**Code**: [ALTA](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126585) **Organization**: University of Alberta **Department**: Biological Sciences Department **Location**: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada **Total number of specimens**: 570500 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1916 **Taxonomic coverage**: Vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens; Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Carboniferous fossils **Geographic coverage**: Arctic and cordilleran Canada; New World and Australasia **Incorporated herbaria**: UAPC (127,000 fossil specimens, in 2014) **Important collectors**: S. Flowers, W. C. McCalla, E. H. Moss, J. G. Packer, W. N. Stewart, G. H. Turner, D. H. Vitt **Notes**: Updated Feb 2017 (website URL updated). UAPC now incorporated into ALTA. Index to paleobotanical collections can be found here: http://www.museums.ualberta.ca/dig/naturalhist/fossils/paleobotanical/index.html **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-02-06 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.