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- Occurrence (core)
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Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History Paleontology Collection
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Fish and invertebrate fossils from local Columbus and Delaware Limestone, fish fossils from Solnhofen, Green River, and the Old Red Sandstone of northern Scotland, invertebrates from the Burgess Shale, New York, and Indiana, and plant fossils from Mazon Creek. Collections include those from Reuben P. Mann from Ohio, James Hall from New York and Indiana, William Kepler from Ohio, and Ferdinand V. Hayden's 1871 expedition to Yellowstone.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Hemichordata, Plantae, Protozoa
| Kingdom | Animalia, Plantae, Protozoa |
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| Phylum | Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Hemichordata |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1856-Present |
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| Living Time Period | Cambrian-Quaternary |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Ohio Wesleyan University Paleontology Specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/OWU:ES |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OWU |
Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Fossils of Ohio and elsewhere |
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| Alternative Identifiers | OWUM |
| 4e61cc4a-6bfd-4816-b2b8-b066e21b6235 | |
| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=owu_es |