NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records

Thomas Orrell1, Holly Little2

1 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 136, 20013-7012, Washington, United States; 2 Department of Paleobiology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 121, 20013-7012, Washington, United States

Corresponding author(s): Thomas Orrell (orrellt@si.edu)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Orrell T (2019): NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records. v1.22. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Dataset/Occurrence. https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=nmnh_paleo_dwc-a&v=1.22

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

General description

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Data published through GBIF: https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=nmnh_paleo_dwc-a

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia, Plantae, Protoctista
Common names: Animals, Plants, Protists, Bacteria

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global collections, National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Formation period: 19th Century - current

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/archive.do?r=nmnh_paleo_dwc-a
Publication date of data: 2019-11-15
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-04-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset