The documentation in museums aims to act as a support in the informational treatment of the collections, since its registration on the field until the information regarding the object’s "life" within the institution. Therefore, one end up building a system that meets the informational demands of the institution. However, not always Natural History Museums have a more elaborate documentation system with informational support, which allows designating all processes elapsed with their museum objects, and end up suffering from a shortage of records in their collections. In this regard, the need to build systems for museum documentation and cataloging, to provide the maximization of the recovery and use of information is presented. In this work, a cataloging form and its filling guide is elaborated for the Paleoinvertebrates Collection of the Paraense Emílio Goeldi Museum (MPEG), with the intuit to safeguard the museum collection and also to disseminate the knowledge, contributing, therefore, in its construction and preservation; it is important to know that this collection is the major source of research and knowledge about the paleobiological diversity of the Amazon region. However, it is known that the preparation of the cataloging form for this collection is just one of the preliminary steps to implement a more complex documentary system, with information retrieval systems and also in the near future a better availability of the information in the network, facilitating the paleontological research and the dissemination of scientific knowledge in the community. This work points out a good intersection of diverse knowledge from the Museology and Paleontology, especially in case of museological documentation for the management and maintenance of paleontological collections.
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