planned scientific work up of the finding sites and the objects found. So several fossil species from Emmershausen and Weilmuenster could be determinated, documented and described in their greater historic context. The Links to these publications can be found each in the beginning of the specific article.

The here presented collection excerpts are more or less complete. The main emphasis of this digital museum presentation focusses on the visual presentation of the single objects and intents to present the complete collection when finished. A second step would be the determination and description of the single fossil species when possible. That means, that this presentation is in ongoing actualization.

The here shown CID Institute Natural Museum Collection probably will give an occasion to scientific dispute and polemics. Fossils per definition are body structures of mostly marine living beings that setteled on earth millions of years ago and that have been conserved by embedding in the ground sediment with following mineralization (petrification). The variety of appearance of fossils is immense because the great variation in the specific environmental (chemical, physical, mechanical, climatic ...) conditions of different fossil finding sites. Conserved structures are mostly calcareous body elements like shells, snail houses or sceleton that have been transformed to mineral or are still in ongoing mineralization process (Neo-Fossils from calcareous coastal rocks under influence of salt water).

The great interest of humans in fossils nowadays has generated parallel an artisan industry that intents to produce reality-near copies of really existing fossils as well as invented or fake fossil objects nearly impossible to distinguish from real fossils found in nature, a development that led during the past decades to a certain devaluation and discrediting of the serious work of that branch of nature science and to the estimation of the worth of wonderful life remains that "mother nature" conserved in a natural way.

Nevertheless, both aspects should be strenghtened and continued. On one hand the artisan production of beautiful nature objects brings more close humans to nature and provides nature objects to parts of the population that cannot all go to search fossils in the mountainside. On the other hand the natural scientists serious occupation with and study, interpretation and description of the reality and history of our planet earth is an important element of the sane understanding of our all existence.

The CID Collection includes proper found-in-nature fossil specimen as well as bought objects. The question, if artificially produced fossils might be brought to nature to make possible their "re-discovery" later by nature scientists might be discussed but is not probable for greater fossil sites in deeper rock layers or sites undisturbed by human activity. Those latter are presented here for example as the former Emmershausen Devon-Fossil finding site, the Aumenau Crinoid conglomerate minerals, the Costa Brava Turret Shells and the Pottenstein and Solnhofen fossils. The Colombian fossils result from surface rock breakparts near a monastery building that uses for it´s facade decoration ammonite fossils, so that a certain anthropogenic interference into the composition of the found objects cannot be excluded.

To make possible that necessary study and discussion, the found fossil specimen are here sometimes documented repeatedly with views from several sides and perspectives to allow the serious interpretation of their genesis.

Text Edition, Design and Photographies

Peter Zanger - Diplomated Biologist

CID Institute Weilmuenster

www.cid-institut-de.blogspot.com

13th of October 2020

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