The section Messel Research manages and curates the collection of fossil vertebrates from the Messel pit fossil site.
Apart from work at the Messel Pit Fossil Site, the research of the division leadership is focused on other terrestrial deposits from the Eocene.
Vertebrates, insects and plants make up the vast majority of the Senckenberg Messel collections. We also have a large archive of digital photographs and X-radiographs of Messel fossils.
