The Invertebrate Paleontology Collection represents one of the oldest systematic invertebrate paleontological collections in North America with over 1 million specimens, including 10,000 type specimens. Strengths of the collection include a number of European collections from many historic localities, post-Cambrian trilobites, Paleozoic through Tertiary cephalopods, and Tertiary mollusks.
The Invertebrate Paleontology Collection is searchable online through MCZbase as well as through iDigBio and GBIF.