Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) Herausgeber: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart Palaeoichthyological observations in the Lower Freshwater Molasse (Upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene) of the surroundings of Ulm (Württemberg, Germany), with remarks on the In 1791 Duke CARL EUGEN It startet in the 17th century (first collection material from 1600), when natural curiosities were collected in the "Her-zogliches Naturalien-Cabinett and Kunstkammer". The "Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart" (SMNS) is one of the lar-gest natural history museums in Central Europe.