Occurrence

NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records

Version 1.31 published by National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution on 25 July 2020 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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Description

Public records from the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. These data cover accessioned specimens representing fossil invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants from all over the world and include more than 139,000 paleobiological type specimen records.

Versions

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Orrell T (2020): NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records. v1.31. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Dataset/Occurrence. https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=nmnh_paleo_dwc-a&v=1.31

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c8681cc2-9d0a-4c5f-b620-5c753abfe2bc.  National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Thomas Orrell
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
NMNH Informatics
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 136
20013-7012 Washington
DC
US
202-633-2151
Holly Little
  • Point Of Contact
Collections Management
Department of Paleobiology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 121
20013-7012 Washington
DC
US
202-633-5340

Geographic Coverage

Global collections, National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia (Animals), Plantae (Plants), Protoctista (Protists)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 19th Century - current

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers c8681cc2-9d0a-4c5f-b620-5c753abfe2bc
https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=nmnh_paleo_dwc-a