AMNH	American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA.
ANSP	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
ANU	Australien National University, Canberra, Australia.
AUMS	Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia.
BGHan	Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschsften und Rohstoffe, Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung, Hannover, Germany.
BGS	British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England.
BMMS	Bürgermeister Müller Museum Solnhofen, Solnhofen, Germany.
BMNH	Natural History Museum, London, England. BMNS, Buffalo Museum of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA.
BSP	Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie, München, Germany.
BPBM	Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu
CAS	California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.
CLM	Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
CMNH	Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CUGI	Copenhagen University, Geological Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
CU	Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
CVPA-V	Vertebrate Collection, Cátedra de Paleontología, Fasculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
DNPM	Departamento Nacional de Producao Mineral, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
DMNH	Denver Museum of Natural History, Colorado, USA.
FLFO	Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Florissant, Colorado, USA.
FMNH	Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. (Fossil specimens are in the Geology Department; Recent specimens are in the Zoology Department, Division of Fishes.)
GMV	Geological Museum of China, Beijing, China.
HLMD	Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany.
HM	Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
HUJ	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
IEI	Institute d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain.
IGUP	Instituto Geologico, Universita de Padova, Italy.
IRSNB	Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium.
IVPP	Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Beijing, China.
JM	Jura Museum, Eichstätt, Germany.
JNVU	Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, India.
KMNH	Kitakyushu Museum and Institute of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology (VP), Kitakyushu, Japan.
KU	University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas (Recent Fish collections).
KUVP	University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas (vertebrate paleontological collections), USA.
LACM	Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA.
LBUCH	Universidad de Chile, Sede Santiago Sur (Fish collection), Santiago, Chile.
LU	Ichthyological collection, Loyola University, Chicago, USA
MACN	Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires,, Argentina
MB	Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany (Paleontological fish collection).
MBSN	Museo Brembano di Scienze Naturali, S. Pellegrino, Bergamo, Italy.
MCNAM	Museo de Ciencias Naturales and Antropologicas “J. C. Moyano”, Mendoza, Argentina
MCSNBG	Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Cafi", Bergamo, Italy.
MCSNIO	Civico Museo Insubrico di Storia Naturale di Induno, Olona, Italy.
MCSNMI	Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Milano, Italy.
MCSNTI	Muzeo Cantonale di Storia Naturale Lugano, Italy.
MCSNV	Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona, Italy.
MCP	Museu de Ciências da Pontificia Universidade Católica, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
MCZ	Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
MDE	Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza, France.
MFSN	Muzeo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine, Italy.
MGB	Museu de Geologia, Barcelona, Spain.
MHIN-UN	Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina.
MLP	Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
MMNH	Museum of Natural History, Parc de Miguasha, Quebec, Canada.
MMP	Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales del Mar del Plata, Argentina.
MNHN	Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Fossil specimens are in the Institut de Paléontologie; Recent specimens are in Ichthyology), Paris, France.
MNHN-N	Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, La Habana, Cuba.
MNHN-L	Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Lyon, France.
MNHN-S	Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile.
MNRJ	Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
MOR	Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
MPCMF	Museum Paleontologico Cittadino "A.D.F.", Monfalcone, Italy.
MPEF-PV	Museo Paleontológico “Edigio Feruglio”, Trelew, Argentina.
MPUM	Museo Paleontologico dell'Universita di Milano, Italy.
MZUSP	Museo de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
MV	Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
NHM.L	Natural History Museum, Leiden, Netherlands.
NMC	Canadian Museum of Nature, Paleobiology Division (National Museum of Canada), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
NMS	National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
NMW	Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria.
NSTM	National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
OS	Oregon State University, Museum of Natural History, Corvallis, Oregon, USA>
PIMUZ	Paläontologisches Institut & Museum der Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
PIN	Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia.
PMB.VP	Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
PU	Princeton University collection (currently deposited at Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut), USA.
PULR	Paleontological Collection of the Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, La Rioja, Argentina.
RAF	Royal Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium.
ROM	Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
RM	Red Path Museum, Canada.
RMSM	Royal Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
RNMH	Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands.
RUSI	J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa.
SIO	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Vertebrate Collection, University of California, La Jolla, California, USA.
SJU	Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, USA.
SM	Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
SMF	Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany (ME specimens are in the Messel section and P specimens are in the Paleozoologie section).
SMMP	Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
SMNH	Department of Paleozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
SMNS	Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany.
TCWC	exas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
TSGF	Tromsö Museum, University of Tromsö, Norway.
TU	University of Tubingen, Department of Paleontology, Tubingen, Germany
UAIC	University of Alabama Ichthyology Collection, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.
UALVP	University of Alberta, Department of Geology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
UCLA	University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (recent fishes collection).
UCMP	University of California, Berkeley, California (Museum of Paleontology), USA.
UAM	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Paleontologia, Madrid, Spain.
UERJ	Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
UHH	Urweltmuseum Hauff, Holzmaden, Germany.
UMMP	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Museum of Paleontology), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
UMMZ	University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
UMNH	Utah Museum of Natural History and Geology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
UNAM	Instituto de Geologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Departamento de Paleontologia), Mexico City, Mexico.
UNBA	Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Seccion de Paleontologia, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
USNM	National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA.
USP	University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
USP-GT	Universidade do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.
UW	Geological Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.
UWIGP	Universität Würzburg, Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Würzburg, Germany.
VIM	Victoria Museum, Melbourne, Australia.
WAM	Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia.
YPM	Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.
ZMB	Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany (Recent Fish collection).
ZMUC	Copenhagen University, Museum of Zoology, Copenhagen, Denmark.